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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: So I know this is a show about silly critters,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like it'd be kind of weird not

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Speaker 1: to say anything about the current situation. It's been a

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Speaker 1: very difficult and dangerous time for everybody out there, fighting

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Speaker 1: for black lives and rights and fighting against police brutality.

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Speaker 1: It feels kind of weird doing a goofy show about

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Speaker 1: funny animals when there's so much more important work going on.

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Speaker 1: And I made what I hope is the right decision

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Speaker 1: to keep releasing the show on schedule because I do

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Speaker 1: want it to be there for everyone who needs a

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Speaker 1: bit of fun, learning and entertainment in the midst of

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Speaker 1: the struggle. I'm including a link to some of the

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Speaker 1: charities that I'm donating to, and if you're someone who

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Speaker 1: can afford it, you can check those out. Thank you

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Speaker 1: everyone for listening. Please stay safe out there as much

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Speaker 1: as possible given the circumstances. So today on the show,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about animals who are all about the presentation sequence.

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Speaker 1: Spiders Mantis is with deadly cosplay fish who proved the

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Speaker 1: devil really does wear product, a bird who literally slays

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Speaker 1: on the Runway and the cutest little Billie Eilish loving

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Speaker 1: hyena on the planet. Discover this and more as we

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Speaker 1: answer the angel question have you ever watched a crab swim?

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Speaker 1: I mean really watched it? Joining me today is I

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Speaker 1: T professional by day, host and podcaster by night, and

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Speaker 1: nerd of the highest order. You can hear her on

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Speaker 1: Rooster Team Radio discussing everything Rooster Teeth, on Silver Screams,

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Speaker 1: a podcast about Overwatch. Also, she's a cat person. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: Katie Colin. Hi, all that that is. Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me on. Yeah, for sure, it's good to have another

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Speaker 1: Katie on night. So yeah, today I'm talking about animals

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Speaker 1: who are all about the presentation. They have incredible stage presence.

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Speaker 1: And I so I didn't realize you were an arachnophobe

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Speaker 1: before writing these notes. Uh so we are actually going

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Speaker 1: to start off with a spider. How do you feel

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Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? Hey, well, I'm hoping to maybe convert

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Speaker 1: least a spider neutral person, because these are really, really

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Speaker 1: beautiful spiders. So these are mirror spiders who have the

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Speaker 1: best costume game in the spider world. So I know

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Speaker 1: most people aren't too fond of spiders, but these look

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Speaker 1: like living jewels. Now, Katie, are you going to brave

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Speaker 1: it and look at these pictures I sent you? I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: These are beautiful spiders, and it helps that they are

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Speaker 1: still images and not in my house. Um. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: are lovely to look at, and there's something to be

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Speaker 1: said for the aesthetic and for the reflectiveness, especially on

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Speaker 1: the tho acts. But oh my god, spiders though, Like, so,

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Speaker 1: what Katie is looking at our pictures of two spiders

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Speaker 1: whose bodies look like it's made out of glass and

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Speaker 1: their abdomen looks like it's filled with diamond, ruby topaz

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Speaker 1: and sequins and shards of gold. So there are a

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Speaker 1: Uh so I Tica Nigron Nosia and t Argentino wait

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Speaker 1: argent argentinoo punk Chata. Yeah, they really look like some

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Speaker 1: jeweler has like a spider fixation and is making spider

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Speaker 1: like what's swark Swarkovsky. What's the Crystalski Swarovski. There we go.

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Speaker 1: I'm bad at being half Russian, but um, so they are.

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Speaker 1: They look like they're made out of crystals or jewels.

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Speaker 1: And the gyms that appear to be inside of these

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Speaker 1: out of guanine crystals. You might recognize guanning as one

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Speaker 1: of the amino acids that is present in DNA, but

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Speaker 1: it can also form these crystalline structures and they sparkle

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Speaker 1: internal internal body diamond armor, and it's glorious. I'm curious

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Speaker 1: back to the red carpet analogy, it's those transforming dresses,

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Speaker 1: suddenly it's a red ball gown and suddenly it's your

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Speaker 1: gut crystals exactly. It's that Grandmama, it's me Anastasia sort

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Speaker 1: of moments I have arrived yes, and I'm I'm eating

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Speaker 1: your guts and then making my guts all sparkly. Yes,

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Speaker 1: welcome to my high fashion home. It's time for dinner.

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Speaker 1: I like to think that as they're eating some some

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Speaker 1: little insect, they're like, so do you like and insects like, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's beautiful. I mean, you're eating my head and face,

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Speaker 1: It's all about the aesthetic, that's right, that's right, the

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Speaker 1: murder aesthetic. Anyhow, the name of a K pop band

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Speaker 1: is it murders thattic? It sounds no, I'm joking. Don't

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Speaker 1: don't don't hurt her K pop fans? She means no harm?

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Speaker 1: They are they are they? I don't know the power

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Speaker 1: of K pop fans is truly something to behold. K

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Speaker 1: know what, actually, could you start standing these mirror spiders, like,

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Speaker 1: bring awareness to how awesome these mirror spiders are. I

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Speaker 1: this could be great for animal conservation if we get

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Speaker 1: of forming a huge congo line of caterpillars. So there

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Speaker 1: caterpillars will eat the pine needles, and they can actually

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Speaker 1: And then they will weave these silken nests for themselves

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Speaker 1: So when they're ready to pupate, the caterpillars descend the

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Speaker 1: far worse. Oh, human centipede centipede? Yeah, yeah, this is humans,

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Speaker 1: So they are actually following pheromone trails left by other caterpillars.

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Speaker 1: It is just not worth it. It's not it's really

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Speaker 1: You came to the wrong congo line mr. Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 1: the flower mantis. So, flower mantis is are a group

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Speaker 1: of manted species who guess what are shaped like flowers. Finally,

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Speaker 1: an animal's name that is really self explanatory. You know,

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Speaker 1: They're bakers. They they they pull off one of their

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Speaker 1: it's like free, it's great. So they're exoskeletons are shaped

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Speaker 1: pink one that's an orchid mantis. Yeah, just because the

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Speaker 1: murder fish doesn't scan quite as well, but thing exactly exactly.

421
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,239
Speaker 1: But it's like those tropical tree frogs that are like

422
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: bright orange, Yeah, the poison dart frogs. They are gorgeous

423
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: to look at, bad to put in the mouth, even

424
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: though they look like candy and like, you know, like

425
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: that scene in they look like Lisa Frank. Yes, Lisa

426
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: Frank exactly. So does this guy really does that bright

427
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: neon yellow? Like? The eyes aren't big and sparkly enough

428
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 1: for Lisa, if that's true for the for these are

429
00:27:54,520 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: very much like slid eyed goat pupils. It's gorgeous, but yeah,

430
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: don't need it, don't need it, just admire. Don't touch

431
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: it either, Don't touch it, don't need it. Admire it, though,

432
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: says why I've never understood like puffer fish sushi, like, yes,

433
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: if we do this incorrectly, it could kill you. But

434
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: hey sushi, And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,

435
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: no no, But what if it tastes just really good? Though,

436
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with not worth the risk and stick

437
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: with something that has a much lower chance of murdering

438
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: me outright, like a California role at. Every sushi purist

439
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: out there recoils and horror. Let me live my life.

440
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. So have you ever seen a crab swimming

441
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: in the ocean? Don't they just kind of flail? What

442
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: you would think? So? And it's so I was, actually,

443
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, my image of crab swimming is just like

444
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: all legs going flailing around, but they seeing a crab

445
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: swim especially there's a species of crab called a I

446
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: think it's called it's a bath yell swimming crab, and

447
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: they have these modified back leg parts that are called swimmerets,

448
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: and they are adorable and goofy when they swim. Soap

449
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: click on that week, it was just doing this cute

450
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: little paddle with its back legs. It's like, Yeah, if

451
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: you've ever like watched a swimming class for three year

452
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: olds and the instructor is kind of holding them up

453
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: while they're learning to front stroke and they're just looking

454
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: up and they're kicking really hard like that, that's what

455
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: this is. That's what this is. This is so stare.

456
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: It's like a flying squirrel. So it's holding its front

457
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: arms out, those little pinchers out wide split out. It's

458
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: kicking with its back legs, and it absolutely looks like

459
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: a scared toddler trying to learn how to swim. It

460
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: is adorable. If you've never seen a crab swimming, you

461
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: have to watch it. It's going to make your day

462
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: a lot better. Well. And it also looks like it

463
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: and this could just be an illusion, but it looks

464
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: like it has its mouth open and that just helps.

465
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: It looks like it's making a little like smiley face.

466
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: Those are just its mouth parts, sort of natural configuration,

467
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: but it does look like it's doing a little like

468
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: it does. I'm swimming and swimming and swimming, swimming, swimming,

469
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: and once again he's happy to see you and to

470
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: pinch you. Actually, there's a great Blue Planet scene where

471
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: it's these blue footed boobies, which are a type of

472
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: aquatic bird, and there are these little swimming crabs underneath.

473
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: Pinching the booby feet. Pinching the booby feet is the

474
00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: name of a good ska band, Pinching the booby Feet

475
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: with the boxfish featuring the boxfish featuring the box fish.

476
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: Humans have long been jealous of the ocean's vibrant beauty.

477
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: In fact, kings and queens of the past were so

478
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: jealous they decided to steal some of it for their own.

479
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: Tyrian purple or royal purple is a vibrant purple dye

480
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: invented as far back as fifteen seventy b c. Creating

481
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: a purple dye that was so vibrant and could shock

482
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: the eye with its purple nous was difficult and expensive,

483
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: and thus reserved for the rich, a holes who ruled

484
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: ancient Rome. But really these richie riches were covered in snail,

485
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: slimes and urine. The dye was created using mucus excretions

486
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: from predatory sea snails from a gland similar to the

487
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: ink sac found in the sea snails relatives squid and octopuses.

488
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: The sea snails used the inky mucus to stun prey

489
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: in ward off predators. So to get this ink, the

490
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: dye makers had either milk the snails by pestering them

491
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: and collecting their angry excretions, or crushing them. However, crushing

492
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: them meant using a huge number of snails, as it

493
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: supposedly took up to twelve thousand snails just to die

494
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: the trim of a royal robe. Also, in order to

495
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: create the dye, fermented urine was used as the ammonia

496
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: in the urine could be used as a reducing agent

497
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: to produce the dye. So congratulations Caesar on your gross

498
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: p snail robe. When we return, we're coming up out

499
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: of the sea to see some spectacular runway shows on land.

500
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: Cashin inspired by animals can have a practical purpose. For instance,

501
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: the furry wetsuit, which is definitely not what you're thinking

502
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: it is. The furry wetsuit being developed by m I

503
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: T researchers and might Professor Annette Peko Hosoi, is a

504
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: wetsuit material that mimics the coat of an otter. The

505
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: synthetic fur like protrusions on the wetsuit are designed to

506
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: copy the function of the otter's fur, keeping the swimmer

507
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: warm by trapping little air bubbles. Otters, unlike many other

508
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: marine mammals, have no blubber to keep them warm. They

509
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: have an undercoat and over that an outer coat of

510
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: longer hair, which seems to work by trapping those air

511
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: bubbles and forming a wall of air between the water

512
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: and that undercoat of warm fur, which acts as a

513
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: thermal shield. Who says otter fashion can't combine both form

514
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: and function. It's otterly fabulous. So now we are going

515
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: to slowly move from the sea to the land and

516
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: talking about these animals with wonderful stage presence. So first

517
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: let's talk about in Amphibian And have you ever thought

518
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: about whether a bullfrog could be beautiful? Not really, No,

519
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: they tend to just be loud mm hmm. Well, you

520
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: know that's judgmental. First of all, sensing judgment. And I

521
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: do think that bullfrogs can be beautiful too, and I

522
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: want to highlight the Indian bullfrog. So normally the Indian

523
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: bullfrog is sort of your average frog color, kind of

524
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: a drab all of green. But during mating season, the

525
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: males put on a fresh coat of bright yellow paint. Uh,

526
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: it's not really paint, it is their skin turning bright

527
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: yellow during mating season, like bright bright neon, neon banana yellow.

528
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: It's shockingly yellow. And it also turns its vocal sacks,

529
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: which are these in bull frogs, is these two balloons

530
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 1: that inflate to help their loud ribbit mating calls resonate.

531
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: So you were mentioning they're extremely loud, that it's because

532
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: of these big vocal secs. And for the Indian bullfrog,

533
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 1: during mating season, these vocal secs turn bright, bright blue,

534
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: just the brightest blue you can imagine, and contrast that

535
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: with this bright yellow. It's incredible. Do you see the picture?

536
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: I sn't you. It looks like a sports fan if you.

537
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: If we see the guys paint, they're like, you know,

538
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: go barre chested and then paint themselves color. I just

539
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: look at this and I go, so, whose colors are that?

540
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: Is that the Boston Uprising? Is that? Like? Whose colors

541
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 1: are blue and yellow? Who are you rooting for? Sir? Yeah,

542
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: subtlety is not the game here they have it looks

543
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: like they have these two bright balloons stuck to their chin.

544
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: They're bright yellow. It doesn't it looks like photoshop. I

545
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: saw this picture and I really had to fact check

546
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: this because I was very concerned it was just a

547
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: photoshop and someone made up a story behind it. But no,

548
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: it's real. And actually there's a video if you want

549
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: to check that out of a bunch of these horny

550
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: guys all croaking and trying to mate with females. Okay,

551
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: so you got on me for calling bull frogs loud

552
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: and then you send me this video like where it

553
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: sounds like construction. It's there's so many of them going

554
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: on it. It sounds like construction, Like it's heavy machinery moving.

555
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: Just look at all these loud, horny bananas. It's like

556
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: a frat house, a bunch of loud, horny hop and bananas.

557
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: So it is a frat house. Yes, So those bright

558
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: colors and loud voices actually do help them attract females.

559
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: So you know, I guess learn from the bull frog guys.

560
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: Wear bright yellow and wear bright blue balloons on your

561
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: chins and just scream and that'll work. I promise that

562
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: only works if you're a Boston Uprising fan and all

563
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: of my overwatching people are going, um, excuse me. You know.

564
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: So now I want to talk about something a little

565
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: more elegant. I want to talk about the secretary bird,

566
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: which I think actually a lot of people might be

567
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: familiar with. These are the runway models of the bird world.

568
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: They are these beautiful birds that are found in the

569
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 1: grasslands of sub Saharan Africa. They're quite tall, they can

570
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: actually reach about four ft, which is a little over

571
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: a meter, and they are mostly land dwelling birds that

572
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: they are capable of flight, but most of the time

573
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: they're going to spend stomping around on the ground. So

574
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: they have these long, elegant legs, black feathers that look

575
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: like capris like they look kind of like cut off

576
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: and they have black feathers on their wing tips, a

577
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: white belly, gray backs, bright orange eyeshadow and yellow blush,

578
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: and a black fan like display of feathers behind their heads.

579
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: And what they're most famous for, perhaps is their long,

580
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: luxurious eyelashes. Yeah, these these are beautiful birds, and that

581
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: eyelash game is on point. It's like maybe it's maybe line,

582
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's Sagittarius serpentarius, which is the that's the Latin

583
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: name of the bird. But ump bump anyways, science joke.

584
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: You love it? You guys like it, don't yea you

585
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: like it? Maybe laying out here like that's too long

586
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,720
Speaker 1: of a catchphrase. They're actually related to birds of prey

587
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: such as hawks and vulture, and that's because they are

588
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: also birds of prey, so they look gorgeous. They look

589
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: like they belong on the runway, but they are vicious hunters.

590
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: Rather than snatching prey from the skies, they actually use

591
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: those runway ready legs to stomp on them, just absolutely

592
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: crush them on the runway. Literally. That's amazing using that. Yes, yeah,

593
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: I know there's this whole Oh I want someone so

594
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: to step on me. Not here, not in this case,

595
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: you will die. You are not getting back up, especially

596
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: if you are an insect, a small mammal, even mongooses,

597
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 1: which as we know, are quite vicious and can hold

598
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: their own ground, but not with these secretary birds. They'll

599
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: also prey on small reptiles, tortoises, small birds, and once

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00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: in a while they can even land bigger prey like

601
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: baby gazelles and cheetah cubs. Yeah, it is nuts. Have

602
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: you actually have you ever seen that? It's this adorable

603
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: anime call Bret suit grets Go is one amazing two

604
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 1: on Netflix three required viewing for anyone who has ever

605
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: held an office job. And yeah, well she be the

606
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: presidents of the Company's secretary is a secretary bird, and

607
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: she is a queen and she's the This is what

608
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: I love about when creators slip in bio facts in

609
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: their shows. It is the the secretary bird in this

610
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: show will stomp on a desk when she's mad, and

611
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: that is what secretaries actually do. But they do it

612
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: to kill their prey. I mean in an office setting.

613
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: I think it's accurate. I think if secretary birds, like

614
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: if we had sort of a Zootopia situation where secretary

615
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: birds are now holding office jobs, they would stomp on

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00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: your desk when they're mad. It's absolutely true. So they

617
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: It's interesting because like this very deadly bird river dance

618
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: is it may actually be similar to some of their

619
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: dinosaur ancestors, and it's it's interesting to see this evolution

620
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: from dinosaurs to these birds and maybe it gives us

621
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: some hints about how dinosaurs may have behaved like raptors. Yeah,

622
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: that does not in any capacity surprise me. Yeah, birds

623
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: are dinosaurs. Not many people know that. People think it's lizards. No,

624
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 1: it's birds. Nope, it's birds. It's birds. It's always been birds.

625
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: I keep telling everyone, go and look up. I believe

626
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: it's the archaeopterics that was kind of the missing link.

627
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: M m yeah, yeah, yeah. Archaeopterics was a sort of

628
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: gliding dinosaur that had these like weird feather like protrusions

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Speaker 1: and it could sort of like get on a tree

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Speaker 1: and then glide. So yeah, yeah, it's a it's really interesting.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people I think, I think that birds

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Speaker 1: evolved from like pterodactyls. Uh, Pterodactyls are actually not dinosaurs.

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Speaker 1: They're parosaurs, which are related to dinosaurs. But birds did

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Speaker 1: not evolve from pterodactyls. That's just sort of a parallel

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Speaker 1: evolutionary branch on the tree. Birds mostly evolved from dinosaurs

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Speaker 1: like the t rex and other yeah, big predators and

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Speaker 1: scientists are saying now that they think that dinosaurs likely

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Speaker 1: had others. Yes, depiction that we have is not accurate.

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Speaker 1: It was cutting edge when Jurassic Part came out, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean I love to imagine a t

641
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Speaker 1: rex is just a big angry chicken, and I think

642
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: it's so accurate. It's probably accurate, and it's great to

643
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Speaker 1: think about. So with these secretary birds, there's actually gender

644
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Speaker 1: equity in how they own the runway. Males and females

645
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Speaker 1: are morphologically pretty similar, so that means they look about

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Speaker 1: the same. A lot of bird species, the female is

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Speaker 1: kind of drab and the male is really fancy. But

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Speaker 1: in some bird species they're actually, you know, pretty similar.

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Speaker 1: So if you see a secretary bird with those long,

650
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Speaker 1: luxurious eyelashes and beautiful legs, it could be male or female,

651
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Speaker 1: who knows. And they will do mutual mating displays for

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00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: each other, so they will chase each other around and

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Speaker 1: then like soar up into the air, so they're both

654
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Speaker 1: trying to impress each other, and then they once they

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Speaker 1: select their mate, they will form these monogamous pairs. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's quite lovely, you know, I think that's

657
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Speaker 1: a good example. Yeah, Mary's fore Yeah, just like forming

658
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: a power couple for life, stomping on your enemies. And

659
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Speaker 1: also men should wear makeup, Yes, absolutely yeah. It makes

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Speaker 1: your eyes pop, you guys, It just makes your eyes pop.

661
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Speaker 1: A little bit of eyeline or a little mascara, super

662
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Speaker 1: easy to take off. Calm tour. So, speaking of guyliner,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the art wolf. So it's

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Speaker 1: not an art vark and it's not a wolf. It

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Speaker 1: is a striped little insectivorous hyena. And it's actually called

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Speaker 1: an ard wolf because it eats termites like an art vark.

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Speaker 1: But it's not a wolf. It is a hyena species

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Speaker 1: of hyena, so um like all hyenas, is actually more

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Speaker 1: closely related to cats than canines. And I bring this

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Speaker 1: up because this is the most fashionable runway ready hyena

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Speaker 1: I have ever seen. It's like hot topic spilled all

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Speaker 1: over a hyena. It's so cute, it's adorable. So what

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Speaker 1: you are looking at is an ard wolf cub. So

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Speaker 1: they are, in my opinion, one of the cutest little

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Speaker 1: hot topic baby animals ever. That is unbelievably cute, and

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Speaker 1: I want to pick it up and give it scritches.

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Speaker 1: And I know I would get like eaten if I tried,

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Speaker 1: But I mean they are kind of on the smaller side,

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Speaker 1: so maybe you wouldn't get eaten. Well if mom was

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Speaker 1: near If mom was nearby, you would get mall the

681
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: a for sure. Yeah, don't touch, don't touch the wildlife kids.

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Speaker 1: But it has a black mohawk along its back, this

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Speaker 1: big fluffy black tail, a black muzzle and eyeliner, these

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Speaker 1: fashionable black stripes all over its body and little black booties.

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Speaker 1: It's super It's like, what what would you describe this style?

686
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: Like punk, GoF or it's it's definitely more on the

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Speaker 1: punk side, but it's like high end runway punk side,

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Speaker 1: Like like I can see this like tiger striped dress

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Speaker 1: such as it is, and the black eye heels, the

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Speaker 1: black elbow length gloves. Gucci punk. I feel like Gucci

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Speaker 1: punk wouldn't be a real thing because I feel like

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Speaker 1: punks would be kind of anti anti Gucci. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Gucci Punk is the name of my Green

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Speaker 1: Day cover band. Okay, okay, sorry, I didn't mean to

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Speaker 1: infringe on your I p there. I should be done

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Speaker 1: making band name jokes now, But it's just it's it's

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Speaker 1: so easy to go back to that, well what is it?

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Speaker 1: It's it's Gucci punk. And the other one is, uh

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Speaker 1: is one of them was murder something? Oh yeah, yeah

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Speaker 1: then again murder boxes, murder present, that's a good one,

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00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: some thing like yeah, but yeah, the the long the

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Speaker 1: jokes that I've heard about hyenas and foxes is that

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Speaker 1: hyenas are cats running dog software and foxes are dogs

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Speaker 1: running cats soft. I love that. Yeah, that that's really funny. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they look pretty dog like and they're more related to cats,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, hyenas are are really interesting. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: like I think when people think about hyenas, they don't

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Speaker 1: realize that there are a lot of different species and

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00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 1: they look very different from other species. So this one

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Speaker 1: looks kind of like a zebra or raccoon and a

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00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: fox just kind of scrambled up their DNA into an

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00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: adorable salad. But you know, it's uh and unlike other hyenas,

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Speaker 1: it actually is not known to eat that much carrion.

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Speaker 1: It's mostly going around eating insects and it will eat

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00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: termites like an art vark, thus its name. So it's

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Speaker 1: it's fashionable and it's kind of sweet because it just

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Speaker 1: like goes around snore fling up bugs. See, in terms

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Speaker 1: of bug eating things I would like in my home.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't much rather have a little baby art wolf

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Speaker 1: than a spider. How how big are art wolves? How

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Speaker 1: big are adult art wolves? Yeah, they get up to

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Speaker 1: be about like fifteen to seventeen pounds, so they're not

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Speaker 1: that big. It's like about mediumsh dog. We're fostering a

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Speaker 1: fourteen pound cat earlier, so that's that's fine. No, you

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Speaker 1: can't have one of these. I keep telling people you

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Speaker 1: can't have these as pets. Oh not just just in

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Speaker 1: terms of if I had to have an insectivore in

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Speaker 1: my Okay, that's what I do. Not keep exotic animals

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00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: as pets. Don't do it. It's bad for you. It's bad,

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Speaker 1: you said. I also said, don't touch the wildlife kids.

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Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. That is true. Yeah. No, I'm

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Speaker 1: mean I think like, it's okay to want to cuddle it.

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Speaker 1: That's normal. I want to cuddle it. I wish I

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Speaker 1: was best friends with an art wolf and we just

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00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: had all sorts of like termite eating adventures and stuff.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, you can't actually do it. Don't

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Speaker 1: become an art Wolf king like, if we go back

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Speaker 1: to D and D, this is why you play druids.

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Speaker 1: You can talk to and occasionally be animals. But what

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Speaker 1: do you think Like an art Wolf would say like like, hey,

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00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: what's bugging you? And then start laughing it termite? Uh,

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Speaker 1: you want you win the prize on the creature feature

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Speaker 1: pun off? That is great? Is it murder? Most of

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Speaker 1: the prizes this episode seem to have been sorry it

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Speaker 1: is it's a toxic tucher to toxins. Sorry, sorry about that,

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Speaker 1: but that is your prize. Congratulations. As long as it

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Speaker 1: comes in a box and I don't have to open it,

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Speaker 1: you know, I could just kind of reverse Pandora that

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Speaker 1: in an adorable little fish box cool Cooper, cool, cool, great, cool, awesome,

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Speaker 1: it's the l A aquarium open. Can I call them

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00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: for a pickup remote pickup of dangerous deadly fishes? Yes? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Would you like this little Betty Page box fish that

753
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: I have? It's super cute and also I think it

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Speaker 1: wants to kill me, so I don't really live in

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Speaker 1: the house. Actually, in my research, I was seeing these

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Speaker 1: things where people with these aquarium setups were debating whether

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Speaker 1: to get these fish in their in their aquariums, and

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00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: there's stuff like well like it could kill all the

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00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: other fish in your aquarium, but it is really cool.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, this is why you always do your research

761
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Speaker 1: and you talk to experts, not self proclaimed experts on

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00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: the internet, but like actual humans who know what they're

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00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: talking about. It's the same people that will sell you

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Speaker 1: a beta fish in a tiny bowl would be like

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00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's not fine. Yeah, oh they like it

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00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: this way in nature. You know, the tiny bowls that

767
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: happen in nature. Yeah, exactly. Benefici are known for living

768
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: in tide ghouls. None of they need actually can't. They

769
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: can live in like little like like freshwater areas, but

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00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 1: again like there's gotta be there's flow of water and

771
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: you know, more more to life for them than a

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00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: little plastic bowl. Yeah, and a human can live in

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Speaker 1: a three square foot apartment, but that doesn't make it fun.

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00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Yep, yep, yep. Don't don't kill your fish

775
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: with fox fish, uh, but do make friends with a

776
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: secretary bird and litter her stomp on you, like queen,

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Speaker 1: what I'm just gonna go back to. Don't touch the

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Speaker 1: wildlife kids, Okay, fine, you're you're right, You're right, You're right.

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Speaker 1: Maybe let the wildlife stomp on you. It's all. That's

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Speaker 1: all I'm saying. If that's what you're into, I'm not

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00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: going to judge you. You're going to do it myself.

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Speaker 1: This is a zero judgment zone. Well, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining me, Katie on my trip down the

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Speaker 1: animal runway. Are you get anything to plug? Yeah? Thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me on this. This has been a

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Speaker 1: blast and included a lot more murder than I honestly expected.

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Speaker 1: But well, you know, kilter it on the runway. What

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Speaker 1: can I say? You know, I think you won the

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Speaker 1: pun off there. I am Katie Cullen. You can follow

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