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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology

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Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about animal homes. We'll discover animals who built their

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Speaker 1: homes out of straw, built their homes out of sticks,

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Speaker 1: and built their homes out of bricks and poop and mucus.

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Speaker 1: Discover this and more as we answer the angel question,

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Speaker 1: what the heck is that aunt doing with that larva's

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Speaker 1: But first let's address the elephant in the room, which

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Speaker 1: sadly isn't a real elephant, even though I'd love to

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Speaker 1: be buddies with an elephant. COVID nineteen, the coronavirus that

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Speaker 1: is now a global pandemic, is certainly scary. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a public health expert, and you should always listen to

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Speaker 1: them over me. But here's what I've gathered. This is

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Speaker 1: a very serious public health concern, but you shouldn't panic.

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Speaker 1: This is survivable if we all work together to make

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Speaker 1: ourselves and each other. Say. While COVID nineteen is not

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Speaker 1: typically a serious illness for young and well people, more

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Speaker 1: vulnerable groups such as older adults and those with serious

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Speaker 1: pre existing diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and lung

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Speaker 1: disease are at higher risk. According to the c d C.

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Speaker 1: Just because there's a good prognosis for most people doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean we shouldn't take this very seriously. We can absolutely

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Speaker 1: save lives if we take the steps necessary to protect

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Speaker 1: the community. Some of the things that you can do

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Speaker 1: are washing your hands for at least twenty seconds in warm,

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Speaker 1: soapy water, avoiding touching your face, and practicing social distancing.

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Speaker 1: A lot of us are now practicing self isolation, avoiding

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Speaker 1: large gatherings, and limiting social contact. This may seem extreme

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Speaker 1: or scary, but it's actually really going to help out.

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Speaker 1: By limiting social contact, we're slowing the spread of disease,

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Speaker 1: and that's important. By slowing down the disease, we're helping

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Speaker 1: to limit the number of cases so hospital roles and

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Speaker 1: supplies don't become overtaxed. Of course, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: still have to work and can't work from home, And

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Speaker 1: I could go on a whole long runt about how

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Speaker 1: our society should be better prepared to take care of

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Speaker 1: everyone in times like these, but I'll spare you that.

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Speaker 1: But if you can limit your social contact. You're helping

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Speaker 1: out everyone who can't and everyone who is more vulnerable

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Speaker 1: to the disease. But of course staying home can be

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Speaker 1: hard on our mental health. So I thought this time

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Speaker 1: i'd talk about animals who stay cozy in their little

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Speaker 1: homes so we don't feel so alone. Joining me today

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Speaker 1: to talk about cute and cozy animal abodes is our

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Speaker 1: producer Joel Monique. Hey, there so much for that. I

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Speaker 1: feel very reassured. Uh, we are obviously taking a lot

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Speaker 1: of precautions here, which is why I'm back so soon.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna try to limit our guests, but hopefully you

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Speaker 1: guys will be hearing some familiar voices soon, so that'll

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Speaker 1: be really exciting. Yeah, I think we're gonna probably take

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Speaker 1: this remote pretty soon if we can. But yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: being very careful here. I know I'm in my apartment

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Speaker 1: with two other people because we're all staying home working

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Speaker 1: feels I think it feels apocalyptic because you see, like

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Speaker 1: nobody's out on the streets and like shows, But that's

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Speaker 1: it's not because we're running out of food. I want

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Speaker 1: people like, don't panic too much about food. We're not

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Speaker 1: going to run out of food. It's because of sort

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Speaker 1: of the that group psychology of like you see other

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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, man, we're running out of food, so

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Speaker 1: I need to get some food. And and it's not

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna be okay, nobody. You know, We're not

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean if you can help out people

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Speaker 1: like like give them some of your some of your macaronis,

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Speaker 1: and shout out to our farmers who are still working

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Speaker 1: weaver birds are a family of birds that we've complex nests.

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Speaker 1: There are many different species of weavers with different habits,

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Speaker 1: of these photos, Joel, I'm looking at the bioweavers. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: So these homes are like sixties modern sort of homes. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Have you've seen the fireplaces they had in the sixties

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Speaker 1: Someone draw this snake mansion, I would write, bat slurt amazing.

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Speaker 1: raise it. These birds live some soap opera lives, like

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Speaker 1: a form of parasitism. So like, just like a parasite

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Speaker 1: million years ago by some proto humans. At Oldo Pie,

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Speaker 1: archaeologists discovered a circle of stones in a sunken spot

428
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: of earth, leading some anthropologists to think that it's the

429
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: foundation to some sort of ancient hut. Other anthropologists think

430
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: this stone circle may have been made by accident by

431
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 1: trees growing and pushing rocks in a circle. Personally, I

432
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,479
Speaker 1: think it's tree aliens, aliens disguised as trees who are

433
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: making secret stone circles to confuse our scientists. I've got evidence,

434
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 1: I've got proof. Go to go to www dot tree

435
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: aliens dot org, dot geo cities, slash angel fire dot com.

436
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: Let's get into the conspiracy. I love it. So now

437
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: I want to talk about some animal homes that are

438
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: made out of sticks and also mucus too. So have

439
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: you ever heard of bagworms? So they are a family

440
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: of moth larva species. There are over a thousand species

441
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: of bagworms and they all make these really interesting protective

442
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: cases made out of silk and materials that they find.

443
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: So I want you to look in the dock and

444
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: look at those little little log cabins. Okay, so those

445
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 1: are actual like sticks that they built into a hole. Yes,

446
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: that is made by an insect. That is imagine if

447
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 1: instead of like a four door or a four wall

448
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: structure of a log cabin, they were like, we're gonna

449
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 1: make like a twisty spiral of logs. And it looks amazing.

450
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a pyramid. It looks like it

451
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 1: looks like a helix, a double helix. Like, oh yeah,

452
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: but made out logs. Anytimes see the double helix in nature,

453
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: You're like, how we're all really connected. It's like DNA

454
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: but made out of twigs. Man, We're all, we're all,

455
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 1: we're all the same on this planet Earth. We call

456
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: this ship we call a planet earth Man. Just having

457
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: the galaxy together is when you did so cool. Yeah.

458
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: So the there's a lot of creativity that happens with

459
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,239
Speaker 1: what bag rooms can make their casing out of. So

460
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: this is just some species that use twigs. Um, but

461
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about them because I absolutely

462
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: adore their little constructions here. So, Clinia crimeria is a

463
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 1: bag worm native to India who carefully constructs a spiraling,

464
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: tapering tower of tiny twigs. They purposefully collect twigs of

465
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: the right sizes to make a log cabin that starts

466
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: at the base with these thick logs, which are they're

467
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 1: still really really tiny, like the scale of it, it's

468
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: hard to tell from the photos, but they aren't logs.

469
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 1: They're they're just like twigs and probably like I don't know,

470
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: under a quarter inch long, uh, pretty tiny, like think

471
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 1: of a little little teeny tiny moth and then like

472
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: an even tinier tinier and larva. So it's it's about

473
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: that size little teeny tiny fairy like fairy cabins, and

474
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: they will get increasingly thinner and shorter, uh and kind

475
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: of spiral at the top to a tapered point, and

476
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: they live like they kind of stick out of the

477
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: base of this little cabin and they can actually walk

478
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: around like a turtle, but their shell is made out

479
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: of a log cabin. Okay, if you've seen Howl's moving

480
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: castle picture, like instead of like a steampunk tech sort

481
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: of front vibe, like it's all natural and that's exactly

482
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: what you're getting. Like it's kind of looks like a beetle,

483
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: but also mixed with an otter. He's got like weird

484
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: whiskers on his face. Yeah. No, Howl's Moving Castle is

485
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: a really good I love I love that movie, by

486
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, he's I love him too. I think

487
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: that is one of my favorite I do like Spirited

488
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: Away to Speired Away is such a classic and it's beautiful,

489
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: but there's something very much about like an awkward young

490
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: woman who feels like an old lady. Yes, I love it,

491
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: who's like in love with angry boys? Come on, you

492
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: get me, love me some angry boys. But yeah, I

493
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: also just love the creativity of all his little critters

494
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: and creatures that he has in his movies. But yeah,

495
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: absolutely this does look like a Howl's moving castle made

496
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 1: out of beetles and twigs so they can move around hunt. Uh.

497
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: The female bag worms actually live in this little structure

498
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: for their entire lives. They will curl up in their

499
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: little log cabins. Even after they pupate into adults. They

500
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: will mate, lay eggs, and disintegrate inside their homes, which

501
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: is basically like my life right now. Waca waca. So

502
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: the females pupate into their adult form, which is typically

503
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: wingless and just chill out there for a few weeks,

504
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: which also happens to be their entire lifespan and adult

505
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: bag works like. Don't feel too bad for the females though,

506
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: because even though the males get to go out of

507
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: their little log cabins, they only live for two days,

508
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: so they are they can fly on. Like the females.

509
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: They're fuzzy black with transparent wings, and they really only

510
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: need two days to get their business done. And that

511
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: business is mating meat, meat and mate, and then you're done.

512
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: And it's a real hardcore twinter thing, like hey, looking

513
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: for someone to like may and then immediately die afterwards

514
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: with thanks. Listen, it's our life just sped up fast.

515
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: And that is that like darker inspiring. I carently tell

516
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go inspiring. Yeah, listen. They live a full

517
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: life and days so many days to try maybe to

518
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: them though, like they're like like like we're just like

519
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: these huge giants that move really slow, and they're just

520
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: like to them, two days is like forever. They're like

521
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: these idiots, it's our seven get it together, all right,

522
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: My wings already sprouted. I love in a bug's life,

523
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: there's like a, uh, do do you remember that they

524
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: had a fly at some I guess at a nightclub

525
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: or performance thing, and like they disliked the performance. Are like,

526
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: I spent half of my life here is after the

527
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: circus and they all got into the street. Yes, I

528
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: just have one more photo of this log Cabinet's just

529
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: it's so crazy, right, it's like this. It looks like

530
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: it was made by a personally, like a little fairy

531
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: in a fairy garden. It's so lovely, and the size

532
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: it seems like impressive that they're able to carry all

533
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: of this too and balance it, and like if you're

534
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: thinking about how do they build it on the outside

535
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: of their body? It's weird too because they all have films, y'all.

536
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: So how they used their sticky butt silk to keep

537
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: it together? Yeah? I wonder if stuff like this. Now

538
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: I don't have any evidence, this is all speculation, but

539
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: I wonder if this is like things like this, maybe

540
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: not this exactly, but like little constructs like this is

541
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: what made people think about like tiny fairies and little

542
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: little tiny people. I think almost it must have been

543
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: like the little weird things you find in nature, particularly

544
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: when you don't have internet or large printing presses to

545
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: let you know, like you know what's happening. Your imagination

546
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: runs with you. And and honestly, if you've ever spent

547
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: extended time in nature, particularly if you come from like

548
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: a a city or a more like urbanized space, there

549
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: is fields magical out there. Like I went to the

550
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: Redwoods recently and I was like, oh, wow, magic is

551
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: real and it is there, and it's different from what

552
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: you expect. Like in the Redwood forest there's bright green

553
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: like in that grows off the trees. It looks almost artificial.

554
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: It's such a bright green almost yeah beautiful, but yeah,

555
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, like some legends about fairies are

556
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: from how mushrooms will grow in circles, and that's just

557
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: sort of due to the root structure of these these

558
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: fungal colonies. But like they'll see this little circle of

559
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: like toadstools and think like, oh, that's a fairy ring

560
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: and that they all sit on these little toadstools or

561
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: dance around in a ring, and that causes these circles.

562
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: I love human intervention. The idea of like interpreting these

563
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: things is or like weird gifts or even like the

564
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: Irish being like a way of dealing with sick babies

565
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: that you couldn't help be like, oh, well this is

566
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: a change link. I gotta go take it back to

567
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: the forest. So fairy will my rightful baby, and like

568
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: if it didn't, then okay, well that's fine. My baby

569
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: is living forever with the fairies and very peaceful, loving life. Yeah.

570
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: We did. We did some in the pass and we

571
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: were we were always thinking with our correct brain. Well,

572
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: speaking of another animal that cares for its young in

573
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: an interesting way, I want to talk about the African bullfrog,

574
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: which is the ultimate introvert who creates home out of mucus.

575
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,239
Speaker 1: Home sweet home. So they are found all over the

576
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: continent of Africa. So African bullfrogs are big old boys.

577
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: The male's way up to four point five pounds and

578
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: they can live up to like I've seen estimates up

579
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: to forty five years or thirty five years and frog. Yeah,

580
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: and they'll pretty much eat everything they can stick in

581
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: their big old mounts. So snakes, small birds, reptiles, rodents,

582
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: smaller amphibians, their own children or your hand. Okay, don't

583
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: mess with a bullfrog. They actually have sharp teeth that

584
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: which aren't really teeth there, like these three large tooth

585
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: like projections from their lower jaw. What that really hurt

586
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: when they bite you. So the females can lay up

587
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: to four thousand eggs at a time, and the male

588
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: will actually help with the child wearing, so they'll stand

589
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: guard over the eggs and tadpoles when they hatch. But

590
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: once in a while, you know, look, dad's dad's got

591
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: to have have his snacks, and so he will occasionally

592
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: indulge in eat a few of the tadpoles. So many

593
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: animals that are just like I had to eat a baby. Look, look,

594
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: you know it's hard your baby. You're like taking care

595
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: of the kids all day. Who's gonna blame you for

596
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: eating a couple? I mean, when there's four thousand of

597
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: them and you eat a few, I mean, come on,

598
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's but they are actually

599
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: like kind of good fathers other than the eating some

600
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,959
Speaker 1: of their children, because they will painstakingly dig a channel

601
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: from a pool of like if the tadpoles start to

602
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: get dried out, like their little pool of water starts

603
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: to evaporate, and they're a great risk of like being

604
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: dried out and dying. So the male will dig a

605
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: channel from the drying pool to a larger pond or

606
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: a bigger body of water and just kind of painstakingly

607
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: dig dig dig this channel so that the water will

608
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: flow in and save his babies. Wow. Yeah, And if

609
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: he eats a couple, I think he's earned it, you know,

610
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: the nutritious uh he gave life, you could take it

611
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: away you under roof, I eat you sometimes exactly. That's

612
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: like our parents said, you're grounded to my mouth. So

613
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: to protect themselves during dry season, they will dig holes

614
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: and hibernate from ten months to up to two years.

615
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: It's hibernation being lazy, get together frogs. So there's a

616
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: problem though, of hibernating during dry season. And they do

617
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: want to hibernate because dry season is not great for

618
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: an animal who breathes through their mucus soaked skin, So

619
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 1: they need mucus on their skin to help them breathe.

620
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: They extract oxygen from the air through gas exchange, and

621
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: the mucus on their skin helps them absorb dissolved oxygen

622
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: from the air. And they also do have nostrils and

623
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: lungs that they can breathe through, but that's not really

624
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: going to help them that much when they're hibernating underground. So, uh,

625
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: they will build mucus cocoons for themselves, which is a

626
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: big old ball and mucus that will keep the frog

627
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: from drying out during hibernation. Cool. Cool you yeah, big old,

628
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: big mucus. Welcome to the podcast about Cute Animals. So

629
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: the mucus cocoon actually becomes solid and it will only

630
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 1: soften up when the rainy season returns, and that signals

631
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: the bullfrog to wake up and emerge from its mucous

632
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: cocoon unscathed but disgusting skincare routines and actually, so there's

633
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: like some skincare products made out of snail slime. Have

634
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: you seen that? Yeah, yeah, it's like the ideas that

635
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: I think, like snail slime has some properties at least

636
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: for the snail where it helps their skin heal, and

637
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: so the ideas if we put it on our faces,

638
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: then our skin also heals. Not exactly sure of the

639
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: science of it, I have, out of morbid curiosity, tried it.

640
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: I couldn't really tell a difference to be not to

641
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: cast the spurgeons on it. Maybe it were I don't know.

642
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like. I'm just saying, I'm not sure

643
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: there is hard evidence that putting snail slime on your

644
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: face will help you with wrinkles. I don't know if

645
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: it will hurt unless you're allergic if your snails don't

646
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: on your face. Snails also just don't like harass snails.

647
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, you're harassing snails. I'm saying,

648
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: don't though, like, don't be like, oh, snail slime is

649
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: good for my skin, and like pick up a snail.

650
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: Snails goes like, hello, friend, what are you all good? No? No, no,

651
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: no no, that probably has to be processed and I

652
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: don't know that. Don't do it. I don't know if

653
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: anyone is doing it. But don't start. Don't start doing it.

654
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: Please don't y yes, we we said no. We are

655
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: not legally liable for anyone. It doesn't don't don't. Don't

656
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: see what snails a little snail lawyer, snail snail it law.

657
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: Now we're in b movie. You have snail lawyers. Yeah.

658
00:37:52,600 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: I want to make emotion very slowly. Some of our

659
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: most incredible human structures are made out of natural living resources.

660
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: A living root bridge is a suspension bridge. Made out

661
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: of live tree roots found in Megalia, India. They're made

662
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: from the massive roots of rubber fig trees. Builders guide

663
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: the roots to interlock with the roots of another tree

664
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: across the river or to the stones and land mass

665
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: on the other side. These bridges are very strong against

666
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 1: weather and decay as they are alive and strengthen. Over time,

667
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: the roots will grow and thicken and conjoin until it

668
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: creates a very sturdy structure that can support a lot

669
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 1: of weight. There's even a huge double deck or root

670
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: bridge two root bridges stacked on top of each other,

671
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: and you don't have to pay for upkeep. The living

672
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: bridges are self renewing and sustainable. When we return, we'll

673
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: talk about some little birdies who make their houses out

674
00:38:52,680 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: of bricks and poop. As children, we were taught that

675
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: a homemade out of bricks is the smartest choice. But

676
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: those little piggies could have gotten even more creative as

677
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: there are some homes made out of innovative materials. Recycled

678
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: rubber tires have been used, plastic bottles, recycled newspaper. There's

679
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: even a Buddhist temple, the watt Pamaha Chetti Kawa Temple

680
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: in Thailand made out of recycled beer bottles. There's even

681
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: been attempts to use corn cobs as a replacement for wood.

682
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: So now let's look at how animals use interesting and

683
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: unexpected materials to build their homes. So I don't talk

684
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: to you about the red oven bird. Hute name very cute,

685
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: kind of sounds like a recipe. Yeah, eighties a bird

686
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 1: covered in hot cheetos. That actually sounds kind of good.

687
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: Someone did it for Thanksgiving. One I did not partake

688
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: is something I saw online. It looks beautiful. It's like oranges,

689
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: crusty golden bird. Uh, if you tried it, let us know.

690
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like this is another Tower

691
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: of Babbel situation that we're getting into, Like we're doing

692
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: our crazy d I wise shredding wieners and making weener

693
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: waffles and like now doing like hot cheetos turkeys. I

694
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: don't know. Again, I think like tower of Babble, it's

695
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 1: going to come crashing down on us. Yeah, it definitely

696
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: came crashing down on somebody. There's indigestion involved, bad toilet times.

697
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: So the South American bird lives in these structures that

698
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: kind of look like ovens. They will mate in monogamous

699
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: pairs for life and build cozy little mud home so

700
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: pretty adorable. Their homes are domes made out of mud

701
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: and clay with a side entrance and an inner chamber

702
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: for the eggs, and they sometimes reinforce it with plant

703
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: material as well. So if you scroll down you can

704
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: see these little home. These are so cute. First of all,

705
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: shout out to telephone poles for being homes for birds.

706
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: They're so important for birds. Literally never thought about how

707
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: birds were like, oh tall, like leafless tree structure and

708
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: other animals can't climb for me, you know, it's funny.

709
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: A lot of people ask why do birds sit on

710
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: telephone wires? And I've been asked that, and it's like,

711
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: because they like to sit on tall things and there's

712
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: not a tree there. That's it's just available their homes.

713
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 1: Again feeling sixties modern cheek. There's yeah, very mod three

714
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: like holes. Uh, basically if you stacked like three I

715
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: don't know what those like clay oven pots are called

716
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: kiva's Maybe yes, if you were to sack them, you

717
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: can look at a little hole, but then they attach

718
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 1: on the inside. That would be the spird's nest. Yeah, yeah,

719
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty incredible. So these domes can actually last

720
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: for years because they're made out of a pretty sturdy

721
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: material of that mud and plant kind of creating this

722
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: like bird concrete, and they can actually also be used

723
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: by other birds once they're abandoned. But it's interesting. So

724
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 1: I think why you're seeing these little little ovens stacked

725
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: one on top of each other is that with each

726
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: new brood, so every time they lay a new batch

727
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: of eggs, they will build a new home for these

728
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: new eggs. Keep building new homes, stay in their older

729
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: siblings rooms. You're like, no, no, we'll just build you

730
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: guys your own room exactically. I love that though. Not

731
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: having to share a room with your stinky brother excellent.

732
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, brother, I love you. You know how

733
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: they like travel with the mud or because it's like

734
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: stacked on top of a telephone poll But I don't

735
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: how do they move, But I think it's similar to

736
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: that the weaver birds where they just make many, many trips,

737
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: so they just kind of gather it up in their

738
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: beaks and like slap it down and go back and

739
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: get more. It's it's very labor intensive yes, and really

740
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: cute is that the mated pair will often sit on

741
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 1: top of their oven and sing duets together and pick

742
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: sorry this is the next exactly, And you know, I'm

743
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: not actually sure why they do that. My gifts would

744
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: be to strengthen their pair bond, to like, which is

745
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: something birds due to kind of like they when they're

746
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: monogamous and they form these long term relationships, they do

747
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: these things to kind of strengthen their connection and their bond. Listen,

748
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: you can't end date night just because you got married,

749
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: exactly to keep things fresh. So all you couples out there,

750
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: stuck at home, self isolating, sting together, do it sent

751
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: us video Come on and Slam and Welcome to the gym.

752
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: It's so so like so my boyfriend I will trick

753
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: him into leading me into that song sometimes, like calling

754
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: up a jar of gym and be like what is this?

755
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you mean? It's it's gym and

756
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: slam and welcome to the gym. So it's a it's

757
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: a consistent troll I've got going on. Um and that

758
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: that's the of course the themes on to space jam

759
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: in case you don't know, in case you're so lame.

760
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: You don't know, please please fix your lady it is

761
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: at some point. Yeah, but like also he wanted some

762
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: more jam from the store, so I bought some and

763
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: in the fridge I put a sign that said come

764
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: on and slam and welcome to the and then just

765
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,959
Speaker 1: like the jam was under it's Yeah, are so cute.

766
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: So another adorable bird pair are the hornbills. So hornbills

767
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 1: are that zazoo type bird like from the lion king,

768
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: who live in tropical regions in Asia and Africa. So

769
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: there are many different species of hornbill. The one you're

770
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: probably thinking of are the ones with like that big,

771
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: like weird bulky thing right on top of their beak,

772
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 1: and that big bulky beak actually really helps them to fight, hunt,

773
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: and construct their elaborate nest. So a little bit about

774
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: at hornbill beak now differs from species to species, but

775
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: they typically have a hollow protrusion on the upper bill

776
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: called a cask, which in some species just helped strengthen

777
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: the bill, but in others it's so big it can

778
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: act as a resonance chamber for louder calls, and in

779
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: helmeted hornbills, the cask is actually not hollow and isn't

780
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: filled with what's called hornbill ivory, which is a hard

781
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: keratin and it is these casks that are just solid

782
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: are used as battering rams in jousting matches with rival males.

783
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: So these are multi functional and multi purpose bills that

784
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: very amongst species, but one of the most common things

785
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: that they are used for is to build their weird,

786
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: isolated nests. So hornbills are typically monogamous and they work

787
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,280
Speaker 1: together to ensure the safety of their eggs and chicks.

788
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,439
Speaker 1: So female hornbills will find a tree hollow and leg

789
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: their eggs and to make sure that snakes and other

790
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: predators don't get their eggs and chicks, they will work

791
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: together to seal the female in with her eggs. What's

792
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: that like, Poe story the cask of manta or yeah, yeah, yeah,

793
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: where they seal the guy in the tunnels under paris.

794
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah, it's like that, only lovely and sweet, right,

795
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: So they will so they will use mud, poop and

796
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: fruit pulp to create this kind of weird concrete and

797
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: seal off the entrance of this tree hollow and before

798
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: it gets too small, the female will actually squeeze into

799
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: the cavity and she'll sit in there, and then they

800
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: will continue to build up this entrance until it almost

801
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 1: completely cements her in and it just leaves a teeny

802
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: tiny hole just big enough for the male to basically

803
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: drop a little bits of food in through, so it's

804
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: so small that snakes and other editors can't get in,

805
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: and the male just has to kind of like boop,

806
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 1: put a little berry in this hole so that he

807
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 1: can feed the female and the chicks. And at this point,

808
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: the female becomes completely reliant on the mail to go

809
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: out and get food and bring it back because she can't. Thought, yeah,

810
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: bring back all the non nutritious food. You're gonna be like, babe,

811
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: not burgers again. Yeah? Yeah, fresh fruit. He's like, I

812
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: asked for berries, not oops, all berries, cap and cron

813
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: come on. So, when the chicks are grown and big

814
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: enough to leave the nest, the female will kool aid

815
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: Man style burst out of this concrete while just like

816
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: oh yeah, motherhood over. Oh my goodness. Okay, So worst

817
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: case scenario is something happens to the dad the female

818
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: at anytime, who's break down, be like listen, I'm hungry,

819
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: I have to get out of here. Yeah, you know,

820
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: it's an interesting question. She might abandon her nest, but

821
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, like she might stay there and just

822
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: kind of like keep hoping, and you know, could have

823
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: a tragic ending. So it's really important for that mail

824
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: to go out and get food. But yeah, yeah, it's

825
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: a I'm not sure exactly what the strategy. I mean,

826
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: my strategy would be a kool aid style burst out

827
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: of there, find that male and give him a stern

828
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: billing to with my big old beak. Okay, cool, Well,

829
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm glad she has a way out. And when she's ready.

830
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: That scared me. I was like, you have to break

831
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: her out or do the baby birds like have special

832
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, juice dissolve it. Listen, I never know

833
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: what you're gonna bring me. It's always wild and she

834
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: bursts out there like a hulk. I mean, can you

835
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: imagine how satisfying that is? Like your birds are ready

836
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,280
Speaker 1: to leave the nest and you're like, I am out

837
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: of here, but he's got to be ripe to like

838
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: it's so much time in a very confined space. She's like,

839
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: I have the shower and he watched his babies because

840
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: I'm done now. So Finally, I want to talk about

841
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: an animal who not only builds really interesting home, but

842
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: like they look like pieces of art. So the cat

843
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: is fly is a insect that is similar to the

844
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: bagworm in that their larva builds protective casings. So catus

845
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: flies are an order of insects with over twelve thousand species,

846
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: and the adults are moth like flying insects. They're related to,

847
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,240
Speaker 1: but not contained within, the order Lepidoptera, which is moths

848
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: and butterflies, and they are actually the titular flies that

849
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: the bait and fly fishing is meant to imitate. And

850
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: the reason is that the catus fly is partially aquatic,

851
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: so their larva and pupa are aquatic with gills that

852
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 1: they evolved after being terrestrial to evade land predation. So

853
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: they first evolved terrestrial breathing apparatus and then they're like,

854
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: oh dang, no, thank you and went back into the

855
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: water because of all the predation. So most spectacular are

856
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: the catisfly cases. So these are hard portable homes that

857
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: the aquatic lava make to tech themselves. So they're made

858
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: out of silk, saliva, and basically anything they can find.

859
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: So this can be sand, pebbles, snail shells, plant material.

860
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: Some of them are even like the Crimeria bagworm that

861
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: builds those little log cabins, except it makes it out

862
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: of aquatic plant stems. And so if you scroll down

863
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: you can actually see some example of these things. Stunning

864
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: right Oh whoa the one I mean, like out of

865
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: what looks to be plant stems, it's so unique. It

866
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: looks it's I'm having trouble describing it, but it looks

867
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: like a weird It looks like a salad you would

868
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: get at like a way too fancy restaurant, like a

869
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: tasting menu menu, like at Spago or something where they're like,

870
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: here's real salad that has been constructed into a tessaract.

871
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: Some of these look like um oh gosh, I just

872
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: have the word, I want to say, collages, but fancier.

873
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 1: Uh mosaics. Yeah, some of them look like mosaics. This

874
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: one with the shells, it's kind of like, yeah, compact.

875
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: And then the one with like whoever found this giant

876
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 1: purple stone to put right at the top of his head?

877
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: Is honestly like, I love it. One of my favorite colors.

878
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful accent to it's just like and this

879
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: big stone button stones are kind of like earth tone colored,

880
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: and this one is like just a beautiful purple Lady

881
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: Gaga of cats beautiful. Holy crap, Sorry, I'm getting to

882
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: the second level. Well, this requires some explanations. So to

883
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 1: demonstrate that they'll basically use anything in their environment, there

884
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: is an interesting art piece by French artist Hubert Dup

885
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: where he collected cattisfly larva, stuck them in an aquarium

886
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: and planted a bunch of precious materials in their environment

887
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 1: so they would build beautiful cases made of pearls, gold,

888
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: opal and other precious gems. So in these photos you

889
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: can see they've got it's like this. They look like

890
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: like jewelry because they've used like gold and they've lined

891
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: their little bull larval bodies with gold and pearls and

892
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: gems and they are really boogie. If you've ever had

893
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: the privilege of seeing like very ancient jewelry, like the

894
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: stuff um like the first um, oh gosh, what is

895
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: the first pharaohs of Egypt? Like the early ones before

896
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: became like a major plays or like for everyone discovered Egypt,

897
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: where everyone was like, oh, this is our homeland to

898
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: um or like very early Greek stuff. It's like sort

899
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: of they flattened out the gold pieces. It almost looks

900
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 1: hammered in places, which obviously these guys are not picking

901
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: up hammers um. And then they've wove been like gorgeous

902
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: pearls and this blue sort of like opally thing. Oh

903
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 1: my gosh, like really artsy brooches you want to specially,

904
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: I thought they were. They thought they were like brooch.

905
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: I call it a brooch. I don't know if there's

906
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: an appropriate way. I don't know if there's a right

907
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: way I am. I'm really kind of revealing how unfancy

908
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: a person I am that I don't even know what

909
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: a brooches this. It does look like a brooch. I

910
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: would wear this the bread, no katy, I've been wearing

911
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: bread on me this whole time. It's super embarrassing. I

912
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: thought it was the fancy thing to do. This is gorgeous.

913
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: Like I didn't think anything a bug could create whatever

914
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: fuel trendy, but designers could use. I want to know

915
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: like what their processes like, if they are just like

916
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: slapping it on any alware, or if they there's some

917
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: amount of intention. There seems to be some pattern, but

918
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 1: not a lot. I don't know if the pearls were

919
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: stranded first, you know what, I can't tell if it's

920
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: a strand of pearls that they sort of woven in,

921
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: or if they have individual pearls. I mean, they're using

922
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: their sticky, sticky silk as as is often the case,

923
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: to attach these to their body. But yeah, I almost

924
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: wonder if there is a pattern. I actually don't know

925
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: this again wild speculation. My favorite thing to do on

926
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: the podcast is that they probably try to make it

927
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: as close to their environment as possible while still making

928
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: it a protective casing. So it's both a level of

929
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: camouflage and protection. So they probably want hard materials that

930
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: protects their soft bodies but also camouflage. So if they

931
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: can get things kind of stacked up in there that

932
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: I guess like is a nice random distribution of their

933
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 1: environment that's still protective. Yeah, I don't know, because like

934
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 1: like they seem to be kind of putting a bunch

935
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: of gems around and and kind of clusters and maybe

936
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: thinking like this will look this will look natural, and

937
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: this my aquarium full of fancy gemstones. I definitely see that.

938
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out like it doesn't seem

939
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: to be like a weight distribution thing at all, because

940
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: one of them has some pearls like the head one

941
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: on the very button one sort of in the middle. Uh,

942
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: the stones don't seem to but the color seems sort

943
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: of equally distributed, like where the blue is sort of

944
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: like place evenly throughout. These are really fast, Like I

945
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: could stay at these all days. I know, I know

946
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: it was beautiful. I kind of want one, right, Oh no,

947
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: actually I would even take one of I'm going back

948
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: to the photos now of the natural materials and like

949
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: kind of comparing and contrasting. Very similar, would apps I

950
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: would take any like this most gorgeous ever seen by

951
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 1: animal before? I know, I mean, like, I know these

952
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: are aquatic, so I couldn't have one live on me

953
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 1: as a brooch on my chest, but I kind of want. Dude,

954
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,959
Speaker 1: it has vacated. Maybe I could get like like bagworms

955
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: that the other insects we talked about are terrestrials, So

956
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: maybe I could get like a bagworm friend and have

957
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: it live on me and be like I approach and

958
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: I could go to a fancy party and be like,

959
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: oh who are you wearing? And it's like, why column FAMMI,

960
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: I would actually really love to see this us the

961
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: bell of the ball, the bell of the ball covered

962
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: in bugs. Well, thank you so much for joining me today,

963
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: Joel turving me back. Yeah, I hope this kind of

964
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 1: makes people feel a little better about being stuck in

965
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,359
Speaker 1: their homes, because you know, we ain't alone on this earth.

966
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: Lots of other animals are huddling in and making it work,

967
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: getting through the day, making it work by filling it

968
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: with precious gems and poop. So yes, fill your homes

969
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: with precious gems, love, laughter, and poop. So you got

970
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:35,919
Speaker 1: anything you want to plug? Uh? Yeah, you know. Keep

971
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast here and I heard Nerdificent Night

972
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,480
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973
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:47,080
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974
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,520
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975
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,760
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976
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,480
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977
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: like what do you want to be concerned about? What's

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00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,120
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979
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: UM continue to live a normal life while practicing social

980
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,319
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981
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of new inside stuff to coming up.

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00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,000
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983
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984
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,080
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985
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,920
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986
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,520
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00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,680
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00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,960
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1003
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1004
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,960
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