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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 well, I want to be the

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Speaker 1: very best like one was, catch them real, test to them,

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Speaker 1: because I will travel across the land searching for and

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Speaker 1: why just understand the power that's side creature. Mind, gott it,

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Speaker 1: catch your mof I know it's odestiny creature man. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you're my best friend in a world we must have

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Speaker 1: fan from bad podcast. Oh. Yes, Today we're talking about

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Speaker 1: Pokemon animals. These creatures are even more unbelievable than those

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Speaker 1: fantastic little pocket monsters. I'm talking cute little critters, more crazy.

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Speaker 1: Look at them, Pikachu. See animals that seem too cute

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Speaker 1: to be real and behavior that you'd think you'd only

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Speaker 1: find in the pokadecks. We'll be looking at ground type,

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Speaker 1: water type, and bug type animals, and we'll try to

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Speaker 1: see if any Pokemon come close to how wild these

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Speaker 1: real animals are. To discover this and more as we

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Speaker 1: answer the Agel question, are there cute little bunnies under

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Speaker 1: the sea spoilers? Yes, So Pokemon is a great game

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Speaker 1: for inspiring people about evolutionary biology. Now, I've got to

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Speaker 1: be honest. I never played the card game as a kid,

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Speaker 1: but I loved watching the TV show and I absolutely

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Speaker 1: adore all those little pocket monsters. As someone who cares

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Speaker 1: deeply about evolutionary biology, I love that so many kids,

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Speaker 1: and let's be honest, huge numbers of adults are into Pokemon.

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Speaker 1: I think it proves that we're deep down biodiversity nerds.

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Speaker 1: I love that Pokemon not only shows off creativity and

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Speaker 1: imagining what creatures look like, but their behaviors as well,

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Speaker 1: their defensive strategies, their strengths and weaknesses, their natural predators.

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Speaker 1: Is Pokemon secretly training an army of young evolutionary biologists?

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Speaker 1: Joining me to discuss this nerdy conspiracies? Audio engineer, editor

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Speaker 1: and producer right here at iHeart Radio, Dan Goodman, Katie,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me. Of course, it's

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Speaker 1: long overdue, you said at this podcasts, I never gave

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Speaker 1: you a shout out. That's wrong of me. It was

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Speaker 1: a pleasure to edit your podcast. Every episode was oh

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Speaker 1: before we begin. I'm trying to do this at the

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Speaker 1: I do what is that prize? My My appreciation isn't done.

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Speaker 1: So now onto the Pokemon. Gosh, I'm so excited. This

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Speaker 1: is This is uh long an episode I've long wanted

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Speaker 1: to do, actually, and I'll probably do another one like

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Speaker 1: this again at some point because there's just too many

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Speaker 1: animals who look like Pokemon. Part of the reason is

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Speaker 1: I think that the creators of Pokemon are really creative

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Speaker 1: and they actually draw inspiration from nature, and I just

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Speaker 1: love that. It's it's really amazing. So first, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about I guess everyone's favorite Pokemon Pikachu um sweet little

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Speaker 1: sweet little electric type. Yes, and like the Piachu is

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Speaker 1: who looks like kind of like a peach mixed with

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Speaker 1: it is bright yellow with black streaks. It is uh

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Speaker 1: So while they all distantly share a common ancestor way back,

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Speaker 1: It's something humans do. It's called worm fiddling, worm fiddling,

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Speaker 1: and animals use it all the time. Birds other insectivorous

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Speaker 1: is tippy tap behavior. I'm sure is varied, but this

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Speaker 1: They like, they gotta scoop because they don't want it.

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Speaker 1: Like if rain permeates the ground, they can actually drown,

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Speaker 1: so they want to get up to the surface. But then, oh,

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Speaker 1: eating them up? Want want? Yes. So. Also another cute

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Speaker 1: by mothers to communicate with her young. Yes, yeah, does

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Speaker 1: that seem like a made up thing? Like, oh this

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Speaker 1: it seems very animates. Yeah, they're actually the only mammal

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Speaker 1: known to use stridulation, which is where you produce sound

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Speaker 1: by rubbing body parts together. So that's something crickets do.

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Speaker 1: so I don't know Pokemon like, yes, I mean keep

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Speaker 1: is just cartoonishly cute, like don't bother me and just

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Speaker 1: Does it also go turn turn? I wish I wish

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Speaker 1: that's another thing. I want to do a whole episode

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Speaker 1: on animals whose name is the same as just the

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Speaker 1: sound they made, like whipper wills, Yeah, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: what or the go away bird. There's a great go

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Speaker 1: away bird that in the reason it's called the Great

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Speaker 1: go away bird is it has a call that sounds

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Speaker 1: like are you serious? I'm serious, it's called the Great

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Speaker 1: goat away. It's like, I'm all about that. There's a

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Speaker 1: video that my friend showed me where it's a cat

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Speaker 1: going Southern cat exactly. Ever since then, I'm just looking

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Speaker 1: the generation that remembers the O Long Johnson cat who

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Speaker 1: this is I think it ages me though I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: there with you, It's okay. So, as I was looking

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Speaker 1: it's super that's that's your tender right there there. It

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Speaker 1: well safe search on. I think be prepared some there's

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Speaker 1: and Pikachu lovingly looking into each other's eyes, completely nude.

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Speaker 1: now I want to move on to another Pokemon esque animal,

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Speaker 1: because that's what this episode is indeed. And do you

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Speaker 1: know that that Pokemon worlapede um that sounds familiar? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Is it? Is it any relation to Polly Whirl? I

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Speaker 1: it's like it's like the tire one it's got Yes,

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Speaker 1: a man there's some fans who are listening to be like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not like Polly World. I am actually going to

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Speaker 1: call that talk about polywag. But this is not this

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Speaker 1: is not the time. No, this is worlapede time. And

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Speaker 1: so there is an animal called the armadillo girdled lizard,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna show it. I'm like, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to let the pictures speak for themselves. These animals are identical. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that is the worlapeede right there. Oh my god, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go. Is it biting its tail? Yes, yes, So

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Speaker 1: as always, all include links to photos, and you can

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Speaker 1: see what you find in You will be pleased to

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Speaker 1: see the the armadillo gurgle lizards. But I will use

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Speaker 1: I will use my mouth words to try to do

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Speaker 1: this animal justice, but I simply can't. You do have

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Speaker 1: to look at a photos. So they are a chunky,

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Speaker 1: spiky lizard who bites its own tail to form a ball.

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Speaker 1: They are very thorny looking. Like looking little dragons, sort

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Speaker 1: of like a Game of Thrones dragons, very chunky, and

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Speaker 1: they have interlocking cylinders of chunky geometric spikes. They are

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Speaker 1: very cool. They're sort of a dusty gray, dusty brown again,

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Speaker 1: like little tiny baby Game of Thrones dragons, but in

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Speaker 1: little balls. Yeah, I mean, that's that. That's that sounds

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Speaker 1: like a great description to me, thank you. They are

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Speaker 1: They live with large families and they sunbathed together, very cute.

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Speaker 1: sequence genomes from the human coronavirus and found a match

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Speaker 1: to the pengulin coronavirus and suspect it jumped from pegulin

420
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: to human. However, other researchers urge caution in jumping to conclusions.

421
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: It's yet to have been conclusively proven that pengulins are

422
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: the culprit, but the suspicion that penguins are the root

423
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: of the coronavirus might actually help them. China has banned

424
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: the trade of wildlife as food in response to the

425
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: potential that the virus came from the wildlife market. However,

426
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: pengulin scales are often used in traditional medicine, so it's

427
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 1: feared that poachers might exploit a loophole in the new law,

428
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: possibly allowing them to still trade in pengulin as long

429
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: as it's for medicinal purposes. On the other hand, perhaps

430
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: paranoia over pegulin pathogen sorry will make them go out

431
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: of fashion as medicine. Already, the Ivory Coast burned three

432
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: tons of the eugally poached penguin scales that were seized. Maybe,

433
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: now that our human butts are on the line, we'll

434
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: also care about those penguin pine cone butts. When we return,

435
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: We're going to dive right into some water type pokemon,

436
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: and let me tell you, their butts are very cute.

437
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: Why do I keep talking about butts? Anyways, We'll be

438
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: right back. So why has got to catch them all?

439
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: Such a human need? The psychology of collecting is a

440
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: whole field of research also in economics, from Pokemon to

441
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 1: humble figurines to Garfield paraphernalien just for example, humans love

442
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: to collect things. Obviously, resource gathering or financial benefit is

443
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: one reason to collect, but it's not the only, or

444
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 1: even the main reason. The urge for set completion has

445
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: been studied in economics literature, and while it's loosely tied

446
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: to financial gain, it seems motivated more by the satisfaction

447
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: of completion, and like ash catchum, the goal of becoming

448
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: the ideal collector i e. A Pokemon master is also

449
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: a major motivator for collection. The closer collector gets to

450
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: being a master, the more benefits it brings to self esteem.

451
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: You know what else? Improve your self esteem knowing that

452
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: you share a planet with the sea bunny. Are you

453
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: ready to talk about some sea bunnies? Yes, I know

454
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: it's not quite Easter yet, but I'm about about it.

455
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: We are talking about sea bunnies. They are adorable little

456
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: seed dwelling animals who look like bunnies made out of marshmallow. Dan,

457
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of a sea bunny? Uh? No,

458
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: I haven't heard of a sea monkey. But I hear

459
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: those are not chill. They're not chill. They're fine. I

460
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: think a brine shrimp mostly um. But yeah, so I

461
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: don't think you are prepared to see it. I really,

462
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: I really, I'm complete. Prepare your self. I'm coming around

463
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: to melt into a puddle. That is a thing to

464
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: describe the experience you're having right now to the listener.

465
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a spotted cotton ball with the cutest

466
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: little ears I've ever seen, that lives underwater. How does

467
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: it feel to transcend? I guess this this life form

468
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: into like to to see, to see the perfect animal?

469
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: How does it feel? I mean, I've truly never wanted

470
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: to pet something in my entire life. This is the

471
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: cutest little thing. Also, does it have eyes? Yes, sort

472
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: of kind of. Let's let's let's explain what's going on

473
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: one picture, just so you can see it's a little

474
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: It looks like it's stretching in that picture. It is yeah,

475
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: oh oh right, sorry, I haven't even more pictures of

476
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: its own. God, look at that, but look at waite.

477
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: It looks like the butt almost resembles like an It's

478
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: got a little contail man of v b pre coma deoishi.

479
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: It's so cute. So the sea bunny their scientific name

480
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: is Jerona parva, which is the last time I'll ever

481
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: be calling them that, because sea bunny is the best name.

482
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: Guys already forgot. Sea bunnies are actually a type of

483
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: new to brink, which are in turn a type of

484
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: sea slug. So new to brinks are soft but bodied

485
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: marine gastropod mollusks, which are related to terrestrial snails and slugs.

486
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: Practice your bunnies. So they are found off the coast

487
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: of Japan, and they went viral in Japan in like

488
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: people could not stop talking about the sea bunnies on

489
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: the Internet and I want to bring sea bunny madness

490
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: to the US or wherever you're listening to this broadcast.

491
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: We're bringing it global. We're bringing sea bunnies are going

492
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: global love bunny mania. So sea bunnies look like little

493
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: white bunny rabbits with black tipped ears and fur covered

494
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: in black spots and a feathery, little cotton ball tail.

495
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: And also some of them come in lemon flavor. What,

496
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. Actually the lemon flavored ones I think

497
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: are more common than the white ones. Um, the standard marsha, Yes,

498
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: the standard marshmallow lemon is everywhere it's it's hot these days.

499
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: They are teeny weeny teeny teeny tiny, teeny tiny. They're

500
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: about the size of a thumbnail. Yes, So this is

501
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: the kind of tininess that I love because they're big

502
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: enough for you to see with the naked eye and

503
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: see all their features in detail with just your eye,

504
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: but tiny enough to fit on your fingers. Truly, the

505
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: pockets nous of monsters. There's such a pocket monster that

506
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: they can fit in that little fake pocket that girl

507
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: that girl jeans have. Yeah, they can, They're right in there.

508
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: So their bunny ears are actually rhinofores which are antenna

509
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: like structures, which are chemosensory organs, which is a fancy

510
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: way of saying that they can smell and taste the water.

511
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: They can be used to detect food mates, and they

512
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: can even detect the current of water. A lot of

513
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: complex science going on in them little bunny ears. Yeah,

514
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: they're that Like those little fur is actually fleshy protuberances

515
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: known as papillae, which are thought to be used as

516
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: sensory organs. All those scientists kind of strug when it's like, well,

517
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: what are they sensing? It's like probably and that feathery,

518
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: little cotton ball tail on their butts is actually their

519
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: gills breathe out of their body, breathing out their butts.

520
00:32:53,200 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: That tushy does a lot of work breathing out that tushy.

521
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: That's really actually new to Braak means um nude braink

522
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: which is like the term for basically like exposed gills,

523
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: So so branch brank, you know, have that branch, so

524
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: like expose gills. So interesting. Yeah, So they eat sea

525
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: sponges and they actually ingest toxins from sea sponges that

526
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: they borrow and use as their own defensive toxins. So

527
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: even though they're teeny tiny and they look like cute

528
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: little edible marshmallows, and they even come a limit flavor,

529
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: they actually come in in ikey poison flavor. It's danger

530
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: flavor because you cannot eat these guys. They will hurt.

531
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: That's honestly. I'll tell you what. When you said that

532
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: they went viral in Japan, I was worried that it

533
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: was because something. No, no, no, they are disgusting in taste,

534
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: very good. It's it is, it's like it's such a

535
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: relief because they will never be eaten. So like other

536
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: New to Branks, they are actually hermaphrodites, which means that

537
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: they possess both male and female reproductive organs, and they

538
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: kind of just like when they're mating, they kind of

539
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: just sword fight and just spar and then like whoever

540
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: gets what nozzle and war gets what nozzle and wear. Yeah,

541
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. So the competition for sex is it's

542
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: it's just trying to get their nozzles in all the places. Yeah,

543
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: I know, he just you know, getting where you offended

544
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: as it were, Yeah, I remember college. But they are

545
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: oh man, they are just so cute. I just I

546
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: am so in love. I feel like every time this happens,

547
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: like I know that I keep falling in love with

548
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: these animals, and then I'm like, I'm like, oh, this

549
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: is my favorite animal. Now this is my favorite animal.

550
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: But right now this is my favorite animal right now

551
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: in my heart. My heart is full of cease. Just

552
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: also thinking about the fact that it is this big.

553
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: Is the size of a thumbnail. You couldn't say you

554
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: could fill your hands with thousands of So now I

555
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: want to talk about another sea slug, the sheep belief

556
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: sea slug that looks like a doofy leafy cow Pokemon,

557
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: a doofy leafy cow Pokemon. Oh, before I do move on,

558
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 1: I do want to say that I guess like all

559
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: new to branks kind of look like shellos the Pokemon. Okay, yeah, yeah,

560
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 1: and c slugs too. So so this, uh, this ceasel

561
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: like I don't think actually qualifies as a new to

562
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: brank another classification thing that you know that I have

563
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: no idea how that works, but I don't actually know.

564
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not it doesn't matter. But the other the

565
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: other pokemon like thing about the sheep leaf cea slug

566
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: is it looks hand drawn. It looks it looks like

567
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: an anime, even beyond just Pokemon. It looks like someone

568
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: drew it as an anime. And I think you'll understand

569
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: once I show you a picture of it. Holy smokes.

570
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: Yeah it's I mean, yeah, a thousand person. It looks

571
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: like a sheep that's going like green hair super sayan

572
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: three out there, and it's face looks like a poorly

573
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,240
Speaker 1: drawn cow face. It almost looks like Um the Wallace

574
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: and Granma Sheep. Yes, it looks like Sewan the Sheet. Yeah,

575
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: Shawn the Sheep, and it is h So that thing

576
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 1: is gorgeous. It is beautiful too, so like many Pokemon

577
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 1: like Bulbasore, Burmi Chikarita, the sheep leaf sea slug looks

578
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: like it's covered in leaves. Yes, its face looks like

579
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: a poorly drawn cartoon cow or Shawn the Sheep. It's

580
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: got these two close set doofy little cartoon eyes. It

581
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: has long ears and pink nostrils. Of course, while it

582
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: looks like a cow face, these features function very different.

583
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: So the ears are actually Rhino four's like we talked

584
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: about before. They're they taste and smell. The eyes actually

585
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: are I spots, although they probably can't see very well.

586
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: So the same thing with the sea bunny. They have

587
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: probably a couple of eye spots somewhere, but they don't

588
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: use them as much, I think as their other sensory organs.

589
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: So the nostrils appear to be small oral tentacles. I

590
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: couldn't actually find like a definitive anatomy of these guys,

591
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: but I do believe those are their oral tentacles. But

592
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: they're kind of pink, so they look they look like nostrils. Uh.

593
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 1: So they are actually a species of Sacco Glossa, which

594
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: are sea slugs who ingest algae. So, uh, some species

595
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: of these seco Glossa, the sheep leaf sea slug included,

596
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: actually steal chloroplasts from the algae that they eat and

597
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: incorporate it into their own bodies and they use them

598
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: for to synthesis. Was wow, this is called kleptoplasty, where

599
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 1: it's like me, it's like literally, you're stealing the plasty um.

600
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, they are stealing chloroplasts, incorporating them into their body,

601
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 1: and then they use their ability to photosynthesize and steal

602
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: that energy. Yeah, oh my god. So I mean, are

603
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: those more or less actual petals on the back of

604
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: the They function the same way that leaves do in

605
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: a way. Yeah yeah, yeahzing wild. That's incredible and so

606
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: and some species of the Psychoglossa, the chloroplasts are stored

607
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: in uh, these big fan like wings, so they look

608
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: like the big, big leaves. But in other species, including

609
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: the sheep leaf sea slug, it is stored in the serata,

610
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: which are the fleshy structures all over its body that

611
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: looks like leaves. Like I would say, these kinds they

612
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: look like a a cool hip succulent that you would

613
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: get totally yes, with a little cow face it is.

614
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: It's incredible, it's so adorable. That's funny. And speaking of

615
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: pokemon that have plants grown on them, because there seemed

616
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: to be a lot of them, there are you know

617
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: the grottle Yes, so I believe the grottle is based

618
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,479
Speaker 1: on the real life fact that algae actually does grow

619
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 1: on turtles sometimes. Yeah so, uh, many species of aquatic

620
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: turtle actually do grow algae on their heads and backs.

621
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: And Mary river turtles are an endangered turtle found in Australia.

622
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: Who uh, there are viral photos of these guys with

623
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: a lot of algae growing on them. In one you

624
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: may have seen this before. It's the one that has

625
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 1: like a mohawk. Yeah, he's got a mohawk made out

626
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: of algae, and it's not I mean, this individual, I

627
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: think is pretty special because there it's not like all

628
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: merry river turtles will have an algae mohawk, which just

629
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: happens to have one, and but that we know of

630
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: it that we know, well, yeah, I mean they're like

631
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 1: the the algae does grow on many species of turtles

632
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: and it's just like, you know, it's possible. Yeah, it's possible. Uh,

633
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: and they they'll grow on their backs as well. So yeah,

634
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: it's the fun little little Pokemon fact about how like

635
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: they really do borrow a lot of stuff from actual

636
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: actual biology, which I love. Another one is polywag and

637
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: it is based on the tadpole. And you know polywogs

638
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: got that big circle and actually, uh, tadpoles have spirals

639
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: on their tummies as well. So here's a photo yo

640
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:42,720
Speaker 1: what yeah, so and it's it's a big, big, little

641
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: little spiral just like yes, just right there like that,

642
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: And that is something that seems like the most far

643
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: fetched when it comes to Pokemon reference. But that's also

644
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: just it feels the most like out of bounds of

645
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: like reality read like this like small blue creatures like, okay,

646
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: that could be a tadpole, but this giant spiral on

647
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: the bell act. It seems like like the cartoonish element

648
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: of like, oh, this is an animal, so we're gonna

649
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: draw spirals on everything. But yeah, no, So what that is,

650
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: sorry to say is actually it's intestines. Oh delicious. Yeah,

651
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: that you can see through its belly because the skin

652
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: on its belly is thin and translucent, so you can

653
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: actually see that coiled up intestines. And that's why there's

654
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: spiral on it. To me, Yeah, but now when you

655
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: look at a Pollywag Pokemon, just think that's probably stestic

656
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: It's belly is exposed. Cool, you could see the pook

657
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: go through, Yes, you can. Pollwag used visible PI super effective,

658
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: the enemy ran away? Could Pokemon help save the planet? EO. Wilson,

659
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: one of the most highly regarded evolutionary biologists of our time,

660
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: believes in biophilia. That is the idea that humans have

661
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: an innate desire to discover and catalog living creatures. In

662
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: other words, we got to catch them all. A study

663
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 1: by Blam ford at All, published in Science looked at

664
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: whether children were better at identifying real animals or Pokemon

665
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: in flash cards. Surprise, surprise, the kids were great at

666
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: ideing Pokemon and not as strong as ideing real animals.

667
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: I don't think this is anything to feel sad about.

668
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: It shows children have a great capacity to learn about

669
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: and categorize animals, even if they are imaginary. It just

670
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: means that we have to think as educators how to

671
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: appeal to kids, because they'll soak things up like little

672
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: sponges if they're motivated enough. So I humbly propose that

673
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: scientists work with artists to make Pokemon like cartoons of

674
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: real life incredible animals, maybe even a card game based

675
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: on their real life traits. Or at the very least, teachers,

676
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: let your students know how many of our real life

677
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: animals are even cooler than Pokemon. When we return, I'll

678
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: prove this to you by bugging out over some real

679
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: life bug type Pokemon. The charming thing about Pokemon isn't

680
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: just their looks, but all their varied behaviors. Do Pieder,

681
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 1: the spider shaped Pokemon, has a bubble of water over

682
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: its head. It can use as a defense against fire attacks.

683
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: Lots of Pokemon have ridiculous looking defensive horns or use

684
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: light to attract, pray or ward off enemies. Some pokemon,

685
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 1: like Cubane, even wears a skull as a helmet. These

686
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: are fantastical imaginings of behavior, or maybe they're just a

687
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: cheap rip off of real life animals. So yeah, I'm

688
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: going to talk about real life animal behavior in some

689
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: of these bug type pokemon that seems like it be

690
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: found in the Pokadex is one of them. Like, yes,

691
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm not ready. You are and you

692
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: must be yourself down. So first I'll ease you into

693
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: it by talking first about the diving bell Spider. Yeah,

694
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: so this one is like the Dupider. Yes, and the

695
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: dupider is sort of a spider like Pokemon. It's got

696
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: like a little bulb of water over its head and

697
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: it's but the diving bell Spider is like the opposite.

698
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: It has a bulb of air that it keeps on

699
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: his little body. So I am going to bet big

700
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: money that the Dupider is actually based on the diving

701
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: bell Spider. I think that that these whoever these are

702
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: these people at Pokemoning the Pokemon creator that pump these

703
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: guys out. They are really good at driving inspiration from

704
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: real animal and if they aren't, like that's still pretty

705
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: great that they are. The serendipity is too much convergent

706
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: evolution of Pokemon. So dupider has that water bubble on

707
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: its head, and the diving bell spider is the opposite.

708
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: It has a bubble of air that it constructs using

709
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: silk and collected air, and it actually is able to

710
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: hold water on its body and breathe it underwater. So

711
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: the diving bell spider is found in fresh bodies of

712
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: water in Europe and Asia, and it's the only species

713
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: of spider that lives almost in its entire life underwater.

714
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: It only surfaces to get more oxygen for its bubble,

715
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: so it hunts, it eats prey, it mates, it lays eggs,

716
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:40,240
Speaker 1: and even sleeps underwater. And it is an air breathing animal,

717
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: so when submerged, air becomes trapped on its body by

718
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: chiny teeny tiny hydrophobic hairs, and it kind of looks

719
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: like it's wearing this silver suit. It's actually very beautiful.

720
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: Let me show you. I feel like I've seen a

721
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: video of this thing WHOA, Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's beautiful.

722
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: It's this shiny, silvery But in order for it to

723
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: actually have a constant supply of oxygen, it constructs a

724
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: diving bell. So first of all, I want to talk

725
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: about how spiders breathe because I kind of have to

726
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 1: know that before understanding how this works. So spiders breathe

727
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: through their abdomen, either with book lungs, which are small

728
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: slitted openings in their abdomen that take an oxygen, or

729
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 1: through spiricles, which in a trachea. So those are small

730
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: openings and like a tube in their abdomen. They both

731
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: work in a similar way where they kind of passively,

732
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: like oxygen kind of just comes in there. They breath through.

733
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: The bees breathe through their bellies and they don't. It's

734
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: not like a human where they're just like, you know,

735
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: sucking in air like that. It's just kind of like

736
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: coming in through through these lungs on their abdomen. I'm uncomfortable. Yes,

737
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: So if you are a spider and you want to breathe,

738
00:46:55,239 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: you want to coat your abdomen and oxygen. So, uh,

739
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: that's why when you see it underwater and it has

740
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: that like sort of a bubble. It's on its body,

741
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: not on its head. So to construct the diving bell,

742
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: it actually builds a dome shape shaped web between aquatic plants,

743
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: which is made of like this webbing is kind of

744
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: this like hydrogel like substance. Uh. And then it collects

745
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: air on its body from the surface and fills the

746
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 1: web loom with this air. And it can So it's

747
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: interesting because it can both wear these this like air

748
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: on its body like a suit, just like the air

749
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: clings to its body. Um, it can also like carry

750
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: around the diving bell and and kind of wear that.

751
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: It can also like just have the diving bell as

752
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: its home base and sort of like pop in and

753
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: out of this diving element and like so that it

754
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: doesn't have to go all the way to the surface

755
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: to get more oxygen. Yeah, it's it's very a very

756
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: dynamic dynamic extress animal here or rather insect or are

757
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: yes exactly? And Arthur pod which is interact you were

758
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 1: able to here's the thing you were able to name

759
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: like kingdom final and order. Yeah, but then it's a bug, right,

760
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: I do I do call like all Arthur podgs bugs.

761
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 1: I think that's okay. I appreciate that. So the diving

762
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: bell that it makes can be big enough for it

763
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: to just go inside, it can be small enough for

764
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: it to carry around. It can like pop in and

765
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:39,280
Speaker 1: kind of collect more oxygen that like sits on its abdomen,

766
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 1: just all sorts of things. But it also can act

767
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: as a gill. So the diving bell itself is like

768
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: an artificially well not artificially but aracn officially constructed gilt

769
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 1: that actually takes in oxygen from the surrounding water. So

770
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: if the diving bell is big enough, the spider can

771
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: shell out inside of it for an entire day without

772
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: having to get new oxygen from the surface, because there

773
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: is gas exchange that happens on the surface of this

774
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: diving bell where it is pulling in oxygen from the water,

775
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: the bubble itself, the bell itself. Yes, wow, yeah, yeah,

776
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: that's amazing. It is. So, is there like a I mean,

777
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: is there like a how how long has a what's

778
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: the longest one of these spiders can stay underwater? I think, well,

779
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean they stay, they live underwater for their whole lives.

780
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 1: But how long has it I think about a day.

781
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means I could be twenty

782
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: four hours. Um, but yeah, a long time hours a lot,

783
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: that's a lot. That's amazing. Yes, yes, but it is

784
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: breathing like it's getting the oxygen totally. So it is.

785
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: It is crazy. And yeah, some of these these diving

786
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: bells become really big, elaborate. It's a it's it's nuts.

787
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: It is nuts. But I do want to talk about

788
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: now some interesting caterpillars who are very pokemon like, and

789
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,479
Speaker 1: I'm not going to just kind of do a cop

790
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: out and do caterpy and that's very very cute. I

791
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: want to talk about the pipeline swallowtail caterpillar that looks

792
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: like scullapede to me. Yeah, that's sort of the red

793
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: uh centipede looking as things. So the pipeline swallow tail

794
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: butterfly is a gorgeous blue and gold elegant beauty, but

795
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: their caterpillar form looks like a crazy spiky piece of

796
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: red liquorice. So let me show you here's the adult. Beautiful,

797
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: gorgeous water absolutely gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, baby, I mean not

798
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: as gorgeous, but like wow, to go from one to

799
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: the other caterpillars crazy, right, So it looks like it

800
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 1: looks like a licorice. I kind of kind of want

801
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: to put it in my mouth. Hey, you know, I

802
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: kind of grub up, girl, want to put in it.

803
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: It does look like a lion king grub like, you know,

804
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing the lion king. Rather, they're like squishy.

805
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: It's satisfying. It ruined me. Oh my god, just like

806
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: I could eat that. I want to put it my mouth.

807
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: Put that in my mouth. It just feels crunchy, and

808
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: it just looks it looks so liquorish. Yeah, so it

809
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: actually has a more goth morph as well. So here heck, yes,

810
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,959
Speaker 1: oh wow, that is metal. That one is telling mom

811
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: that it's going out and it will be home later

812
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: and don't wait up. What I do like about this

813
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: photo is if you will notice someone has photo shopped

814
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 1: in a pipe that's like a flower pipe, so it

815
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 1: looks like the caterpillar is smoking a pipe, which I do.

816
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 1: I especially like that. I didn't really notice that until

817
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: I put it in the document. So yeah, it's it's

818
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: black and shiny with like orange spikes. It's very like

819
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: early two thousand's hot topic. Heck yeah yeah. But so

820
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: the red morphs are found in higher temperature regions such

821
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: as Texas and Arizona. And then that black with orange

822
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: spikes kind of hot topic morph is in cooler areas,

823
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: So that vibrant color is actually a warning to predators

824
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: that they are very toxic, which I gotta say, opposite

825
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:32,240
Speaker 1: effect on me obviously put in my mouth in there. Yeah,

826
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: but it is. It is. Caterpillars are just amazing. Here's

827
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 1: another one. This is the tailed Emperor butterfly caterpillar. Oh

828
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: my god, look at that thing. That's beautiful. It looks

829
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 1: it looks like a Polka man dragon creature right there.

830
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: I never really got into Digimon, to be honest, you know.

831
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: It was just a little too much, too much, too much.

832
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: I like, I don't like Yugi. Who is this guy? Yeah,

833
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: I can't. I It's like it's like, hey, kids, do

834
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: you want do you want a familiar premise but all

835
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: different characters? No? I know, I know, but it's got

836
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: the Yugi feel it that Yugi take that Ugi tape,

837
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: that Yugi stank. That's why it's called Yugio. Oh. I

838
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: hope I don't actually offend any like fans actually also

839
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: watched Yugio as a kid, it's hopeless. So the adult.

840
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: The adult butterfly is white and black, very elegant, looking

841
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: like a wedding butterfly. But the babies look like pokemon's.

842
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 1: They are green with even brighter green stripes, and their

843
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: head has four large horns sprouting off of it like

844
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: a teeny mini dragon. In fact, emperor butterflies, there are

845
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: multiple beacies emperor butterflies, and they have all sorts of

846
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: adorable caterpillars. Consider the Japanese emperor butterfly caterpillar, who has

847
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: two little horns, and the best part is that it's

848
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: got these dark mouth parts that make it look like

849
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: it's call mustache. You cat see it? What a picture too?

850
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: It lookally just popped and was like, hello, hello, beep

851
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: here cover mustache. That's really cute. Hello, Hello, I hope

852
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: you ever a murder. I will show with your modori panther.

853
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: It's like it's yeah, like pink path panther porl Like

854
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: did somebody getting married there? Yes, exactly, Like like magnifying

855
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: glass like yeah, someone someone needs to find this picture.

856
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: It just photoshop a magnifying glass into the right side

857
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: and type in mirroreder. So those little horns are likely

858
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: deterrence against predators or defensive Ultimately, though they're extremely cute,

859
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: they are very cute. But slightly less cute is the

860
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: gum leaf Skeletonizer LEA wow, okay, so let me see this.

861
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: Let me see this gum leaf skeleton mazer. Yeah, that's

862
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that's wow. That's airy. It's got lots of

863
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: little little hairs, lots of little hair. I think this

864
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: is actually this is one that is more metal like

865
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 1: once I explain it than it is visually, which is

866
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: great for podcast Normally I'm on this podcast and I'm

867
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: just like, please look at this. Animals really cool. Hit

868
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:52,439
Speaker 1: me with the metal. So it sounds like the gum

869
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: leave Skeletonizer will eat your flesh down to your bones,

870
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: turning you into a spooky skeleton. Please, But it is

871
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: actually referring to how they eat leaves down to its

872
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: skeletal structure. I know, right, it is so excited. I

873
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: was so ready to get Oh man, this is how

874
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: I want to die. But yeah, no, it's it munches

875
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: as leaves down just to the veins and mid ribs,

876
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: so it looks like ab But that is not the

877
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: horrifying thing about it, nor is their name the horrifying

878
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: thing about them. This is the horrifying thing about them.

879
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: You see this like unicorn horn they have at the

880
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: top of their heads. And remember how it is like

881
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: talking about Cuban earlier. So well it's not so bad now.

882
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: It is made out of okay, maybe it's a little bit.

883
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: It's made out of a bunch of old dead heads

884
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: that they used to own, so the okay, So the

885
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: gum leaf skeletonizer goes through up to thirteen molts before

886
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: finally building a cocoon and metamorphosizing into a moth. So

887
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: most caterpillars shed and disc guard and sometimes eat their

888
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: old skin, but the gum leave skeletonizer keeps its old

889
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: head skins and wears them as a unicorn horn. That

890
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: is that's a lot to take. So that horn is

891
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: like it's like these Like the reason it's like smaller

892
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: on the top is like that was my baby head

893
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: and this is like my teenager head and these are

894
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: slightly larger and larger like head skins. Just carrying around

895
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: your photo book of be a dead carcasses. Yeah, like

896
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: like the Facebook of like flashbat, what are those like

897
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: the flashback? Yeah, yeah, except it's your old head. Yeah,

898
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: and it's on you. The flashback is just like, oh,

899
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: look at this side, that's baby me. Like if we

900
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: just like had our baby like our faces and we

901
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: like they peeled off of our face and then just

902
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: like migrated up on the top of our head and

903
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: we have this huge hat of like our face is

904
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: getting younger and younger and on the very top is

905
00:57:54,120 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: just our baby face. Yeah, good job, gum leave skeletonithers horrum,

906
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: thank you for the dreams. So they use this as

907
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: a defensive lance, but really, who wants to mess with

908
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: someone who has a unicorn horn made out of their

909
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: old baby faces? Yeah? But yeah, it's like like Cubane.

910
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody knows this about Cubane, but

911
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: he wears it's that little like dinosaur looking Pokemon, very cute,

912
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: has like a dinosaur skull on its head. It's got

913
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: like a little bone and he's like carabon bone. It's

914
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: it's mother's it's mother's skull. What the heck? Pokemon guys. Yeah,

915
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 1: normally I'm like like, oh, you guys are great at

916
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: like doing evolutionary biology stuff. Why did you have to

917
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: put that thought in my head as a child. Yeah,

918
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: you made me think about death and stuff. I didn't

919
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: like that. Like, it's it's mother's head that it wears

920
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: and it cries at night. I'm like like ten years

921
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: oh jees. The stains on its school are due to

922
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: the tears it cries for a mother. It will never know.

923
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: Literally literally literally this is in the polka dex. I'm

924
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: not doing a bit. It's really yeah, brutal. It's dark.

925
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: It's dark. It's dark. Well, how about I illuminate the

926
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: dark nose. So, first of all, I want to talk

927
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: about the thuing Goodie day beetle. Alright, I said. I

928
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: said that like a computer was trying to pronounce the

929
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: word Fingodie day beetle thing. Yeah, So the Fingodi Day

930
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: Beetle family, they don't just look like Pokemons as larva.

931
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: They also look like pokemons as adults. So I want

932
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: to show you first the adult. It looks like a

933
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: complete dofa goofus. What a goofy google goofer. I'm gonna enhance, enhance.

934
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: You gotta see it. And oh my gosh, look at

935
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: that goofy goober. Right, it's so goofs. So they are

936
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: light brown there, they're skinny winged beetles with antenna that

937
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: looked like big feathers or weird moose antler. Yeah, those

938
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: are some. Those are some antler looking things. Yeah. They

939
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: look like kind of like a weird feathery moose antlers

940
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: to They have big googly eyes and a pointy nose.

941
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: They are very cartoony. They're a mess. Yeah, they're a

942
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: mess cartoon looking insect right there? What like they look

943
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: like one of those Pokemon where it's like you could

944
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,439
Speaker 1: tell like the Pokemon designers just want to go home,

945
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: and they're like, I don't know, it's like a bug,

946
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 1: but it's got moose antlers. Just take a cat and

947
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: put a coin on its head. We're calling it meoth

948
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: go home and mouth, and it talks. It's the only

949
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: one that talks. Everybody else doesn't talks. It's like wait, wait,

950
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: but they all just say their names is then no, not,

951
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: that's one. Not that's one, And he's with the bad guys,

952
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: and the bad Guys are named after a classic Western robbers. Look,

953
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 1: we're just going with it. We all want to go home,

954
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: and they've all got moose horns anyway. Next, so in

955
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: their larval stage, they actually glow so in their larval stage.

956
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: They are predators who feed on millipedes and other arthropods,

957
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: but they're also vulnerable to predation, so they are full

958
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: of glowing beautiful toxins, which both make them yucky to

959
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: eat and the glowing actually wards off predators. So let

960
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: me show you some photos of that. Oh my goodness,

961
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: look at that thing? Is that one that's one? Uh yeah,

962
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: that's one one specimen, So you have it in the

963
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: Daylight's still very pokemony, even like not verny dark. It's

964
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: like looks kind of almost like made out of plastic.

965
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: I guess it's like very very rigid, rectangular, geometrical shaped.

966
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: This one actually also looks like what I was gonna say,

967
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: given me self eating tail wizard vibes. Yeah, it looks

968
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: like oh what was that Pokemon named bop weirlipede? Definitely,

969
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: it looks super but it also glows. I love that

970
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 1: glowy glow worms. Yeah, it's it's incredible. There's no there's

971
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: no like it's I love how with these animals I

972
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: look into them, like, Okay, I'll do a little bit

973
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: on this one because it kind of looks like a Pokemon.

974
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: And for this one, I was like looking at some

975
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: bugs and it's like, oh, that is a Pokemon looking

976
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: beetle and looking into it and in its larval stage,

977
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: it glows and it looks like a whirl apede. So

978
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: I didn't expect that exactly exactly. And it's the same

979
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: thing with the caterpillars, as like, I don't look up

980
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: some horn caterpillars and then I find out, oh, you

981
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:35,640
Speaker 1: make a horn out of your baby face? Is cool? Cool, horrified? Nice? Good, good,

982
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, yeah, it's it's I am I don't know.

983
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: Nature is one big pokadex. Yes it is. I love

984
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: that completely is and the inspirations are very very clear. Yes, yes,

985
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 1: it's incredible. I really do. I love the fact that

986
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: it's so popular. It makes me have a lot of

987
01:02:54,800 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: hope that I think people all love bio diversity and hope.

988
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: I think so, And I think again, I really hope

989
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: that maybe we can, like I guess, convert some of

990
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: that Pokemon energy into like animal knowledge energy learning. Wait,

991
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 1: how does the learning? How does this song? It's like

992
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna grown learn together. Didn't got this? That's the

993
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 1: Pokemon song? What Pokemon song? And I learned together? And

994
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: the Pokemon song. Which part of it? Oh god, oh god,

995
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 1: it's the You teach me and I'll teach you, of course. Perfect.

996
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: Who's the pokemon? Right? Wait? Pokemon? Nice? Nice, perfect, and

997
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: a podcast can't be more perfect. But it is actually

998
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 1: the end of the podcast. Thank you so much for

999
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: joining me, delight I can't believe I haven't had anyone

1000
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: until now. It's all good. This was the perfect episode

1001
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: that it was a great episode to be on. Thank

1002
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: you so much for having me. Not absolutely you got

1003
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 1: anything plugged. Listen to all the podcasts on the network.

1004
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: Listen to Katie's podcast. Keep listening to the podcast you're

1005
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: listening to right now. You never had a plugged me

1006
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 1: on the show. I mean, if you want to follow

1007
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: me on Twitter, you can at DJ Underscore Daniel d

1008
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: A n L. Yes, that's delightful tweets and you also

1009
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: screamed some games sometimes I do. Oh yeah, I guess

1010
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: I'll plug that as well. Follow my twitch channel twitch

1011
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: dot tv the same twitch dot tv slash, DJ Underscore

1012
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: Daniel play lots of video games, and I talk people

1013
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: in chat. If you want to know the behind the

1014
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: scenes of some of the podcasts here, I'm may or

1015
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: may not tell you he's got he's got the hot god,

1016
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: I've got the secrets. I've got all the things that

1017
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: we cut out. And you can find us on the

1018
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: internet Creature Feature Pot on Instagram, Creature Feet Pot on Twitter.

1019
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Speaker 1: That's f A T F E Tina huh. You can

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Speaker 1: also find us on the I Heart Radio website. Just

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Speaker 1: search for Creature Feature and we are there. We're in there. There,

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01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: We're in there. We're on the podcast. H I mean, gosh,

1023
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: dang it. Where you listen to this right now? We're

1024
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: in here. You're things gosh darn ittt Yeah, thank you

1025
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 1: so much for listening. Oh um, yeah, I mentioned this

1026
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 1: last time, but we finally have shirt shirts, shirt shirts,

1027
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: shirt shirts. Yeah. Yeah, it's got the Creature Feature logo

1028
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: which I expertly traced. It looks awesome, Thank you, It

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01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: looks yeah. I Well. The reason I drew it over

1030
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: again is I felt like the photo just like I

1031
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: think the photo is so detailed. It's such a great photoshop,

1032
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: but the detail I didn't think really came out in

1033
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: the shirt printing process. So I I drewed it and

1034
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: now it's drawing. You nailed it. Its perfectly encapsulates that

1035
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Speaker 1: like classic horror. Look, thank you Pulp Comics. It's awesome,

1036
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Speaker 1: it's perfect. Get it. Thank you God, you're such a

1037
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: good hype man. But yeah, yeah, it's the logo that

1038
01:05:56,080 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: you can wear on your body. To put it on there. Yeah,

1039
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: I'll include a I'll probably include that in the show

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Speaker 1: notes too. But it is on t public Slash Stores

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Speaker 1: Slash Creature feature and it's a shirt there. There's also

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Speaker 1: a few other shirts. I'm wearing the bird Crimes Bird Crimes.

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Speaker 1: There is another shirt. It's a good one. I think

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Speaker 1: that's one of my favorites too. It's a bird crime

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Speaker 1: shirt with a bird in the pretzel on it stealing

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Speaker 1: a pretzel. Full support go birds. And if you want

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Speaker 1: to just listen to my Katie thoughts, you can follow

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Speaker 1: I N and just here on my little Katie thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they're silly and an excellent Twitter. That's true. I

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Speaker 1: also have a pro bird rights Twitter where I advocate

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Speaker 1: for birds. That's right, birds, birds, birds, that's right. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, did you not want birds too bad? There's

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Speaker 1: some birds thanks to the Space Classics for their Super

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