1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Chuck Bryant scratching out a significant 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: amount of this article. Like literally as we started recording. 5 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: That's important stuff. There's like numbers and dates and weights, 6 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: anders and that that's that's important stuff you to scratched out. 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: I feel like it's all covered in the body of 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: the text of the article, though, well, I mean that's 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: one way to do an intro. Is anybody in journalism 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: can tell you you can write the article and then 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: go back and summarize that it's an intro. I've never 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: been partial of that. The intro to me is just 13 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: like this stream of consciousness. It tells you where the 14 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: rest of the article is going to go because you 15 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: don't know, man, because it's all jazz baby. Uh yeah. 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: Polar bears polar bears another polar bear club. Although they 17 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: may have clubs, they're one of the least studied mammal 18 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: populations on the planet. Because it's cold, no one wants 19 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: to go hang out and watch them, yeah, pretty much, 20 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: and because it's also extremely dangerous to to study polar 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: bears up close and personal. Yeah, they look cuddly, um, 22 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: but they will, especially New they will. Yeah remember New. Yeah, 23 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: I got a little bit about New. Very sad. But 24 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna say they look cute and cuddly, but don't 25 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: leave us hanging. Well, you go up to hug one 26 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: like you want to, and you get your face eating. 27 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you're lucky, that's all that happens. You know. 28 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: I saw pictures of a guy who um survived a 29 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: polar bear attack. Oh my goodness. Yeah, he was messed up, 30 00:01:54,440 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: like I guess. It was still attach, but three orders 31 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: of his scalp was now flipped back able like there's 32 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: a whole clear through his achilles tendon and his ankle 33 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: so like as a chillers tendon was intact, and then 34 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: the front at the top of his the front of 35 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: his ankle was intact, but in between the two was gone. 36 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: That could have been a claw, poke or a fang. Yeah, 37 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: it could have been like flicking it with its thumb 38 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: and middle finger. Very strong. It's one of nature's cruelest 39 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: things to make an animal so huggable, so deadly. So yeah, 40 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you hug up polar bears 41 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: bad news. It's like one of those black widows that 42 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: marry and kill. Right, Well, that's just my interpretation of 43 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: polar bears. And you mean the ursus maritimus. Yeah, and 44 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: maritimes is uh, it's a legitimate thing to call it 45 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: because technically a polar bear is a sea animal, a 46 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: sea mammal, because they spend most of their time actually 47 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: on the sea, that's right, and in the sea sometimes, 48 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: as we'll find out. Um, well, I guess we're knee 49 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: deep in this thing. Huh yeah, because you skip the intro. 50 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: Uh So the polar bear what they think? Um? And 51 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: I enjoy our animal casts a lot. And there's some 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: of my favorite ones. I just wanted to say that 53 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: although the polar bear doesn't despite its hug ability, doesn't 54 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: compete with the jellyfish or the octopus. Um, but it's 55 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: up there. Sure it is because you can hug at jellyfish, 56 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: you know, I than an octopus. That's a great hug. Yeah, 57 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: eight times as good, I guess four times is good. Yeah, alright, 58 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: so the polar bear two times is good? Polar bear 59 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: has four? No, I'm as a human hug uh So 60 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: Jerry even like that one. Um, So the polar bear evolved, 61 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: as best as we know, a couple of hundred thousand 62 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: years ago from the brown bear. Actually, I saw the 63 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: scientific consensus between five million and six hundred thousand years 64 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: really because I saw the two all over the place. 65 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: Did you really Yeah, but it might be one of 66 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: those you know how the internet is, like I think 67 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: Science Magazine used the term scientific consensus. Oh wow, so 68 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: I was like, there down the gauntlet. Uh, well let's 69 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: just say let's go with a scientific consensus, um, and 70 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: not our own article on our own website. But they 71 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: did evolve from the brown bear, uh, they think, and um, 72 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: one of the ways that they backed this up is 73 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: by saying, polar bear can go have sex with a 74 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: brown bear and they can make a baby bear, and 75 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: that bear can actually have babies, which means everything jibs. 76 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: Do you remember? I think it was our evolution in 77 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: Isolation episode that was a good one where we talked 78 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: about speciation events and we talked about this how the 79 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: how the brown bear just kept ranging further and further north, 80 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: and as as they're kind of habitat changed, they actually 81 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: evolved too into a different species. The polar bear yeah, 82 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: I remember that now, but I remember a species or 83 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: a speciation event taking place when the two groups could 84 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: no longer reproduce. That was my memory of it, But 85 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: I guess not because I went back in double check. 86 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: Memberies like, polar bears are different species, but it can. 87 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: It can reproduce with brown bears. And it does make 88 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: sense because humans and Neanderthals or neanderthals if you're a 89 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: pet ant um could could reproduce and have fertile offspring, 90 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: and they are definitely two different species of humans, right, Yeah, 91 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: they were. Well, you know, occasionally people get together and 92 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: have a few drinks and science is created, you know. Yeah. Yeah, 93 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: uh so there are way more um brown bears, everyone knows. 94 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk a lot about this. That the 95 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 1: polar bear. I'm not sure the official designation. I don't 96 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: think it's officially listed. Well, it depends on where you are, yeah, 97 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: as the official listings is threatened or you know, the like, 98 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: it depends on the country it's in. Yeah, but they are, 99 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: they're not doing great. There's only about twenty five polar 100 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: bears and uh their habitat is shrinking, literally physically shrinking. Yeah, 101 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: that's the big problem is that the the melting of 102 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: Arctic sea ice, as we'll see as the Arctic sea 103 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: ice is where they live. They live on ice floating 104 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: out in the Arctic ocean, um, and they don't like 105 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: to be on land. When they are on land, it's 106 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: a problem for them. So the decrease in Arctic sea 107 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: ice that's going on because the climate change um is 108 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: affecting them tremendously and affecting the rest of the ecosystem. 109 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: But yeah, definitely because um say, like if they get 110 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: stranded on land, they start hunting on like for land mammals, 111 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: which affects the ecosystem, and that now their competition that's 112 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: not normally there for for prey exactly. You know, there's 113 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: all sorts of ripple effects that are coming out of it. 114 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: But one thing I did see is that the the 115 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: polar bears that are really really far north are actually 116 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: benefiting from the melting um ice because it's easier for 117 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: them to hunt now, oh, because there is just less 118 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: area to cover. Um it's the ice is thinner. Oh, 119 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: so they can hunt more easily on interesting Yeah, uh, 120 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: well it's a good thing you said north, because you're 121 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: not gonna find polar bears, but the South Pole where 122 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: Santa lives and penguins. Santa lives at the north North 123 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: Pole with the polar bears. That's right. We've all seen 124 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: the Coca Cola commercials. Yeah, but that has penguins in it. Yeah, 125 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: the penguins and polar bears would never meet. Yeah, that's true. 126 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: Is that maybe at a zoo? Yeah, that is true. 127 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: They had polar bears at the San Diego Zoo. There's 128 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: a polar bear in China in a mall in China 129 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: that has a zoo, and it is one of the 130 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: saddest things I've ever heard of. I signed a petition 131 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: last night to free it. His name is Pizza and 132 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: it is It's the pizza the polar bear. It's the 133 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: it's the saddest. I think it's build as the saddest 134 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: polar bear on the planet. Man, it's so sad. Look 135 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: into it. Chuck outside. Yeah, I guarantee you will. And 136 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: you know what, I bet we could get a lot 137 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: of people to sign that petition. We'll see if it matters. 138 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: The petitions matter. Do they make a difference. Ah. I 139 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: think if they're accompanied with the right like press, like 140 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: media pressure, right or like a mafia thug right to 141 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: deliver the papers. I got a petition for you. I 142 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: highly recommend you read it. Uh. So, polar bears do 143 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: live only in the northern Hemisphere. Those twenty five thousand 144 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: are in nineteen distinct populations, uh, in five just five countries, 145 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 1: including the United States. Yeah. It's funny because their habitat 146 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: is at the top of the world where five countries 147 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: basically come together. Well, Alaska, yeah, that's the U. S Part. 148 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: Canada obviously. I think two thirds of all polar bears 149 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: actually live in Canada, even though if you asked him that, 150 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to tell you. Russia is another 151 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 1: big one. Norway. Ye, in Greenland, that is correct. Uh. 152 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: And it is tough living up there for humans, but 153 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: not for polar bears. They love it. They're well adapted 154 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: over the years. Just supposedly, if they run for any 155 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: bit of time, they have to like stop and lay 156 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: down because they'll overheat and they will exhaust themselves. Yeah. 157 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: Identified a lot when I was reading this with polar 158 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: bear like, I kind of like these guys. They are 159 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: incredibly well adapted. Um, which is another reason why I 160 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: think they don't think it's any less than six hundred 161 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: thousand years that they evolved from brown bears, because it 162 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: would it would take so long for these just they're 163 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: really different from brown bears. Like brown bears are basically herbivores, 164 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: polar bears are carnivores. They eat seal blubber like brown 165 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: bears eat berries in the occasional human on accident, maybe, 166 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: but polar bears are like, give me some steals, I 167 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: want them. I bet they would eat some berries if 168 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: someone offered them up for dessert maybe, but there are 169 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: no berries, you know. But it would take a lot 170 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: because they get kind of big, and they need a 171 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: lot of fat to ward off the cold. Well, yeah, 172 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: and they have a lot of it. They have two 173 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: layers of fur and then blubber, full blubber layer that's 174 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: about four and a half inches thick of just blubbery. Supposedly, 175 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: like of their weight at any given time or when 176 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:04,599 Speaker 1: they're fully um developed or nourished, is a blubber was 177 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 1: their own fat. Since you mentioned the weight, we'll go 178 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: ahead and throw some stats out. Adult males eight or 179 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: nine feet Yeah, apparently that's the biggest bear. The polar 180 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: bear is the biggest of the bears from what I understand, 181 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: not the Bear and Steain bears ben Stein. Adult females 182 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: six to eight feet and the males weigh up to 183 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: thirteen hundred pounds nine pounds. Yeah, that's that's intimidating. It 184 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: is you've seen lost. I haven't this article mentioned it though, 185 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: of course, because it was probably written. When these stats 186 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: are accurate, the females can get up to about seven 187 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: hundred pounds. Those claws I mentioned about two inches, and um, 188 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: they live about twenty years. Um. Yeah, I was surprised 189 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: by that. That's really short. Twenty years. Sure, I didn't 190 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: think that was too for a bear. Oh, I thought 191 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: it was very short. What do you think it's a 192 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: good bear span for your lifespan, like forty or fifty years. Yeah, 193 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: that's what I want to see for a bear. Yeah, 194 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: well we all do. Let's be honest. Twenty years. It's 195 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: just like live fast, die young type age, you know. 196 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: So their paws, which we mentioned the claws, they have 197 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 1: these big, beautiful, fat, round paws that act like snowshoes, 198 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: and they walk and they spread out when they walk 199 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: on the on the ice and sort of distribute their 200 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: weight and in fact when they're on thin ice, they 201 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: even spread their arms out wider. It's very cute. Uh. 202 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: And they have these little uh papilla on their bottom 203 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: paws is old nubs because ice is slippery, and they 204 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: the front paws are actually slightly webbed for swimming. It's amazing. So, 205 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 1: like you said, it's it's a sea bear. It is 206 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: the Maritimus or some mary time is. So let's let's 207 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: talk about some of its, like actual habits and the 208 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: things it does after a break. You want to Yes, hey, 209 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: my friend, if you want a website these days, there 210 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: are some frustrating ways to go about it, but one 211 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: easy way is by using squares space. 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Chuck, 230 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: you mentioned their fur, right, so you know their furs translucent. 231 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: That's right, they're not. It's not about that. Another episode 232 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: at some point, probably the Evolving Isolation one or maybe 233 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: Translucent or by or the butterflies wings one. What is 234 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called iridescent iridescent. That was 235 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: a really interesting episode two. Um, but yeah, they're there there. 236 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: Um fur is Actually it's translucent because it's hollow, and 237 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: it's hollow because it traps air and then their body 238 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: heat can warm the air. It's kind of like, um, 239 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: have you ever camped when it was cold and all 240 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: you need is one of those little thin blow up 241 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: mats because your body, heat warms the air underneath it. 242 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: It's a brand name, but right, okay, so it's the 243 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: same thing. But this is their fur that's doing that um, 244 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: And since it's hollow and translucent, it actually scatters all 245 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: colors of light and creates this white appearance like a 246 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: coartzid or something like that. So they're not actually white 247 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: coated in white fur. It's all an illusion. So if 248 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: you saw a polar bear in New York City, it 249 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: would be the color of street garbage, right, like a commute. 250 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: It's not true street garbage color color is that well, 251 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's rays mustard. It's like a pizza box. 252 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: And they'll be some recycling and then just some just 253 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: New York apartment to trit us. It's like the colors 254 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: of the rainbow. Alright. So the fur is um not 255 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: all over their body. The parts of their body that 256 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: don't have this thick insulation and this blubber, the tail 257 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: and the muzzle and the ears are adapted to be 258 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: small because it's not as insulated with that blubber. So um, 259 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: it requires less energy to heat and it has less 260 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: surface to to lose heat from. Right, that's right. So yeah, 261 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: these guys are like incredibly well adapted for their environment, 262 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: which is really saying something because their environment is about 263 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: as inhospitable the mammal is. You can imagine, Um, they 264 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: are routinely comfortable and apparently have no heat loss whatsoever 265 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: at temperatures of like negative what was it, like like 266 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: a fifty fahrenhent negative fifty that's the like, that's the 267 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: temperature they're they're comfortable in um. And they actually, yeah, 268 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: they experienced no change in body temperature a temperature of 269 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 1: negative thirty four degrees Fahrheit, which is negative thirty seven celsius. Amazing. Yeah, 270 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: they're just like it's unaffected by it. They're that well 271 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: suited to the environment. So we mentioned them walking. They 272 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: can walk a great distances up to thirty I'm sorry, 273 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: twenty miles thirty KOs a day for days and days 274 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: in a row. And uh, they've been tracked swimming up 275 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: to sixty miles, which is amazing. Okay. One other thing 276 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: I saw um a Canadian geographic article, which is a 277 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: thing okay, Uh, and they get this was a two 278 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: thousand twelve article and they mentioned a recent study, so 279 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: probably two thousand, two thousand and eleven maybe twelve study 280 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: found polar bears swimming as a result of climate change 281 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: um up to six eighty seven pometers. That's four miles. 282 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: That's to get from ice to ice. Man, that's sad. 283 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: Four d twenty six miles. These things are just swimming, Like, well, 284 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: I don't think they're supposed to swim that far. No, 285 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,239 Speaker 1: definitely not, you know, no, but they can. They'll do it. 286 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: That's amazing. And they're doing that to eat that sweet 287 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: sweet seal blubber. Yeah. And plus, I mean the sea 288 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: ice is their habitat. This is where they live, it's 289 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: where they sleep, it's and it's where they hunt most 290 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: most importantly. Yeah. So, um, they don't Another big difference 291 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 1: with the brown bears. They don't hibernate like uh, the 292 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: your average bear. Uh you like that. Uh, females sort 293 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 1: of semi hibernate when they're kind of pre and post pregnancy, 294 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 1: but it's not true hibernation. And like the biological sense, 295 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 1: you want to talk about mating, Oh sure, specifically polar 296 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:57,719 Speaker 1: bear mating. Oh yeah, so again they are a fairly 297 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: not closely studied um mammal population, right, so scientists actually 298 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: aren't entirely sure. How females signal to males that they're 299 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: um ready to reproduce, and the reason why is um, 300 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: the females don't appear to actually go into any kind 301 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: of heat. They have something called induced ovulation, right, which 302 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,719 Speaker 1: is once they're mating, they start to ovulate. It. Actually 303 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 1: the intercourse is what causes the ovulation, right, and not 304 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: always sometimes it takes several times. You gotta be good, 305 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: you gotta know what you're doing right. Um. And once 306 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: the once they actually do um. But I guess sure 307 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: once the once the egg is fertilized, the the embryo 308 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: doesn't actually start developing right away either. Yeah, that's super interesting. 309 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: It's an eight month gestation. But the first four months 310 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,239 Speaker 1: it's just sitting there. Yeah. Just the fetus is just 311 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: like waiting while the mom eats and eats and eats 312 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,959 Speaker 1: and prepares for that long uh, that long period as 313 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: we'll see where where you know, she has a little 314 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: cub and uh yeah, a couple of couple of times usual, 315 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: thank cute. You know all you've seen polar bear cubs, right, 316 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: it's pretty adorable. Twins. They're born blind without teeth. They 317 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 1: probably make cute little noises. They're not insulated, so they 318 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: need mom. Like, if polar bear mom dies right away, 319 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: polar bear cubs will not survive. Oh yeah, there's they're toasts, 320 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: zero chance. Yeah, like you said, they're born blind and 321 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: without teeth. They've really thin for no insulation. They weigh 322 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: about a pound in her foot long, which is really 323 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: tiny for a bear that's gonna grow into pounds. Um. 324 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: And yeah, that mom makes it den when she's um 325 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: carrying her her embryos and starts to fatten up. She 326 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: goes and makes a little winter den, sometimes the snow den, which, 327 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: by the way, you should see that movie snowdon It's good. Yeah, 328 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: the documentary of the movie. Well both yeah, yeah, okay, Um, 329 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: and so she'll make a little snow cave, snow den, 330 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: that kind of thing, um, or use an actual cave. 331 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: But for the most part, she's usually just digging out 332 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: a little space for herself. And then um, she'll give 333 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: birth and then nurse the cubs for at least their 334 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: first twenty months. Yeah, they have to hang out with 335 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: mama for a while and drink that milk. Yeah. I 336 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: think maybe, um, a couple of years, maybe up to 337 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: four years. They spend with mom, like learning to hunt 338 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Um, but yes, she 339 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: doesn't leave the snow den for like the first um, 340 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: several months. Yeah, dad splits after a week. He's like, 341 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: my work here is done. I might even go get 342 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: someone else pregnant. They're not um and agamus. The women, 343 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: the women, the females, um their lady lady bears. They 344 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 1: they made successfully usually between the age of six and 345 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: eight years old. And they only for mammal don't reproduce 346 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: a lot, which is one of the reasons there's only 347 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand of them. They only have about five 348 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: litters over their lifespan, whereas some mammals you know, I 349 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: mean they just have litter upon litter every year of multiple, 350 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: multiple little cubs. Yeah, which is another reason why you know, 351 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: a loss of the to the polar bear population is 352 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: it's a big deal. They don't replace. Their replacement rate 353 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 1: is kind of low, that's right. Uh. And there could 354 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: be you know, a battle over mating with a female 355 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: because um, it's you know, it's sparks out there. It's 356 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: not the most happening scene for picking up not a 357 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: firm bar, it's not a firm bar uh. So if 358 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,160 Speaker 1: that happens, they will fight, they won't kill each other. Um, yeah, 359 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: I thought that was kind of Yeah. Of course, the 360 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: human to me is like, they know that they're dwindling, 361 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: so they won't kill each other. Of course it's not 362 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: true at all. That's funny because the human to me 363 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: was like they they're like, it's really tough out here, 364 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: so we all got to stick together. Yeah, you'd like 365 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: to think that. Um, but what they do is they 366 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: will they will lower their head but pin their ears 367 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: back and roar. It's kind of a lot of posturing. Um, 368 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: but there could be like an injury that occurs fighting 369 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: over who to mate with, right, but not to the death. Yeah, 370 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure it happens occasionally. There's probably a jerk bear 371 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: every now and then. You know, this feels threatened Todd, Yeah, 372 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: he's all on steroids. But when a death will happen 373 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 1: is if anyone messes with those cubs, because Mama bear 374 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 1: will take you down, like without thinking twice. It's very sweet. 375 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: So the little bears have been brought up by their mom. 376 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: The twins Chuck and Buck, they are they have been 377 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: brought up by their mom and raised to hunt hunt, hunt, 378 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 1: and uh, now they know what they're doing. So if 379 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: you could drop in on either one of those guys 380 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: and actually there, I was really surprised to hear this. 381 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,880 Speaker 1: The males will like hang out with one another. They're 382 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: not necessarily territorial. Yeah, they'll even share a meal occasionally. Yeah, 383 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: they have enough. Again, that's because they're like, it's tough 384 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 1: out here, man, Come on, They're like, brother, can you 385 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: spare a dime. I've had my hundred pounds of blubber today, 386 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: which is literally how much they can eat. So um. 387 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: When they hunt, they prefer ice, like a bit of ice, 388 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: sea ice that they can sit on. And actually what 389 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: they'll do is they look for holes in the ice. 390 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: The main prey of the polar bear is the ringed seal. Yes, 391 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: their favorite. They'll they'll eat other stuff. They'll eat just 392 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: about anything, a whale, carcass, alive, beluga whale that they 393 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: can catch, um, walrus is whatever, but they really go 394 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: nuts for ringed seals. Okay, so um. Ring seals have 395 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: a thing where, whenever it's um, the ice is thin 396 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: enough for them to dig through. And by thin enough, 397 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: we're talking like six feet right. The seal has these 398 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: um basically appendages and it's flippers that are sharp and 399 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: they use it to carve holes through the sea ice. 400 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: And these are the seals breathing holes, and they make 401 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,239 Speaker 1: about ten to fifteen of them every season and then 402 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: they'll keep them like open throughout the season. They maintain them. 403 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: So they're hunting down there, they're eating their own stuff. 404 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 1: They need to come up for air sometimes, well polar 405 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: bears stake these things out because they know that a 406 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 1: seal has to come up forever e very like five 407 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,120 Speaker 1: to ten minutes. It's like whack a mole almost exactly, 408 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: and they it's well, it's sad in a way, but 409 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: it's also it's sad for the seal, but it's necessary 410 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: and it's pretty sharp too, but it's it's an amazing 411 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: waiting game that requires tons of Like you can watch 412 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: videos on YouTube of a bear, and this is like 413 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: a a thousand pound bear, like very gingerly because you know, 414 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: the seal can see what's going on or feel it, 415 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: and they very quietly walk up to these holes and 416 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: just wait like a cat almost yeah days, just waiting 417 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: and smelling. They can smell like twenty miles so you 418 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: can bet they can smell down into that hole. And 419 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: then there's one that slow mo video of this bear 420 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,120 Speaker 1: like leaping up in the air and the whole basically 421 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: everything but his butt and his hind legs goes down 422 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 1: into that water grabs that seal with those claws and yeah, 423 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: it's like these curse these breathing holes that I need, 424 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: uh had guilt. Yeah, and the bear eats well, like 425 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: I said, about a hundred pounds in a meal. And 426 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: it's also horrific, yeah, because they're white and the blood 427 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 1: for the seal really stands out against Yeah, and on 428 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: the ice and snow, it's like it does. It looks 429 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: like a horror movie. But bears have actually evolved to 430 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: clean up very like immediately after eating. So they'll eat 431 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: and eat and eat. Like you said, they'll eat like 432 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: a hundred pounds of blubber at a time, and when 433 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: the hunting is good, they'll just eat the seals blubber, 434 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: right um. And actually what's interesting is the omega threes 435 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: in that seal blubber actually cut down on the type 436 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: of cholesterol that would allow plaque to build up in 437 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: their arteries, so they can subsist basically on a diet 438 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: of seal blubber. You know, it's amazing. Um. And right 439 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: after they finished this meal, they're covered in blood and 440 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: it's really again horrific. They'll take a bath. Depending on 441 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: the time of year, they'll take a bath in the 442 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: in the sea itself, or they'll take a snow bath, 443 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: and then they'll take a little nap. Well, because they 444 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: need that, like you said, they need that furtive remain 445 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: translucent and clean in order to stay warm and dry. 446 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: So uh, yeah, they clean up to keep themselves warm, 447 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: not just because they look like something out of a 448 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: West Craven movie, but but also because they have to 449 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: remain camouflaged too. Yeah, exactly. Uh. Well, before we take 450 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: a break, I do want to mention the very funny 451 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: thing if a polar bear does not get that seal 452 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: in the hole, they can throw a little hissy fit 453 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: and they've been known to like pound the ice in frustration. 454 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: Uh And I don't think like people are, you know, 455 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,159 Speaker 1: putting their stuff on the bear like they literally like 456 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: when they miss the seal, start throwing things around and 457 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: beating on the ice because they're angry. Like imagine waiting 458 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: at an air hole two days the seal finally comes 459 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: up and you miss. Yeah, I can. I don't think 460 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: it's anthropomorphizing either. It's pretty funny. All right, let's take 461 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: a break and we'll talk a little bit about their 462 00:28:52,440 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: dwindling ice and numbers after this. Sorry, all right, we're back. 463 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: One thing we did not mention that I think it's obvious, 464 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: but we might as well say it is. The polar 465 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: bear is nothing hunts the polar bear, Right, They're the king, 466 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: Daddy's and mama's of their land, the apex predator. Yeah, 467 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: which is a pretty good place to be. Um, the 468 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: bad place to be if you're a polar bear is 469 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: where you live and hunt, because, like we said, it's 470 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: it's shrinking, and um, it creates a lot of problems. 471 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: We mentioned a little bit about the ecosystem. You know, 472 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: they'll go in there and they'll eat birds and eggs 473 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 1: and things like that when they have to caribou maybe, yeah, 474 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: but the they're not supposed to be eating that stuff. Uh. 475 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: And they're not supposed to be encountering humans as often 476 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: as they are either, which is a problem in some 477 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: parts of the world. But yeah, well there's actually, um 478 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: a town in Manitoba called Churchill that's developed a like 479 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: basically it's made itself a tourist destination for polar bear tourism. Um. 480 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,479 Speaker 1: But it's like one of the few places in the 481 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: world that's like an established settlement where Westerners can come 482 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: and um view them. Yeah. Uh. But even in Churchill, 483 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: they they occasionally have to like shoot the polar bears 484 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: if they just won't leave. And apparently a little p 485 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: s a here. If you ever encounter a polar bear, 486 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: do not lay down and play debt. That's not what 487 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: you want to do. Yeah, is it like regular bears? 488 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: You try to make yourself look big, look big, make 489 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 1: a lot of noise, chase them off. Um. Apparently they'll 490 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: break out. There's another town um in uh I think Norway. 491 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: Uh that what they'll like rev their snowmobiles. They'll get 492 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: the town helicopter out and try to scare them off 493 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah. That's the one small bard which has 494 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: people and three thousand polar bears. Yeah, so they've probably 495 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: gotten pretty used to fending for themselves they have. Um 496 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: for the most part, the bears will leave because from 497 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: everything I saw, the polar bear in particular isn't interested 498 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: in in encountering humans. It's not their thing. No, it's 499 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: like almost any wildlife, they're forced into that situation. Yeah. 500 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: If you look at bear attacks though, um, like a 501 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: grizzly bear will attack you while you're just sleeping quietly 502 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: in a sleeping bag near anywhere near and it comes 503 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: into your camp, it'll mall you your dad. The polar 504 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: bear list of polar bear attacks do not include stuff 505 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: like that. It's it's a polar bear that you've startled, 506 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: or you're very hungry, or it's very hungry and up 507 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: and have meat in your pockets. Yeah that was Yeah. 508 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: In Churchill, Manitoba. There um their stats they have had 509 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: two people killed in three hundred years by polar bears. Yeah, 510 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: which that's pretty good trek record for one of two 511 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: towns where not bad. One of them was because these kids, 512 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: uh saw a bear and started throwing rocks at it. 513 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: Not a good idea. So the bear was like, all right, 514 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: jerk's here I come. Uh. And then the second one, 515 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: the dude had meat in his pockets, you know, yeah, 516 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: who was eating in a diner. He wanted to go box. 517 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: Just put that meat loaf in your pocket and he's like, 518 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: I guess I will this one time and the one time. 519 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: But actually, if you do look at the polar bears 520 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: stats right for attacks fatal attacks by polar bears in 521 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: the United States and Canada. And remember six of all 522 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: polar bears UH live in Canada, so this is a 523 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: substantial amount of the polar bears. Um. There there have 524 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: been eight fatal attacks in the United States and Canada 525 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: bipolar bear since nineteen two. Four of those took place 526 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: in zoos where humans climbed into the enclosure with the 527 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: polar bear. I sold this one lady that wanted to 528 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: swim with them. Yeah, they was jumped in and got 529 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: bitten on like the arm and back. It was like 530 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: screaming and they fixed her out. Oh she survived. She survived. 531 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: A bad idea, Um, apparently that's the thing. There's a 532 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: dude in Toledo before I was born, who was found 533 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: in the polar bear enclosure at the Toledo Zoo and 534 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: they think he was probably on drugs, and I'm sure 535 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: he was like, this is gonna be great. I'm gonna 536 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: go hang out with that polar bear. But think of it. 537 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: Eight people died in the U. S and Canada since 538 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, half of them at the zoo, only 539 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: four in the wild. So that's the real stat It 540 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: does say a lot. It does um And you know 541 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: we said make yourself look big. If you don't know 542 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,239 Speaker 1: what that means, that means. The big trick is to, uh, 543 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: you probably got on a winter out if you're living 544 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: in one of these places. So just grab the bottom 545 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 1: of your winter coat and pull it up over your 546 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: head with your arms and basically, yeah, you just appear 547 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: like large. And that's one of the big survival tips 548 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: for any bear. Really just makes you look bigger and scarier, 549 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: because bears are you know, actually, polar bears are pretty 550 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 1: smart supposedly, Is that right? Yeah? I was about to 551 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: say they were dumb, but they they're one of the 552 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: smarter mammals. I mean, how so where did you see that? 553 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: I was just on a polar bear site. You know, 554 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: they were just literally ticking off all the like cognitive abilities. 555 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: But I think there's they're supposed to be much smarter 556 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,839 Speaker 1: than like your average brown bear. Yeah, yogi bear, Yeah 557 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,360 Speaker 1: there he's pretty smart. You can talk where's the tie? 558 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: I think he's driven a car before you can get 559 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 1: inside a picnic basket. I love that. When I was 560 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: a kid, did you watch that? Oh? Yeah, I liked 561 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: Yogi Bear from like the original series all the way 562 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,719 Speaker 1: through the weird stuff in like the seventies. I don't 563 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,399 Speaker 1: remember the weird stuff like, um, the laugh Olympics. Yea, 564 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,919 Speaker 1: all that it's been off and whatnot. Yeah, so Chuck. 565 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 1: We've talked about it indirectly a couple of times. But 566 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:17,240 Speaker 1: the Polar bears habitat is shrinking tremendously, right, The ice 567 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: is literally melting, and like I was saying in that 568 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 1: one Canadian geographic article, they were saying that the bears, 569 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 1: the bears in the south are really having trouble and 570 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: there are far more human bear encounters than they normally are. 571 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: Because if a bear makes his way to shore and um, 572 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: summer strikes and the ice recedes, they're stuck. He's stuck. 573 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: They have to wait around until winter comes again or 574 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: a late fall and the ice starts to come back 575 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,800 Speaker 1: towards shore so they can swim toward it or swim 576 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: right exactly. Um. So that's that's creating a problem, especially 577 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 1: for the ones that are in the southern range, but 578 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: the ones that are in the northern range are enjoying 579 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: like easier hunting than ever because the ice is thinning 580 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: out for them, so they the seals can get through 581 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,880 Speaker 1: it more easily, so there's more seals, so there's more 582 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: hunting up north. The thing is that's not necessarily sustainable, 583 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: Like they may be enjoying like a heyday right now, 584 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: but eventually that ice will melt too, and well they'll 585 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: be goners. Interesting because a bear can overheat from from 586 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 1: running right, so as the temperatures increase, the bears actual 587 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,759 Speaker 1: physical health is in danger. Let alone there you know, 588 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 1: habitat shrinking um. So they're not entirely certain what to do. 589 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: I looked up hunting polar bears, and I think the 590 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:47,359 Speaker 1: only the Inuit people are allowed to Well, you can 591 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 1: get there are certain places in Canada where he can 592 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: get an exemption, but it's apparently very rare and controlled 593 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,920 Speaker 1: and very expensive, well and expensive and and supposedly they 594 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,239 Speaker 1: say is is well within um the bounds of not 595 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: harming the overall population number. Well again, I'm sorry to 596 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: keep going back to this, well, but that Canadian geographic article, um, 597 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,960 Speaker 1: I should probably say the name. I think it's called 598 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: the Truth about Polar Bears totally worth reading. But um 599 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: it talks a lot about managed hunting programs being a 600 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 1: good thing or bad. They were saying, it's as long 601 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: as it's done right basically everybody involved. I think they 602 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,319 Speaker 1: even cited the World Wildlife Fund as saying like, yeah, 603 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,320 Speaker 1: we should probably like manage these populations through hunting with 604 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 1: with very strict quotas. But yeah, the Inuits traditionally, or 605 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,840 Speaker 1: the Inuit and I think the Cree are two groups 606 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:49,320 Speaker 1: that have like virtually unrestricted honting. But they're they're apparently 607 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 1: trusted to, you know, stay within these these limits. Yeah, 608 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: and the people that can pay to do it, I 609 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 1: think have to be taken in by an with guides, 610 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: and they actually the Inuit families who keeps the the 611 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 1: bear meat? Right after the rich American? Yeah, I saw 612 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,160 Speaker 1: that too, kills the bear, which is that's great? Who 613 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: cares about the meat? I just want to kill the bear? Yeah, 614 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:18,800 Speaker 1: I just want the head on my wall. I founded 615 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 1: Jimmy John's. Isn't that the guy? Yeah, he's a big 616 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: game hunter. Who else was? Who's the other guy? The dentist? 617 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,360 Speaker 1: I killed Leo the lion? Yeah, I wonder whatever happened 618 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 1: to him I bet his dentist practice suffered. Yeah, that'd 619 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: be my guess. Oh, it definitely did. But I wonder 620 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,240 Speaker 1: if it rebounded since since the initial since the Internet 621 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 1: got bored and moved on to something else. Yeah, probably so. 622 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not into any hunting for myself, UM, 623 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,400 Speaker 1: but I've certainly hate big game hunting for anyone. You know, 624 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,360 Speaker 1: I would like to put a call out like, UM, 625 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: anytime I've I've had discussions about hunting or whatever, and 626 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: I've said, I don't, I don't see the point in 627 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: our modern world of hunting. Um. It's always been countered with, well, 628 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,480 Speaker 1: you know, hunting is a lot more humane than the 629 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 1: factory sure farming that you're you're eating the meat from. Um. 630 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: And I've never that's always struck me as a straw 631 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,839 Speaker 1: straw argument, draw me an argument, But I've never been 632 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 1: able to exactly identify why. Or maybe it's not and 633 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 1: that's why I've never been able to identify why. But 634 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,920 Speaker 1: it's it's always confounded me. Yeah, I don't. I mean 635 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,200 Speaker 1: I know that people talk about the populations and controlled 636 00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 1: hunting and all that being good for the population, which 637 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure that's very valid. I'm just talking about me personally, 638 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,719 Speaker 1: Like when push came to shove, I like hanging out 639 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: in the woods. I like camping. I like shooting guns 640 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,960 Speaker 1: every now and then it targets. Sure, shoot up some 641 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 1: tin cans. It's fun. But when push came to shove, 642 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,280 Speaker 1: I can never like pull the trigger and kill an animal. 643 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,399 Speaker 1: I shot a squirrel when I was a kid, and 644 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,480 Speaker 1: it was just like the worst day of my life. 645 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,640 Speaker 1: I think I've told that story was awful. I've got 646 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: one or two of those under my belt. Yeah, and 647 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: you either get into it or you don't, I guess. 648 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: And all of my friends hunted growing up, you know, 649 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,560 Speaker 1: in Georgia at my church, like every single one of them. 650 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,000 Speaker 1: But my dad didn't hunt, So I didn't hunt. Yeah, 651 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 1: he didn't take a stand. He was just he was 652 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: into camping and hiking and not shooting animals. Leaving nothing 653 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:25,479 Speaker 1: but footprints, taking nothing but photographs. Let's not take only 654 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,839 Speaker 1: pictures and polar bear heads, leave only footprints, leave only 655 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 1: blood in the snow, and leave the polar bear meat 656 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,279 Speaker 1: behind for the Inuit. So Newt, oh, yeah, you got 657 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 1: anything else? No, let's finish up with Newt. Everyone remembers 658 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 1: Newt cutest polar bear ever uh in Germany, and new 659 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,959 Speaker 1: To died very sadly had a seizure and fell into 660 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,359 Speaker 1: a pool. And they think that he probably drowned once 661 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,600 Speaker 1: he fell in, right, I think he had meningitis. Well, no, 662 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,719 Speaker 1: they finally found out what it is. They couldn't find 663 00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,319 Speaker 1: any kind of pathogen, and so this doctor Harold Ruce 664 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,560 Speaker 1: for the German Center of Neurodegenerative Disease got together with 665 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:10,879 Speaker 1: UM Professor Alex Greenwood at the Leibnitz Institute for Zoo 666 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,759 Speaker 1: and Wildlife Research, and they said that he had an 667 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,799 Speaker 1: autoimmune disease. They found out because nothing made sense about 668 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,759 Speaker 1: the seizure. So they really wanted to investigate, not only 669 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,880 Speaker 1: for newts sake, but to you know, see if they 670 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 1: could help other animals and the uh. It turns out 671 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,560 Speaker 1: that Newt is the very first animal domesticated wild ever 672 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:35,440 Speaker 1: diagnosed with an anti n m d A receptor encephalitis. 673 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,440 Speaker 1: Oh that's what it was. In cephalitis mais yeah, which 674 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,440 Speaker 1: is a non infectious form of encephalitis, which basically is 675 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,960 Speaker 1: when your body's own immune system attacks your brain. Is 676 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,439 Speaker 1: the very first animal ever recorded to have this. So well, 677 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,239 Speaker 1: poor Newda, but a big breakthrough to learn this that 678 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,200 Speaker 1: it can happen because now they can you know, study 679 00:41:54,200 --> 00:42:00,319 Speaker 1: it and new it was the the reason they can 680 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,520 Speaker 1: make this progress. So maybe something good can come from that. 681 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: Very sad though, sure have a seizure and falling water 682 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:12,080 Speaker 1: and drown You got anything else? Nothing else? I do 683 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,040 Speaker 1: have one other thing that Inuit. Speaking of the Inuit, 684 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:19,600 Speaker 1: they have UM. Obviously a number of legends about polar bears. 685 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: One of them is that they're actually uh shape shifters, 686 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 1: human shape shifters once again their iglues they shed their 687 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,040 Speaker 1: polar bear skin and turned back into humans. That The 688 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 1: other is that UM when when an Inuit kills the 689 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,360 Speaker 1: polar bear, they will put out like an offering of tools, 690 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 1: again with the idea that the polar bears UM have 691 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,360 Speaker 1: some sort of uh they share an afterlife with humans, 692 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,400 Speaker 1: possibly as humans UM, and that they need these tools 693 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 1: in the afterlife. And the better the spread of tools 694 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 1: you give the polar bear, the more likely this polar 695 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: bear is to tell other living polar bears, Hey, you 696 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,160 Speaker 1: should let this guy kill you because he's gonna hook 697 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: you up with some amazing tools afterwards. Nice, So go 698 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,799 Speaker 1: ahead and let him take your life. Very spiritual. It's 699 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:12,279 Speaker 1: pretty cool. They call him Nanook, yes in a n 700 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:18,080 Speaker 1: U K. Yeah not okay. Uh. If you want to 701 00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,280 Speaker 1: know more about Nannook, UH, you can type the word 702 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,359 Speaker 1: polar Bears into the search part how stuff works dot com. 703 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 1: And since I said Nannook, it's time for a listener mail. 704 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this letter from a young fan. Okay, good, 705 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,080 Speaker 1: we like those right, Yeah, of course. Hey guys, I'm 706 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,600 Speaker 1: a fourteen year old fan. Actually, my fifteenth birthday is tomorrow, 707 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,080 Speaker 1: which is now in the past, so he's already fifteen. 708 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,399 Speaker 1: I wanted to get it out before then. I've been 709 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,680 Speaker 1: listening since last July, and I've recently been listening to 710 00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,759 Speaker 1: the older podcast from the beginning about three years in. 711 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,279 Speaker 1: At this point, I've never written in before because I 712 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,239 Speaker 1: had no real reason to. I have recently started my 713 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 1: freshman year at a new school. UH, and it's been 714 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,480 Speaker 1: hard for me because I was homeschooled before this, and 715 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,640 Speaker 1: I could listen to you guys whenever I wanted to. 716 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 1: But now I'm at a charter school and I miss 717 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,719 Speaker 1: having you in my ear all the time. Uh. And 718 00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: then he sends his name is Elias, and he sends 719 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,320 Speaker 1: a couple of ps s. If Jerry were to speak 720 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 1: at the normal volume, would your microphones pick her up? Uh? No, 721 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,920 Speaker 1: I don't think so, Jerry, would they now she speaks? 722 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,120 Speaker 1: Are right? Now? These are directional mis Uh these are 723 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: omnipresidental mikes. Well, that means they should pick up Jerry, 724 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,200 Speaker 1: but they're not that good. Okay, uh no alias. These 725 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 1: microphones are generally for when we put our mouths right 726 00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:45,080 Speaker 1: upon them, and they're not meant to hear other things 727 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,439 Speaker 1: in the room. Right, That's that's what they're made for. Yeah, 728 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,879 Speaker 1: because Jerry's she yells at us through most of the show, 729 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,080 Speaker 1: no one ever hears it. There's a lot of like 730 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,480 Speaker 1: shaking and twitching that media and then the PPS which 731 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,799 Speaker 1: is correct. Recently came across how squatters work. You gave 732 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 1: me an example of renters who moved out, but it 733 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,160 Speaker 1: invited a house guess who refused to move out, which 734 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,839 Speaker 1: classified as a squatter. I was wondering if you could 735 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,279 Speaker 1: rent for a month, stop paying, and refuse to move 736 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,719 Speaker 1: out and invoke squatters rights, would that work. I'm not 737 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:17,320 Speaker 1: planning on trying it, but it invoked my curiosity. Alas, 738 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,080 Speaker 1: I don't think that would work. Because it takes many, 739 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:26,600 Speaker 1: many years too to finally gain you know, I mean, 740 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,560 Speaker 1: you might be able to stay there for a little while, 741 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,279 Speaker 1: but I don't think you would be able to stay 742 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,759 Speaker 1: there for the years it would take to gain I 743 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:39,400 Speaker 1: guess ownership of the property. Is that that's what he's asking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 744 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,200 Speaker 1: you you'd be able to stay there throughout the legal process, 745 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,200 Speaker 1: but like I think, it's like thirteen years that you 746 00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:49,839 Speaker 1: have to stay somewhere well before you can. But it's years, right, Yeah, 747 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,000 Speaker 1: it takes a long time, and I would imagine at 748 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,160 Speaker 1: some point a landlord would eventually bring in Vinny and 749 00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 1: Vinny and Jimmy viny unto it to make sure can 750 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 1: you leave? Yeah, that would be my guess. The key here, Elias, 751 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,080 Speaker 1: is to go find yourself an abandoned house that clearly 752 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,880 Speaker 1: no one wants move in there, spruced to place up 753 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,319 Speaker 1: and start paying taxes on it. Don't do that, But 754 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,240 Speaker 1: I'm just saying sure. Advice to fifteen year old listeners. 755 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,640 Speaker 1: Thank you, Alis, Yeah, thanks a lot of lies. That 756 00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,600 Speaker 1: was a good one. If you have a question, uh, 757 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,560 Speaker 1: then you want to get in touch with us, you 758 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,640 Speaker 1: can tweet to us at s y s K podcast. 759 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,680 Speaker 1: You can join us on Facebook at Facebook dot com 760 00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:32,799 Speaker 1: slash stuff you Should Know. 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