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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,

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Speaker 1: and today on the show Camels, it's just one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent camels, one hundred percent of the time every species

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Speaker 1: of camel discussed on this podcast.

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Speaker 2: I realized that.

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Speaker 1: I've never really talked about camels on the podcast, and

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Speaker 1: I had to fix that issue. It was an oversight.

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Speaker 1: I apologize. I apologize to camels. I apologize to people

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Speaker 1: who love camels, and I Yet, camels are fascinating. They

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Speaker 1: are so much more than you might expect. They have

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Speaker 1: ridiculous evolutionary traits, incredible adaptations from inside out, from the

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Speaker 1: tiniest cells and their bodies to those big old humps

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Speaker 1: you know and love and spoilers. That hump is not

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Speaker 1: filled with water, but something else. Discover this and more

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Speaker 1: as we answer the age old question, is that a

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Speaker 1: flesh balloon coming out of your mouth? Or are you

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Speaker 1: just happy to see me? Joining me today is producer

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Speaker 1: podcaster Friend of the show, Friend to Camel's Bridge at Greenberg.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Hey, best friend to camels, tell other big dumb faces.

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Speaker 3: So excited you got the dumbest faces.

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Speaker 2: They do.

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Speaker 1: They have the sweetest, dumbest faces.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love them so just like you look at them

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Speaker 1: from any angle, really, from that amazing poudy lips, those

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Speaker 1: big bug eyes, it's such a and then those luscious eyelashes.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they have beautiful eyelashes. And they are constantly

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Speaker 3: chewing nothing. It seems like every time I've seen one,

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Speaker 3: it's like chewing.

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Speaker 2: They're cut.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, they just like chewing a circle motion. It's

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Speaker 3: staring with their weird eyes. I was traveling in Israel

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Speaker 3: once and we were on like a tour bus and

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Speaker 3: I fell asleep and I woke up.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know, you woke up next to

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Speaker 2: a camel.

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Speaker 1: I've heard this story a million times.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I meane it happens. They're very seductive. The eyelashes.

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Speaker 2: Uh no.

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Speaker 3: I like woke up on the store of Us and

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Speaker 3: I like look out into the distance and I swear

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Speaker 3: to God, I saw a camel with a fez on

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Speaker 3: just wandering the desert.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if it's true.

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Speaker 3: It was like I don't know if it like escaped somewhere,

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Speaker 3: but I was wearing a fez and it was just

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Speaker 3: a lone camel out in the desert.

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Speaker 2: Camels I enjoy fashion as well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, no one else said they saw it,

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Speaker 3: but I I swear he was wearing.

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Speaker 2: A little hat. I like that.

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Speaker 1: I like that there is a cryptid now that is

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Speaker 1: camel wearing a fez, And yeah, Bridget has seen it

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Speaker 1: and swears I seen it shaky.

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Speaker 3: Desert at the Middle East and confuses sleepy tourists.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's incredible.

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Speaker 1: They're everywhere out there, they are, and it's really interesting

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Speaker 1: because they are domesticated and they have become much more cosmopolitan,

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Speaker 1: much more globally present than they were typically when they

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Speaker 1: were wild. Huh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that makes sense because I mean I

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Speaker 3: felt bad for the camels, but traveling around I would

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Speaker 3: just see them, like at gas stations and be like, hey,

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Speaker 3: bet my camel for like five dollars.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, five dollars a pet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one pet, five dollars, that's their pads. Has to

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Speaker 3: be hard to keep a camel, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean actually, I mean maybe if you're trying to keep

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Speaker 1: it in your apartment. But they sure were very well

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Speaker 1: suited to domestication. They're more strong willed than say a

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Speaker 1: horse or a cow, but they are they were, uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that they are so hardy and

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Speaker 1: so well adapted to extremes made them invaluable in terms

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Speaker 1: and domesticated animals in human history.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so. They do seem very they they're

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Speaker 3: very gentle yea creatures.

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Speaker 1: They're gentle, but with a little bit of attitude, which

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, they have some edge to them

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they stare at you with their expressionless dumb faces,

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Speaker 3: just chewing in big old circles.

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Speaker 2: You're like, I'm gonna go where I want to go,

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Speaker 2: so just sort of a rundown. What is a camel?

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Speaker 1: A camel is an even toed ungulate like deer, sheep, bison.

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Speaker 1: They're actually distantly related to whales and dolphins, which also

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Speaker 1: descended from whose land animals. But yeah, they're basically they're

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Speaker 1: even toad ungulates, So they're similar to antelope, deer sheep pigs.

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Speaker 3: Is that what the is? Are we gonna find out?

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Speaker 3: The hump is a fin is essentially a fin.

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Speaker 1: I like that sand whales they're called sand dolphins.

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Speaker 2: Sand dolphins, I love that for them.

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Speaker 1: So camels have an interesting evolutionary history. The oldest known camel, Protolopus,

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Speaker 1: lived around fifty million years ago and was about as

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Speaker 1: big as a medium sized dog, So not very big,

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Speaker 1: little tiny miniature camel.

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Speaker 3: Cute, let's bring that back. That feels more like the

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Speaker 3: apartment camel.

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Speaker 2: I know, lap camel.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I would love a dream little lap camel and

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Speaker 1: pettit have a spit spitout courtesans.

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Speaker 2: That I don't like. Yeah, the spit is griss.

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Speaker 1: So we don't necessarily know if these early ancestors of

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Speaker 1: camel's actually had a hump or not. We don't have

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Speaker 1: the soft tissue evidence, but they were found in North America.

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Speaker 1: In fact, camels lived in North America until around fifteen

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Speaker 1: other megafauna, probably because humans came along and just ruined everything,

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Speaker 1: as as we tend to like to do.

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Speaker 2: They you're back this MegaFon.

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Speaker 1: Well no, so these early ancestors of camels went extinct,

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Speaker 1: but the other species of camels evolved and moved across

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Speaker 2: So that's why we got big camels.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the some of the camels that lived in

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Speaker 1: North America were quite big, actually a little taller than

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Speaker 1: modern day camels. May or may not have had a hump,

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Speaker 1: but they did. They went extinct, while the other camels

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Speaker 1: surviving until modern times after going through a little bit

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Speaker 1: of human mettaling. So interestinglys were not always adapted solely

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Speaker 1: for hot climates, nor are they solely found in hot

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Speaker 2: A little bit about later.

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Speaker 1: But first thing to know is that there are three

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Speaker 1: species of camel still alive today, which I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people just think there's like is camel, Every

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Speaker 1: camel is just camel. There are three types of camel.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny because, yeah, you said three types of species,

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Speaker 3: and I did think camel's just camel, and then I

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Speaker 1: But so there is the dromedary camel, which is probably

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that looks like camel, camel.

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Speaker 1: Camel camel, sort of your camel classic, which is actually

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Speaker 1: a little deceptive because there is the bactory and camel,

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Speaker 1: the wild bactory and camel. So we are going to

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Speaker 1: talk about the Bactrian and the wild Bactrian, who are

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Speaker 1: fascinating camels. But first we're gonna talk about the good

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Speaker 1: old Dromedary camel, the one we know and love, which

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Speaker 1: is also incredibly incredibly interesting. So the Dromedary is the

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Speaker 1: most common camel. It is your stereotypical, prototypical, archetypical, all

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Speaker 4: They're the ones that wear the fezes. They're exactly camel. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: but so handsome, very handsome. And it is a domesticated animal.

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Speaker 4: It is not a wild animal. They are all domesticated

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's you know, essentially like a horse or

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Speaker 1: a cow, it is domesticated.

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Speaker 3: I remember seeing like I've seen wild horses and I

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Speaker 2: Like they just exist.

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Speaker 3: But uh, that's saying I thought camels were just you know,

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Speaker 3: throwing in the woods making more camels or the desert.

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Speaker 2: Well they can be.

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Speaker 1: So there are feral camels. In fact, a lot of

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Speaker 1: feral camels.

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Speaker 2: That's fact we'll talk about. Actually, I don't like that.

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Speaker 2: I don't like that. Actually that's very scary.

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Speaker 1: We will talk about some of these feral camels.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And while they're maybe not scary to humans, there are

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Speaker 1: some problems with feral camels. So there are big populations

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Speaker 1: of feral camels, but they are technically feral versions of

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Speaker 1: the domesticated camel. So just kind of a short description

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Speaker 1: of the dromedary camel. They have one hump, always one hump.

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Speaker 1: They have short but shaggy fur, a long curved neck,

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Speaker 1: and absolutely gorgeous maybe the line maybe it's maybe line.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she's born with it. Eyelashes and they are born

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Speaker 1: with it. They are born with it. I mean, just

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Speaker 2: They're stunning. Yeah, they could fan your face with their eyelashes.

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Speaker 1: It's stunning.

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Speaker 2: It's a look. And I'm jealous, frankly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're they're dumb seductive faces.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't get around it. Those camels are hot.

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Speaker 1: They have they do have vogue faces. They know how

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Speaker 1: to have that sort of unfocused, glazed look in their eye.

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Speaker 1: They flutter their eyelashes and pout with their lips. They're Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're they're very very vogue.

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Speaker 3: They they look like they want you to pet them,

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Speaker 3: but they do not.

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Speaker 2: They will spit at you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Actually that spit is not spit, but a mixture

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Speaker 1: of saliva and regurgitate. Regurgitate, regurgitate, regurgita.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense, it does, Yeah, because that's not I've

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Speaker 3: seen the spit and it's not. It looks it looks

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Speaker 3: it's it's it's pretty gross.

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Speaker 1: It's throw up. It's a little bit of throw up.

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Speaker 1: They regurgitate and will shoot it at you. And this

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Speaker 1: is a defensive tactic that they use. Yeah, it used

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Speaker 1: if they're just pissed off at you, a human.

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Speaker 3: They are very sassy creatures too. They always they they

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Speaker 3: do seem a bit pissed a lot. Yeah, it you know,

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Speaker 3: it adds up. I do like that as that feels

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Speaker 3: like the kind of defensive tactic that someone like me

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Speaker 3: would have, is that I just throw up at you.

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Speaker 3: I like that as a superpower as someone with stomach issues.

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Speaker 3: I enjoy that as a superpower of just you.

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Speaker 1: I did when I was in elementary school, like get

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Speaker 1: sick during a choir practice, and I did, on accident

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Speaker 1: throw up on the front row, including a girl.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really like. So perfect, I was right exactly,

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Speaker 2: it was.

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Speaker 1: It was actually why we're while we were seeing a

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Speaker 2: So good, good job, thank you?

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Speaker 1: Uh that man, such a memorable birthday, A.

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Speaker 2: Lot of cake.

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Speaker 1: So I I really do feel for the camels because

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Speaker 2: But it is Have you have you ever ridden a cam?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it turns out they weren't made just for me

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Speaker 3: No that is yeah, yeah, don't bring animals to places

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Speaker 3: It's funny because I cannot see them being like a camel.

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Speaker 1: to fifteen days, which is, for the record, a lot

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00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: longer than humans can. You'd be very dead. I'd be dead.

443
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: We'd be a pile of bones. Maybe not bones, but yeah,

444
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: but dead, but certainly dead. Certainly dead.

445
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 2: That sounds like a long time. Yeah. Yes.

446
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: When it does drink, it drinks very heartily. It can

447
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,719
Speaker 1: drink over four gallons or twenty liters a minute and

448
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: can drink around thirty gallons or one hundred and fifteen

449
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 1: liters in one sitting.

450
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:44,959
Speaker 2: I that in the the minute.

451
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 3: That how much you can drink in a minute is

452
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 3: shocking to Yeah, because I feel like you need a

453
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 3: hose to do that. So certain like I feel like

454
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: them just lapping up water.

455
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 2: It's gotta be that. That seems they do that at

456
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 2: a a quick rate.

457
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: Yes, very powerful mouths, just hoovering up water.

458
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like it would need a tusk to

459
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 2: drink that much water. But good for them.

460
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the water is not stored in the humph.

461
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: The hump is actually a fibrous mass of faty tissue

462
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: that is stored and can be metabolized as food for

463
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: the nutrition for the camel if it is unable to

464
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: find food. So it's not really for water, it is

465
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: for nutrition.

466
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 2: That is handy.

467
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like a backpack full of snacks, except it's

468
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: kind of it's just anya.

469
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: It's just anya.

470
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this hump can store up to eighty pounds

471
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: or thirty six kilograms of fat. So that is significant.

472
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: That is a significant can't ley adequate source of nutrition

473
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: if they are encountering scarcity?

474
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: Does that hump. I mean, now does it like shrink? Yes,

475
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 2: they lose yeah, okay.

476
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, as they consume it. Yeah, it's kind of deflates. Uh,

477
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like a sad balloon. But with

478
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: a full hump, they can go several months without food.

479
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: Wow. Yes, for them.

480
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: In terms of the water, how they survive, on how

481
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: they are able to drink a huge amount of water

482
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: and then go so long without having to drink more water,

483
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: it is actually inside of them that is mostly responsible

484
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: for their water preservation in terms of their organs like

485
00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,959
Speaker 1: their kidneys, and also as small as their blood cells.

486
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: Their blood cells are actually oval shaped rather than round like.

487
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 2: Our blood cell.

488
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: Red blood blood cells are kind of like these little

489
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: like doughnuts without a hole in them. Yeah, but uh,

490
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: camel red blood cells are oval shaped, and what that

491
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: allows is for the blood flow to continue even when

492
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: they're severely dehydrated. So they're kind of more streamlined to

493
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: these blood cells, so they can continue to flow through

494
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: the veins even in cases of severe dehydration.

495
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 2: That is.

496
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 3: Very thorough evolution. Yes, Uh, that is incredible. Uh that yeah,

497
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 3: down to the blood cell. It has figured out in

498
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 3: the desert.

499
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, if you want an example

500
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:55,479
Speaker 1: of how blood cell shape can kind of change based

501
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: on a mutation but then end up being advantageous, you

502
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: only need to look at humans, where people can get

503
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: sickle cell anemia, which is generally speaking not necessarily advantageous,

504
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: but it does make it harder to contract malaria, and

505
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: so the sickle cell anemia actually provides an advantage to

506
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: people who are in areas where there is high malaria risk.

507
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: So you can see how you might have some kind

508
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: of mutation with blood cell shape that may not see mydeal,

509
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: but then in certain situations, in certain environments, it actually

510
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: is a really good mutation.

511
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: Ah, Man, evolution is cool, Ain't it wacky? It's it's

512
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 2: it's wild that.

513
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, your body just figures out how to best survive

514
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 3: and then forms everybody that way.

515
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's just like it's but it's just luck, right,

516
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: Like if you're if you're the person, you're just kind

517
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: of born with the mutation, and it's like, oh, actually

518
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: this is pretty good. You just end up surviving and

519
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: end up having babies and passing that onto them.

520
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, good for these camels and they're lost blood cells.

521
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, Camels can also voluntarily close their nostrils, which

522
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: will prevent sand from entering their nostrils and can also

523
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: help them prevent more water loss, like by exhaling out

524
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: of their nostrils in like these very dry, windy conditions.

525
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: How do they breathe?

526
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: Well, it's voluntary, so they they open.

527
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 2: Up their breath. Yeah, breathe, Yeah.

528
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: I mean it's like it's sort of like blinking in

529
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: a way, although like voluntary blinking, like if you if

530
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: it's really windy or something, you might kind of blink

531
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: more to keep your eyes more moisturized. It's the same

532
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: thing with this. It's no, it s nose blinking kind of.

533
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 2: That's I have seen that happen. It is. It's weird.

534
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of always thought of it as blinking

535
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 3: that it is like kind of involuntary.

536
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 2: But that's cool. They're big, dumb nostrils.

537
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: So other adaptations is uh. Another adaptation is that they

538
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: have thick, leathery skin on their feet, knees, and chest

539
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: areas so they can protect themselves from the hot sand

540
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: while walking, kneeling and lying down because they do often

541
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: kind of lie down with their legs tucked under them.

542
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: It's very cute.

543
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're they're like they're they're like I I

544
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 3: think of them as a very like kind of lazy

545
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 3: animal because I always see them lying down and.

546
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: It, uh, they're efficient. It's it's efficiency.

547
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 2: It's efficiency.

548
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, energy efficiency. Yeah, that's what I call my naps

549
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: energy efficiency.

550
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: Energy efficiency. Yeah. They also just have the sleepiest faces.

551
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: They really do, they really do. And then just like

552
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: that slow chewing it's it's adorable.

553
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, they always look like the chillip.

554
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

555
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 2: And that chewing.

556
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: Actually they are chewing their cuds so they regurgitate this

557
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,479
Speaker 1: quasi digested vegetation back up to chew it some more

558
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: and swallow it again. It's something a lot of ungulates

559
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: will do, a lot of ruminants will do.

560
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: It's pretty gross.

561
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 1: It's pretty gross. In addition to that, though, they also

562
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: have really thick lips that they can grasp and chew,

563
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: like pull out and chew vegetation. And since the vegetation

564
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: they have to contend with is often thorny and prickly,

565
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: they have really thick lips and insides of their mouth

566
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: so they can chew on it without getting hurt getting scratched.

567
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's why they have a big faces.

568
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: Those paddy lips and those luscious eyelids. Ushes actually serve

569
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: quite a good evolutionary purpose.

570
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh yeah, I just like, like, what are you

571
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 3: chewing on my own vomit?

572
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: Want some spits at you?

573
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, just keeping it in my mouth in case, just

574
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: in case.

575
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: We do have to talk about their love lives. It's fascinating,

576
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: of course, it's it's I mean, I've.

577
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 3: Been I've been staring at this picture that you have

578
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 3: of a camel, uh making love to another camel for

579
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 3: an inappropriate amount of time.

580
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: It is something that I mean, like without sounding weird,

581
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: it's like kind of fascinating because it was not how

582
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: I pictured them mating. Honestly.

583
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 4: Yeah.

584
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 3: They yeah, they're they're very large and unruly animals. I

585
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 3: would say. Their body seems unruly. Uh yeah, just a

586
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 3: lot of long legs and a week hump in a

587
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 3: long neck.

588
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the physics seem off, it does it does?

589
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: It's they're ungainly and then you see how they mate

590
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: and it's like, I guess, I guess that is kind

591
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: of the only way to do it. So what it

592
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: is is the female is lying down with her legs

593
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: tucked under her, sort of just classic bread loaf camel pose,

594
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: and the male is very awkwardly stretched over her with

595
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: his neck kind of like sticking out, his legs straddling her,

596
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: his front legs straddling her, and then you know, just

597
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: kind of kneeling behind her. And just what's funny to

598
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: me is it looks like so much effort for the

599
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: male and then the female's just like just lying.

600
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 2: Down, yeah whatever, yeah it uh.

601
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, that male seems stressed, yeah to see the least,

602
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 3: and she's just like.

603
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, good for her. But also I.

604
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: Like the body shape that this camel that the male

605
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 3: has contarted itself to, which is just like a ball

606
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 3: m with a you remember those skippet things that you

607
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: would tie around your ankle.

608
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:26,720
Speaker 2: Yes, I had a ball.

609
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sort of like that shape, but if the

610
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 3: ball was like a cannon ball.

611
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it really.

612
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 2: It's like, I guess we're just so used.

613
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: To seeing the camel in its normal position with its

614
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: like neck sort of in a sloping U shape, just

615
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: kind of walking around, but when it like stretches its

616
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: neck out and its legs out and it's like little

617
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: pot belly is shoved unceremoniously on its knees.

618
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 3: Just really yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, I figure it's et

619
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 3: it's it's it looks like EtuH. It has that long

620
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 3: neck and then that weird circle body. Yes, it's and

621
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 3: it's like little squat legs.

622
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 2: I don't.

623
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: It's not dignified. It's not very dignifia.

624
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 2: No, uh, it's you know they have to do this

625
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 2: in public.

626
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: But speaking of undignified, males have a lot of romantic.

627
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 2: Gestures that they will offer.

628
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: For females to try to attract them, one of which

629
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: is splashing their own urine around their genitals. Well, of course,

630
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: of course, I mean, I mean how that it's camel cologne.

631
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you want that area to spell good. I

632
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 3: can't feel like I know, they don't. I know, the

633
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 3: female just kind of like picks it up. But well,

634
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 3: you don't have to do it on the general littles.

635
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 3: I'm sniffing down there, but like, where else are you

636
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 3: going to go? You can't really aim it and might

637
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 3: as well. I would rather use splash your urine, you

638
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 3: know where the urine comes from, then on its neck

639
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 3: or something.

640
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: Although yeah, like not sort of like the perfume thing

641
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: where you roll a little bit on your.

642
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 2: Wrists and on your neck.

643
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's because I like with animals, you know, with

644
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 3: wild animals.

645
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: You know, I just assume they're covered in urine. Oh yeah,

646
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 2: it's goodness.

647
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 3: I don't think they need to do the extra work. Yeah,

648
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 3: I'm sure that splashback happens.

649
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's basically water park rules, right, like

650
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: ninety nine is gonna be p You just have to

651
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: accept it.

652
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just gotta.

653
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're covered in bte. We didn't need to do

654
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 3: extra work for it. But you know, if it works,

655
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 3: who am I to judge?

656
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 2: Yes, And.

657
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: Speaking of extra work, the males do have another romantic

658
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: gesture to offer the females, and it is inflating a

659
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: sack of flesh inside their mouth, letting it flop out

660
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: the side of their mouth like this big, wet, pink balloon,

661
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: and then sort of pushing air through it such that

662
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: it makes this like rumbling, gurgling, bubbling sound and not Yeah,

663
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: it's very hot. It is called the dola. Uh.

664
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: And this is what it sounds like. Oh that is

665
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 2: not what I was expecting. That sounds like a water cooler.

666
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 3: Yeah that I'm also I'm looking at this thing that's

667
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 3: not their tongue.

668
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: No that is you know, I don't want to judge, but.

669
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: Gross, it sounds a little bit judgy actually though.

670
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's oh man that it looks like a turd

671
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 3: coming out of its mouth.

672
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: You're dulla shaming these camels.

673
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 3: I yeah, I mean, you know, if it if it

674
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 3: helps them attract mates, good, good for them. I just

675
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 3: if I saw that, I would not go near that camel.

676
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 3: You No, No, that doesn't work for me a human,

677
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 3: But what I know about camel love, I don't like

678
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 3: that thing. It's just like another what what like? So

679
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 3: just they can just inflate it, that's just.

680
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: All yeah, when you suck it back in, it's actually

681
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: it's like tissue that's sort of I believe is mean

682
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: out of the same tissue found in.

683
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 2: Like our soft palette.

684
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: But it's just kind of like a bunch of flappy

685
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: tissue that's inflatable that they can stick out the side

686
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: of their mouth.

687
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool.

688
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 3: I guess if it works for you, it works for you.

689
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 3: For me, it freaks me out a little bit.

690
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 2: But uh, I think it's personally for me. I like

691
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 2: the thought.

692
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: I think it's a nice thought, it's considerate.

693
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 2: It's a nice yeah.

694
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, check out this flappy gum. It's it's like

695
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 3: when you're like double jointed or something and you're like,

696
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 3: check this out.

697
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,760
Speaker 2: Uh, I guess it's.

698
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: A There was a guy who in my high school

699
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: would flirt with girls by showing how he can like

700
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 1: control his salivary glands under his tongue and like squirt

701
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: the saliva out shoot it out, which uh you know, not.

702
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: You know, not unsimilar to a camel, but uh yeah,

703
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 3: not the best move. Yeah, human, But you know.

704
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't remember if you ever got got someone to

705
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: go to the problem with them using that technique, but

706
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 1: you know, using that spitting yeah, uh yeah.

707
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 2: That thing is uh yeah. It looks like a big

708
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 2: gross balloon tongue hanging out of its mouth.

709
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: Don't forget wet also wet, big gross balloon.

710
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems very vulnerable to just like hang that

711
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 3: out of your.

712
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: Mouth, right, That's what I'm saying, though, it's like showing vulnerability.

713
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: Is there anything sexier than showing vulnerability?

714
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 3: That's that's true, because it feels like, you know, you

715
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: don't want to get sand in that, you got to

716
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 3: put it back in your mouth and that that's that's true,

717
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 3: but you know, uh it just yeah, it does seem

718
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 3: very just like, here's this soft, weird, fleshy thing that

719
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 3: lives in my mouth and uh, it's for you now?

720
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: Is that so different from human kissing?

721
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 2: I guess not. I guess not. H I mean, I

722
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 2: don't know.

723
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: I mention, here's this soft, weird, fleshy thing that lives

724
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:23,240
Speaker 1: in my mouth.

725
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 2: It's for you now, it's for you. Now here take it.

726
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try that on my husband.

727
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, just here. Uh uh yeah.

728
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 3: I guess what we do is weirder because I assume

729
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 3: the female doesn't put that in her mouth too.

730
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not. So there you go.

731
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,959
Speaker 1: Camels less disgusting than humans.

732
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,879
Speaker 2: But that's what we've figured out here.

733
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: Good for camels, Good for camels. Bridget I promise that

734
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,240
Speaker 1: we would talk about factory and camels, and now here.

735
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 2: We are gonna talk about. Here we go.

736
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: So Bactrian camels may not be what you imagine when

737
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: you think about a camel, or I mean, maybe it is.

738
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know you, but these were

739
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: actually the more of the og camels. There's genetic evidence

740
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: and fetal development of dromedary camels suggests that they probably

741
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: evolved from the Bactrian camels wild ancestors, rather than the

742
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 1: bactrine camels evolving from dromedary like camels. So bactrine camels

743
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: today are domesticated, just like the dromedaries. There is a

744
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: species known as the wild Bactrian camel, but this is

745
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: actually not like a wild version or a feral version

746
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: of the domesticated bactrine camel. It is a relative of

747
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: the Bactrian camel that diverged evolutionarily over a million years ago.

748
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: So we will talk about the wild Bactrian camel in

749
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: a bit. They are amazing, but first let's talk about

750
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: the Bactriane camel, the domesticated Bactrian camel. So, domesticated Bactriane

751
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: camels are not just adapted for the heat, but for

752
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: extreme cold. So even though camels are known for living

753
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: in hot climates, camel ancestors actually adapted to climates such

754
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: as the cold extreme cold temperatures, and the bactriane camel

755
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: today still has to contend with the extreme cold. So

756
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: the Bactrian camel is native to the steps of Central Asia,

757
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 1: which are flat grasslands at a high altitude. So Bactrian

758
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: camels do have similar adaptations to the Dromedary camels in

759
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: terms of surviving drought and starvation. They actually have a

760
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: humps instead of one hump, but the humps serve the

761
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: same purpose as the Dromedary camels. They store fat, but

762
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: they also tend to be taller. The humps tend to

763
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: be taller than the Dromedaries, and when they are low

764
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: on fat, that makes them flop over to one side.

765
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: So when the bac trein is kind of like using

766
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: some of the fat stores, these these humps flop over, oh,

767
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,720
Speaker 1: floppy humps. Floppy humps. And actually, something that I didn't

768
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: mention with the Dromedary but is true of them as

769
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: well as it is true with the Bactraine camels, is

770
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 1: that they have another trick.

771
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 2: Up their sleeve.

772
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: If they are really running out of food, they will

773
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: no longer. They will not just restrict themselves to vegetation.

774
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: They will eat bones. So they will eat the bones

775
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: or even the kind of like leathery flesh from mummified

776
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: or decaying carcasses. And they have even been known to

777
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: eat tints and rope when they are desperate enough all.

778
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 3: That, but that can't provide anything. I mean bone certainly.

779
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 3: I guess they're eating like marrow essentially. Yeah, all buddies

780
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 3: don't eat the rope. Rope won't help you. I like

781
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 3: these guys. They're yeah, they're they're short. They got two humps.

782
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 3: That makes them better than the one hime Carles I

783
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 3: cause a camel war, but uh yeah, objectively.

784
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 2: This is like a sneech.

785
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: Is a situation, isn't it.

786
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't I don't want to start this amongst camels,

787
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 3: but it kind of seems objective to me that, uh,

788
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 3: you know.

789
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 2: Two humps yeah, or they're taller, yeah, the bigger on

790
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: a smaller yeah, on a smaller camel, Yeah, bigger humps.

791
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 2: And they fluffy.

792
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: They are massively man possively fluffy.

793
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 2: So yeah, this one looks like it has two tails.

794
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 2: It's well, it's interesting. So they are.

795
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 1: They have a very thick furry coat in the winter

796
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: that is just completely poofy, like so fluffy. I'm talking like,

797
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: you know, just bison levels of total fluff. Like beyond that,

798
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,760
Speaker 1: they're like I like it, Yeah, I like its chest fluff.

799
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 1: They have so much fluff and I mean I just

800
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: kind of want to like hug one of these things

801
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: and get.

802
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 2: Lost in get in there. Yeah, it is so fluffy.

803
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: It actually will shed this winter coat in the summer,

804
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: spring and summer, and it will fall off in these huge,

805
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: messy clumps. And it looks like a toddler took a

806
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: pair of a razor to this poor camel and just

807
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: started going to town.

808
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 2: But it looks like that camel's going through or something.

809
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, or like the camel's just kind of like

810
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: decaying or something. But it's totally natural. It's just that

811
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: this coat has to come off, and it comes off

812
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: really rapidly, so it comes off in these huge chunks.

813
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: That makes it look like it had an incredibly bad

814
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: day at a barber's.

815
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that.

816
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 3: In this picture it seems to be like middle then

817
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 3: top than bottom, so it still has all that like

818
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 3: proud chest fluff. But uh, the top is a is

819
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 3: a mess, yeah, and the middle is patchy at best.

820
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 3: What I'm also confused about it is this camel seems

821
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 3: to be outside a house, and therefore I assume is

822
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 3: taken care of by the people who live in that house.

823
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 3: Can't they just shave that camel.

824
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it's but this is natural for the cameras,

825
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna do it.

826
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna do it regardless. I would.

827
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not probably bothering them.

828
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 3: Yeahah, I wonder if I guess they don't, because, like

829
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 3: you know, when you give a dog a haircut and

830
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 3: they can get embarrassed about it.

831
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: I do have to trick my dog's butt fluffies otherwise

832
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: the poop can get stuck to the butt fluffy right,

833
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: of course, And the amount of treats it takes to

834
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: bribe her to tolerate the butt fluffy haircut is enormous.

835
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,919
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I mean I don't know what you're doing

836
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 2: back there. Yeah.

837
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 3: If that hair yeah, if that hair just falls fell off,

838
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 3: I assume, Yeah, it's better just let it.

839
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

840
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: And the reason that they are they have to go

841
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: through this incredible change from being like this incredible poofy

842
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,879
Speaker 1: fluffy thing to having a very short coat is that

843
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: they live in an environment that has the most dramatic

844
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 1: temperature changes of almost anywhere in the world. Because for

845
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: the Steps and the Gobi Desert, it can get down

846
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: to five degrees to negative twenty degrees fahrenheit in the winter,

847
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: which is negative fifteen degrees to negative thirty degrees celsius,

848
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: which is so so cold, and in the summer gets

849
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: up to temperatures of around one hundred degrees fahrenheit or

850
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: over or thirty eight degrees celsius, so goes from being

851
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: just below freezing cold to being boiling blisteringly hot.

852
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 2: Good for them, you know, to be able to groom

853
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 2: themselves for that.

854
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good trait that also, Yeah, I would

855
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 3: if it was that hot, I'd find a way to

856
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 3: get anything off my body.

857
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd just start peeling my skin off because yeah, yeah,

858
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: but yeah, and they also have adaptations that allow them

859
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: to survive in this really dry winter condition because winters

860
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: can even though like we think some in certain climates

861
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: you think of winters as being maybe kind of wet,

862
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: a lot of rain or something, winter caneaks extremely dry

863
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: the factory and camel can actually eat small amounts of

864
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: snow to stay hydrated, which is not something you should

865
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: do as a human.

866
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess not.

867
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: No, you should not.

868
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 2: If you guess if it's on the ground, if it

869
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 2: came from the sky, no.

870
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: You should not. You shouldn't eat even fresh snow for hydration,

871
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: because you're actually gonna dehydrate yourself more. It takes more

872
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: moisture for you to process that really cold cold snow,

873
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: and your body essentially has to like melt it so

874
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: that you can process it, and it ends up on

875
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: net causing making your metabolism work harder, and so you

876
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: actually end up loose using water when you eat snow

877
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 1: like that. So if you are hiking in the snow

878
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: and you're thirsty, do not eat the snow unless you're

879
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: a Bactrian.

880
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 3: Camel, or you boil that snow. I don't know, or

881
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 3: you boil the snow Florida. Yeah, from Florida. I live

882
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 3: in California. Now, I don't have a lot of snow experience, right,

883
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,320
Speaker 3: I don't know what it takes.

884
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you can. You can catch snowflakes on your tongue.

885
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: That's fine, But don't don't eat snow. If you are

886
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: hiking in you're thirsty. It's not a good situation unless

887
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 1: you boil it. But the Bactrian camel can eat small

888
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: amounts of snow, it can't go overboard or else it'll

889
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: actually encounter the same problem as humans and other mammals.

890
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: But they are one of the few animals that are

891
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: able to eat snow, and they have efficient enough internal

892
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: thermal regulation to be able to turn the snow into

893
00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: something that actually hydrates them. So it is a really

894
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: really useful adaptation for them that we do not possess.

895
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 2: Good for them, for.

896
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 3: Them, I mean, you know, maybe live in a nicer climate, camel,

897
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 3: it will be a lot easier for you.

898
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 2: But you know, we're making it work, and work camels

899
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 2: take a break, move to the beach.

900
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: It's like like, well, I'm tired of the cold, Well

901
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: let me move to the desert instead. That was the

902
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: decision they made. Yeah, but they actually were really important

903
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: in human history. The factoring camel their ability to survive

904
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: in incredibly harsh conditions from the extreme heat to the

905
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: extreme cold, allowed humans to use them as pack animals

906
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: along the Silk Road, and without this camel, this trade

907
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: route would probably not have been possible.

908
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that I mean makes a lot of sense because

909
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 3: I feel like I've seen pictures of camels like packed

910
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 3: up with stuff, and it seems easy for them.

911
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 2: It seems like they got it.

912
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they are they're very they're strong, and

913
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: they they are very they can they travel long distances.

914
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 1: They're very good at traveling long distances, and they are

915
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 1: extremely hearty, and they can survive a really long time

916
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: without food or water. So they're amazing as pack animals. Now,

917
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 1: whether they enjoy it, I don't know.

918
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know if they assume yeah.

919
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,280
Speaker 3: But they can handle it. And I don't think anybody

920
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 3: enjoys walking that long.

921
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think the humans were having

922
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 2: a great time either, No, probably not. They they did help.

923
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: I mean, this was before we had like jeeps, so

924
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, we had to use camels.

925
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: We had to use Joe Camel. Yeah, impourt all his cigarettes.

926
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: Oh man, Joe Cammel such a bad look for camels.

927
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 2: Yeah no, he wasn't. He wasn't their best spokesperson.

928
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 3: No, no, they should have sent someone else, but uh,

929
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 3: we got Joe.

930
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: But even though they look like kind of ungainly like,

931
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to run very fast, especially because

932
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: they're fluffy back. During camels as well as actually the

933
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: dromedary camels can run pretty fast, up to forty miles

934
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: per hour or sixty five kilometers per hour. Typically, they

935
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: don't like to run. That's not like their thing. They

936
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: don't gallop around just for just for fun, but they can.

937
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 3: They don't seem like runners, Yeah they don't. They don't

938
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 3: strike me as runners.

939
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 2: They're not.

940
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 3: They have those long legs, but I can't imagine. Their

941
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 3: bodies are so misshapen to their legs. But yeah, they're

942
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 3: they're awkward.

943
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: They're a little awkward. They I mean, they are capable

944
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: of running pretty fast. They just it is not not

945
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: They're like not a fun activity for them. They're not

946
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: like up at six am and they're yeah.

947
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 2: Get it in there.

948
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 3: They Yeah, they seem low energy or they just know

949
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 3: how to conserve that energy.

950
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, with their with their CrossFit tennis shoes and they're yeah,

951
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: apple watch. I'm trying to think of the runner like

952
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: intense runner outfits.

953
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they had the belt with why they don't

954
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 3: need the belt they don't.

955
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, like water belt they had.

956
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: They got got the the tube, the like the water backpack.

957
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 2: That third picture you have with this factory and camel.

958
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 2: It it's so funny.

959
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 3: I do like that they seem to keep tufts of

960
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 3: hair on the top. I don't know if it's just

961
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 3: waiting to lose those like thinner tufts of hair on

962
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 3: the top of its back or humps. But I like

963
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 3: that it's just like a little decorative poof Yeah.

964
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: I think they kind of keep those wispies, like those

965
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: kind of dark whispies on the top of their humps.

966
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 2: That's fun.

967
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: It's really fun.

968
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 3: It's just it's just fun. And I also like he

969
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 3: has like he kept like top of it. It looks like,

970
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 3: I know people with his haircut. He has like a

971
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 3: nineties boy band like.

972
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 2: Middle part haircut. Yeah. No, it's good, it's good. Uh,

973
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 2: it's it's a look.

974
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 3: It looks like yeah, it's just it looks like this

975
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 3: camel's like started new you know.

976
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a he's a what is it Backstreet boys? Yeah.

977
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like his haircut. I think he's doing good.

978
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 3: He looks like, you know, yeah, it doesn't look that

979
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 3: much like a crisis. I mean there's a little crisis

980
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 3: going on underneath. By at the top, he's grooming himself.

981
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean, like if you ignore him from

982
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: sort of like the waist down, he's he's well roomed.

983
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. It does look like one of those Chinese crested dogs.

984
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: It does a little bit yeah, which I do, which

985
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: I do think are cute.

986
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.

987
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 3: I prefer the fluff, but uh, you know, this camel's

988
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 3: figuring out his luck.

989
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 2: Without this camel, it's.

990
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: Got the best of both worlds because like in the winter,

991
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: fluff for days, and then the summer.

992
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 2: Boy, yeah, in the summer he's shedding, you know.

993
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, he prepared, He prepared for the summer, and he

994
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 3: knew what his luck was going to be exactly.

995
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he achieved it, he really did. I really

996
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 2: like that. He does have this like cloth like human

997
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 2: like haircut.

998
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

999
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 2: I hope he keeps that for the summer.

1000
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: Kind of dark roots too.

1001
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1002
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's grown out a little bit, a little bit

1003
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 3: of a mullet shape going on, but he has he

1004
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 3: has is swoopy.

1005
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: Hair, little haircut. Yeah, really cute.

1006
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:04,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, and as little pomp poms on his back.

1007
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like I do like pom poms.

1008
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 2: It's nice. I like that they just like keep that.

1009
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 2: They're just like these are for me, these are just.

1010
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: For You're just like, eh, I'll keep them keeping them. Yeah,

1011
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: so like them onto. The only undomesticated wild camel still

1012
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: left in the world, the wild Bactrian so Again, this

1013
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 1: is not like a feral version of the Bactrian camel.

1014
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: This is a different species that diverged over a million

1015
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: years ago and it is the only still living completely

1016
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: wild and free camel.

1017
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 2: Now.

1018
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, they are critically endangered. Only around a thousand individuals

1019
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: still exist in the wild, and in my opinion, it

1020
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: is really important to make sure they do not go

1021
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: extinct because they are incredible. So they live in the

1022
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 1: Gobi Desert and in China's lap Nur Desert mountain region

1023
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: in protected reserves, and these are the only places where

1024
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: you will find them. The wild Bactrian camel is more

1025
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: lithe and wiry than its domesticated counterparts, a little more sleek,

1026
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 1: little more aerodynamic. Uh. It looks similar, more similar to

1027
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: the Bactrian camel, the domesticated Bactrian camel, than it does

1028
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: to a dromedary camel. It has two humps, it's got

1029
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: that the same a lot of the same features, the

1030
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: fluffy coat in the wind winter that it sheds in

1031
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: the summer. Because it lives in similar conditions in uh,

1032
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: the the extreme hot and extreme cold climates. So yeah,

1033
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: it is. It is very similar in a lot of

1034
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: ways to the domesticated Bactrian camel.

1035
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 2: Yeah. It uh, this looks like a wild camel.

1036
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: Uh.

1037
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 2: Now that I'm comparing, this looks like the This guy

1038
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 2: has been out.

1039
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,479
Speaker 3: There, yeah, live in the He's been on the road,

1040
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 3: living a hard life. He also yeah, I mean he's

1041
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 3: clearly losing patches of flur. But yeah, there's something about

1042
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 3: this one's eyes that it's like I've seen.

1043
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:17,439
Speaker 2: Some eahn out here. It's not. It looks a little

1044
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 2: more alert than the other canimals do.

1045
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: And indeed they have seen. They have seen some stuff,

1046
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: some crazy stuff. They actually faced nuclear threats from humans

1047
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: in the sixties. China in the sixties tested nuclear weapons

1048
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere over Lopnar where these camels were located,

1049
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: so they were exposed to a lot of radiation. Weirdly enough,

1050
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: the camels survived. They were okay. They survived nuclear radiation

1051
01:03:55,720 --> 01:04:00,120
Speaker 1: from forty three nuclear tests over the Lapner region and

1052
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 1: it's really amazing. It's hard to say how they managed this.

1053
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 1: It's possible that their thick fur and skin may have

1054
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 1: protected them somewhat. There may also be something going on

1055
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: with their gut bacteria. I'll talk about that a little

1056
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 1: more in just a minute. But it's really incredible that

1057
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 1: they are were able to survive like nuclear radiation, extreme hot,

1058
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,560
Speaker 1: extreme cold, nuclear radiation.

1059
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 3: That's mind blowing these that's a sturdy animal and it

1060
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 3: did not deserve that.

1061
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 2: But that's incredible.

1062
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 3: H Yeah, I guess it could be like camels and

1063
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 3: cockroaches at the end here.

1064
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean yeah, I think of the animals

1065
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: that may survive a like a nuclear winter, God forbid,

1066
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 1: maybe a camel.

1067
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, who would have thought? Not me. I would not

1068
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 3: have They would not have been at the top of

1069
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 3: my list. But yeah, I'm proud of them.

1070
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. Hopefully they don't have to do

1071
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 2: that again.

1072
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, hopefully, because I'll tell you one thing, they'd

1073
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: survive a lot better than humans one.

1074
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, uh that. I'm proud. I'm happy for them,

1075
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 2: very happy for them.

1076
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 1: Some good news is that in nineteen ninety six, China

1077
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, so those nuclear tests

1078
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: no longer happen and now the area is a sanctuary

1079
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: for the camels.

1080
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love that for them. Yeah, let them hug.

1081
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: You can't hug with nuclear arms, but you can't hug

1082
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: a camel, it might spit at you, but you know.

1083
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but you know, we all get puked on

1084
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 3: a little bit at one point, sure exactly for another

1085
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 3: or puke on or you're the puky.

1086
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, in your.

1087
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: Case, it's the beautiful circle of puke. So something that

1088
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: is super super fascinating about these wild Bactrian camels. So

1089
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: domesticated camels, the drumedaries and the domesticated Bactrian camels can

1090
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: tolerate slightly salty water, slightly brackish water, they'll be able

1091
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 1: to drink and process. But the wild Bactrian camel amazingly

1092
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 1: can drink salt water that is saltier than sea water,

1093
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 1: which again is not recommended for humans because it will

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01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: kill you.

1095
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 2: If you drink.

1096
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: You drink too much seawater, you're gonna die because that

1097
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:53,200
Speaker 1: is your body is not designed to be able to

1098
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: handle that much salt.

1099
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 3: That is that I know that I'm very well aware

1100
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:05,640
Speaker 3: of the yeah I have blown away by these damn camels.

1101
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: We've learned two things today about human survival. Is that like,

1102
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: if you're thirsty in the snow, don't eat snow. If

1103
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: you're thirsty out at sea, don't drink the sea water

1104
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: unless your camel.

1105
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 2: And then like wild fine, they're just.

1106
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, wild back and camel, it's fine, you're good.

1107
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 2: They are so yes.

1108
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: I mean, the exact mechanism for how they managed to

1109
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 1: drink this incredibly salty water is not yet known, but

1110
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: summer research is pointing in the direction of special gut

1111
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 1: bacteria that may be passed from uh, the mother's milk

1112
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 1: to her offspring that allows them to process high salt content.

1113
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 1: So this is research that is just kind of like

1114
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: starting to figure these things out. So it's not I mean,

1115
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 1: I have not seen like conclusive research. If anyone out

1116
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 1: there is a camel researcher and you know more, please

1117
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: let me know right right to me.

1118
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:11,360
Speaker 2: He know, yeah, I the camel is mysterious and how

1119
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 2: it survives.

1120
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: It's, uh, you'd think we know everything about the ding

1121
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,479
Speaker 1: camel right at this point. It's like, Okay, sure, we

1122
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 1: don't know that much about this random like cave moss

1123
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: that nobody's studied or something, or this in this obscure

1124
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: tiny frog h deep in the rainforest. But this is

1125
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 1: a camel, and we don't know everything about this camel.

1126
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's kind of amazing that we still

1127
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 1: have so much to learn about this camel.

1128
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, don't be fooled by their dopey looks.

1129
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 2: They're full of mystery.

1130
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: They contain multitudes.

1131
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 2: They I mean in those humps.

1132
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, you're just looking those humps, those humps, those

1133
01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 1: lovely camel humps.

1134
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:04,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's uh, he did not like, Yeah, they're they're

1135
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 3: my serious.

1136
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 2: Creatures and turns out badasses, Yes, camel badasses.

1137
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really I will keep up to date on

1138
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:17,639
Speaker 1: the camel research because I'm really interested in how these

1139
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: wild bacting camels are able to survive radiation and drink

1140
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: salt water saltier than seawater. It's incredible, truly, Like, I

1141
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:33,440
Speaker 1: really do think that these camels would survive an apocalypse.

1142
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like it.

1143
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 3: They're they're way heartier than they seem because again, there's

1144
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 3: such like an awkward creature.

1145
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:45,480
Speaker 2: I think that's why they're like so lovable. Is Yeah,

1146
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 2: weird looking.

1147
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:50,040
Speaker 3: They have those dopey faces and this weird body, but

1148
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 3: you know they're they're more than they look. If you said, like,

1149
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 3: describe a hearty animal, the last thing I would think

1150
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 3: of would be a.

1151
01:09:57,240 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: Camel right, describe a hardcore like Mad Max sort of level,

1152
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 1: you know, just the furios of the animal kingdom. It

1153
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: is a camel.

1154
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:15,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out they're the Charlie's theirns, especially those

1155
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:19,719
Speaker 2: lovely eyelashes. Yes, I mean they're hot in hell.

1156
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: Hot and can survive a post apocalyptic world. What more

1157
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 1: could you want? I mean, I don't know, but I mean,

1158
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: despite the fact that these are hardcore survivalists, like I mentioned,

1159
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: they are critically endangered and that's because of you know,

1160
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 1: human encroachment on their habitat and hunting. So uh. You know,

1161
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: I am really rooting for these camels though, because it

1162
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem fair to you know, wipe them out.

1163
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, they can deal with all these crazy elements and

1164
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 3: even our nuclear bull.

1165
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 1: And yeah, and perhaps they shall inherit the earth.

1166
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 2: You know, that seems like a better earth, cammel Earth.

1167
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 3: I don't know about the tongue thing in the in

1168
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 3: the spinning, but you know, well, they they've got some

1169
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 3: stuff figured out clearly that we don't.

1170
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 2: They do have a lot of stuff figured out.

1171
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 1: And I am I for one, welcome the the inflatable

1172
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:25,839
Speaker 1: mouth sacks.

1173
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 2: Of love that they have.

1174
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 1: But I do hope for a bright future where we

1175
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 1: can coexist peacefully with the camels and you know, denuclearize

1176
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: the world but re camelize it.

1177
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, more camels.

1178
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: More camels, more camel's, fewer nukes. That is my That

1179
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 1: that is a cause I am would be happy to

1180
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 1: be behind.

1181
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 2: Yes.

1182
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:57,679
Speaker 1: So so Bridget, are you ready to play a little

1183
01:11:57,720 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: game with me?

1184
01:11:59,479 --> 01:11:59,879
Speaker 2: Always?

1185
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: Yes, Well, we're gonna play guess who's squawking? The mystery

1186
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: animal sound game. Every week we play a mystery animal

1187
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: sound and you listeners out there and you my guests

1188
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: have to guess who is squawking, and it can be

1189
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 1: any animal, from a fish to a bird too, I

1190
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 1: don't know, some kind of snake, anything. And the only

1191
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 1: thing you get is the animal sound anialtle hint. Because

1192
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm benevolent, I will give you a hint

1193
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:36,840
Speaker 1: and you try to guess who is squawking. So last

1194
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:50,200
Speaker 1: week's hint was this is a redhead with legs for days. So, Bridget,

1195
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:52,839
Speaker 1: can't you guess who's making that sound?

1196
01:12:54,640 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 2: The redhead is throwing me off. I'm gonna go it's wrong.

1197
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 3: I'm I'm just clinging for anything because I I I'm stumped.

1198
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 2: Here is it? Is it a hyaena?

1199
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: It's a very interesting guess, very very it's.

1200
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 3: Definitely not, because it's definitely not, but I'm gonna I

1201
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 3: mean it's the famously, it is a good guess.

1202
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:23,759
Speaker 2: It's a fair guess.

1203
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:26,640
Speaker 1: Certain species of hyenas can be pretty leggy, so I

1204
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 1: don't blame you for that, but this is, in fact

1205
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 1: not a hyena. Congratulations to the three fastest guessers, Joey P.

1206
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: Magnus Oh, and Joshua J who all correctly guessed that

1207
01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 1: this is the roar bark of a mained wolf. So uh,

1208
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 1: Maimed wolves are not actually wolves, and they are not

1209
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 1: giant foxes, even though they kind of look like a

1210
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: giant fox.

1211
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:56,320
Speaker 2: Uh.

1212
01:13:56,439 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 1: They are wild canines related to foxes and wolves, but

1213
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 1: only distantly. They are relatively ancient species of canid, one

1214
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: of the only large South American canid species that survived

1215
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: the mass extinction of metagaphun around fifteen to thirteen thousand

1216
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:18,760
Speaker 1: years ago.

1217
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 2: Oh look at these guys. Yeah, I was gonna it's

1218
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 2: gonna go wolf or fox. Oh this is a pretty animal,

1219
01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:29,759
Speaker 2: very pretty. Yeah.

1220
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:32,640
Speaker 3: No, I reached for dog because I thought wolf, but

1221
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 3: they I thought of a different sound when I thought

1222
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 3: of wolf, that I should have thought of a different

1223
01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:37,799
Speaker 3: sound and I thought of hyena.

1224
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:41,000
Speaker 1: But uh, but I mean, you were circling it, right,

1225
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: because it is it is a confuse. You were really

1226
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: circling around it because it is a confusing animal because

1227
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 1: it kind of looks like a wolf, kind of looks

1228
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: like a fox, has really long legs, actually has that

1229
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: kind of mane like a hyena does. Although a hyena

1230
01:14:57,120 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: is not that closely related to uh, the CA nine species.

1231
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:08,439
Speaker 1: Hyenas are actually more related to mongooses and felines. So

1232
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:14,200
Speaker 1: the mained wolf is really really interesting canid. So it

1233
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: is omnivorous. Actually it eats both meat and vegetation in

1234
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:23,320
Speaker 1: almost equal measures, so almost fifty to fifty. It loves

1235
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: it loves fruit and it loves meat. They are particularly

1236
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 1: fond of a fruit known as the wolf apple or

1237
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: fruita do lobo in Portuguese. It is a flowering shrub

1238
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:40,479
Speaker 1: with a green fruit with white, pulpy flesh that they

1239
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,400
Speaker 1: just absolutely love. So I don't know if I'm not

1240
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: kind of cute that they're like they love their little

1241
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:46,799
Speaker 1: wolf apples.

1242
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I love that it's called a

1243
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,720
Speaker 2: wolf apple. It's just like an apple just for them.

1244
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 2: Guess who else loves apples, Katie Golden.

1245
01:15:55,680 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that would be weird if I was

1246
01:15:57,800 --> 01:15:59,719
Speaker 1: just like guess who else likes apples?

1247
01:16:00,280 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 2: Mem will love apples. The camels do love apples. I

1248
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:04,639
Speaker 2: can see.

1249
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 1: No. My dog, my dog doll, loves apples.

1250
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 2: Oh, Cookie loves apples.

1251
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,599
Speaker 1: She will come running when she hears and I do

1252
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: I like apples. I wouldn't say like, I love them.

1253
01:16:16,040 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy for them, but I like them. I'll

1254
01:16:18,479 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 1: eat them. And but when I do eat them, Cookie

1255
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: just gallops into the room and sits next to me

1256
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: and starts licking your lips because she knows she's about

1257
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 1: to get some little little bites apples, some apple.

1258
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,479
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's cute. They're funny when they eat, when

1259
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 2: they eat crunchy foods, she loves.

1260
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, she loves apples, bell peppers, cucumbers. It's it's pretty yeah. Yeah,

1261
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:44,480
Speaker 1: she's kind of like one of those oulcumbers.

1262
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1263
01:16:45,479 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, dogs love cucumbers. That's our family dog. We couldn't

1264
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 3: say no to treats for her, so we transitioned her

1265
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 3: to cucumbers.

1266
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 2: And you love them. I love it.

1267
01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: There's something about the crunchiness, the hydration.

1268
01:16:58,120 --> 01:16:58,679
Speaker 2: They love it.

1269
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 3: Give your dog a cucumber, give your dog a dog,

1270
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 3: give it a give it a cue cover.

1271
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 2: They'll be so happy.

1272
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, these main wolves, I think they're one of

1273
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:14,639
Speaker 1: the most gorgeous canids. They have these long legs that

1274
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 1: like have these black socks like they're wearing. Kind of

1275
01:17:17,840 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 1: gives me the vibe of like Martisha wearing those that

1276
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 1: long long black gloves.

1277
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1278
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got elegance.

1279
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like I'm seeing them like mid step and

1280
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 3: they walk. Yeah, they have a very pretty walk.

1281
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 1: Yes, very very runway runway walk. They have this fluffy

1282
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: black mane on the nape of their necks. And they're

1283
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:49,760
Speaker 1: actually the tallest wild canid at around three feet or

1284
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: ninety centimeters tall uh and sixty five pounds they're on,

1285
01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: which is thirty kilograms and they live in the grasslands

1286
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: of the Serrado, which is a tropical savannah region in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina,

1287
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,600
Speaker 1: and Bolivia.

1288
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 2: Rules.

1289
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the they're the largest South American canine. They

1290
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: are actually not a pack animal. They live mostly solitary lives.

1291
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 1: They use this roar bark to warn others of its

1292
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 1: territory or to communicate with a mate about where it is,

1293
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: where its location is, which it also does the same

1294
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 1: thing with the urine. It uses its urine to communicate.

1295
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: But I can't share mained wolf urine over a podcast,

1296
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: so that's why I shared it instead.

1297
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 2: I know.

1298
01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 1: Two bad podcasts don't come in smell a vision, because

1299
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 1: I'd have some interesting smells for you folks.

1300
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, their puppies are cute, so cute.

1301
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 3: Look they're playing with their pups. These guys are good,

1302
01:18:57,240 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 3: good animal.

1303
01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 1: Good good animal, and good job. I got a lot

1304
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 1: of correct guesses out there, and uh so, congratulations guys you.

1305
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 1: I'm always really impressed that listeners are able to get these.

1306
01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:14,280
Speaker 1: I feel like, even though I make the game, I

1307
01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: would not be as good at playing it as a

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Speaker 1: lot of my listeners are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tricky. I'm impressed, Yes, thoroughly impressed.

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Speaker 1: I got I got some smart listeners. So uh now

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Speaker 1: onto this week's mystery animal.

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Speaker 2: Sound a hint.

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Speaker 1: You might find these little dudes boogying to an imaginary beat,

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Speaker 1: but it's probably for the prey that lie deep beneath

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Speaker 1: their feet. Mh, so bridget who do you think is squawking?

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Speaker 2: Oh god, that was Is it like a heron or something?

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Speaker 1: And an interest sting guests and I will reveal the

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Speaker 1: answer to this week's mystery animal sound on next week's

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Speaker 1: podcast next Wednesday. If you out there think you know

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Speaker 1: who is squawking, you can write to me at Creature

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Speaker 1: Feature Pod at gmail dot com. You can also find

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter at Creature feet Pod. Uh, that's f

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Speaker 1: e eight, not f e e t. That is something

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Speaker 1: very different. You can also find me on Instagram at

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Speaker 1: Creature Feature Pod. I'm also on Twitter at Katie Golden.

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Speaker 1: If you do check out my timeline, you might actually

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Speaker 1: get a little bit of a spoiler for what this

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Speaker 1: week's mystery animal sound is. So, uh you may want

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Speaker 1: you may want to check that out or try to

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Speaker 1: guess it for yourself, whatever you want. And uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: uh ritget. Thank you so much for joining me and

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Speaker 1: uh sharing my love for camels.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Where where can the people find you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me doing podcasts over on the

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Speaker 3: Small Beans Network and my co host Sarah Griffith are

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Speaker 3: right now going through movie trilogies on a series called

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Speaker 3: Shooting threes, so check that out as we review those

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Speaker 3: and all the fun stuff that's going on over at

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Speaker 3: the small Beans network. You can follow me at bridget

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Speaker 3: tweets on Twitter. That's normally where I post all my

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Speaker 3: videos that I'm bacon and fun stuff like that. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's where I'm at these nests.

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Speaker 1: And thank you so much for listening. If you're enjoying

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Speaker 1: the podcast and you want me to know about it,

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Speaker 1: if you leave a review or rating, I would so

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Speaker 1: very much appreciate it. I'll even inflate my mouthsack for

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Speaker 1: you if that's what you want. But yeah, I read

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Speaker 1: all the reviews. It really makes my day when I

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Speaker 1: read a new review. Really appreciate it. And yeah, it

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Speaker 1: does help out the show because it goes into the

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Speaker 1: algorithm and it like tells the algorithm, Hey, people are

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Speaker 1: there's buzz about the show. People are talking about it.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I do do appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: And thanks to the space.

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Speaker 1: Cossics for their super awesome song. Ex Alumina Creature features

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not keeping track. You can do. You

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Speaker 2: can listen to this podcast.

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Speaker 1: In any way, shape or form that you want, and

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Speaker 1: no one is going to.

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Speaker 2: Ar rescue, so enjoy that.

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Speaker 1: See you next Wednesday.