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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 we're gonna creature size and

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Speaker 1: one and two and move those who and move those

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Speaker 1: bodies segments. Come on, I want to see your tentacle sweating.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see some of the most impressive animal athletic feats.

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Speaker 1: Woodcocks loved to book eat dung beetles, our gymnasts. Bats

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Speaker 1: do crunches every time they pee. Discover this more as

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Speaker 1: we answer the Agel question are Dalton's jerks. So I

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Speaker 1: know everyone's feeling a little cramped and stir crazy, and

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Speaker 1: it's hard to exercise. Gyms are closed because they're cesspools

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Speaker 1: of sweat and body fluids. It's hard to jog with

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Speaker 1: masks on, although please do wear masks joggers. If I

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Speaker 1: have to do another barrel roll out of the way

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Speaker 1: of a panting jogger, I swear I'm gonna start going

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Speaker 1: outside a giant hamster ball. But to inspire you to

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Speaker 1: invent your own exercise routine, today we'll be exploring some

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Speaker 1: of the sickest stunts that mother nature brings calibunga, backwards

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Speaker 1: baseball hat, skateboards, dabs behind every funky and unbelievable animal

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Speaker 1: stunt is an even more unbelievable story. So joining me

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Speaker 1: today's comedian, filmmaker and podcast host of You Can Tell

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Speaker 1: Me Anything, and my friend Teresa Lee. Hello, thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me. Yeah, it's great to have you on. So

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited. I think this is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: fun one. It is about movement, dances, weird stunts, parkour,

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Speaker 1: things that animals do, and I think it's Uh. I've

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Speaker 1: been trying to remain somewhat active in quarantine, and so

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Speaker 1: I've been like looking at aerobics videos and I feel

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Speaker 1: like the biggest dork because I know, like the people

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Speaker 1: on the aerobics video already look goofy, and I know

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Speaker 1: I look even more goofy trying to do it. I

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Speaker 1: think that's the point though, right, I mean I feel

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Speaker 1: like that I've always I'm never understood when people try

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Speaker 1: to pick people up at the gym. To me, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: that's like going into an artist studio and trying to

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Speaker 1: buy a painting half painted. I'm like, yeah, don't you

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Speaker 1: get me. I'm a half painted masterpiece. Thank you. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: I think this self humiliation does actually burn calories, Like

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Speaker 1: the more humiliated you are, the more blood flow, like

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Speaker 1: to your cheeks as you're blushing out of humiliation, Like

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Speaker 1: the more your heart's pumping, it's good for you. I've

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Speaker 1: tried to do I've tried to like teach myself dances

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Speaker 1: from K pop videos. It's very fun and it's kind

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Speaker 1: of just like a way since I'm not taking class

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Speaker 1: or doing anything, and I'm very lazy when it comes

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Speaker 1: to like yoga or anything like that that I'm active

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Speaker 1: while like I'm putting my brain into a different mode

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Speaker 1: But I almost learned the whole dance, and I was

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Speaker 1: feeling confident because I hadn't I don't have a mirror,

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Speaker 1: feel like I got it. So then I recorded myself

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Speaker 1: on my website just to see and then I was

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Speaker 1: like in media humiliation, I was like, never did just

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Speaker 1: like what you want, Like you know, they practiced for

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Speaker 1: days weeks to get there and then you watch it

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Speaker 1: like I got it when they say dance like nobody's watching.

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Speaker 1: That includes yourself, like you don't want to see. Well,

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Speaker 1: you should always dance like everybody's watching and you're very good.

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Speaker 1: But that's yeah, but that's how you think. But then

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Speaker 1: in reality it's like, don't show this to anybody. I

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Speaker 1: wonderful dance moves. So have you seen there's this viral

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Speaker 1: the babies are like learning how to groove exactly. So

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Speaker 1: is also known as the timberdoodle, the bog sucker, the

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Speaker 1: fiddle squeak, the buck, a bog sucker, hoke um poke,

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Speaker 1: getting trolled. I don't believe. I don't believe that these

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Speaker 1: Did you know Shakespeare also in vented a lot of

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Speaker 1: bird names. Um, that's little little known fact about Shakespeare.

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Speaker 1: These all sound like made up Shakespeare in exactly, fire

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Speaker 1: you bug sucker, a fiddle squeak upon both your families.

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Speaker 1: animals use to vibrate the ground to trigg worms into

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Speaker 1: It is it seems to be purely functional and it's

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Speaker 1: It does appear that they're learning from their their parents

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Speaker 1: my girls like that exactly to get food, like on

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Speaker 1: I've definitely been so excited for food. Sometimes I do

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Speaker 1: a little dance all the way to attention. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I actively tork while I cook. That's how I cook. Yeah, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: then mate with me. So the next animal I want

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Speaker 1: We have the green chevron parakeets or yellowships chevron parakeets

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Speaker 1: a Chameleon's a chameleon. So they have curly, prehensile tails,

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Speaker 1: eyes that can move independently of each other, which is

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Speaker 1: Yeah wow, that's yeah, this podcast has taken an interesting turn. Innovative. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

422
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Speaker 1: let's let's get the patent pinning. Patent pinning. So typically

423
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: the dung beetles that will roll balls of poop back

424
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 1: to their din will stand up on their front legs.

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00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: They will prop their hind legs on the dung ball

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Speaker 1: and roll it with those back legs towards their din.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of incredible how dung beetles are able

428
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: to easily navigate despite being backwards and having their vision

429
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: mostly blocked by this big ball dung. But they like

430
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: to roll it in a straight line to get back

431
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: to their den as quickly as possible, because again, dung

432
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: is a hot commodity and it's also really hot typically

433
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Speaker 1: where they live. There are a lot of species in

434
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Speaker 1: South Africa and it you know, it gets extremely hot

435
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: and they're just scrabbling around on the hot ground. So

436
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: they like to get it as to their din as

437
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: if quickly and efficiently as possible. And interestingly, if the

438
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 1: dung beetle is interrupted and meets some kind of obstacle,

439
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: it is able to easily reorient and navigate back to

440
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: its den. Like if you spin the dung beetle that around,

441
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: it can immediately retriangulate its path. It will get up

442
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: on its dung ball though, and do this little circus

443
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 1: dog dance where it's just kind of like deep deep, deep,

444
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: and then it goes along its marry way in the

445
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: right direction. So researchers were interested in why they were

446
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: doing this, So they found that when it gets up

447
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: on the ball, it is actually trying to get a

448
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: clear view of the sun, so it uses the sun

449
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: to navigate in the direction it needs to go, and

450
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: these researchers changed the appearance of where the sun was

451
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: coming from with mirrors and successfully confused dung beetles into

452
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: moving into the wrong direction. I know, it's kind of mean, right,

453
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: And then when the sun sets, actually the dung beetles

454
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: can see polarized light that humans can't really see in

455
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: the sky to also help them navigate. So they're all,

456
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: he's look into the sky for navigation, getting that little

457
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: what's a little thing called you know, is it a

458
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: sea campassing? Well, the the oh, a sextant, a sextant,

459
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, like sailors, like a weird triangle thing, but

460
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: it's a ball of poop instead. Very smart, resourceful, Yeah, exactly.

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00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: Here's a cute anecdote about that dung beetle study. So

462
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Speaker 1: Professor Mark Burns dung beetle research team wanted to see

463
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Speaker 1: why dung beetles will get up on their dung ball

464
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: and wipe their little faces. And they used these thermal

465
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: cameras to see that they seem to be trying to

466
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: cool their little feetss because they get really hot in

467
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: the sand. So they gave the beatles tiny booties to

468
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: see how they'd react, and the beatles didn't need to

469
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: like get up on the ball and cool their feet

470
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: as much like they were able to keep going for longer.

471
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Speaker 1: But it's just they made little tiny booties rule young

472
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: beetles and the dung beetles. That's so cute. I know,

473
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: it's adorable. It makes me feel like, I mean, obviously,

474
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Speaker 1: you don't want to interfere with nature, you know it's

475
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: not the way. But part of me just now wants

476
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: to make little, tiny, many booties for as many insects

477
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: as I want. Because look, insects they don't got shoes. Yeah,

478
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: they don't got but some of them got sticky feet

479
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: like spiders. That's true, they do got hairy, sticky feet.

480
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean little booties, can you like? It

481
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: would make them cuter too, just a little little booties.

482
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Speaker 1: It would be less scared of a spider of it. Well,

483
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it had shoes on, more scary

484
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: or less scary. I'm not sure. It depends on the

485
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: type of shoe, right, Like, if it was high heels,

486
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: I'd be intimidated. That would be intimidating. Eight yeah, clacking around.

487
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: But if it's like I don't know eight clown or something. Yeah, yeah, kids,

488
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: kids are very non threatening shoe. Yeah yeah, like a

489
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: rebok or like a croc, just like a real dad shoe.

490
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: I just be like, yeah, a bunch of like sandals

491
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: with socks on, and it's like, yeah, birken stocks. I

492
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: don't need to be afraid of a spider with birken

493
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Speaker 1: stocks on. So, now that you've heard of a couple

494
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: of ruby dancing animals, are you ready to creature size?

495
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: All you need is to dance around on some worm

496
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: filled sand and to balance on a giant ball of dung.

497
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: If you don't feel like doing that, you can at

498
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: least put some of your favorite music on and do

499
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: some dancing. Dancing is good cardio is good for balance

500
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: and posture, and offer some additional benefits over other types

501
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: of exercise. Dance gets you moving in different directions, working

502
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: out different muscle groups, and engaging you cognitively. A study

503
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: found that hip motion and spine flexibility was improved by

504
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: a dancing exercise program. Another study found that dance helps

505
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: increase bone density, keeping your bones strong and healthy. And heck,

506
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: another dance study found that can help improve body image

507
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: and quality of life. So get out on the dance

508
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: floor or while you're living room floor, put on some

509
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: dank beats and twerque your way to help. Humans can

510
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: sometimes do a bit of parkour, jumping off cars and

511
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: walls and so on. But animals do parkour every day,

512
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: and not just for the Instagram. Sometimes they do it

513
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: to evade predators. Sometimes it's to catch a meal. Sometimes,

514
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: if you're a cat, is because you've seen a ghost

515
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: that nobody else can see but you. And sometimes you've

516
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: got to do a full body workout just to go

517
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: to the bathroom. Do you do you do any six

518
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: stunts Teresa? Well, you know, I do six stunts of

519
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: the brain. Um, you know, I'm I'm always just like

520
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: doing cool backflips with my words. You know. Maybe I'm

521
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: doing some book stunts, you know, you know, like like

522
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: you're doing BMX stunts. I'm doing book stunts with reading

523
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: and learning. Yeah, growing my brain. It's brettistic. Wow. Well

524
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: that's yeah. I'm sure we're impressing a lot of people

525
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: with our sick brain stunts. But speaking of which, why

526
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: don't we learn about some animal animal stunts? And the

527
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 1: first one is, I mean, I think it's a cool stunt.

528
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: I think it's a fun party trick. It's about bat's

529
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: urinating though, just wanted to warn you. Okay, okay, go on.

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00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: So Teresa, how do you think bats go to the bathroom? Well,

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Speaker 1: I have to say I've never thought about it until

532
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: this very moment, but I would assume they have some

533
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: sort of hole down towards their legs and and their

534
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: waist comes out of it. That's very broad. I have

535
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: no idea. Well that's that's that's true enough as it

536
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: is with basically most creatures. Yeah, I mean that is true.

537
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: Wuana from you know, that's true? Yah? Yeah. Doesn't he

538
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: eat guano and he eats it and m hmm and

539
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: then he learns it's a bat poop and he freaks out? Yeah? Yeah,

540
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: a spin Sure. Really was a seminal moment for me, like,

541
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: you know, learning about animals such as uh, that whole

542
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: scene with him he comes out of the elephant and

543
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: he's like like the elephant giving birth. I think that's

544
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: the first time I ever watched anything give birth. Oh wow, Yeah,

545
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: doesn't he also like bop a woman a pregnant woman's

546
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: belly and a baby pops out of it like a football.

547
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: I feel like I remember that. I don't remember that,

548
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: but maybe I maybe my poor little child brain was

549
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: so scarred from him coming out of the elephant vagina

550
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: that I blocked that out like I was numb the

551
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: whole rest of the viewing. Well. So, yes, bats do

552
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: excrete out of a hole, that's true. They do have,

553
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, the same sorts of genitals like that humans do.

554
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: They like a penis or a vagina and erectum. I mean,

555
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: think think about the physics of it though, Like, because

556
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: they're hanging upside down, if they just like start peeing

557
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: or pooping, where's it gonna go. It's gonna get all

558
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: over them, right, I never thought about that, that's true. Yeah,

559
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: so bats, Bats basically just do a backflip every time

560
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: they have to go to the bathroom. So flying foxes

561
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 1: are a large species of bat found in Southeast Asia,

562
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: and they flip around to pee. They hang onto the

563
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: branch that they're on because there are boreal bats typically,

564
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: and then they do their business and then they do

565
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: this little shake just to make sure there's no peepee left.

566
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: And baby flying foxes have to learn how to do this.

567
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: I should sent you a link to a video baby.

568
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a huge bat. It is, yeah,

569
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: with it. It's so cute. It looks like a dog

570
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: with wings. Yeah, they are. They are very cute little bats.

571
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: They are called flying foxes because they do kind of

572
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:42,439
Speaker 1: look like foxes. Shake. It's all over its feet. Well,

573
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: it is a baby. It's learning how to do it,

574
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: but adults kind of get perfected down, so they just

575
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: flip over, do a little shake and you know, to

576
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: get the rest of the peeps out, and then like

577
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: flip back around so they don't get I love the

578
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: shake though, because it's very I guess human. I just

579
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: shakes his hands. I've never personally witnessed a man urinating,

580
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: but you know, I have heard that they have to

581
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: do a little shake to make you know, to make

582
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: the last droplets. Yeah, exactly, exactly, get get the last

583
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: drops out. It's a very relatable experience. You don't you

584
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: don't want to get the you don't want to get

585
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: p backsplash. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta make sure it's all

586
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: gone before you go back up to down or it

587
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: might get in your mouth. Exactly, you don't want that.

588
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: I mean some some people, well let's not talk about

589
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: So that's a different podcast. That's a different podcast, not

590
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: this one, not this learning adventure. So another interesting thing

591
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: about bats is a little bit of anti bird heresy,

592
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: which is, there is some evidence to suggest that bats

593
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: maybe more efficient flyers than birds. So bats may actually

594
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: use less energy to fly than birds because of their flexible,

595
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: men brain covered wings. The wings can be shaped in

596
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: flight to reduce drag and be more efficient. So I'm

597
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: not sure if they've reached like a consensus yet on

598
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 1: whether bats are actually like the best flyers, but there

599
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: I think it used to be thought that they were

600
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: clumsier and there they were less efficient than birds, but

601
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: there is new evidence to suggest actually the opposite. And

602
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: I apologize to my bird overlord about this. I'm probably gonna,

603
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: you know this maybe the last you ever hear from

604
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: me if the bird lobby catches onto the harrison, I'm speaking,

605
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: but well, but best is subjective, right, I mean, like

606
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: who has more style? Like exactly are they having fun?

607
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: I mean that's important, that's really like the most fun?

608
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: Exactly who doesn't have to flip around just to pee?

609
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: You know, like talk about efficiency? Can't you know? Um?

610
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: At least one species of bat may have also topped

611
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: the swift bird's record for fastest fly. So swifts can

612
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: fly at speeds of up to seventy miles per hour,

613
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: but Brazilian free tailed bats have been documented flying at

614
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 1: speeds of up to a hundred miles per hour. Maybe

615
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: it's all the abdominal stuff they've had to do, just

616
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: like just to pee, Like you can you imagine having

617
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: to do like a full body flip and crunch just

618
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: to your every time you pee. Well, but don't bets fly.

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Speaker 1: They fly kind of like zig Zaggi, right, So maybe

620
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: that's why we humans think they fly slower because that

621
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: looks so messy, but to them that's like that's what

622
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. So yeah, yeah, because they're always

623
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: not hunting, they're hunting for insects midflight, and so they're

624
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: you know, often kind of going around trying to trying

625
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: to find bugs. But if they they once they set

626
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: their mind to it, they can just you know, blow

627
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: us all out of the water. So the next spectacular

628
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: stunt I want to talk to you about only involves

629
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: a little bit of bottle leaf fluids, and it is

630
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: the frog hopper. Is it a frog or no, it's

631
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: a it's an insect. Okay, misleading name from the I know,

632
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: who are they trying to fool? So, frog hoppers are

633
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: a super family of what are called true bugs or

634
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: him ip Tera, which includes a fids, plant hoppers, leafhoppers,

635
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: and shield bugs. And they all suck juices out of plants.

636
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: It sort of like, you know, like plant vampires, and

637
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: frog hoppers are often brightly colored, small, they're kind of

638
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: what would you say they were, like shaped like a

639
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: weird pistachio, Yeah, a little bit. Well, they have different colors.

640
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: Some of them are more brown cock roach you're looking yeah, yeah, yeah,

641
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: they come in all sorts of different colors, but that

642
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: they are typically sort of like shaped and a sort

643
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: I guess like a little bit like a nut, like

644
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: a nut. Yeah, And they have these hard stout wings

645
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:06,959
Speaker 1: that lay flat along their bodies and frog hopper nymphs.

646
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: So immature frog hoppers will excrete a bunch of foul

647
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: tasting foam on a host plant, so they will basically

648
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: create these disgusting foam spit bubbles that protects them from

649
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 1: predators because it's this like nasty, gross foam that they've

650
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: covered themselves in. Sounds like it's like quite a sacrifice, right,

651
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like that's kind of it's a

652
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: good defense strategy in general, if you want people to

653
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: leave you alone, if you're just kind of like covered

654
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: in spit, it's one way toward people away from you.

655
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: I've found personally, I feel like you know, in every

656
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: like like first grade class or whatever, there's like the

657
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: one kid who just hates showering and their their parents

658
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: just let them get away with it, and then they

659
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: just smell bad. Like do you think that they are

660
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 1: doing it because they're more evolved and it's a form

661
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: of protection, Like is it like, please don't talk to me.

662
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm anxious, So I'm just gonna smell bad and

663
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: everyone will stay away. I mean, I think I think

664
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: it is kind of a it's it's I think they're

665
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: a little bit before their time, because like right now,

666
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: as we have to social distance, I've been annoyed by

667
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: people who don't like stay six feet away from me.

668
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: But if I make myself smell real nasty and like

669
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: cover myself in what looks like sort of a coating

670
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: of drool or some nasty excretion, I think they will

671
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: voluntarily stay six ft away from me. Ah, yeah, that's

672
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: a good you know, that's a that's a great point.

673
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: I never thought about that. I think I've seen like

674
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: different strategies, like people wearing hula hoops around them sort

675
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: of like or like pool noodle hats to keep people

676
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: six feet away. But have you guys considered just smelling

677
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: real bad? And you know, I'm going to have to

678
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: shower less and test this theory out exactly. Shower less,

679
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: get get a stinkin, get a real you know, like

680
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: a good vintage stink in, and people will stay away

681
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: from you. And then it won't. It's not just to

682
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: protect you, it protects them too. It's like a pro

683
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: social thing. Now, to be stinky, it's good. Frog hoppers

684
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: aren't only excellent at being stinky, they are excellent jumpers.

685
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: So some species of frog hoppers can jump up to

686
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 1: a hundred times its own body length, which is a lot.

687
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: So they're only about a quarter of an inch big,

688
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: so about point six centimeters, so this amounts to a

689
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: little over a couple of feet or seventy centimeters. But

690
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: they can actually reach about four hundred g's of acceleration,

691
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: meaning it could probably dodge a chameleon tongue. And you

692
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: know that that that rocket sled chameleon tongue. That it's

693
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: incredible to me. How animal? You know, like you put

694
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: a human do on a human dead just putty. I think, yeah,

695
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: immediate combustion. Okay, new tender bio girl. Let me see

696
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: that frog hopper. How's that? My tongue is like a

697
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: frog hopper got four covered in saliva and stinky, stinky,

698
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: I think, I mean to me, that's very attractive. So

699
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: I think it's a good strategy. So their hind legs

700
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: are structored, structured like bow strings, so they can contract

701
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,760
Speaker 1: their muscles pulling back on a flexible rubbery protein connected

702
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: to a hard cuticle. And then when they release it,

703
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: this shoots their legs against the ground like an arrow,

704
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: which then propel is the frog hopper forward, so they

705
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: it's it's like a slingshot in their legs. And it's

706
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: kind of interesting because these animals that can often achieve

707
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: these really high speeds will have an interesting mechanical advantage

708
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: going on. Like with the chameleon tongue, it was sort

709
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,720
Speaker 1: of a squeeze and shoot forward technique using the slippery

710
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: of friction energy built building up against that hard bone.

711
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: And then here it's like basically like a bow and arrow,

712
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: where it's shooting its legs backwards and then that propels

713
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: the body forward. It's very interesting how these animals basically cheat.

714
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: I feel like hearing all this isn't just making me

715
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: very insecure about my human body. Um, just like how

716
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: very little I can do with it. I can't push

717
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: a ball of poop bigger than my body mass. That's

718
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't like you can't jump like a hundred times

719
00:44:56,200 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: your own body length. You can't like orient yourself using

720
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: the sun by standing on poop. You can't shoot your

721
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: tongue out of your face like a rocket sled. A

722
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of shortcomings we have, you know.

723
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: But none of these animals can make podcast, So I

724
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: guess we do have that. That's true. That's true. That

725
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: you know, that's how I go to sleep at night. Like, sure,

726
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: sure you can you can get four hundreds of accelerations,

727
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: but can you speak into a microphone for about an

728
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: hour in a very very basic way? The evolutionary advantage

729
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: of like, I mean, I that was a joke. But

730
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: then when I think about it's like humans can spread

731
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: information quickly, So podcasting that's just kind of like an

732
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: evolution of spreading information. Yeah, we don't. We don't win

733
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: in terms of our bodies when it comes to nature

734
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: or floppy sort of flop flop around bodies. I mean,

735
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: our bodies are not to not to be too down

736
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: on our bodies. We are actually pretty good. One of

737
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: the things we're good at is long distance jogging and stamina,

738
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: and we've historically used that to great effect hunting. But yeah,

739
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: our true strength is our brains. And then you know,

740
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: like you said, like the brain stunts that we can do,

741
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: Like okay, so you're your legs are a slingshot, I

742
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: can just make a slingshot and kill you. But the

743
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: thing is, like the animals when they have these instincts,

744
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: they do it, and they tend to do it pretty straightforward,

745
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: like the instinctive they do it for survival. Like, yes,

746
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: we spread information, but oftentimes we spread bad information that's wrong.

747
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: So are there cases of animals where they're like, I've

748
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: evolved to tell you know, all my other honey bees

749
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: where the honey is, but some of them do it wrong.

750
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: They're like, no, it's here, and they're just wrong because

751
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what humans do, where we're like,

752
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: this is how to save the world, and it's like

753
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: that's bad. The world is not flat or whatever. You know, Oh,

754
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: absolutely that happens, and it's a It can be a

755
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: big problem that some animals have evolved solutions for. So

756
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: like with seagulls, seagulls will squawk at each other if

757
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: there is a threat, and they but some seagulls can

758
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: be a little bit paranoid, so they'll start squawking when

759
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: there's no threat, and seagulls actually learn which seagulls cry

760
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: wolf and will ignore them. So they they will learn

761
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: like the sound and look of the seagull that is

762
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: not good at detecting danger, and it's like, oh, that's

763
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: just frank, he doesn't know what he's talking about, and

764
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: they'll ignore that seagull. I love that our last really

765
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: awesome jumper of this section actually doesn't have any gross

766
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: body excretions, which I think, well, maybe they do, but

767
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a disappointment to me. I was

768
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: hoping this one would have some some some oozing going on,

769
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: but unfortunately, this is just an adorable animal that jumps

770
00:47:55,760 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: really well. So clip Springers are cute small antelope found

771
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: in southern and eastern Africa. It's about the size of

772
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: a medium dog and about eighteen to forty pounds and

773
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: a couple feet tall, So real huggable if they weren't

774
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: wild animals that don't want you to hug them at all.

775
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: Do you want to just like google an image of them?

776
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: Because they are very cute. I love these names. Yeah,

777
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: clip springer an acute name. It actually means in Afrikaans

778
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: rock jumper. So because they are very good at jumping

779
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: on rocks. That's their whole thing. Is it like a

780
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: because you know how goats jump on rocks? Is it is? It?

781
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: Is it goat like? It is in the way that

782
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: it does it? Yeah, it is goat like. It's not

783
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: directly it's like distantly related to goats, but they're you know,

784
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: pretty distant, but yeah, it is. They have similar capabilities

785
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 1: of a mountain goat. And they actually have these really

786
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: dainty little hoofs that are kind of cone shaped, almost

787
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: like you know ballet slippers, like the point shoes, and

788
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: how they're sort of shaped like these these long cones

789
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: with a really hard flat bottom, and it walks on

790
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: the tips of its little cylindrical hoofs and can leap

791
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: and land on very tiny little areas, so it can

792
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: leap from rock to rock and scale these sheer areas

793
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,760
Speaker 1: and are they're very graceful. Another cute cute thing about

794
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: them is they're actually monogamous and they practice the opposite

795
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: of social distancing with their partners because they apparently have

796
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 1: to be within sixteen feet or about five meters of

797
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: each other at all times or they start to panic.

798
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: So wow, that sounds like dependency. Yeah, it's a little clinging, right,

799
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: like you gotta you gotta let each other breathe. They can't,

800
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, But yeah, they I mean, they are a

801
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: very tempting knack for a variety of predators where they live.

802
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 1: So it does make sense that they because if they

803
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: do get out of their eyesight, there is a chance

804
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: one of them just gets gobbled up. But yeah, it's

805
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: it is. Oh and also, um, females tend to be

806
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: larger and heavier than males. So second antelope patriarchy, do

807
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 1: the females protect the males? I don't. I think that

808
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: their whole form of self defense is spring away as

809
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 1: fast as possible and scale the mountain as quickly as

810
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: they can. So I think that that's there, that's their

811
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: main thing. I think that the females and the males

812
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: both want to protect each other and want to stay

813
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: close and kind of like be able to alert each

814
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: other of danger as it's happening. So you know, there

815
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: there is a certain amount of um, you know, love

816
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 1: and care there, but it's basically like oops, we gotta

817
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: run now up This cliff was a video of a

818
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: a zoo had a couple of crip sorry, a couple

819
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: of clip springers, and they actually built them like this

820
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: little rock climbing wall so to enrich them, and they

821
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: put some some tasty leaves at the top for them

822
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: to get as sort of a form of enrichment. But

823
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: one of the clip springers, instead of like going up,

824
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: they created this like really interesting route for them, a

825
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: bunch of like rocks and like would steps and and

826
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: things like a really fun little path for them to

827
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: climb up. And one of them just basically leaned against

828
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: the this little climbing wall and reached its neck out

829
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: and grabbed the leaves and didn't do any things they

830
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: set up for them. And I found that I really

831
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: could relate to that. It's like it's like peeling all

832
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: the stickers off a Rubik's cube and putting them on

833
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: the right way. Like technically I got I got the goal. Yeah,

834
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: It's like I don't. It's like it's in a zoo.

835
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: It doesn't need a run. It's like, I don't need

836
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,280
Speaker 1: to do this. This is not like you you've taken

837
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: away my freedom. I'm not you think I still have ambition,

838
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: Like you think I'm gonna do your little games and

839
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 1: your little puzzles. No, now it's it's time for leaf time.

840
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna grab it. Uh huh. Animals are naturally

841
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: capable of some pretty incredible stunts, death defying jumps, and flips,

842
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: all during the course of their normal lives. Humans are well,

843
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: we get a nice participation trophy for effort. Just because

844
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: our floppy, fleshy bodies aren't the most impressive in the

845
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: Annual Kingdom doesn't mean we can't use our innovations to

846
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: achieve some pretty incredible and often stupidly dangerous stunts. In

847
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: Australian Felix bomb Gardner jumped out of a small capsule

848
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: attached to a huge weather balloon twenty four miles into

849
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: the sky, almost to the edge of the stratosphere. He

850
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: was the first human to reach supersonic speed without a vehicle.

851
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool and all, But when we return, we'll

852
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 1: talk about a tiny animal who reaches incredible speeds not

853
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: by falling, but by jumping through water uphill in a snowstorm. Okay,

854
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 1: maybe I made up that last part, but it's still

855
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: very impressive. We all know, please are great jumpers, especially

856
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: those of us who can sort with small furry animals

857
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,720
Speaker 1: who are walking buffets for fleas. They can jump around

858
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: fifty times their own body length, which is rather impressive.

859
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 1: But please our well dirty little cheaters. They don't use

860
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: their muscles. Instead, they use biotechnology. Inside their legs are

861
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: little springs. Their legs work similarly to the frog hopper

862
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: we discussed earlier. An elastic protein in its legs is

863
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: used as a slingshot to push its shins against the ground,

864
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: allowing it to catapult itself into the air and onto

865
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: the unsuspecting fury butt of my dog Cookie. But enough

866
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,919
Speaker 1: about these little cheating wine parasites. Let's take a look

867
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 1: at an animal who is the world best jumper in

868
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: the good old fashioned way. Using muscles, grit, and determinations. So, Teresa,

869
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: are you are you much of a swimmer? Much of

870
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: a uh, you know, diver swimmer? Um? You know, I

871
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: am a water sign um and I do have a

872
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: lot of water in my astrology chart, but I do

873
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,479
Speaker 1: not consider myself an excellent swimmer, though I do love

874
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 1: bean and water and I love water. Probably would drown

875
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: if I was being chased by swimmer. Yeah, yeah, I

876
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: I'm okay at swimming. When I was a kid, I

877
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: had a really bad experience at a water park where

878
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I went down a slide and then I got stuck

879
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: under a buoy and a lifeguard had to save me,

880
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: and then she scolded me for not knowing how to swim.

881
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: But I knew how swim. I just got stuck under

882
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 1: a buoy and it really embarrassed me. And I've had

883
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: sort of a bad, I don't know, I guess a

884
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: bad relationship with swimming ever since then. But you know

885
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: so well, and I know it sounds like it was

886
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 1: a lifeguards mishandling. I feel like, you know, she she

887
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 1: should have You're a child, I know, I feel like

888
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 1: shouldn't I know? It was not great, Like I look,

889
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: I appreciate her saving my life. Let me get that,

890
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: Let me get that out there first. Not no complaints

891
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: from me, you know, saving me, But it is your job.

892
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: It is in the title of the job, you know,

893
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: when it hurt to maybe And I was only like

894
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: six years old, so lifeguard, I mean, she should be

895
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: grateful she got to save your life. I know I'm

896
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: employing her. I'm giving her work to do by not

897
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:03,919
Speaker 1: being good at doing water park things. Yeah, but yeah,

898
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 1: it's uh, I'm always kind of jealous. I think of

899
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: sea creatures with the eaves that they glide through the water.

900
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: So I want to channel that jealousy into a learning journey.

901
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: We if you can't do teach, so I want to

902
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: talk about some of the best jumpers in the water,

903
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: and maybe the best jumpers in the entire world. So

904
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: these are called copa pods. Copa pods are small crustaceans

905
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: that are about the size of a flea, and they

906
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: look like freaky little spaceships with antenna and hair. I

907
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: shared an image with you here. They're they're interesting looking, right, Yeah,

908
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,919
Speaker 1: this is the almost like kind of like weird looking

909
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 1: butterflies spaceships maybe cat cat toys. Yeah, they kind of

910
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: look like cat toy is weird fishing lures, um some

911
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:08,399
Speaker 1: kind of like weird weird art, bad weird bad art.

912
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,720
Speaker 1: So not only are they as small as a flea,

913
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: many of them are actually parasites feeding on host fish. Uh.

914
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: And they are actually better jumpers than fleas, and fleas

915
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: are very good jumpers. So copa pods within milliseconds, can

916
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: accelerate to a thousand times their own body length. That

917
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: would be like the speed of a six foot tall

918
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: person jumping six thousand feet like six Eiffel towers stacked

919
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: on top of each other. So they need, yeah, they

920
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: need that amount of force to be able to move

921
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: quickly through the water. So when they jump like this,

922
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: they don't actually move a distance of six thousand times

923
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: their body size. It's just that's the speed at which

924
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: they are moving. So because the water slows them down,

925
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: or why aren't they Yeah, because the water slows them

926
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: down significantly, So they only move a few millimeters maybe

927
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: several times their own size, but at a ridiculous amount

928
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: of speed. And they can do this over and over

929
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: to either catch prey or dodge predators. Whoa, it's like

930
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: a little spermy or fish. It looks like a fish

931
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: with a huge poop coming out of it, but a

932
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: huge poopy tail. Yeah, with a bunch of legs and

933
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: a poop tail. Yeah, it doesn't look like it's swimming

934
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: very efficiently. That's that's the interesting Like the I think

935
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: it's I think it's slowed down, but it's like it

936
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: looks like it's quite a bit of effort the way

937
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, yeah, you know, it's not like just

938
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: like this is a video of a copa pod like

939
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: jumping out of the path of a fish. Okay, I

940
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: see it. Yeah, super fess. Oh it does go very far. Yeah,

941
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: it goes really really far for its body size, but

942
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: and it goes super fast. Like I think that video

943
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: is slowed down. So and when you're looking at them,

944
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: you were noticing how they're how weird it is that

945
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: they swim where like their legs seem to all be moving. Um,

946
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: so they actually throw back their five pairs of tiny

947
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: legs in sequence like a rowing team, and that actually

948
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: really helps. It's like it is similar to how rowing

949
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: teams work, like because you have all of those oars

950
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: all pushing back in sequence, you're propelling the boat forward.

951
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: As quickly as you can. And they actually have the

952
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: strongest leg muscles proportionate to their size in the animal kingdom,

953
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: being able to produce ten times the force of any

954
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: other animal studied, So they never skip leg day. Every

955
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: day is leg day. Yeah. And what's interesting is, like

956
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: the other a couple of other examples we've talked about

957
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: with like the with the frog hopper and with the

958
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: chameleon tongue, they use mechanical advantage to get that speed up,

959
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: like either a bowing and arrow kind of mechanism or

960
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: that like soap in your in your hand mechanism, but

961
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: they actually use their legs similar to a human jump

962
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: or kangaroo jump um where they just use the strength

963
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: of their leg muscles, which is really impressive. Like if

964
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 1: you compare them to a grasshopper where they actually have

965
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: a spring mechanism in their leg and that allows them

966
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: to jump so quickly. It's these little copa pods are

967
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: just using the sheer force of their swoll legs to

968
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: be able to jump through the water um. And they

969
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: have that torpedo like shape which also helps them cut

970
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:58,880
Speaker 1: through the water, which is really important because they're so tiny.

971
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 1: The water or the viscousness of the water, like the

972
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: thickness of the water is provides a lot of resistance

973
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:10,959
Speaker 1: to them because they're so small, water is really thick,

974
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: kind of like traveling through a ball pit or something.

975
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: So if they go slowly, the water surrounding them can

976
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: actually push away their prey, and by leaping so forcefully,

977
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: they can sneak up attack their prey and cut through

978
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: the water tension. It's always funny to me when it's like,

979
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: what is this. What animal has the strongest legs in

980
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: the animal kingdom? And you're thinking of like some crazy

981
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: rhinoceros with like huge muscly legs, and it's just this tiny,

982
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: weird like flea creature. It's almost like teleporting. It moves

983
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: so fast to not just displace the water around it.

984
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: I wonder it's like you know cats when they move slowly.

985
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen like when cats, like you turn

986
01:01:57,720 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: around and it's frozen, and then you turn it back

987
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: around but it's still frozen, and yeah, and they get

988
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: closer and closer. You're like you hide behind a wall

989
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 1: and then you like look over the cats like there,

990
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: and then you like look away and they think that

991
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,439
Speaker 1: they're moving, but maybe they're teleporting like the I think cat, well,

992
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, I think cats actually do slip into a

993
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 1: fourth dimension. But that's kind of its own whole own topic.

994
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 1: So next I want to talk about spinner dolphins. So

995
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: spinner dolphins are these amazing dolphins that can perform these

996
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: impressive aerial stunts. So it looks basically like a dolphin.

997
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: It's a little small. It's kind of a small dolphin

998
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:49,040
Speaker 1: with a long snout, and they are found in offshore

999
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 1: tropical waters, and as is common in most dolphins, they

1000
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: like to jump out of the water, but they put

1001
01:02:56,320 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: a spin on it. Literally, Yeah, they actually spin and

1002
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: rotate as they jump out of the water. So I

1003
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: are you checking out that video? It's very cool. I

1004
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: feel like I've seen Are they around like Kawaii? I

1005
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: feel like I saw these dolphins? Would I think they're

1006
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: all over the world, And yeah, they They're found all

1007
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 1: over the world and offshore tropical waters, so you think

1008
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: you may have seen these? Yeah, that's awesome. I love

1009
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: I love watching dolphins jump out of the water. I

1010
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: was on a whale watching boat trip out to the

1011
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: Channel Islands and just kind of circled them and there

1012
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: were these huge pods of I think bottle knows dolphins,

1013
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: and they were just it was incredible because they were

1014
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 1: these massive, like feeding frenzies, and it's always really fun

1015
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: to watch them. But I didn't get to see any

1016
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: spinner dolphins, which is too bad. But they will travel

1017
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: hundreds of miles a day, and they will often leap

1018
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: and spin outside of the water as if they're showboating.

1019
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: It really looks like they are just showing off how

1020
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: incredibly cool and good at stunts they are. Yeah, they're

1021
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 1: just Dolphins are very interesting because they're so cute but

1022
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: so vicious. Well they're they're vicious to prey items and

1023
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: sometimes each other. They've got some weird I feel like

1024
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of weird predatorial stuff about dolphins.

1025
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: They do like to play with their food, but so

1026
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: do cats, so you know, I think it's a double standard.

1027
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 1: We're like, look at the cat. It's so cute. It's

1028
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 1: like shredding a yarn ball, like and the cat is

1029
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: imagining the yarn ball is just the guts, the guts

1030
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 1: strewn around of a mouse. And but then a dolphin

1031
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: plays with its food and like tortures a seal and

1032
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, that terrible dolphin. But you know, I

1033
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 1: don't know, I thineah, we we are pretty fucked up

1034
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: to as humans because like chicken nuggets. If you think

1035
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: about it, we're taking chicken and making it into the

1036
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: shape of um, extinct dinosaurs. And that's just a fun

1037
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 1: thing we do four kids. Yeah, that's kind of messed up.

1038
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: Who's the real monster? A dolphin innocently torturing a seal

1039
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: or us turning chicken into paste that we form into

1040
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: the shapes of fun things. You know, probably both actually,

1041
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: But anyways, so they can often spin multiple rotations, like

1042
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 1: over three hundred and sixty degrees. It is really spectacular.

1043
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:34,479
Speaker 1: You guys have to watch a video of these guys.

1044
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: All include a link to a video. Actually saw. One

1045
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: of the videos I saw is that like show Spy

1046
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: on the Wild where they they had like a robot

1047
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: fish swim around to capture the dolphins movements. But I

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01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: think the dolphins are happy enough to like show off

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01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: their cool moves to like a human. I don't think

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01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:57,439
Speaker 1: you need the subterfuge of a robot fish. So they

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01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: have these incredibly strong abdominal muscles so they can rapidly

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01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: beat their tails, launch themselves out of the water, and

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01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 1: spin around, and scientists aren't really sure why they do this.

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01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: Like most dolphin jumping, the exact reason behind these spins

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01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 1: isn't really well known to researchers, but it's suspected that

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01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: it has something to do with maybe removing parasites, maybe communication,

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01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: or maybe just like for fun. I'm kind of I

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01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: kind of think they they're showing off, what a broad

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01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: range of different Yeah, yeah, I think they're showoffs personally. Yeah,

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01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: I could see that. Our last water stunt, I want

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01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: to talk about our some Jesus spiders hallelujah. So but

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01:06:54,080 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: would you hate a spider who's actually Jesus though? Could you? Uh?

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01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: Probably because then it could come back to life. Yeah,

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01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: well I am This Jesus spider is just gonna turn

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01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: the other chilis array, which is you know, spider sang

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01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: thingies on its face. Anyways, So Jesus spiders, Um, well,

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01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 1: actually nobody calls them that but me. These are actually

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01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 1: called fishing spiders and they can walk on water. And

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01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 1: you know, I think I for one welcome the coming

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01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: of spider Christ. But you know, you can be blasphemous

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Speaker 1: if you choose, Teresa. So it's so big. I'm watching

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01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: the video and it's so big. So fishing spiders are

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01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: a genus of large semi aquatic spiders. Teresa's freaking out.

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01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 1: How's it going, I'm washing the spider video. It's so nasty. Okay, cool.

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01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: So some species grow up to three inches in diameter,

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01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 1: including the legs, and typically these large ones are the ladies.

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01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:12,439
Speaker 1: Because the ladies are larger than the males, they are

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01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: lightweight and covered in hydrophobic hairs, so it makes skittering

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01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: across the surface of water easy peasy. So they will

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01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 1: wait near the edge of a body of fresh water

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01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: and then display their legs on the surface of the water,

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01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 1: kind of feeling for vibrations like they would with a web.

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01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 1: They're just like basically, their legs are sonar and they're

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01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: waiting to sense movement, and once they sense movement, they

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01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: will dash out onto the surface of the water towards

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01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 1: their prey, which could be like an insect, like an

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01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 1: aquatic insect, larva could be a small fish. They're actually

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01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 1: known to be able to catch small fish, and they

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01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: uh probably trick their prey into thinking that they're Jesus

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01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: because they can walk on water, but then they just

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01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 1: eat them, so they can even dive under the water.

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01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:11,719
Speaker 1: And because their hairs are so hydrophobic, meaning they repel water,

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01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: they are actually buoyant, so they have to claw their

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01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 1: way under the water by holding onto a plant, and

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01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: air will cling to their hydrophobic fuzz, which gives them

1096
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:28,720
Speaker 1: like this silvery like silver surfer silver sheen, and they

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01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 1: will breathe through that trapped air, and then when they

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01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 1: want to surface, they just pop out of the water

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01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: like a cork, emerging dry because of their hydrophobic hairs.

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01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,599
Speaker 1: This sounds we should get rid of them. I feel

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01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 1: like they sound like they have too much power. It

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01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: sounds sounds like you don't accept our Lord and Savior Jesus. Spider,

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01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: this is you know. Do you remember that? Do you

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01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 1: remember that sand like the the I think it's like

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01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: called zand like with a z zand where you could

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01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: put it underwater, but it had like a waxy coating,

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: so you would make these designs underwater and then pull

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01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: the sand out and it was dry. No, I don't

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01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 1: think I had that. Were you even alive in the nineties, Teresa,

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01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 1: I remember the sticky hands I don't remember the sand.

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01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: I didn't get a lot of fat, the fat because

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01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:26,519
Speaker 1: I feel like these were not allowed. You're you weren't

1113
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: allowed to have sand stuffed animals and monopoly, but you

1114
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 1: were deprived sand as a toy. That's a lot of

1115
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: I just had the natural sand from the beach, I see,

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01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: I see. No, I had the fancy sand you could

1117
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: put underwater and pull out and it was like dry

1118
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 1: and it was really cool. But then if you like

1119
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: played with it too much, it lost that like coating

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01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 1: that made it dry, and then it would just get

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01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: wet and then it was like expensive normal sand. But

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01:10:55,120 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: basically this sand is like the spider gotchat of that.

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01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 1: And they're actually pretty interesting because they can test the

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01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: surface of the water with their legs, like I mentioned before,

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01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 1: and they're so sensitive they can actually tell the difference

1126
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 1: between what is causing the vibrations, so they'll ignore things

1127
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: like falling leaves. And they also know to flee the

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01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:24,600
Speaker 1: movement of large fish like a trout that's going to

1129
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 1: eat them, and if it's but if it's got that

1130
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:30,719
Speaker 1: nice perfect vibration like a little insect or a little fish,

1131
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: they know to get on over there and eat them

1132
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 1: up and some of them have even created drag lines

1133
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 1: made out of silk so they don't overshoot their prey,

1134
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:43,559
Speaker 1: which I find kind of cute actually, because they're like,

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,559
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of kind of like bungee jumping,

1136
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 1: but across the water sounds demonic. It sounds like they

1137
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:56,320
Speaker 1: are too smart for you know, you know, if if

1138
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 1: Jesus came back, and I'm not a religious person, but

1139
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:03,800
Speaker 1: if Jesus came ac and was a giant spider, you know,

1140
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:08,680
Speaker 1: nobody would nobody would, uh know, we we would just

1141
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: ignore the second Coming of Jesus because it's a giant

1142
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: spider and were so superficial that were like your giant

1143
01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 1: Harry spider. You you could your you must be bad.

1144
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:23,599
Speaker 1: And he's like healing people, walking on water, making bread

1145
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: and wine and fish like look this, this this spider

1146
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 1: literally fishes and teaches teaches you how to fish by

1147
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: walking on water. Very christ like, I think, Okay, yeah,

1148
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: I guess I could see that connection. Yeah, yeah, see

1149
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: what I mean. And then yeah, okay, but the part

1150
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: where it eats that frog, that that that freaks me

1151
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 1: out a little bit. Well, you know, even even even

1152
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: the Messiah isn't perfect the spider Messiah, you know, and

1153
01:12:57,120 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 1: maybe that frog is evil. You don't know that it's true.

1154
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: That's very possible. See that little tiny, little like snidy

1155
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: whiplash mustache on that frog. I think that's an evil frog. Well, Teresa,

1156
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 1: that is it for the scary spiders and all the

1157
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 1: other things. Um, did what did you learn anything fun today?

1158
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: I did? I learned a lot. I learned to sleep

1159
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: with one I opened when I'm around a body of

1160
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: water rice the spiders are around. But no, I learned

1161
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 1: a lot. I learned a lot about tongues and and

1162
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 1: uh that's and all the other things. See learned a

1163
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: lot about tongues. That's this is this is the true

1164
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: value of this podcast. Well you got anything to plug Teresa?

1165
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I have a podcast, Todd, you can tell

1166
01:13:54,600 --> 01:14:00,720
Speaker 1: me anything. Um, it's not apparently not spiders can't tell

1167
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: you about Christ's spiders. Well, you know the second part

1168
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: of it is I will still judge you is sky,

1169
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 1: But I was m No. It's comedians confessing something they

1170
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:13,719
Speaker 1: want to get off their chest. Um, usually a secret something.

1171
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: It's always heavy, sometime to light and dumb. Yeah, and

1172
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 1: then we get into it that's that's really cool. Yeah,

1173
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 1: well I love your podcast. Thanks. Oh yeah, I guess

1174
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: you could follow me too, just personally, Larissa Tea. It's

1175
01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: like Theresa Lee, but the first letters are switched. Yes,

1176
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:32,799
Speaker 1: you can you pull a little switch through on Twitter.

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01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 1: Hand well, you can find us on the internet at

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Speaker 1: Creature feature Pot on Instagram, at Creature feet Pot on Twitter.

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01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 1: That's f F E T. That's something very different. And

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Speaker 1: if you're interested in my Katie thoughts, I'm at Katie

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Speaker 1: Golden on Twitter and I'm also at pro bird Writes,

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01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: where I am definitely a human being and not a

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01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: flow the birds in a lady suit. Oh. Also, guys,

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01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening. If you feel like

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01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 1: doing it, if you rate, review, download, subscribe. Those really

1186
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Speaker 1: and that really helps me out and it also just

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Speaker 1: makes me feel good. It pumps up my ego. It's like, man,

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Speaker 1: maybe I do have a rocket sled tongue when it

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