Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology
Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, The Goofy
Speaker 1: is look at animals in the animal kingdom who are
Speaker 1: actually super dope animals that look like extinct prehistoric muppets,
Speaker 1: to weird dear rabbit hybrids to the fish that actually
Speaker 1: do smile back. These animals may look like goof it says,
Speaker 1: but we love them. Discover this more as we answer
Speaker 1: the angel question do you want a vacation on a
Speaker 1: pile of poop? Joining me today is comedian Goofy Animal Lover,
Speaker 1: also study evolutionary biology and the host of Jeff Has
Speaker 1: Cool Friends Jeff May welcome. Hey, it's me. It's me.
Speaker 1: It's me. I'm the host of Jeff Has Cool Friends
Speaker 1: and forty other podcast There's so many of them I love.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I'm so excited to talk about Goofy
Speaker 1: goofy idiots. I love it so much that I yes,
Speaker 1: I asked you to come on the show, and I
Speaker 1: asked what you want to talk about? You're like goofy
Speaker 1: goofy guys. I like a goof like a good I
Speaker 1: like somebody that looks like he'd be like, that's the
Speaker 1: kind of animal that I want. Oh yeah, we got
Speaker 1: lots of those. In fact, the first one I think
Speaker 1: looks more than anything like he would sound like that.
Speaker 1: Uh So, what's what is your opinion of rhinos, Jeff?
Speaker 1: I like, I think they're pretty chill. I like that
Speaker 1: they have real dinosaur energy, even though they're not like
Speaker 1: you know, they they're like, let's put a weapon on me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's really fun. A visible weapon on an animal.
Speaker 1: I think is is is really fun when you think
Speaker 1: about rhinos and you think about like or elephants with
Speaker 1: tusks or an our wall or something like that, when
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, they got like a got like a
Speaker 1: shank on them. I always find that very fascinating that
Speaker 1: we just let like we just let like evolutionary biology
Speaker 1: leads to the coolest looking things and like why do
Speaker 1: they have that? And like oh there's a reason. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it when it's just kind of stuck on
Speaker 1: to like it and then we just put a horn
Speaker 1: right here sticking on. They're like little little tanks. They're
Speaker 1: like little little little little living tanks. I think that's
Speaker 1: real funn it's super fun. And there are actually multiple
Speaker 1: species of rhinos. There are five species, and one of
Speaker 1: the much lesser known species is the Sumatra and rhino,
Speaker 1: and this is a fascinating little rhino. They are found
Speaker 1: in the forests on the island of Sumatra, although they
Speaker 1: once had a much wider range, and they are the
Speaker 1: smallest of the rhinos and are critically endangered due to
Speaker 1: over hunting, poaching, and illegal logging, the usual suspects. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there are under one hundred Sumatran rhinos that still
Speaker 1: exist in the wild. So these are very rare and
Speaker 1: we don't know as much about them as we should
Speaker 1: if they weren't so endangered. But what we do know
Speaker 1: about them is really interesting. Despite being the smallest rhino,
Speaker 1: they're still pretty big. They're about one thousand, eight hundred
Speaker 1: pounds or eight hunds and are a little under five
Speaker 1: ft tall or one and a half meters, So that's
Speaker 1: nothing to sneeze at, no, But I would say I
Speaker 1: was a little bit bummed because I was like, a
Speaker 1: tiny rhino, I just want to it's about a thousand
Speaker 1: pounds and I'm like, it would be harder to create
Speaker 1: a lit I'm still going to try. I mean the
Speaker 1: fact it's like under five ft tall though, and you
Speaker 1: could be like, hey, little buddy, you know yeah, real
Speaker 1: petting zoo energy out of an animal that size, Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably like not. But also I want it to be
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? No, if if it was,
Speaker 1: if it was a dangerous animal, why would it look
Speaker 1: like I should be writing it right now, right exactly? Yes?
Speaker 1: That that is the that is the correct way to
Speaker 1: view wildlife is if it looks like I should write it,
Speaker 1: I should definitely get on it. Just make sure your
Speaker 1: life insurance is sort of squared away with that one.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't try, I don't know why
Speaker 1: you're even here. But if you're not even making the attempt,
Speaker 1: that is that That is the sort of decision making
Speaker 1: a lot of people have when it comes to like bison,
Speaker 1: where they're like, you're just a big furry cow, and
Speaker 1: then suddenly you're like high fiving Abraham Lincoln in heaven. Yeah, bison, bison,
Speaker 1: remember what happened in the late They're not going to
Speaker 1: let that go no, so sue much. And Rhinos are
Speaker 1: also known as the hairy rhino. Because they are covered
Speaker 1: in a fine layer of reddish brown hair, especially on
Speaker 1: its ears and on its tail, so they are, you know,
Speaker 1: shockingly furry. And I'm expected not to pet this baby.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you you could try and
Speaker 1: then enjoy your last few moments on earth. We really would,
Speaker 1: I really would enjoy the moments like if that that's
Speaker 1: there's no better way to go out, right, Yeah, petting
Speaker 1: a cute but dangerous animal. Yeah, bliss, you know, And
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you're like, wow, that
Speaker 1: was great. Yeah, you know, you don't have to go
Speaker 1: through like a really uncomfortable ride home, like you ever
Speaker 1: go on a road trip, and the part where you
Speaker 1: have to go home and you're like this is taking
Speaker 1: forever and I'm already the high is gone and I'm
Speaker 1: just miserable. Now you're not gonna get that if you
Speaker 1: had that sweet baby biscuit, And then the next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you're in heaven, and in heaven you just
Speaker 1: get to keep petting it. It's great. A great way
Speaker 1: to save on gas is to get trampled by an
Speaker 1: angry rhino mother. Um, yes, absolutely, And with gas prices
Speaker 1: this high, I mean, who wouldn't who wouldn't look a
Speaker 1: rhino gift rhino in the mouth, So losing money not
Speaker 1: petting the rhino is what I'm saying. So they're the
Speaker 1: adult rhinos are quite fluffy, but the babies are extremely
Speaker 1: hairy and very very silly looking. They don't really look real.
Speaker 1: Their horns haven't really grown in yet, and so they
Speaker 1: look just like this fuzzy muppet with like a big
Speaker 1: nose and fluffy ears. They don't. They look like some
Speaker 1: kind of reconstruction of bad taxidermy, reconstruction of like an
Speaker 1: extinct wooly rhino baby. But they're real. The Henson energy
Speaker 1: off of the baby is unreal. If you look at
Speaker 1: a photo of the baby, you're like, that's not a
Speaker 1: real animal, right right, You're like, this is a puppet
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be in the New Dark Crystal movie.
Speaker 1: Look at its face. It's it's so funny because it
Speaker 1: has like a it has like the face of a
Speaker 1: different animal. It looks like an animal wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, because like the face has less hair
Speaker 1: on it, so it's like you stuck sort of a
Speaker 1: weird I mean, it's not even really a rhino face
Speaker 1: because the horns haven't really developed yet, but it looks
Speaker 1: like you stuck something on like a big sort of
Speaker 1: koala's body, and it looks like it looks like kind
Speaker 1: of like a wild boar wearing like a like a
Speaker 1: bootleg Joe camel mask, right, And it's got a little
Speaker 1: bit like a little bit of an underbyte going on
Speaker 1: in this picture. I don't think it typically has an underbyte,
Speaker 1: but this one's chewing on some grass, So this one's
Speaker 1: kind of got a little bit of the a what
Speaker 1: you do and kind of look going on. So why
Speaker 1: do you so? Watching rhino's have hair, One would think
Speaker 1: that it's for warmth, but the opposite is actually true.
Speaker 1: The rhino uses mud to keep cool and keep pests
Speaker 1: off its skin. Have you ever done like a mud mask,
Speaker 1: you know, for relaxation beautification purposes. I'm neither relaxed nor beautiful. Never,
Speaker 1: I've never been able to get involved in. I mean,
Speaker 1: I may have like I've worn, I've worn mud masks.
Speaker 1: I guess I've never done a mud bath or anything.
Speaker 1: I've never done like full on get in, get in
Speaker 1: a big pool of mud type of thing. But I've
Speaker 1: definitely tried the mud masks. The thing is like mud masks.
Speaker 1: Like when your face, you know, doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of hair, it's fine, but like if you put it on,
Speaker 1: like you know, say, like I put it on a
Speaker 1: leg or an arm and there's like some hair there,
Speaker 1: even if it's just peach fuzz, you try to get
Speaker 1: it off, It's like when it dries, it gets really
Speaker 1: stuck through the hairs, and it's not the best situation.
Speaker 1: I'm a bearded gent so I would have to say
Speaker 1: that maybe this is not the best process for me
Speaker 1: to do. If I, if I do put a mask on,
Speaker 1: it would have to it would basically look like a
Speaker 1: Domino mask. I'd look like the Ultimate Warrior or something
Speaker 1: like that. It is kind of fun, like I I
Speaker 1: have a mud mask that's sort of like as it dries,
Speaker 1: it kind of constricts your face. So I very much
Speaker 1: look like a desiccated corpse with it on, and I
Speaker 1: it is fun, especially like wandering sneak up on my
Speaker 1: husband and just kind of like like I prilly, so yes.
Speaker 1: So the the same principle of why when you have
Speaker 1: like a dried mud mask on, like a hairy part
Speaker 1: of your body kind of hurts if it's not like
Speaker 1: if you don't get it completely wet to wash it off.
Speaker 1: That's the same reason that these rhinos have this hair.
Speaker 1: The mud sticks to their hide really well, sticks and
Speaker 1: gets right into that hair, sticks into that hair, and
Speaker 1: then it keeps them cool and it prevents pests and
Speaker 1: parasites from getting onto their skins. I know the I mean,
Speaker 1: these guys really are living the spa lifestyle. They love
Speaker 1: to wallow in pools of mud and just relax and
Speaker 1: feel beautiful. That makes me think that that's why I
Speaker 1: put would put a mud mask on, is to keep
Speaker 1: parasites off. It's a smart decision. I think we can
Speaker 1: all agree that that's the correct decision. Yeah. Yeah. They
Speaker 1: despite their like muddy, scrappy, kind of goofy appearance, looking
Speaker 1: like weird prehistoric muppets, they are agile swimmers, climbers and runners,
Speaker 1: and they're surprisingly whet footed. They're so compact, you know,
Speaker 1: just a little little guys, little turbo dudes. Just they're
Speaker 1: little fast tanks. Right. I love them so much. Get
Speaker 1: in my arms a little little hairy baby. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: I would love to cuddle this baby before getting absolutely
Speaker 1: pulverized by its mother. So they're not particularly social. They
Speaker 1: usually only hang out in mother calf pears, or they
Speaker 1: may meet to mate. To mark their territory, they'll actually
Speaker 1: scrape up a little divt with their hind legs and
Speaker 1: then poop and pea in it, so you know, it's
Speaker 1: just like here's my calling card. Here's a little little
Speaker 1: mini hole with my poop in it. Yeah exactly. They
Speaker 1: make a little a little latrine, yeah exactly, and that's like,
Speaker 1: this is my area, here's my turlet. Uh. They also
Speaker 1: poop and pee excessively in response to threats, so like
Speaker 1: if a human approaches them, they're actually pretty skittish of
Speaker 1: humans because they are while they are still big and capable,
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're scared of humans. They don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with you. Um, and so they will uh
Speaker 1: start pooping and peeing themselves. And it's thought that the
Speaker 1: excessive amounts of poop that like a mother will do
Speaker 1: is to distract the predator and allow her calf time
Speaker 1: to like hide, because the predators just like, what is
Speaker 1: going on, lady, why are you pooping so much? It's
Speaker 1: real three stooges energy to how to distract an enemy
Speaker 1: to just like kind of go curly and start everywhere
Speaker 1: checked out poop but with pop. Yeah. Yeah, you may,
Speaker 1: you may think this horn something, but wait till you
Speaker 1: see the other end. Yeah, I do feel powerful, Like
Speaker 1: when I'm walking my dog, not because my dog is
Speaker 1: in any way capable of defending me. She's a tiny
Speaker 1: little Chihuahua mutt. But when I pick up her poops,
Speaker 1: I now have a poop flail because I have it
Speaker 1: a little baggy. Right. And then if there's someone who's
Speaker 1: like scaring me, right, you know, you just kind of
Speaker 1: like fling your poop flail and there you go, just
Speaker 1: distract them there by the time they realize like, wait,
Speaker 1: what a minute, what is this? Is this poop? And
Speaker 1: then you're gone. You're gone into way chimpanzee by proxy,
Speaker 1: you know, like you don't you know, you're still that
Speaker 1: primate wanting to throw poop, but you have a controlled
Speaker 1: situation exactly intellectual poop throwing. Yeah. Yeah, you're outsourcing the pooping, right,
Speaker 1: That's how we do it as more developed beings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really what it comes down to, is the outsourcing
Speaker 1: is what separates us from the apes. Last cute little
Speaker 1: fact about these guys is that they communicate with whistles
Speaker 1: and honks. So just just imagine one of these little
Speaker 1: little muppets stuck on like a fozzy bare body, like, like,
Speaker 1: aren't that's the cutest part. It's so cute because there's
Speaker 1: no grunting. When you think rhinoceros, you think grunt, right, Like,
Speaker 1: That's like if I say the word grunt, the picture
Speaker 1: of a rhinoceros enters my head, and I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: I think most of you are now going to do
Speaker 1: that forever. This guy doing little whistles a little dolphin
Speaker 1: or hanks like a little goose. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think that, Like it's I don't know exactly what they
Speaker 1: sound like. I think they're quite rare, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of difficult to get get those sounds. But I would
Speaker 1: imagine it's similar to other species of rhinos who also
Speaker 1: have surprisingly squeaky honks, especially the calves. Do do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite wild animal sound? I have so many
Speaker 1: favorite wild animal sounds that I have a whole game
Speaker 1: that you get to play at the end of the
Speaker 1: podcast or it's called Guess Who's Squawking? And I will
Speaker 1: present you with an animal sound and you'll have to
Speaker 1: guess who's making that sound. Um, I'll say one of
Speaker 1: my favorite sounds our baby rhinos. We've done that one
Speaker 1: and it is so cute. Oh play that right now?
Speaker 1: Why not? Okay, I'm not mad about that. Okay, So
Speaker 1: that's a baby rhino. I think these are these are
Speaker 1: white rhinos. Um, that's very cute, it's extremely cute. I
Speaker 1: would I would humbly request that one of the animals
Speaker 1: you do not have for me as a fisher cat.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the that as a New England boy. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you there's a reason we thought they were
Speaker 1: witches in the woods. Yeah. They sound like screaming like
Speaker 1: demons babies. They sound they sound like someone's doing something
Speaker 1: awful to a baby in the woods at at midnight,
Speaker 1: like there's there's no way past it. Your first interaction
Speaker 1: with a fisher cat sound is the most horrifying thing
Speaker 1: you'll ever hear. In fact, let's listen to it right now. No, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. And sometimes they're even more like pitched like
Speaker 1: more like like higher pitched, and that really sells the
Speaker 1: baby the demon baby or like satanic ritual going on.
Speaker 1: They're also a fearless animal. Oh yeah, they'll take down
Speaker 1: things bigger than them. They are not afraid of people.
Speaker 1: Like if you if you see a fisher cat, it's
Speaker 1: just basically looks at you and it's like you're looking
Speaker 1: at it's really so fishers are They aren't really cats?
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, the in the musla family, But yeah,
Speaker 1: they they are. They're not that huge, but they look
Speaker 1: sort of you know, they've they've got somewhat cat like
Speaker 1: they look like a rack along raccoon but sort of
Speaker 1: a rusty color all over. And yeah, they are absolutely
Speaker 1: little demons. It's the Northeast version of like a badger
Speaker 1: or like a little wolverine or something. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know they're scary. It's a real, real, real demonic an.
Speaker 1: It's funny because we live on a planet where a
Speaker 1: rhino is a lot less threatening like a rhino species
Speaker 1: like the Sumatran rhino, I think, is a lot less
Speaker 1: threatening than something called a fisher cat, which sounds like
Speaker 1: it should be cute and adorable, and a rhino sounds
Speaker 1: like it should be scary. But the Sumatran rhino is
Speaker 1: this cute, fuzzy little squeaker and the fisher cat is
Speaker 1: like a demonic uh force of like scream, makes a
Speaker 1: screaming baby sound and can kill things larger than itself.
Speaker 1: Did you ever see a Trilogy of Terror, that old
Speaker 1: horror trilogy with the little um, the little statue that
Speaker 1: runs around trying to kill the woman. It's like pretty
Speaker 1: famous little um tribal statue that she imports and it
Speaker 1: ends up being like haunted or something and it attacks her.
Speaker 1: That's what a fisher Cat is. So those of you
Speaker 1: that are familiar with Trilogy of Terror, you know exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. The fisher Cat is the animal
Speaker 1: version of that little guy. Not like these cute little
Speaker 1: baby rhinos here. No I know they put them in
Speaker 1: my pocket. They will not fit. But unless you have
Speaker 1: cargo pants from the nineties, yeah, I'm gonna put them
Speaker 1: in my Jinkos and your Jinko They may be Nudjenko,
Speaker 1: I think they may. You got any rhinos and those Jenkos? Look, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just here to have a good time or my
Speaker 1: kick wear. If you're listening to Incubus, I'm not causing
Speaker 1: any troubles. Jinko jeans really changed the illegal smuggling term game,
Speaker 1: Like I just made it so much easier. It's the
Speaker 1: hoop skirt of dirt bags. Jeff, you mentioned you wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about the cappy bara, but we're not gonna
Speaker 1: because I have before so figured so sad, too bad.
Speaker 1: But instead we're going to talk about this thing, and
Speaker 1: I just want you to look at it here, Am, Well,
Speaker 1: how would you describe this little feller? He he looks
Speaker 1: capybara adjacent. Um, he looks like a geez How do
Speaker 1: I describe him? He looks like a capybara and a
Speaker 1: rabbit made about beetle. Yeah to me, like a deer
Speaker 1: and a rabbit hybrid thing. Yeah, yeah, real Like he's
Speaker 1: got little legs that don't seem to fit the body.
Speaker 1: The legs should be stubborier now the legs are way
Speaker 1: too long for its a little portly. Yeah. It looks
Speaker 1: like a little sausage on toothpicks. Yeah. Very Um, you know,
Speaker 1: a very sleek animal, a very It also looks like
Speaker 1: if you squint, it looks like a dog. Yeah. I would.
Speaker 1: I would definitely be hoodwinked into like getting like, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a dog up for adoption, and I'd be like, yes,
Speaker 1: sold to me. If if someone was like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a bovine terrier you'd be like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: see it. I see what that is. Yeah, it's an
Speaker 1: nubtail arndale bovine terrier. And it's like yeah, absolutely, it
Speaker 1: sure is. Let's put him. Let's put him in Westminster
Speaker 1: and see how it class. So what is it? Well,
Speaker 1: it's found in Argentina and arid slants, shrub and desert areas.
Speaker 1: It is actually a large rodent. It like the cappy bara.
Speaker 1: It weighs around thirty five pounds or sixteen ms and
Speaker 1: are about one and a half feet or forty tall
Speaker 1: at the shoulder. Uh and yes, does this mean that
Speaker 1: I can create it like a baby? You could cradle
Speaker 1: it like a baby, although you might get kicked in
Speaker 1: the face like a little bit. Jeff is willing to
Speaker 1: die to pet acute wild animal, and I can't say
Speaker 1: I approve, because, like I think that would annoy the
Speaker 1: wild animals. However, you got to admire the commitment. I
Speaker 1: would say, I'm not necessarily willing to die, but I
Speaker 1: can take a shot to the face right or twice
Speaker 1: was a boxer. I've taken a lot of punches for
Speaker 1: the face. So a little thirty five pound, precious, little
Speaker 1: little rodent kitty in my hands. Oh, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: and I obviously don't want to bother them, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I could win them over and enjoy the time.
Speaker 1: Maybe you could become friends. Yeah, so they are. There's
Speaker 1: a good reason that you are seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: cappy bar in these guys because they are in the
Speaker 1: cavvy families, so they are related to both guinea pigs
Speaker 1: and cappy barras. So these are like, these are like
Speaker 1: cappy barras, but sort of the runway version, where they've
Speaker 1: got the really long legs, they've got the stiletta's their
Speaker 1: work in the runway, whereas cappy baras are much more sausage. Like.
Speaker 1: These are like sausage but on sort of stilts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're elevated, like when you see those houses on
Speaker 1: the shore and you're just like, oh, yeah, this this
Speaker 1: one's built for hurricane season. That's why. So they don't
Speaker 1: have hoofs, but their feet are kind of small and
Speaker 1: hoof like, and so their movement is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: They can hop like a rabbit, they can gallop, or
Speaker 1: they can stopped, so stopping or pronking, which I guess
Speaker 1: our real words is hopping on all fours at once,
Speaker 1: which is typically something done by deer or antelope. That's
Speaker 1: good stuff. That's good stuff right there. Yet they have
Speaker 1: um their their feet kind of look like German shepherd feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little danky thanky little feats. And then the just
Speaker 1: the fact that they pronk, which again I guess is
Speaker 1: a real word where they're just like you've seen that,
Speaker 1: like we're deer or antelope do the little thing where
Speaker 1: it's like do do do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do do? Do?
Speaker 1: You know, just like the little dancer. Um. I would
Speaker 1: like to say that that is the official movement of
Speaker 1: the goofy bastard, so that that does land. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like there should be bouncy sounds edited into all nature
Speaker 1: documentaries about this animal. So I don't usually quote Wikipedia
Speaker 1: on the show, but I do love this line from
Speaker 1: the Wikipedia on these guys quote its tail is short,
Speaker 1: depressed and hairless, which you know which one among us aren't.
Speaker 1: As a member of the Los Angeles comedy scene, I
Speaker 1: am familiar with many versions of that tail in person form.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's tail is very strange. So you look
Speaker 1: at its butt and you think that, like, what is
Speaker 1: that thing kind of sticking out like, is it a
Speaker 1: little poopoo? Like, what is that? It looks like a
Speaker 1: little poop No, that's his tail. Oh yeah, it looks
Speaker 1: like he's he's got a turtle head going on right there.
Speaker 1: But in reality, that's his little that's his little tail.
Speaker 1: Like when you think about like what tails are used for,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that doesn't seem useful. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: like kind of on its way out right. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's sort of like, you know, we don't really need this.
Speaker 1: I think it does. Probably they probably it helps them
Speaker 1: in terms of like scent marking, so they still have it,
Speaker 1: but they don't need much of it. You know. It
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be furry, and so it's just this
Speaker 1: little nub to rub their stench on things. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: a little dabble. Do you look at I mean it
Speaker 1: is it is funny that that its tail is the
Speaker 1: tail version of it as an animal, just like this
Speaker 1: little goofy, stubby looking thing sticking out of a goofy
Speaker 1: stubby looking things. Little sausage coming out of a sausage.
Speaker 1: It's just sausage and sausage and sausage. So real. Putting
Speaker 1: a hat on a hat energy here with this guy
Speaker 1: putting a sausage on the sausage. So they are herbivores
Speaker 1: and they basically live in hippie communes. They form these
Speaker 1: lifelong monogamous relationships, with the males being much more clingy
Speaker 1: than the females. They will follow the females around, marking
Speaker 1: them with pe like, they'll pe on the females be
Speaker 1: like you're you're my wife, and then they'll leave more
Speaker 1: markings in her path, sort of creating this like zone
Speaker 1: around the female where he's just like constantly peeing and
Speaker 1: leaving scent markings. He's like heralding her. But instead of
Speaker 1: tossing romantic rose petals, uh, he's pooping around. I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't have like jobs, so they can't buy rose petals, right,
Speaker 1: so I guess you gotta work with what you have.
Speaker 1: You know. It's very sweet that he uses all his
Speaker 1: p for that, you know. Yeah, I guess in a
Speaker 1: way it is. Um, here's more romance for you. Males
Speaker 1: will pee on the females, but and then the female
Speaker 1: will pee in the male's face, so you know, whatever
Speaker 1: floats their boat. Honestly, we don't want shame here on
Speaker 1: creature features. Here, like this is one of those situations
Speaker 1: where you're like, you, guys, this is what Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't have to do it. Consent is key,
Speaker 1: so which which seems to me like this is a
Speaker 1: very consensual situation. I think so yes. Um. So they
Speaker 1: will often live with other couples in communal warrants. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this like big hippie dippy colony where there is often
Speaker 1: this like they just have all the young kind of
Speaker 1: inside this giant burrow living together. Typically, mothers will really
Speaker 1: only nurse their own offspring, but sometimes, uh, someone else's
Speaker 1: kid is going to like sneak in a sip of milk.
Speaker 1: There's always that always happens, you know, you make sandwiches
Speaker 1: for your kid, and then like the neighbor kid comes
Speaker 1: over and is all sticky and asking for a sandwich,
Speaker 1: and what are you gonna do? Not feed the kid?
Speaker 1: Not feed the kid. Well, some of these some of
Speaker 1: the females will decide not to do that and actually
Speaker 1: shove the baby away that's not their own, which is
Speaker 1: really funny. But sometimes they don't. It kind of depends
Speaker 1: on their mood. It depends on how cool they are.
Speaker 1: The cool the cool mom, the cool giant rodent. Mom. Um,
Speaker 1: you're just walking around engaging in water sports and beating
Speaker 1: up other people's kids, right, and you know, but it
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. They all live in this communal
Speaker 1: warren and it does help keep them safer, you know,
Speaker 1: their safety and numbers. Um. And then you know, last
Speaker 1: fun cute fact about these little guys is they will
Speaker 1: eat their own poop to redigest nutrients, just like other calvies.
Speaker 1: Why not. Yeah, you know what, this is not a
Speaker 1: This is not an animal that is burdened by the
Speaker 1: shame of Christianity, No very much. Now what this guy
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing, now I would yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say shame um or discussed. Are not things known
Speaker 1: to this this fun little sausage on stilts. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a little a little bold, live your own
Speaker 1: life kind of a situation. Right. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: they live, they live in a commune. They hang out,
Speaker 1: the males, you know, poop around, the females, um on
Speaker 1: each other, on each other. They're just living their best
Speaker 1: lives freely. That's really sweet away from judgment. If they're
Speaker 1: if they're because they're clearly if Look, you've got to
Speaker 1: be into it to take it to the face, right,
Speaker 1: like you know, like I understand, like, oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: got me on the butt, stop it, you know, like
Speaker 1: I can understand that, But like then was it like
Speaker 1: all right? Turn around? He's like this is what I
Speaker 1: signed up for, and in that situation, you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is like ravenous consent. Yeah. I think it's interesting
Speaker 1: that the ping also works as a way of the
Speaker 1: female communicating to the male because like the a lot
Speaker 1: of the one very specific message, well the actually the
Speaker 1: message for like some of the p like when the
Speaker 1: female ps on a male's face is like I am
Speaker 1: not reproductively receptive right now, So there's no point um
Speaker 1: And so he's like okay, and then you know that's that.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like, hey, you know what you you
Speaker 1: you you shot your shot, but no, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just P And he's like, all right, I've dealt with
Speaker 1: similar things emotionally not physically, but you know what, the
Speaker 1: energy is still there. What would be a like a
Speaker 1: spray of pet of the face emotionally, I mean I
Speaker 1: think the good the stereotypically sitcom answer to that would
Speaker 1: be I have a headache, right right, like the timing
Speaker 1: like or in general sort of relationship stuff. It's just like, well,
Speaker 1: the timing is just not right, you know, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get that, but with less less urine, like not les urine.
Speaker 1: But again, communication is key, whether it's with words or urine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. I mean, look, urine is the words of
Speaker 1: the body. So we've all been there. Sure I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yes, fine, yes, and this one straight
Speaker 1: through I'm going to do that. Yes. Um So I
Speaker 1: would say, though, unless you are Patagonian Mara, I would
Speaker 1: potentially use your words rather than your pepe unless it's
Speaker 1: in snow. Unless it's like in snow and you're actually
Speaker 1: writing words in snow with with P, then I think
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, it's like, hey, left for the
Speaker 1: grocery store, uh, soups in the oven. Then you kind
Speaker 1: of run out of P though, you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one thing I miss about living in New England
Speaker 1: is not having to pay for all those notebooks, right yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a useful thing, right, Like, especially when
Speaker 1: you're on the trail you don't have a pen and
Speaker 1: paper and you're like bears a head and you pee
Speaker 1: that right in there, yeah, which is going to intract
Speaker 1: the bears, right, and so they'll definitely be ahead. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a real, real cause and effects situation
Speaker 1: happening in one of those situations right right, it's like,
Speaker 1: look at this bear and then you know it'll come,
Speaker 1: because it'll come. I'm gonna I'm gonna cuddle that bear
Speaker 1: before I go though, right, it'll see a bear's ears.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna touch a Yeah, it's like you see in
Speaker 1: the in the snow, like a pea message. That's like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to cuddle this bit. And you don't know
Speaker 1: if it's because you ran out a pea, or if
Speaker 1: the bear got you, or if you were too busy cuddling. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the third unlikely option. You know what, you don't
Speaker 1: know until you try. Um, that's true, and you know
Speaker 1: for then a very short amount of time, but at
Speaker 1: least you know it's fair. I feel like you're really
Speaker 1: doubting my ability to pet the bear. But no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not doubting. I'm not doubting your ability to pet
Speaker 1: the bear. I'm just saying that that's probably you'll probably
Speaker 1: get a pet in and then that'll be about it
Speaker 1: for for the rest of your life. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: leave our beautiful harry rhinos and our wonderful giant long
Speaker 1: legged been rodents, and we're going to go into the
Speaker 1: ocean and look at the world's most photogenic fish, the
Speaker 1: parrot fish. I just take a look, Jeff and enjoy,
Speaker 1: just really look at look at this goofball. Look at him,
Speaker 1: look like cheese. And for the camera, there's real ted
Speaker 1: lasso energy to this to this animal here. Oh, this
Speaker 1: guy is good. And I know he's a fish. I
Speaker 1: get it. I understand how fish sprains work, but it
Speaker 1: really does look like he wants to be my friend.
Speaker 1: They look super happy. I've never seen a fish look
Speaker 1: more psyched to be a fish. They're like, I'm a fish.
Speaker 1: Heck yeah, I mean water. Yes, this is the fish
Speaker 1: version of like aquaca right, like, yeah, exactly. It definitely
Speaker 1: has that quacca look for sure. And the thing that
Speaker 1: helps it with the smile is it has teeth. It
Speaker 1: looks like it has people teeth. It looks like a
Speaker 1: character like a Dream Works characters something, except like less uncanny,
Speaker 1: like it actually looks more convincing to me, as like
Speaker 1: because it's well yes, but I mean it has because
Speaker 1: it's not an animated movie. But it's human expression is
Speaker 1: more like it feels more human, I guess, or or
Speaker 1: less Uncanny Valley than like the animated versions. Yeah. His
Speaker 1: his Pixar looking idiot face is uh, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: layered with primary colors, which is real fun. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: that's why they call it the parrot fish, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: well this one. So there are many species of parrot fish.
Speaker 1: This one I think is the Mediterranean parrot fish. It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: It's red, yellow, and blue. Um. There are other species
Speaker 1: as well. Uh, and all the species of parrot fish
Speaker 1: typically have these goofy smiles. So there are like blue ones,
Speaker 1: there's blue and orange, blue and yellow. They're all quite beautiful.
Speaker 1: And addition that, like they're parrot fish because in addition
Speaker 1: to their beautiful tropical colors, they also have those teeth
Speaker 1: which are like beaks. Oh that's good stuff. And also
Speaker 1: because pirates would put them on their shoulders, that it
Speaker 1: was it didn't go as well, this thing flopping around
Speaker 1: in the water. Yeah, me, parrots seems to be having
Speaker 1: a problem. I have a fabily of the help you
Speaker 1: gona go visit this guy. They're Mediterranean, right, Yeah, I could.
Speaker 1: I could go and say hi, be like hey, just
Speaker 1: like swim out there, get get in somewhere in the
Speaker 1: Mediterranean and find out. Yeah, but where where are these
Speaker 1: were these goofy little tools at and then you haven't
Speaker 1: bringing it like, oh look at me so fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks very like he's got the I mean we
Speaker 1: talked earlier about the DreamWorks thing, you know, the like
Speaker 1: DreamWorks smirk. How like all the characters always have that
Speaker 1: little like sideways smirk into the camera. It's like I'm
Speaker 1: a bit of a stinker kind of look like that's
Speaker 1: what he's getting here, Like I'm a little bit of
Speaker 1: a stinker. Um. Yeah. This is voiced by mal blank
Speaker 1: Energy in the space. Yeah. So. Parrot fish are a
Speaker 1: family of around ninety fish species. Um. They're mainly found
Speaker 1: in the Indo Pacific in coral reefs, coasts and seagrass forests. Uh.
Speaker 1: Their name obviously comes from the fact that they have
Speaker 1: a beak and they're these bright colors, although to me
Speaker 1: it looks less like a beak and more like this
Speaker 1: like big buck tooth smile. Yeah, they use these teeth
Speaker 1: to scrape algae and the living tissue, which is called
Speaker 1: polyps off of coral. So coral are these really hard
Speaker 1: structures that contain these symbiotic algae and also the living
Speaker 1: tissue of the coral. And so the parrot fish wants
Speaker 1: to eat this stuff, and to do that they have
Speaker 1: to grind up coral. And so that seems like that'd
Speaker 1: be pretty hard on your teeth. Like, if we try
Speaker 1: to basically eat a big bowl of coral, it would
Speaker 1: destroy our teeth. And so they have to have pretty
Speaker 1: special teeth for this, and their teeth are actually a
Speaker 1: bunch of tiny teeth. They have over a thousand teeth
Speaker 1: lined up in vertical stacks which continually grow and get replaced.
Speaker 1: Oh same, yeah, so how is that? How is that?
Speaker 1: Did you have like braces or like a lot of
Speaker 1: the braces cost in visile line? Maybe? Yeah? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm actually, you know, funny enough, I'm actually missing two teeth.
Speaker 1: I have less teeth than one would expect. I see, well,
Speaker 1: you know, less teeth the floss, right, that that is true,
Speaker 1: And just these big aping cavities I call it, they're
Speaker 1: not I don't call them church teeth, but like if
Speaker 1: you look slightly past my smile, you could see be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got like two teeth in there. Well you know,
Speaker 1: I mean again, I think that it's more streamlined, fewer
Speaker 1: teeth to floss. Um. But if you're not wrong, if
Speaker 1: I do get like huge chunks of stuff stuck in there,
Speaker 1: like I should flost this out, do you have one
Speaker 1: of those syringes of water that you can kind of
Speaker 1: like jet in there, spray it out. Just get a
Speaker 1: water pick for this one huge gap and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: very funny. Yeah, I mean, like I mean, I I
Speaker 1: had the I had the like, um, the sort of
Speaker 1: water syringe for when I got my wisdom teeth out,
Speaker 1: because I got all four out at once, um, and
Speaker 1: there was a lot of holes in my mouth and
Speaker 1: a shocking amount of food gets in there. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: would think, yeah, I have still have my wisdom teeth.
Speaker 1: I still have those, um, but I did after years
Speaker 1: of whatever sports that you do, your teeth sometimes just
Speaker 1: and so I was like, well, I guess just pull
Speaker 1: them out. And they're like, do you want an implant?
Speaker 1: It's only ten dollars. I'm like, oh, you don't know
Speaker 1: what job I have. It's only your firstborn son. Yeah. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: these guys are doing great. Yeah, they could really be
Speaker 1: boxers because like their teeth are constantly growing, so when
Speaker 1: one falls out, like there's more to replace them. So
Speaker 1: they have like the beaver energy of like having to
Speaker 1: like use them or or or they just go through
Speaker 1: your face basically. I mean, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: of any of them that where that happens. But it's
Speaker 1: because their only way of eating is using them, so
Speaker 1: like that is their only option is to eat the
Speaker 1: coral and use them. Um. But yeah, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: like they do grow and so like, but instead of
Speaker 1: it being one solid tooth growing, it's like these like
Speaker 1: stacks of teeth growing upwards vertically. Um, that's way more terrifying. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so. I mean, if you're afraid of a
Speaker 1: thousand teeth in one smiling mouth, but hey, you know
Speaker 1: it's like venom teeth. It's more smile per square inch
Speaker 1: in my opinion, So that is fair. But like it's
Speaker 1: funny because you look at it and yeah that he
Speaker 1: looks like he's wearing clown teeth. You know, it looks
Speaker 1: like he's wearing like and then you look closely and
Speaker 1: you see that it's just a thousand tiny daggers, and
Speaker 1: you're like, this is way different than what I was expecting.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of smile. So the teeth are harder
Speaker 1: than copper, and a square inch of parrot fish teeth
Speaker 1: can withstand over five tons of pressure. Microscopic viewings of
Speaker 1: the teeth show that each tooth has a dense chain
Speaker 1: mail like pattern that gives it such resilience. So this
Speaker 1: is how they can chew through coral without really breaking
Speaker 1: a sweat um. They are responsible for creating a huge
Speaker 1: amount of sand. So when they eat this coral, they
Speaker 1: grind it up. They eat I just the polyps and algae,
Speaker 1: but they don't digest the like coral skeleton. And so
Speaker 1: after that's ground up, Uh, they don't, they don't really
Speaker 1: eat it. So sand is a byproduct. So one parrot
Speaker 1: fish can chew its way through enough coral to create
Speaker 1: around a thousand or four d and fifty of sand annually.
Speaker 1: That's it's not not a lot of sand. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of sand. Because didn't they didn't they say there's
Speaker 1: like a sand Uh, we're going through like a sand
Speaker 1: deficit right now. Yeah, I think there's it's like there's
Speaker 1: some things where like sand beaches are becoming less sandy.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's necessarily a sand deficit in the ocean,
Speaker 1: but definitely for beaches. No, like for like, for like
Speaker 1: American manufacturing and building, it's becoming like the concept of
Speaker 1: sand is becoming endangered. I guess that's interesting. Yeah know,
Speaker 1: I don't know too much about like industrial sand running out,
Speaker 1: but I guess that would stand a reason. If you
Speaker 1: have less sand on beaches, then you have less sand
Speaker 1: to collect as industry. Yeah, because I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of us on here, and
Speaker 1: there's eight billion of us needing glass and brick and
Speaker 1: all these different things, and apparently sand is a huge
Speaker 1: ingredient that we never think about. These guys are just
Speaker 1: making it right, And I mean it's interesting because like
Speaker 1: they are because they rely on coral reefs. Like if
Speaker 1: we are destroying coral reefs through uh climate change, industry pollution,
Speaker 1: then like you know, it's kind of this vicious cycle
Speaker 1: of like we're taking sand out and then also taking
Speaker 1: out the animals that make the sand. So that's bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, we could probably do the planet better.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go out on the limb and
Speaker 1: say that, Yeah, a bit of a controversial take, but
Speaker 1: I too agree that maybe we should be like a
Speaker 1: little little less bad when it comes to like, you know,
Speaker 1: the earth, like maybe kill I don't know, a couple
Speaker 1: fewer species per year. Yeah, I do like the laziest
Speaker 1: versions of that where I'm just like I mostly don't
Speaker 1: eat meat, or like I drive a previous prime that
Speaker 1: can plug in every once in a while, Like they're
Speaker 1: all like very very small, tiny little baby steps that
Speaker 1: in the long term, I'm like, I'm probably not doing anything,
Speaker 1: but whatever. Well, I mean I think that if everyone
Speaker 1: ate less meat, that would have a huge impact, right,
Speaker 1: if we all reduced our meat consumption, that would have
Speaker 1: a gigantic impact. Obviously, most a like a disproportionate amount
Speaker 1: of the contributors to climate change aren't individual people but industry. Um.
Speaker 1: But still, I mean I still think like if you, like,
Speaker 1: if you and even if you don't become vegetarian, like
Speaker 1: I'm not a vegetarian, but if you just like eat
Speaker 1: a little bit less meat, uh, you know, like maybe
Speaker 1: eat more vegetarian meals, cut down your meat consumption, you
Speaker 1: know that that really helps when when you do it
Speaker 1: on a massive scale. So, you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: nothing to sneeze at. Yeah, I mean it's it is
Speaker 1: one of those things I would say, is this an
Speaker 1: edible fish? The parrot fish? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is that something where they can you really like, eat
Speaker 1: something that smiles at you. I guess the goldfish snack
Speaker 1: cracker proved that, yes you can. Yeah. I would also
Speaker 1: say that, yes, but humans will eat everything. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: that's one of those things where like, wow, this thing
Speaker 1: is a really cute smile. I bet it's going to
Speaker 1: be delicious. Yeah. I think about how many foods we
Speaker 1: eat that are based off of that. We have cartoons
Speaker 1: based off of you know. Yeah, apparently, yes, people do
Speaker 1: eat parrot fish, which you know, I guess, uh. I
Speaker 1: guess anything that is beautiful in nature, I guess also
Speaker 1: tastes good. I guess you don't want sand, everyone, you
Speaker 1: don't want sand. But yeah, so the sand that they
Speaker 1: create by eating the coral is not It's not just
Speaker 1: like crumbs that they like spit out. They poop it out.
Speaker 1: It goes all the way through the parrot fish. So
Speaker 1: a lot of these beaches where it has this beautiful
Speaker 1: white sand. Uh, this is uh poop, parrot fish poop
Speaker 1: in part, So think about that next time you eat
Speaker 1: a nice heaping glass of sand. That's poop you're eating.
Speaker 1: So maybe you should stop doing that. That's poop you're
Speaker 1: vacationing on. Um. But yeah, I mean that just makes
Speaker 1: me want to stand on it more, I guess. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you feel closer to the smiling fish, right and
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm enjoying your warm, dried poops. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna take my little baby rhino and my
Speaker 1: little weird rat and we are going to just vacation
Speaker 1: on the parrot poop, parrot fish poop. Excuse me, all
Speaker 1: smoke in your Jinko jeans, So in my Jinko jeans
Speaker 1: that probably are are covered in in weird rodent piss.
Speaker 1: I mean you deserve it at that mud. If you're
Speaker 1: trying to like smuggle a Patagonian Mara in your Jinko jeans,
Speaker 1: it's going to be covered in poop and pea. And
Speaker 1: you know that's that's sort of it's karmic retribution. We
Speaker 1: like to call that a small price to pay. I
Speaker 1: will sacrifice my jinko jeans of this one moment where
Speaker 1: immediately let them out and the rhinoceros gores me right
Speaker 1: today for forcing friendship on a wild animal that has
Speaker 1: no idea what is going on. So um. Yeah. Even
Speaker 1: though the parrot fish do chew on coral, they are
Speaker 1: actually good for coral reefs, so think of them as
Speaker 1: coral gardeners. By trimming some of the excess algae from
Speaker 1: the coral, the coral polyps are actually able to grow
Speaker 1: back stronger. So they're like pruning the oral essentially. Uh
Speaker 1: and yeah, they these amazing, beautiful, smiling fish. They're like
Speaker 1: maintaining our coral reefs, making us nice sand. They're wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful little guys. And they get to look like a
Speaker 1: sweet little idiot while they do it. They really do.
Speaker 1: That's really the best part. They look like such a
Speaker 1: good dude. You may you see him and you're like
Speaker 1: hey fish, and he's like hey man, HOI Like there's
Speaker 1: a goofy energy to this fish is how they sound.
Speaker 1: I love that, Like, I mean, it's really not a fluke.
Speaker 1: Like you look at so many pictures of parrot fish,
Speaker 1: they're all they're all smiling. There's like what They can
Speaker 1: also do a closed melth smile, which is really funny
Speaker 1: because of the shape of their beak, it kind of
Speaker 1: forces their lips upwards, so they kind of they look
Speaker 1: like they're doing this like doofy little clothes mouth like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a little shy, but I'm still smiling
Speaker 1: a very coquettish smile from this u from this very
Speaker 1: very sweet fish, like oh, stop stop photographing me. But
Speaker 1: they love it. They love it. Go on with that.
Speaker 1: You have people that painting it on the side of
Speaker 1: their World War two fighter planes, painting it's one little
Speaker 1: it's one little sweet looking fish with fish. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: can wink wink um. They're so cute. I'd love it
Speaker 1: if they flirted with me. But I think they're only
Speaker 1: interested in coral, only interested in my coral jewelry. I've
Speaker 1: been dealing from the ocean. So um. Before we go,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, we gotta play a little game,
Speaker 1: and that game is called Guess Who's Squawking? It's the
Speaker 1: Mystery Animal sound game. Every week I play a mystery
Speaker 1: animal sound in you the listener, and hey, you the guests,
Speaker 1: try to guess who is squawking. Last week's hint was this.
Speaker 1: As a fellow introverted redhead, I sympathize this sometimes wanting
Speaker 1: personal space. All right, Jeff, can you guess who is squawking?
Speaker 1: Is that an orangutan? You are correct? Congratulations also to
Speaker 1: antib Craig K and Grant W who are the fastest
Speaker 1: to guess correctly the orangutan. So, yes, this is the
Speaker 1: call of a male orangutan. Um bonus points. What do
Speaker 1: you think he is trying to say? Well, uh, I
Speaker 1: think he's probably saying back off. This is my territory. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is absolutely correct. So. Orangutans are found in the
Speaker 1: rainforests of Boreo and Sumatra. Despite their large size, they
Speaker 1: spend most of their time in trees, in nests that
Speaker 1: they actually build themselves. The construction of their nests is
Speaker 1: intricate and requires advanced intelligence as well as learning from
Speaker 1: their parents. There is evidence that different groups of orangutans
Speaker 1: build nests using different techniques, indicating that they actually have
Speaker 1: these different learned cultures. Orangutans are relatively solitary but also
Speaker 1: flexible in socializing. They'll establish their own home range, but
Speaker 1: they can typically visit other ranges without too much trouble,
Speaker 1: and they may interact with other oriutans, but if they
Speaker 1: feel that their range is being threatened or someone is
Speaker 1: invading their personal space, they'll issue what is called a
Speaker 1: kiss squeak, which they suck air through their lips um
Speaker 1: and make this kind of like sound uh. And then
Speaker 1: they will do this like rolling call, which is the
Speaker 1: latter part of what you hear the woo woo woo
Speaker 1: to tell you to back off. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: this orangutan is doing. And if you're a person, he
Speaker 1: will tear your arms. Yeah, I mean they are. They
Speaker 1: will defend themselves. I wouldn't say they're that aggress but
Speaker 1: they are definitely capable. They're extremely strong and very capable. Yes,
Speaker 1: very capable. I have a friend who um worked with
Speaker 1: orientans at a nature preserve um and like they were,
Speaker 1: they were friendly with the rescuers, but once one of
Speaker 1: them kind of grabbed her arm because he wanted to
Speaker 1: like basically get her to go in a direction he
Speaker 1: wanted to go. And it was like she could tell
Speaker 1: he was going to like break her arm on accident,
Speaker 1: and so she had to like kind of yell, yelp
Speaker 1: you know, in pain, and like when the orient and
Speaker 1: saw that he was like hurting her, he looked like
Speaker 1: shocked and really sorry. But yeah, I can easily break
Speaker 1: your arm without even realizing it. So you do not
Speaker 1: want to piss them off and have them tried to
Speaker 1: break your arm, because that would you know, it'd be
Speaker 1: like an orangutane. Really, I have friends with the the
Speaker 1: doctor Z. Dr zais a good friend of mine. Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, the joke is we don't break k fame.
Speaker 1: But if you ever watch Hanging with Doctor Z, it's
Speaker 1: a great show. It's really fun. Doctor doctor, Doctor's is,
Speaker 1: Doctor's is, Doctor's Doctor's is. Oh, Doctor's is doctor. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen Hanging with Doctor Z, I think you'd
Speaker 1: really like it. By the way, I'll definitely check it out.
Speaker 1: It's a little thing. It sounds like my jam so
Speaker 1: onto this week's Mr Animal sound. The hint is that
Speaker 1: this is not quite a gobbler m hm hm oh,
Speaker 1: jeff Hinny, guess who was making that sound? Um? First off,
Speaker 1: the fact that's like I know a right perfect for me. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to I feel like my the hint
Speaker 1: is influencing my my choice. But I would my my
Speaker 1: guests off of the hint would be a Turkey vulture.
Speaker 1: Interesting guests Well, you will find out next week on
Speaker 1: the next episode of Creature Feature. Jeff, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining me today. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me UM. I'm across several social
Speaker 1: media's as well as long as they still exist upon publication.
Speaker 1: We've got to diversify your investments. Boy, don't do we UM.
Speaker 1: I'm at hey there, Jeff ro h e y t
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Speaker 1: and UM. As Katie mentioned earlier, I am a podcaster
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Speaker 1: like a Fine with Kim Crawl, as well as Nerd
Speaker 1: with Dre Alvarez. You also might know me from Tom
Speaker 1: and Jeff watch Batman on the game Fully Unemployed Network
Speaker 1: with Tom Ryman. You may know me from Unpopular Opinion
Speaker 1: and you Don't Even Like Sports, which is a sports
Speaker 1: podcast for people that hate sports, and those are both
Speaker 1: with Adam Todd Brown. I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: notice the theme of my co hosts here Katie. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's people you worked with. That's interesting. Huh yeah,
Speaker 1: weird how that happens? Weird that works. You're also you
Speaker 1: can also see you on Netflix, um, not winning any money.
Speaker 1: You can see me on on the game show Bullshit
Speaker 1: on Netflix, uh, where I had quite an interesting filming
Speaker 1: and and did quite well, and then they edited out
Speaker 1: the victory. But I still get some fun moments on that,
Speaker 1: so I'm in episodes two and three. But it was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And I also throw a live
Speaker 1: comedy show the second Friday of every month at a
Speaker 1: place called Blast from the Past on Magnolia and Burbank.
Speaker 1: The name of the show is called mint on Card.
Speaker 1: If you're a toy nerd, you understand that it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, very free second Friday of every month,
Speaker 1: so great. And to my Italian friends, that's in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: so it's not far away at all. Um, you can
Speaker 1: make it. Yeah, it's barely a hemisphere away, right exactly?
Speaker 1: If if what's his name, da Vinci can do it?
Speaker 1: I forgot who the guy at Gallilate, No, who's the one?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the murdering one Christopher Columbus. If he can
Speaker 1: do it, anyone can't because he sucked. He was he
Speaker 1: sure did. I think I think it's I think somebody
Speaker 1: on the Internet should mention that something. I think the
Speaker 1: Internet should address that Christopher wasn't a good guy. I'm
Speaker 1: the first one. Actually, yeah, I'm certainly I'm certainly not like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we know at this point, right, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm the first to point it out. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: so much for listen. If you think you know the
Speaker 1: answer to the Mystery Animals sound game, you can write
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