Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: So I know this is a show about silly critters,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it'd be kind of weird not
Speaker 1: to say anything about the current situation. It's been a
Speaker 1: very difficult and dangerous time for everybody out there, fighting
Speaker 1: for black lives and rights and fighting against police brutality.
Speaker 1: It feels kind of weird doing a goofy show about
Speaker 1: funny animals when there's so much more important work going on.
Speaker 1: And I made what I hope is the right decision
Speaker 1: to keep releasing the show on schedule because I do
Speaker 1: want it to be there for everyone who needs a
Speaker 1: bit of fun, learning and entertainment in the midst of
Speaker 1: the struggle. I'm including a link to some of the
Speaker 1: charities that I'm donating to, and if you're someone who
Speaker 1: can afford it, you can check those out. Thank you
Speaker 1: everyone for listening. Please stay safe out there as much
Speaker 1: as possible given the circumstances. So today on the show,
Speaker 1: we're talking about animals who are all about the presentation sequence.
Speaker 1: Spiders Mantis is with deadly cosplay fish who proved the
Speaker 1: devil really does wear product, a bird who literally slays
Speaker 1: on the Runway and the cutest little Billie Eilish loving
Speaker 1: hyena on the planet. Discover this and more as we
Speaker 1: answer the angel question have you ever watched a crab swim?
Speaker 1: I mean really watched it? Joining me today is I
Speaker 1: T professional by day, host and podcaster by night, and
Speaker 1: nerd of the highest order. You can hear her on
Speaker 1: Rooster Team Radio discussing everything Rooster Teeth, on Silver Screams,
Speaker 1: a podcast about horror films, and on the Point Pod,
Speaker 1: a podcast about Overwatch. Also, she's a cat person. Welcome,
Speaker 1: Katie Colin. Hi, all that that is. Thanks for having
Speaker 1: me on. Yeah, for sure, it's good to have another
Speaker 1: Katie on night. So yeah, today I'm talking about animals
Speaker 1: who are all about the presentation. They have incredible stage presence.
Speaker 1: And I so I didn't realize you were an arachnophobe
Speaker 1: before writing these notes. Uh so we are actually going
Speaker 1: to start off with a spider. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? Hey, well, I'm hoping to maybe convert
Speaker 1: you a little bit into a spider lover, or at
Speaker 1: least a spider neutral person, because these are really, really
Speaker 1: beautiful spiders. So these are mirror spiders who have the
Speaker 1: best costume game in the spider world. So I know
Speaker 1: most people aren't too fond of spiders, but these look
Speaker 1: like living jewels. Now, Katie, are you going to brave
Speaker 1: it and look at these pictures I sent you? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm here for. I mean, not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: These are beautiful spiders, and it helps that they are
Speaker 1: still images and not in my house. Um. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: are lovely to look at, and there's something to be
Speaker 1: said for the aesthetic and for the reflectiveness, especially on
Speaker 1: the tho acts. But oh my god, spiders though, Like, so,
Speaker 1: what Katie is looking at our pictures of two spiders
Speaker 1: whose bodies look like it's made out of glass and
Speaker 1: their abdomen looks like it's filled with diamond, ruby topaz
Speaker 1: and sequins and shards of gold. So there are a
Speaker 1: couple of species of mere spiders found in Australia. These
Speaker 1: are Let's see if I can do this in one go.
Speaker 1: Uh so I Tica Nigron Nosia and t Argentino wait
Speaker 1: argent argentinoo punk Chata. Yeah, they really look like some
Speaker 1: jeweler has like a spider fixation and is making spider
Speaker 1: like what's swark Swarkovsky. What's the Crystalski Swarovski. There we go.
Speaker 1: I'm bad at being half Russian, but um, so they are.
Speaker 1: They look like they're made out of crystals or jewels.
Speaker 1: And the gyms that appear to be inside of these
Speaker 1: spiders are actually lining the outside of the spider's gut
Speaker 1: and they're excreted by the guts, So they are made
Speaker 1: out of guanine crystals. You might recognize guanning as one
Speaker 1: of the amino acids that is present in DNA, but
Speaker 1: it can also form these crystalline structures and they sparkle
Speaker 1: when light hits them, like actual, you know, non non
Speaker 1: spider made crystals. So we're basically looking at spiders making
Speaker 1: their own minecraft. I'm and armor exactly on the inside,
Speaker 1: internal internal body diamond armor, and it's glorious. I'm curious
Speaker 1: as to how this works with the spiders in terms
Speaker 1: of just natural camouflage. Yeah, so it seems counterintuitive to
Speaker 1: look heavily sequined and just super glamorous, like you're about
Speaker 1: to go down the red carpet as a spider and
Speaker 1: everyone's like, who are you wearing? It's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: it's spider gut excretion made it myself. It's me. It's
Speaker 1: out of my spider guts. So but yeah, it is
Speaker 1: actually camouflage and it is great for rainy and wet
Speaker 1: days because the spiders will glisten and refract light just
Speaker 1: like rain drops or dew drops. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: at a tree that has a bunch of de wanted
Speaker 1: or rain drops, it's gonna be hard to find the
Speaker 1: spider because it looks like rain being reflected through a
Speaker 1: rain drop. And if they actually they can turn off
Speaker 1: this sparkliness. So if they need to keep on the
Speaker 1: down low, they can contract their gut muscle which folds
Speaker 1: over the guantine crystals and hides them, allowing the spiders
Speaker 1: to do kind of like it's like an internal organ
Speaker 1: costume change, which is quite impressive. So if we go
Speaker 1: back to the red carpet analogy, it's those transforming dresses,
Speaker 1: like it looks like a cute little black dress and
Speaker 1: then you undo the cape and let it fly and
Speaker 1: suddenly it's a red ball gown and suddenly it's your
Speaker 1: gut crystals exactly. It's that Grandmama, it's me Anastasia sort
Speaker 1: of moments I have arrived yes, and I'm I'm eating
Speaker 1: your guts and then making my guts all sparkly. Yes,
Speaker 1: welcome to my high fashion home. It's time for dinner.
Speaker 1: I like to think that as they're eating some some
Speaker 1: little insect, they're like, so do you like and insects like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. I mean, you're eating my head and face,
Speaker 1: but it's beautiful. It's gorgeous. I love what you've done.
Speaker 1: It's all about the aesthetic, that's right, that's right, the
Speaker 1: murder aesthetic. Anyhow, the name of a K pop band
Speaker 1: is it murders thattic? It sounds no, I'm joking. Don't
Speaker 1: don't don't hurt her K pop fans? She means no harm?
Speaker 1: They are they are they? I don't know the power
Speaker 1: of K pop fans is truly something to behold. K
Speaker 1: pop fans are a specific, sparkly flavor of hardcore that
Speaker 1: is not to be trifled with. K pop fans. You
Speaker 1: know what, actually, could you start standing these mirror spiders, like,
Speaker 1: bring awareness to how awesome these mirror spiders are. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's very K pop and I think that
Speaker 1: this could be great for animal conservation if we get
Speaker 1: K pop fans to stand the mere spider. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. Sounds good, sounds good, let's go. So
Speaker 1: the next animal I want to talk about is it's
Speaker 1: actually when you just look at it at first, it
Speaker 1: seems rather drabbed, but its behavior is quite stunning. So
Speaker 1: these are the pine processionary caterpillars. So pine processionary is
Speaker 1: a species of moth and when they're in their larval
Speaker 1: caterpillar form, they have a very cute but inspiring habit
Speaker 1: of forming a huge congo line of caterpillars. So there
Speaker 1: is a picture if you want to look at it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you have a caterpillar or phobia
Speaker 1: as well? Now, just you know spider scorpions and other
Speaker 1: things that would like to sting you. But this, this
Speaker 1: is the If you hadn't told me it was a
Speaker 1: congo line, I would be asking you who photoshoped this
Speaker 1: because it just looks like one extremely long caterpillar or
Speaker 1: what like depths of the ocean. This was fished out of, Yeah,
Speaker 1: an elder caterpillar from beyond. It's a ribbon eel, but
Speaker 1: it lives on the ground. So these caterpillars live in
Speaker 1: Mediterranean regions as well. As North Africa and Central Asia
Speaker 1: and other parts of Europe that have pine trees, and
Speaker 1: they love pine and cedar trees because they use them
Speaker 1: for their whole life cycle. So the moths will lay
Speaker 1: their eggs at the top of the trees, and the
Speaker 1: caterpillars will eat the pine needles, and they can actually
Speaker 1: be really destructive for the trees, and they're one of
Speaker 1: the most destructive species for pine and cedar where they're found.
Speaker 1: And then they will weave these silken nests for themselves
Speaker 1: to survive in the winter. And they're communal too, so
Speaker 1: they'll share nests, which which is kind of sweet. And
Speaker 1: this is so this is where they get their processionary names.
Speaker 1: So when they're ready to pupate, the caterpillars descend the
Speaker 1: tree and form a huge congo line of fuzzy little
Speaker 1: caterpillars faced a butt faced but face to butt, just
Speaker 1: like bumper to bumper, face to butt. It's I think
Speaker 1: kind of cute. I would feel bad though, like if
Speaker 1: I was one of these caterpillars, and like what if
Speaker 1: one of them was kind of gassy, you know, because
Speaker 1: like you can't break formation, but then your face is
Speaker 1: in a butt, you went there because I went somewhere far,
Speaker 1: far worse. Oh, human centipede centipede? Yeah, yeah, this is humans,
Speaker 1: this is caterpillar centipede. If they're doing a congo line,
Speaker 1: do you imagine they're going to a rhythm and just
Speaker 1: kicking out all of the little boo yeah, just like
Speaker 1: all their many many legs on one side boo, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So they are actually following pheromone trails left by other caterpillars.
Speaker 1: That helps them find the perfect trail to go and pupate.
Speaker 1: So they will travel these well worn trails that goes
Speaker 1: by food and water, and then their final destination is
Speaker 1: where they will burrow into the gray ound to pupate
Speaker 1: into adult moths. And the reason they form a congo
Speaker 1: line is the safety and numbers. So they have what
Speaker 1: are called urticating hairs, which are highly irritating hairs that
Speaker 1: will cause severe skin irritation and predators. So if you
Speaker 1: see a fuzzy caterpillar or or any insect that looks
Speaker 1: particularly fuzzy and fluffy, even though it's tempting to try
Speaker 1: to pet it, probably not a great idea because those
Speaker 1: hairs can be highly irritating. I don't know, if you've
Speaker 1: ever accidentally done that as a kid, pick up a
Speaker 1: caterpillar and pet it and then suddenly your palms are
Speaker 1: really itchy. That I have not done. But we didn't
Speaker 1: really have many fuzzy caterpillars in like Montana so well,
Speaker 1: living in southern California, I picked up every insect I found,
Speaker 1: which in retrospect was probably a little bit of a gamble.
Speaker 1: They will use these highly irritating hairs in this giant
Speaker 1: congo line to deter predators because if you're just one caterpillar,
Speaker 1: you're face and button belly are kind of exposed to
Speaker 1: a predator. But if you're this long, intimidating line, face too,
Speaker 1: but there's not really a great opening for predator to
Speaker 1: get you. And also the cost is higher because if
Speaker 1: a predator gets the urdicating hairs from this huge line
Speaker 1: of caterpillars, that's gonna be a real itchy, bad time.
Speaker 1: It is just not worth it. It's not it's really
Speaker 1: it's never worth it to interrupt a congo line. It
Speaker 1: just never is worth it. Well, and then it turns
Speaker 1: into one of those you came to the wrong neighborhood situations.
Speaker 1: You came to the wrong congo line mr. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So the last insect I want to talk about is
Speaker 1: the flower mantis. So, flower mantis is are a group
Speaker 1: of manted species who guess what are shaped like flowers. Finally,
Speaker 1: an animal's name that is really self explanatory. You know,
Speaker 1: before I look at the notes because I've been doing
Speaker 1: so much quarantine baking, I heard f l O, you
Speaker 1: are mantis, and I'm like, oh, are they white like flowers?
Speaker 1: They're bakers. They they they pull off one of their
Speaker 1: mates heads and then put it in a pie. It's adorable,
Speaker 1: it's like free, it's great. So they're exoskeletons are shaped
Speaker 1: like petals or leaves, and they come in pretty flowered colors. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you have to look at these pictures. They are
Speaker 1: just absolutely beautiful. They look like living flowers. You know.
Speaker 1: I think I've seen that first one before, that bright
Speaker 1: pink one that's an orchid mantis. Yeah, just because the
Speaker 1: Internet being the Internet, passes around fun animal pictures and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I've seen that one before. But yeah,
Speaker 1: orchid mantises are pretty popular on the Internet. I think
Speaker 1: that people are. So if you've never seen this, it
Speaker 1: is a mantis imagine the classic mantis shape, but it
Speaker 1: is bright pink, and it's but looks like a flower petal,
Speaker 1: and its little arms have sort of a fringe on
Speaker 1: it that looks very flowery. And it absolutely looks like
Speaker 1: you crossed a mantis with an orchid. It's beautiful, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: It looks like someone photo shopped it. Honestly, Yes, it
Speaker 1: looks like mantis airbrushing. It does these impossible mantis body standards.
Speaker 1: I'm sick of it. I'm tired of it. As normal
Speaker 1: green mantis. This just can't look up to that. Just
Speaker 1: let us eat our mates in peace. So they are
Speaker 1: obviously up to something when they are dressing as flowers.
Speaker 1: So what they will do is they actually climb on
Speaker 1: top of a plant, sit very still, and wait to
Speaker 1: ambush prey. And they just blend in with the other
Speaker 1: flowers on the plant and a little fly or a
Speaker 1: little insect comes hoping to sip some nectar, and all
Speaker 1: they get is death. So that's not a good prize. No, No,
Speaker 1: you're you're going you're trying to sniff the flowers, get
Speaker 1: a little bit of nectar and oops, your head's gone.
Speaker 1: So this is called aggressive mimicry. It's when a predator
Speaker 1: uses mimicry to trick prey into a false sense of
Speaker 1: security or lure them in, and it is bad for
Speaker 1: the prey, but for us it is very stunning to
Speaker 1: look at the these guys. They're beautiful. So there's another
Speaker 1: one called the Jeweled Flower Mantis of South and Southeast Asia.
Speaker 1: It has these pretty pink and blue wing fans. And
Speaker 1: not only that, but they have little eye spots on
Speaker 1: their outer wings that look like little yellow smiley faces,
Speaker 1: like yellow emoticons. And this one's got it's a little
Speaker 1: pictures are not the right word. It's a little arms up.
Speaker 1: So this whole effect of this picture is and he's
Speaker 1: happy to see you, he's happy to eat you. More
Speaker 1: like it? Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I love how these
Speaker 1: have emojis on their wings. It's just it's wonderful. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful. Yeah, It's just all I can think of
Speaker 1: for the coggressive mimicry is. I play a lot of
Speaker 1: dungeons and dragons and there is a monster called a
Speaker 1: mimic and it looks like a treasure chest. So when
Speaker 1: the unwary adventurer shows up and goes, oh, treasure. That's
Speaker 1: when they get eaten, and that's basically what this is.
Speaker 1: I have been fooled by mimic treasure chests in many
Speaker 1: a video game, and it's very frustrating every time. I
Speaker 1: also like the idea that they have these little emojis.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when someone is tweeting or texting
Speaker 1: something really passive aggressive, and they toss a little emoji in,
Speaker 1: just like a little winky or smiling. It's like, you're
Speaker 1: not being nice, you're being mean, but you're just trying
Speaker 1: to trick me. Yeah. Yeah, except in this case, the
Speaker 1: mantis eat you. It's not just passive aggressive. I would
Speaker 1: say that's aggressive aggressive. It's murder catfishing. Despite their reputation
Speaker 1: is being gross and icky. Bugs are fashion icons, not
Speaker 1: just in nature but in the human world. Silk is
Speaker 1: of course made from silkworms, which aren't really a worm
Speaker 1: but a caterpillar of the bomb bix mori, a moth,
Speaker 1: and that silk comes from the cocoons they weave with
Speaker 1: a sticky substance produced by their salivary glands. So the
Speaker 1: next time you see a friend wearing some gorgeous silk,
Speaker 1: you can tell them nice larva spit. I mean that is,
Speaker 1: if you don't want any friends. When we return, we're
Speaker 1: going to dive into the water and look at some
Speaker 1: fishy fashionistas. Why are reefs so colorful? I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the coral themselves. Coral may seem inanimate, but it's an animal,
Speaker 1: a stationary invertebrate within the phylum nider area, which also
Speaker 1: contains creatures like jellyfish and an enemies. Coral isn't colorful
Speaker 1: to be pleasing to the human eye and scuba divers,
Speaker 1: but rather those bulb pigments represent important information about the
Speaker 1: corals health. Some of the coral's colors, such as bright green,
Speaker 1: maybe due to the symbiotic algae living upon it. The
Speaker 1: algae gets a nice place to live and the coral
Speaker 1: gets oxygen and waste management from the algae. Other times,
Speaker 1: bright pigment, made up of proteins, provide the coral protection
Speaker 1: from harsh you be raised from the sun. Generally speaking,
Speaker 1: the more colorful reef is, the healthier it is. Sometimes
Speaker 1: coral goes through bleaching due to an increase in water temperature,
Speaker 1: which forces it to shed its symbiotic algae. This is
Speaker 1: bad news for the coral and a big warning sign
Speaker 1: that the reef is in danger of collapsing. So in nature,
Speaker 1: fashion isn't just fun, it's absolutely essential. So now let's
Speaker 1: talk about some of the beautiful critters under the sea.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about weirdly overly enthusiastic teenage mermaids
Speaker 1: singing crabs or singing crabs. So have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of the blue galacious? You know, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure I'm pronouncing that right. So it looks
Speaker 1: Glaucus could be Glaucus, could be Glaucious, maybe Glaucus, and
Speaker 1: I just don't know. We just don't. Nobody knows. Honestly,
Speaker 1: nobody knows. And that's what I say when it's specifically
Speaker 1: me who does not know. But these are also called
Speaker 1: blue dragons, and they are found all over the world
Speaker 1: in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, in tropical and
Speaker 1: temperate waters. And if you want to be like a c.
Speaker 1: Kalisi and get your baby dragon, you gotta be warned.
Speaker 1: These are actually more closely related to snails and slugs,
Speaker 1: so they're actually mollusks. Wait, so is everything on this
Speaker 1: list a lie? These? But they did? Have you seen
Speaker 1: that picture? They absolutely look like a little baby sky
Speaker 1: dragon or sea dragons. You know, I have I have
Speaker 1: seen this before and yeah, every single time. They are
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful. This does look like something that you would see,
Speaker 1: you know, forty fifty yards long floating in the air
Speaker 1: in a fantasy setting alongside a steampunk airship. Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1: It looks like it comes right out of a fantasy
Speaker 1: movie or some kind of Miyazaki film. It's stunning. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen this, obviously, I'm including links
Speaker 1: to all these cool animals in the show notes, but
Speaker 1: here is a description. They have a long dragon like
Speaker 1: body tail and three sets of wings that splay out.
Speaker 1: They look like fans made out of feathers or flames,
Speaker 1: and they have blue and white coloration that looks like
Speaker 1: blue fire. And it's it's stunning. It's it looks like
Speaker 1: a painting. It doesn't look like this is just a
Speaker 1: natural creature that someone didn't invent, But that coloration is
Speaker 1: actually really useful for them to blend in with the
Speaker 1: ocean water. So if you're under the ocean looking up
Speaker 1: and over the ocean looking down, like when you're looking upwards,
Speaker 1: you see the light coming down through the ocean, so
Speaker 1: you see these lightbeings, so having that striation of white
Speaker 1: and blue actually helps them blend in with light streaming
Speaker 1: in through the ocean. So if you're fish looking up,
Speaker 1: you're it's gonna be really hard to see one of
Speaker 1: these little guys. And they are very little. They're only
Speaker 1: about three centimeters long, so that makes it very important
Speaker 1: for them to try to avoid predators. So not really
Speaker 1: the final fantasy boss fight that they look like, then,
Speaker 1: not unless you are a man o war, which it
Speaker 1: sounds like a really badass thing to be like. If
Speaker 1: you're a man of war, you can take anything, but
Speaker 1: these little tiny guys will act rely nibble at you
Speaker 1: and prey on you. So first of all, let me
Speaker 1: say so, man o wars are these weird floating hydrozoans
Speaker 1: that are related to and resemble jellyfish. And these little
Speaker 1: blue dragons are new to brinks, which are a type
Speaker 1: of marine gastropod mollusks. So, like I said earlier, they're
Speaker 1: related to slugs and snails and Newda brinks often like
Speaker 1: to have toxic skin so that they can award off predators.
Speaker 1: And these guys, no matter how cute they are, are
Speaker 1: no exception, they will eat the stingers of man O Wars,
Speaker 1: these jellyfish like creatures who are in their own way,
Speaker 1: they look ridiculous. They look like weird glass blown art,
Speaker 1: like a they're basically a bubble that has these stingers
Speaker 1: attached to it and they float around. But the Blue
Speaker 1: Dragons eat their stingers and then incorporate them into the
Speaker 1: skin cells on their own little wing like protrusions, and
Speaker 1: they can deliver a very powerful sting through that. So
Speaker 1: don't don't pick these guys up. So it's it's basically cooties,
Speaker 1: but actual cooties is like like circles, Yeah, circle, circle,
Speaker 1: dot dot, Now you got your cutie shot. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If they touch you, they give you cooties, except stinging,
Speaker 1: terrible painful cuties and it so that is a great
Speaker 1: way to deter predators that want to eat them. So
Speaker 1: that is they've got they've got themselves covered really, both
Speaker 1: by blending in and by just stinging the heck out
Speaker 1: of anyone who's like, hey, I want to be your
Speaker 1: colsi and try to pick them up and then sorry,
Speaker 1: you got stinged. Let's hold hands, let's not let's not, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's very kind of you social distancing from
Speaker 1: this guy. That's yes, yes, they are the social distancing masters.
Speaker 1: Acute fact about them is that the reason they can
Speaker 1: sort of float and fly through the water is with
Speaker 1: the help of a little air bubble and its tummy
Speaker 1: that keeps it afloat, so it can swallow a little
Speaker 1: air bubble and just kind of float along and sting
Speaker 1: anyone that gets too close. Cute and deadly, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So another toxic cutie in the ocean is the yellow
Speaker 1: box fish. And it looks like a little yellow gift
Speaker 1: box with black polka dots, but the gift is toxins. Yay, surprise.
Speaker 1: This looks like a Betty Page purse. You just put
Speaker 1: a little strap on that. And it's one of those
Speaker 1: like really weird out of the box person, that's what
Speaker 1: this SIPs those little schoolish face with the snow. That's
Speaker 1: just the weirdest fish it looks. It has an almost
Speaker 1: perfectly square body, these independently moving eyes, and a little
Speaker 1: protruding oh shaped mouth that looks like little like macaroni
Speaker 1: noodle mouth that pops out, and its skin is bright
Speaker 1: yellow with black polka dots. It looks made up. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look real. It looks like if it had arms
Speaker 1: and legs, it would be a Star Wars alien. So
Speaker 1: many animals look like Star Wars aliens when you think
Speaker 1: about it. But yeah, it looks like a cartoon. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely surreal. So there's actually a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: species of box fish who are, as you would expect
Speaker 1: fish shaped like boxes, and they are related to puff
Speaker 1: or fish. The yellow box fish is found in oceanic
Speaker 1: reefs all over the world, and so being a box
Speaker 1: seems like a really weird choice for fish because a
Speaker 1: lot of fish have that like undulating action. But box
Speaker 1: fish the same as puffer fish, their cousins, swim in
Speaker 1: a very different way. So they beat their fins and
Speaker 1: tails in very quickly like a hunting bird, and they
Speaker 1: just kind of hover rather than undulate and swim through
Speaker 1: the water like that. So they're more like little fishy
Speaker 1: drones than other types of locomotion that fish use. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so by beating their tails and fins so quickly, they
Speaker 1: create this thrust and they can just they hover around
Speaker 1: like a little hummingbird, except it's a box and a fish.
Speaker 1: This is just I'm not over this I'm not over this.
Speaker 1: It looks like a box I. I'm having a real
Speaker 1: hard time getting past in the box murder. There are
Speaker 1: all sorts of box fish, the gift box, the bread box,
Speaker 1: the treasure chest, and they'll all kill you. That's not
Speaker 1: a good prize. And you're correct because like their puffer
Speaker 1: fish cousins, they will release neurotoxic tetrodotoxin, which is lethal
Speaker 1: to predators who want to eat it. And that yellow
Speaker 1: polka dot bikini color ration is actually warning predators that
Speaker 1: it is toxic. So this is called epis semitism. So
Speaker 1: it's like saying like, hey, I'm toxic, Like, don't even
Speaker 1: mess with me. I know I look adorable, like a
Speaker 1: cute little clutch or purse or something, but if you
Speaker 1: eat me, I'll kill you. We need yellow polka dot
Speaker 1: murder fish doesn't scan quite as well, but thing exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: But it's like those tropical tree frogs that are like
Speaker 1: bright orange, Yeah, the poison dart frogs. They are gorgeous
Speaker 1: to look at, bad to put in the mouth, even
Speaker 1: though they look like candy and like, you know, like
Speaker 1: that scene in they look like Lisa Frank. Yes, Lisa
Speaker 1: Frank exactly. So does this guy really does that bright
Speaker 1: neon yellow? Like? The eyes aren't big and sparkly enough
Speaker 1: for Lisa, if that's true for the for these are
Speaker 1: very much like slid eyed goat pupils. It's gorgeous, but yeah,
Speaker 1: don't need it, don't need it, just admire. Don't touch
Speaker 1: it either, Don't touch it, don't need it. Admire it, though,
Speaker 1: says why I've never understood like puffer fish sushi, like, yes,
Speaker 1: if we do this incorrectly, it could kill you. But
Speaker 1: hey sushi, And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, But what if it tastes just really good? Though,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with not worth the risk and stick
Speaker 1: with something that has a much lower chance of murdering
Speaker 1: me outright, like a California role at. Every sushi purist
Speaker 1: out there recoils and horror. Let me live my life.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. So have you ever seen a crab swimming
Speaker 1: in the ocean? Don't they just kind of flail? What
Speaker 1: you would think? So? And it's so I was, actually,
Speaker 1: you know, my image of crab swimming is just like
Speaker 1: all legs going flailing around, but they seeing a crab
Speaker 1: swim especially there's a species of crab called a I
Speaker 1: think it's called it's a bath yell swimming crab, and
Speaker 1: they have these modified back leg parts that are called swimmerets,
Speaker 1: and they are adorable and goofy when they swim. Soap
Speaker 1: click on that week, it was just doing this cute
Speaker 1: little paddle with its back legs. It's like, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you've ever like watched a swimming class for three year
Speaker 1: olds and the instructor is kind of holding them up
Speaker 1: while they're learning to front stroke and they're just looking
Speaker 1: up and they're kicking really hard like that, that's what
Speaker 1: this is. That's what this is. This is so stare.
Speaker 1: It's like a flying squirrel. So it's holding its front
Speaker 1: arms out, those little pinchers out wide split out. It's
Speaker 1: kicking with its back legs, and it absolutely looks like
Speaker 1: a scared toddler trying to learn how to swim. It
Speaker 1: is adorable. If you've never seen a crab swimming, you
Speaker 1: have to watch it. It's going to make your day
Speaker 1: a lot better. Well. And it also looks like it
Speaker 1: and this could just be an illusion, but it looks
Speaker 1: like it has its mouth open and that just helps.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's making a little like smiley face.
Speaker 1: Those are just its mouth parts, sort of natural configuration,
Speaker 1: but it does look like it's doing a little like
Speaker 1: it does. I'm swimming and swimming and swimming, swimming, swimming,
Speaker 1: and once again he's happy to see you and to
Speaker 1: pinch you. Actually, there's a great Blue Planet scene where
Speaker 1: it's these blue footed boobies, which are a type of
Speaker 1: aquatic bird, and there are these little swimming crabs underneath.
Speaker 1: Pinching the booby feet. Pinching the booby feet is the
Speaker 1: name of a good ska band, Pinching the booby Feet
Speaker 1: with the boxfish featuring the boxfish featuring the box fish.
Speaker 1: Humans have long been jealous of the ocean's vibrant beauty.
Speaker 1: In fact, kings and queens of the past were so
Speaker 1: jealous they decided to steal some of it for their own.
Speaker 1: Tyrian purple or royal purple is a vibrant purple dye
Speaker 1: invented as far back as fifteen seventy b c. Creating
Speaker 1: a purple dye that was so vibrant and could shock
Speaker 1: the eye with its purple nous was difficult and expensive,
Speaker 1: and thus reserved for the rich, a holes who ruled
Speaker 1: ancient Rome. But really these richie riches were covered in snail,
Speaker 1: slimes and urine. The dye was created using mucus excretions
Speaker 1: from predatory sea snails from a gland similar to the
Speaker 1: ink sac found in the sea snails relatives squid and octopuses.
Speaker 1: The sea snails used the inky mucus to stun prey
Speaker 1: in ward off predators. So to get this ink, the
Speaker 1: dye makers had either milk the snails by pestering them
Speaker 1: and collecting their angry excretions, or crushing them. However, crushing
Speaker 1: them meant using a huge number of snails, as it
Speaker 1: supposedly took up to twelve thousand snails just to die
Speaker 1: the trim of a royal robe. Also, in order to
Speaker 1: create the dye, fermented urine was used as the ammonia
Speaker 1: in the urine could be used as a reducing agent
Speaker 1: to produce the dye. So congratulations Caesar on your gross
Speaker 1: p snail robe. When we return, we're coming up out
Speaker 1: of the sea to see some spectacular runway shows on land.
Speaker 1: Cashin inspired by animals can have a practical purpose. For instance,
Speaker 1: the furry wetsuit, which is definitely not what you're thinking
Speaker 1: it is. The furry wetsuit being developed by m I
Speaker 1: T researchers and might Professor Annette Peko Hosoi, is a
Speaker 1: wetsuit material that mimics the coat of an otter. The
Speaker 1: synthetic fur like protrusions on the wetsuit are designed to
Speaker 1: copy the function of the otter's fur, keeping the swimmer
Speaker 1: warm by trapping little air bubbles. Otters, unlike many other
Speaker 1: marine mammals, have no blubber to keep them warm. They
Speaker 1: have an undercoat and over that an outer coat of
Speaker 1: longer hair, which seems to work by trapping those air
Speaker 1: bubbles and forming a wall of air between the water
Speaker 1: and that undercoat of warm fur, which acts as a
Speaker 1: thermal shield. Who says otter fashion can't combine both form
Speaker 1: and function. It's otterly fabulous. So now we are going
Speaker 1: to slowly move from the sea to the land and
Speaker 1: talking about these animals with wonderful stage presence. So first
Speaker 1: let's talk about in Amphibian And have you ever thought
Speaker 1: about whether a bullfrog could be beautiful? Not really, No,
Speaker 1: they tend to just be loud mm hmm. Well, you
Speaker 1: know that's judgmental. First of all, sensing judgment. And I
Speaker 1: do think that bullfrogs can be beautiful too, and I
Speaker 1: want to highlight the Indian bullfrog. So normally the Indian
Speaker 1: bullfrog is sort of your average frog color, kind of
Speaker 1: a drab all of green. But during mating season, the
Speaker 1: males put on a fresh coat of bright yellow paint. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not really paint, it is their skin turning bright
Speaker 1: yellow during mating season, like bright bright neon, neon banana yellow.
Speaker 1: It's shockingly yellow. And it also turns its vocal sacks,
Speaker 1: which are these in bull frogs, is these two balloons
Speaker 1: that inflate to help their loud ribbit mating calls resonate.
Speaker 1: So you were mentioning they're extremely loud, that it's because
Speaker 1: of these big vocal secs. And for the Indian bullfrog,
Speaker 1: during mating season, these vocal secs turn bright, bright blue,
Speaker 1: just the brightest blue you can imagine, and contrast that
Speaker 1: with this bright yellow. It's incredible. Do you see the picture?
Speaker 1: I sn't you. It looks like a sports fan if you.
Speaker 1: If we see the guys paint, they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: go barre chested and then paint themselves color. I just
Speaker 1: look at this and I go, so, whose colors are that?
Speaker 1: Is that the Boston Uprising? Is that? Like? Whose colors
Speaker 1: are blue and yellow? Who are you rooting for? Sir? Yeah,
Speaker 1: subtlety is not the game here they have it looks
Speaker 1: like they have these two bright balloons stuck to their chin.
Speaker 1: They're bright yellow. It doesn't it looks like photoshop. I
Speaker 1: saw this picture and I really had to fact check
Speaker 1: this because I was very concerned it was just a
Speaker 1: photoshop and someone made up a story behind it. But no,
Speaker 1: it's real. And actually there's a video if you want
Speaker 1: to check that out of a bunch of these horny
Speaker 1: guys all croaking and trying to mate with females. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you got on me for calling bull frogs loud
Speaker 1: and then you send me this video like where it
Speaker 1: sounds like construction. It's there's so many of them going
Speaker 1: on it. It sounds like construction, Like it's heavy machinery moving.
Speaker 1: Just look at all these loud, horny bananas. It's like
Speaker 1: a frat house, a bunch of loud, horny hop and bananas.
Speaker 1: So it is a frat house. Yes, So those bright
Speaker 1: colors and loud voices actually do help them attract females.
Speaker 1: So you know, I guess learn from the bull frog guys.
Speaker 1: Wear bright yellow and wear bright blue balloons on your
Speaker 1: chins and just scream and that'll work. I promise that
Speaker 1: only works if you're a Boston Uprising fan and all
Speaker 1: of my overwatching people are going, um, excuse me. You know.
Speaker 1: So now I want to talk about something a little
Speaker 1: more elegant. I want to talk about the secretary bird,
Speaker 1: which I think actually a lot of people might be
Speaker 1: familiar with. These are the runway models of the bird world.
Speaker 1: They are these beautiful birds that are found in the
Speaker 1: grasslands of sub Saharan Africa. They're quite tall, they can
Speaker 1: actually reach about four ft, which is a little over
Speaker 1: a meter, and they are mostly land dwelling birds that
Speaker 1: they are capable of flight, but most of the time
Speaker 1: they're going to spend stomping around on the ground. So
Speaker 1: they have these long, elegant legs, black feathers that look
Speaker 1: like capris like they look kind of like cut off
Speaker 1: and they have black feathers on their wing tips, a
Speaker 1: white belly, gray backs, bright orange eyeshadow and yellow blush,
Speaker 1: and a black fan like display of feathers behind their heads.
Speaker 1: And what they're most famous for, perhaps is their long,
Speaker 1: luxurious eyelashes. Yeah, these these are beautiful birds, and that
Speaker 1: eyelash game is on point. It's like maybe it's maybe line,
Speaker 1: maybe it's Sagittarius serpentarius, which is the that's the Latin
Speaker 1: name of the bird. But ump bump anyways, science joke.
Speaker 1: You love it? You guys like it, don't yea you
Speaker 1: like it? Maybe laying out here like that's too long
Speaker 1: of a catchphrase. They're actually related to birds of prey
Speaker 1: such as hawks and vulture, and that's because they are
Speaker 1: also birds of prey, so they look gorgeous. They look
Speaker 1: like they belong on the runway, but they are vicious hunters.
Speaker 1: Rather than snatching prey from the skies, they actually use
Speaker 1: those runway ready legs to stomp on them, just absolutely
Speaker 1: crush them on the runway. Literally. That's amazing using that. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know there's this whole Oh I want someone so
Speaker 1: to step on me. Not here, not in this case,
Speaker 1: you will die. You are not getting back up, especially
Speaker 1: if you are an insect, a small mammal, even mongooses,
Speaker 1: which as we know, are quite vicious and can hold
Speaker 1: their own ground, but not with these secretary birds. They'll
Speaker 1: also prey on small reptiles, tortoises, small birds, and once
Speaker 1: in a while they can even land bigger prey like
Speaker 1: baby gazelles and cheetah cubs. Yeah, it is nuts. Have
Speaker 1: you actually have you ever seen that? It's this adorable
Speaker 1: anime call Bret suit grets Go is one amazing two
Speaker 1: on Netflix three required viewing for anyone who has ever
Speaker 1: held an office job. And yeah, well she be the
Speaker 1: presidents of the Company's secretary is a secretary bird, and
Speaker 1: she is a queen and she's the This is what
Speaker 1: I love about when creators slip in bio facts in
Speaker 1: their shows. It is the the secretary bird in this
Speaker 1: show will stomp on a desk when she's mad, and
Speaker 1: that is what secretaries actually do. But they do it
Speaker 1: to kill their prey. I mean in an office setting.
Speaker 1: I think it's accurate. I think if secretary birds, like
Speaker 1: if we had sort of a Zootopia situation where secretary
Speaker 1: birds are now holding office jobs, they would stomp on
Speaker 1: your desk when they're mad. It's absolutely true. So they
Speaker 1: It's interesting because like this very deadly bird river dance
Speaker 1: is it may actually be similar to some of their
Speaker 1: dinosaur ancestors, and it's it's interesting to see this evolution
Speaker 1: from dinosaurs to these birds and maybe it gives us
Speaker 1: some hints about how dinosaurs may have behaved like raptors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that does not in any capacity surprise me. Yeah, birds
Speaker 1: are dinosaurs. Not many people know that. People think it's lizards. No,
Speaker 1: it's birds. Nope, it's birds. It's birds. It's always been birds.
Speaker 1: I keep telling everyone, go and look up. I believe
Speaker 1: it's the archaeopterics that was kind of the missing link.
Speaker 1: M m yeah, yeah, yeah. Archaeopterics was a sort of
Speaker 1: gliding dinosaur that had these like weird feather like protrusions
Speaker 1: and it could sort of like get on a tree
Speaker 1: and then glide. So yeah, yeah, it's a it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: A lot of people I think, I think that birds
Speaker 1: evolved from like pterodactyls. Uh, Pterodactyls are actually not dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: They're parosaurs, which are related to dinosaurs. But birds did
Speaker 1: not evolve from pterodactyls. That's just sort of a parallel
Speaker 1: evolutionary branch on the tree. Birds mostly evolved from dinosaurs
Speaker 1: like the t rex and other yeah, big predators and
Speaker 1: scientists are saying now that they think that dinosaurs likely
Speaker 1: had others. Yes, depiction that we have is not accurate.
Speaker 1: It was cutting edge when Jurassic Part came out, Yes,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean I love to imagine a t
Speaker 1: rex is just a big angry chicken, and I think
Speaker 1: it's so accurate. It's probably accurate, and it's great to
Speaker 1: think about. So with these secretary birds, there's actually gender
Speaker 1: equity in how they own the runway. Males and females
Speaker 1: are morphologically pretty similar, so that means they look about
Speaker 1: the same. A lot of bird species, the female is
Speaker 1: kind of drab and the male is really fancy. But
Speaker 1: in some bird species they're actually, you know, pretty similar.
Speaker 1: So if you see a secretary bird with those long,
Speaker 1: luxurious eyelashes and beautiful legs, it could be male or female,
Speaker 1: who knows. And they will do mutual mating displays for
Speaker 1: each other, so they will chase each other around and
Speaker 1: then like soar up into the air, so they're both
Speaker 1: trying to impress each other, and then they once they
Speaker 1: select their mate, they will form these monogamous pairs. So
Speaker 1: I think that's quite lovely, you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: a good example. Yeah, Mary's fore Yeah, just like forming
Speaker 1: a power couple for life, stomping on your enemies. And
Speaker 1: also men should wear makeup, Yes, absolutely yeah. It makes
Speaker 1: your eyes pop, you guys, It just makes your eyes pop.
Speaker 1: A little bit of eyeline or a little mascara, super
Speaker 1: easy to take off. Calm tour. So, speaking of guyliner,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the art wolf. So it's
Speaker 1: not an art vark and it's not a wolf. It
Speaker 1: is a striped little insectivorous hyena. And it's actually called
Speaker 1: an ard wolf because it eats termites like an art vark.
Speaker 1: But it's not a wolf. It is a hyena species
Speaker 1: of hyena, so um like all hyenas, is actually more
Speaker 1: closely related to cats than canines. And I bring this
Speaker 1: up because this is the most fashionable runway ready hyena
Speaker 1: I have ever seen. It's like hot topic spilled all
Speaker 1: over a hyena. It's so cute, it's adorable. So what
Speaker 1: you are looking at is an ard wolf cub. So
Speaker 1: they are, in my opinion, one of the cutest little
Speaker 1: hot topic baby animals ever. That is unbelievably cute, and
Speaker 1: I want to pick it up and give it scritches.
Speaker 1: And I know I would get like eaten if I tried,
Speaker 1: But I mean they are kind of on the smaller side,
Speaker 1: so maybe you wouldn't get eaten. Well if mom was
Speaker 1: near If mom was nearby, you would get mall the
Speaker 1: a for sure. Yeah, don't touch, don't touch the wildlife kids.
Speaker 1: But it has a black mohawk along its back, this
Speaker 1: big fluffy black tail, a black muzzle and eyeliner, these
Speaker 1: fashionable black stripes all over its body and little black booties.
Speaker 1: It's super It's like, what what would you describe this style?
Speaker 1: Like punk, GoF or it's it's definitely more on the
Speaker 1: punk side, but it's like high end runway punk side,
Speaker 1: Like like I can see this like tiger striped dress
Speaker 1: such as it is, and the black eye heels, the
Speaker 1: black elbow length gloves. Gucci punk. I feel like Gucci
Speaker 1: punk wouldn't be a real thing because I feel like
Speaker 1: punks would be kind of anti anti Gucci. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. Gucci Punk is the name of my Green
Speaker 1: Day cover band. Okay, okay, sorry, I didn't mean to
Speaker 1: infringe on your I p there. I should be done
Speaker 1: making band name jokes now, But it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: so easy to go back to that, well what is it?
Speaker 1: It's it's Gucci punk. And the other one is, uh
Speaker 1: is one of them was murder something? Oh yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: then again murder boxes, murder present, that's a good one,
Speaker 1: some thing like yeah, but yeah, the the long the
Speaker 1: jokes that I've heard about hyenas and foxes is that
Speaker 1: hyenas are cats running dog software and foxes are dogs
Speaker 1: running cats soft. I love that. Yeah, that that's really funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they look pretty dog like and they're more related to cats,
Speaker 1: and yeah, hyenas are are really interesting. I mean it's
Speaker 1: like I think when people think about hyenas, they don't
Speaker 1: realize that there are a lot of different species and
Speaker 1: they look very different from other species. So this one
Speaker 1: looks kind of like a zebra or raccoon and a
Speaker 1: fox just kind of scrambled up their DNA into an
Speaker 1: adorable salad. But you know, it's uh and unlike other hyenas,
Speaker 1: it actually is not known to eat that much carrion.
Speaker 1: It's mostly going around eating insects and it will eat
Speaker 1: termites like an art vark, thus its name. So it's
Speaker 1: it's fashionable and it's kind of sweet because it just
Speaker 1: like goes around snore fling up bugs. See, in terms
Speaker 1: of bug eating things I would like in my home.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't much rather have a little baby art wolf
Speaker 1: than a spider. How how big are art wolves? How
Speaker 1: big are adult art wolves? Yeah, they get up to
Speaker 1: be about like fifteen to seventeen pounds, so they're not
Speaker 1: that big. It's like about mediumsh dog. We're fostering a
Speaker 1: fourteen pound cat earlier, so that's that's fine. No, you
Speaker 1: can't have one of these. I keep telling people you
Speaker 1: can't have these as pets. Oh not just just in
Speaker 1: terms of if I had to have an insectivore in
Speaker 1: my Okay, that's what I do. Not keep exotic animals
Speaker 1: as pets. Don't do it. It's bad for you. It's bad,
Speaker 1: you said. I also said, don't touch the wildlife kids.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. That is true. Yeah. No, I'm
Speaker 1: mean I think like, it's okay to want to cuddle it.
Speaker 1: That's normal. I want to cuddle it. I wish I
Speaker 1: was best friends with an art wolf and we just
Speaker 1: had all sorts of like termite eating adventures and stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, you can't actually do it. Don't
Speaker 1: become an art Wolf king like, if we go back
Speaker 1: to D and D, this is why you play druids.
Speaker 1: You can talk to and occasionally be animals. But what
Speaker 1: do you think Like an art Wolf would say like like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's bugging you? And then start laughing it termite? Uh,
Speaker 1: you want you win the prize on the creature feature
Speaker 1: pun off? That is great? Is it murder? Most of
Speaker 1: the prizes this episode seem to have been sorry it
Speaker 1: is it's a toxic tucher to toxins. Sorry, sorry about that,
Speaker 1: but that is your prize. Congratulations. As long as it
Speaker 1: comes in a box and I don't have to open it,
Speaker 1: you know, I could just kind of reverse Pandora that
Speaker 1: in an adorable little fish box cool Cooper, cool, cool, great, cool, awesome,
Speaker 1: it's the l A aquarium open. Can I call them
Speaker 1: for a pickup remote pickup of dangerous deadly fishes? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Would you like this little Betty Page box fish that
Speaker 1: I have? It's super cute and also I think it
Speaker 1: wants to kill me, so I don't really live in
Speaker 1: the house. Actually, in my research, I was seeing these
Speaker 1: things where people with these aquarium setups were debating whether
Speaker 1: to get these fish in their in their aquariums, and
Speaker 1: there's stuff like well like it could kill all the
Speaker 1: other fish in your aquarium, but it is really cool.
Speaker 1: Oh no, this is why you always do your research
Speaker 1: and you talk to experts, not self proclaimed experts on
Speaker 1: the internet, but like actual humans who know what they're
Speaker 1: talking about. It's the same people that will sell you
Speaker 1: a beta fish in a tiny bowl would be like
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's not fine. Yeah, oh they like it
Speaker 1: this way in nature. You know, the tiny bowls that
Speaker 1: happen in nature. Yeah, exactly. Benefici are known for living
Speaker 1: in tide ghouls. None of they need actually can't. They
Speaker 1: can live in like little like like freshwater areas, but
Speaker 1: again like there's gotta be there's flow of water and
Speaker 1: you know, more more to life for them than a
Speaker 1: little plastic bowl. Yeah, and a human can live in
Speaker 1: a three square foot apartment, but that doesn't make it fun.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Yep, yep, yep. Don't don't kill your fish
Speaker 1: with fox fish, uh, but do make friends with a
Speaker 1: secretary bird and litter her stomp on you, like queen,
Speaker 1: what I'm just gonna go back to. Don't touch the
Speaker 1: wildlife kids, Okay, fine, you're you're right, You're right, You're right.
Speaker 1: Maybe let the wildlife stomp on you. It's all. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. If that's what you're into, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to judge you. You're going to do it myself.
Speaker 1: This is a zero judgment zone. Well, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining me, Katie on my trip down the
Speaker 1: animal runway. Are you get anything to plug? Yeah? Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me on this. This has been a
Speaker 1: blast and included a lot more murder than I honestly expected.
Speaker 1: But well, you know, kilter it on the runway. What
Speaker 1: can I say? You know, I think you won the
Speaker 1: pun off there. I am Katie Cullen. You can follow
Speaker 1: me all over the social media's as well as on
Speaker 1: YouTube and twitch at kia j that is k I
Speaker 1: a x et. If you enjoy watching me react to things,
Speaker 1: they live on that YouTube channel. I am also a
Speaker 1: co host on the Silver Screens YouTube channel, where we
Speaker 1: react to horror things and discuss horror things. I am
Speaker 1: also on a pair of podcast I am on Rooster
Speaker 1: Team Radio where we discuss all things rooster Teeth, and
Speaker 1: I am a co host of On the Point, which
Speaker 1: is an overwatch and overwatch league focused podcast. We record weekly,
Speaker 1: even when league is on break. We do our best
Speaker 1: to record weekly because there's was something to talk about
Speaker 1: and you can find us on the internet. Well, let
Speaker 1: me take that again. You can find us on the
Speaker 1: internet at Creature Feature Pod on Instagram, where I will
Speaker 1: be posting all the pictures of these wonderful animals. You
Speaker 1: can find us at Creature Feet pod on Twitter. That's
Speaker 1: f e A T, not f E T. That is
Speaker 1: onthing We're different. You can find me at Katie Golden
Speaker 1: that I just have a lot of my Katie thoughts
Speaker 1: on They're not necessarily show related, just Katie thoughts, And
Speaker 1: as always I am at pro bird Rites, where I
Speaker 1: argue for birds to be in charge of the planet.
Speaker 1: You know because hashtag just Katie thoughts. Thanks to the
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