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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's We Can Review with Ryan kel Kell in now

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Speaker 1: Here's Kel. Longtime listeners to the podcast are likely aware

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Speaker 1: of my opinions about cats. For all you new listeners,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. I don't much care for them. This

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Speaker 1: isn't really a dog person versus cat person debate, but

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Speaker 1: I would certainly put myself into the dog person camp

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Speaker 1: on that one. My beef with cats has more to

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Speaker 1: do with their demonstrated negative impact on wildlife, especially birds

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Speaker 1: and small mammals. According to a study published back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen in the journal Nature, free ranging domestic

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Speaker 1: cats killing estimated four billion birds each year in twenty

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Speaker 1: two billion mammals worldwide. That's billion with b Additionally, the

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Speaker 1: International Union for the Conservation of Nature directly links outdoor

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Speaker 1: cats to the extinction of thirty three species worldwide. Not

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Speaker 1: trying to fuel the fire of paranoia here, but aside

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Speaker 1: from the common knowledge that cats carry diseases like toxoplasmosis

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Speaker 1: to humans, they also carry rabies into Disney World, the

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Speaker 1: Happiest place on Earth shocks. Okay, remember that part of

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Speaker 1: EPCOT was on rabies alert. For sixty days in two

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Speaker 1: thousand nineteen after a cat that scratched two employees tested

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Speaker 1: positive for the fatal disease. There's a documentary on one

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Speaker 1: person that survived. I mean, it's considered fatal. Now. I

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Speaker 1: know I've already covered all this, but a newer study

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Speaker 1: published last November in the Journal of Forensic Science suggests

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Speaker 1: another aspect of cat behavior that's even more disturbing than

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Speaker 1: those numbers I just read. Turns out cats will eat

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Speaker 1: something far creepier than songbirds and bunnies. People as in

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Speaker 1: you and me, assuming that is that we're already dead

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Speaker 1: and a cat happens upon our corpses. Colorado Masy University's

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Speaker 1: Forensic Investigation Research Station is what's more commonly known as

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Speaker 1: a body farm, meaning they do experiments to better understand

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Speaker 1: what happens to corpses as they decompose. Dark as this

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Speaker 1: may sound, these studies help law enforcement, coroners, and medical

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Speaker 1: examiners understand what happens to the body as it decomposes,

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Speaker 1: if it's natural or not natural, which is valuable information anyway.

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Speaker 1: Some researchers going over security camera footage at the facility

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Speaker 1: found that two feral cats likely residents of a nearby landfill.

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Speaker 1: We're slipping through holes in the fence and help eating people.

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Speaker 1: Once the researchers noted this, they began to intentionally observe

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Speaker 1: the animals and record their behavior interestingly, again in a

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Speaker 1: macab kind of way, the cats seemed choosy about who

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Speaker 1: they During the period of the study. Each cat selected

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Speaker 1: only one body out of the forty at the facility

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Speaker 1: at the time, both of which were recently deceased, and

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Speaker 1: returned to them night after night, one kittie for thirty

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Speaker 1: bodies once they reached a stage called moist decomposition. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: that sound nice? Cats are not known as scavengers their predators,

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Speaker 1: which is why they take such a toll on small wildlife,

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Speaker 1: But apparently they're willing to break from their natural inclinations

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the right human remains. Just one

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Speaker 1: more in the many reasons that I ask all you

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Speaker 1: cat owners out there to keep your cats indoors. Not

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Speaker 1: only will they kill native fauna, they might also be

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Speaker 1: eating something far more disgusting then coming home and you know,

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Speaker 1: delivering unto you through a thorough licking with their creepy

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Speaker 1: sand paper tongues something that you know you just could

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Speaker 1: never have guessed. Tongues which are covered in tiny barbs

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Speaker 1: called papa That's what produces that sand papery feeling. Here

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Speaker 1: are some cat tongue facts while you get that cadaver

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Speaker 1: eating image out of your head. The papal are actually

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Speaker 1: In fact, they're shaped very similarly to a cat's claws,

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Speaker 1: A cat spends almost half of its waking hours grooming

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Speaker 1: which keeps the fur relatively waterproof. Continual grooming keeps this

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Speaker 1: the cats can benefit from an evaporative cooling effect, which

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Speaker 1: can create up to a thirty degree difference for a

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Speaker 1: papal a on a domestic cat tongue can wick a

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Speaker 1: of water. Neat stuff, But please remember cats will eat you,

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Speaker 1: got coronavirus, changes to the Migratory Bird Act, shooting the

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Speaker 1: me tell you about my week. My week keeps getting

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Speaker 1: busier and busier. One fun thing. If anyone has potential

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Speaker 1: in to ask Cal at the Meat Eater dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Give me some details of what you have going on,

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Speaker 1: it's a good one, I'll touch back on my tarpan

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Speaker 1: trip in Mexico. The tarpan is a symbol of elitism

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Speaker 1: in the fly fishing world. It's called the silver king.

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Speaker 1: For God's sakes, guided trips are expensive. Anglers get really serious,

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Speaker 1: untold amounts of cash or spent on rods, guides, tackles, flies, boats,

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Speaker 1: Prior to the sport fishing obsession of the tarp and

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Speaker 1: netting tarpan for using dog food and fertilizer. This practice

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Speaker 1: In short, things were not looking good for the silver

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Speaker 1: king until that is, someone found great sport in hooking

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Speaker 1: but the practice is almost synonymous with tarpin fishing. These days.

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Speaker 1: The scarcity of the fish, the difficulty of hooking it,

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Speaker 1: conservation success story. My question to you is did elitism

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Speaker 1: Often you hear people explain that this is a choice. Yes,

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Speaker 1: By now, everyone is well aware of the coronavirus outbreak

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Speaker 1: aware that this new strain of infectious diseases zoonotic, meaning

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Speaker 1: have made the leap from animal to human and open

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Speaker 1: China has now enacted a temporary ban on the sale

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Speaker 1: zonautic virus. In China, wildlife trade for consumption is still

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Speaker 1: like this one, a great deal of wildlife are still

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Speaker 1: black market. Some of you might be wondering Hey, cal,

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Speaker 1: isn't this kind of a problem for you in the

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Speaker 1: lifestyle you promote. I mean, if eating wild animals can

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Speaker 1: lead to massive global pandemics, shouldn't you reconsider this whole

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Speaker 1: But let me explain. First, I don't advocate for eating

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Speaker 1: all wildlife. I advocate for the outdoors and being in it.

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Speaker 1: partake in hunting as both a funding mechanism and management tool.

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Speaker 1: What is happening in these markets is not management, It

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Speaker 1: is not thought out. It is wholesale resource destruction. Second,

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of people harvesting their own wild meat,

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Speaker 1: processing it, cooking it, and enjoying the hell out of it.

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Speaker 1: But he do not support selling wildlife market. Hunting nearly

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Speaker 1: markets are cauldrons of contagion. They might have forty different

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Speaker 1: These animals often sustain injuries during capture, get stuffed into

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Speaker 1: to the law enforcement desk a Florida man, uh boy,

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Speaker 1: that's a little played out. Let's try this. A guy

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Speaker 1: thirty eight year old Jacksonville resident used a power saw

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Speaker 1: to cut off the rostrum of a twelve to fourteen

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Speaker 1: foot small tooth sawfish. This news is disturbing on a

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Speaker 1: number of levels. Sawfish are incredibly cool creatures. They kind

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