1 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: From Media Doors World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This 2 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: is Kel's we Can review with Ryan kel Kell. Now 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: here's Kel. This week turkey season ended here at Meat 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: Eater headquarters in the state of Montana. So all my 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: turkey facts are over after this little tidbit. That is, 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: you should know that Benjamin Franklin spoke more highly of 7 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: the wild turkey than our national bird, the bald eagle. 8 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: You thought the bald eagle was a bad moral character 9 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: and a rank coward, while the wild turkey was a 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: little vain and silly, but at least courageous, So keep 11 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: that in mind this too. Turkeys have a cloaca, what 12 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: you could refer to as a uni hoole or a 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: one hole does all situation. The cloaca is defined as 14 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: a common cavity at the end of the digest abtract 15 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: for the release of both excretory and genital products. As in, 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: the cloaca is the only hole for the digestive, reproductive 17 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: and urinary tracks. You know, you can actually tell a 18 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: turkey sex by its poop. This has to do with 19 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: the shape of a turkey's cloaca. The male has a 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: sort of pecker like structure, which causes a constriction and 21 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: its cloaca, so the poop passes through a narrow channel, 22 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: which leaves its dropping cylindrical with a little jay hook 23 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: on the end. There's more of a cavity in the 24 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: female's cloaca to accommodate eggs, which butts the poop spread 25 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: out and form a coiled blob. Some folks will give 26 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: a different theory on this, which is that a hand 27 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: can hold her poop, but a male can't. She does 28 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: this so as not to defile her nest site. Somehow, 29 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: it's thought that holding her poop makes it change shape, 30 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: and him not holding produces the jayhook. Personally, I'm gonna 31 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: go with the shape of the cloaca x planation. Now 32 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: that we covered how things go out of turkeys, what 33 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: about things going in. Well, I'll tell you from the outside, 34 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: it does appear both the male and female have basically 35 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: the same parts. They don't obviously. When it's time to 36 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: get down to business, the birds line up and touch 37 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: their respective cloaca together. The male sperm is injected into 38 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: the female, typically in less than ten seconds of copulation. 39 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: This act not limited to just turkeys. The you know 40 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: the touching of the cloaca, not the ten seconds of copulation. 41 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: Is not limited to just turkeys anyway. This act, not 42 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: limited to just turkeys, is known as a cloakle kiss. 43 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: Moving on this week, we've got cat rush two thousand, nineteen, 44 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: white tailed deer news from Florida, beaver's flesh eating bacteria, 45 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: and we'll get in a whole lot more. But first 46 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week. Fellow by the 47 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: name of c J wrote in and asked me, said, 48 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: cal is it bad to remove shed antlers from the woods. 49 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: Don't the squirrels and small critters that chew on them 50 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: get nutritional benefit? Do we know how necessary that resources 51 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: for them? Was the impact of removing all those shed 52 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: antlers on the smaller critters roaming around the woods? Great question? Well, 53 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: and here's what I've found out. It seems that there's 54 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: no doubt that shed antlers of all types, if left 55 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: long enough, are eventually eaten or distributed back into the 56 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: soil by natural degradation. Calcium and phosphorus make up the 57 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: bulk of the minerals and deer antlers, comprising thirty to 58 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: thirty of the mature antler by weight. I say, mature antler, 59 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: because this is like when the antler is hard horned 60 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: versus in velvet, it's done growing had to clear that up. 61 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: In addition to calcium and phosphorus, a University of Georgia's 62 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: study detected nine more minerals in white tail antlers. The 63 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: next most common elements were magnesium and sodium, then potassium, barium, iron, aluminum, zinc, strontium, 64 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: and manganese. Studies on white tail specifically suggest that deer 65 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: show a clear need for sodium, but they don't demonstrate 66 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,799 Speaker 1: a clear need for mineral deposits that lack sodium. These studies, 67 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: this evidence would suggest that picking up antlers won't necessarily 68 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: impact dear As for the other critters you know, those 69 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: studies I haven't found. Uh Now, for my anecdotal evidence, 70 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: I have areas where I shed hunt and have shed 71 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: hunted for years where, regardless of the time of year, 72 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: it is rare to find a bite mark on an antler, 73 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: no bite marks from deer, porcupines, squirrels, or otherwise. In 74 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: other areas, if you weren't picking up antler as close 75 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: to the time they dropped as possible, is more than 76 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: likely that the shed you pick up up will have 77 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: been chewed on to some degree or pretty much eaten 78 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: up entirely. This evidence, although again anecdotal, would suggest that 79 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: the shed antler and the mineral within has more value 80 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: to wildlife in some areas than in others. You could 81 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: extrapolate that out and come to the conclusion that if 82 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: the mineral and the antler is valuable, then mineral could 83 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: be lacking from the soil and general area, so the 84 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: return of that mineral to the soil is of high 85 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: value as well. Just something to think on, as I 86 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: have not found any studies specific to this question floating 87 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: around out there just yet. I find it nearly impossible 88 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: to not strap the shed antler on my back when 89 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: I come across it. At the same time, I do 90 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: find it hard to imagine that Mother Nature would be 91 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: cool with me holling away all of these admittedly preposterous 92 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: ornaments that animals grow on top of their heads in 93 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: order to someday, may we turned them into a chandelier. Now, 94 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: I got a little housekeeping to take care of before 95 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: we move on. In episode one of Col's Weekend Review 96 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: titled Murderous Birds, Wildlife Bridges in the Year of the 97 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: cat I screwed up, which is embarrassing. What happened is 98 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: that I credited Defenders of Wildlife for leading the ridiculous 99 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: and unnecessary pushed and all forms of cat hunting in 100 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: British Columbia. I should have said the Wildlife Defense League, 101 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 1: who is in fact the guilty party. Sincerest apologies to 102 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: Defenders of Wildlife. All right, that's it for my week. 103 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: Let's move on to this week by starting off with 104 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: some quick hitters, then we'll tackle a couple of bigger topics. 105 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: Six national parks in the d C area have provided 106 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: more than nineteen thousand pounds of white tailed deer meat 107 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 1: or roughly seventy five thousand meals to local nonprofits. White 108 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: tailed deer populations are booming and the deer to thrive 109 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: in the kind of edge habitat that these parks, many 110 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,799 Speaker 1: of which are Civil War battle fields, provide. The parks 111 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: are managing the deer here it's to protect and restore 112 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: native plants. In some cases, reports indicate that the deer 113 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: is so pro effect they have eaten nearly all tree seedlings, 114 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: preventing the forest from being able to regenerate. In the 115 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: parks where the deer management or culling has occurred, such 116 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: as catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland. They've seen almost an 117 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: elevenfold increase in tree and shrub density. Since we're on 118 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: white tail, the state of Vermont has just recorded its 119 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: oldest known hunter killed white tail. Vermont hunters were asked 120 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: to turn in a tooth from harvested deer last season. 121 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: The results are in. Three thousand nine hunters turned in 122 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: teeth during Vermont's two thousand eighteen season. The oldest buck 123 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: was twelve years old, which is very impressive. The oldest 124 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: dough taken by a youth hunter from Braintree came in 125 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: at an astounding twenty years old. This ties the record 126 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: for the oldest known in Vermont hunter killed or not, 127 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: which was a twenty year old deer that got hit 128 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: by a car. The next time you hear some old 129 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: timer talk about the good old day as a white 130 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: tailed deer hunting, politely remind him that those good old 131 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: days are happening right now. If you want to know 132 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: exactly how good things are, go to the meat eater 133 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: dot com, where our very own Spencer new Hearth has 134 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: an article called two thousand eighteen The Year of record 135 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: breaking bucks. You know, I'll take just a quick second 136 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: here to talk about another character over here at Meat Eater. 137 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: That's Ben O'Brien. Ben O'Brien moved from Dripping Springs, Texas 138 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: in order to work for Meat Eater. Now, what's interesting 139 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: about Dripping Springs, Texas is it was founded by a 140 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: guy with the last name of Pound. There is currently 141 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:58,719 Speaker 1: a movement to rename Dripping Springs to Pound Town. I 142 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: don't know how far they're going to get with that one. 143 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: Moving on. Also, in two thousand and eighteen, Florida Wildlife 144 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: Conservation officers were notified of a five ft twenty pound 145 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 1: lizard in the Key Largo area. They've been on the 146 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: hunt for that lizard ever since. It turns out that 147 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: it was an Asian water monitor, which proved to be 148 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 1: a very difficult critter to catch. Ultimately, though, it was 149 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: caught by using a combination of motion sensor cameras and 150 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: live traps. The Asian water monitor, which is native to 151 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: South and Southeast Asia, is the second heaviest lizard species 152 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: behind the Komodo dragon. These opportunistic eaters have wide diets 153 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: that can include everything from mollusks to mice and turtles 154 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: to birds. They've been known to grow over nine and 155 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: a half feet long hit a hundred and fifty pounds now. 156 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: In order to get that big, and they have to 157 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: eat a lot and often a lizard the size of 158 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: this one in Florida probably eats three to five times 159 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: a week. So that's a minimum of a hundred and 160 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: fifty six birds or reptiles or mammals that this escaped 161 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 1: pet consumed during its year long Key Largo vacation. It's 162 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: good for the local wildlife that it didn't encounter an 163 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: Asian water monitor of the opposite sex and turn that 164 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: little vacation into a romantic honeymoon. For now, Florida has 165 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: rid of at least one singular invasive species elsewhere in Florida, 166 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: man stabbed himself at the fishing hook while fishing and 167 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: almost lost his arm. When the Penellas County angler made 168 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: it back to shore from a fishing excursion, his hook 169 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: wounded hand got all swollen painful. Recognizing this as a 170 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: strange reaction to a common fishing injury, our anglish sought 171 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: medical attention in the hand was treated with antibiotics. The 172 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: following morning, the angler found black blisters had formed around 173 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: his wound and up his arm. Infectious disease. Doctors from 174 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: the burn unit were able to diagnose the symptoms as 175 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: necrotizing fasciitis, a strain of rare flesh eating bacteria. Surgeons 176 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: were considering amputating the angler's arm until they eventually curbed 177 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 1: the infection. Just a month before the fishook incident, and 178 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: Ohio man was vacationing in Florida and did a bit 179 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: of kayaking outside of Tampa Bay. On his flight home, 180 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: what he thought was a sunburn on his leg swelled 181 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: to concerning levels upon landing. Doctors spent eleven days working 182 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: hard to avoid amputating that limb. It was the same 183 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: thing flesh eating bacteria. Between two thousand six and two 184 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, the Florida Department of Health has documented three 185 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: cases of people who have contracted a form of flesh 186 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: eating bacteria such as Vibrio vulnificus or necrotizing fasciitis. Nine 187 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: of these cases resulted in death. The Florida man with 188 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: the sore hand wasn't the only angler to get beat up. 189 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: Another Florida angler in Wesley Chapel, got whooped by his girlfriend. 190 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: Apparently an argument over proper childcare ended with a thrown 191 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: kitchen pot to the head of the angler man, who 192 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: had spent quote the last couple of days fishing instead 193 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 1: of performing his fatherly duties. The girlfriend has charged with 194 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: domestic battery. If the guy had half a brain and 195 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: a bit of a conscience, he'd take his kid fishing. 196 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: His girlfriend would probably thank him instead of whipping him 197 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,199 Speaker 1: with the pot and now being charged with domestic battery. 198 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: North of here, over in Greene County, Georgia, couple fishing 199 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: under the bridge on Lake o'coney pulled in a satchel 200 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: containing two guns and some jewelry. Due to engraving on 201 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: one of the pieces of jewelry, investigators were able to 202 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,239 Speaker 1: track down the former owner's son and Auburn and Alabama, 203 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: who confirmed the items were stolen from his father back 204 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: in I like stories like that. I think it's neat 205 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: to get a surprise on the end of your line 206 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: every once in a while. And who doesn't like to 207 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: get their long lost stuff back. A couple of interesting 208 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,239 Speaker 1: things have been documented regarding two use and other species. 209 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: I'm transitioning here from stuff underneath the bridge too. Things 210 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: that I think yournee, which are animals using tools anyway? 211 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: A couple of interesting things have been documented regarding tool 212 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: use and other species. Late last year, a guy's trail 213 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: cam caught a striped skunk using a rock to break 214 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: through a layer of ice on top of a water 215 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: bowl set out for a dog. The skunk picked up 216 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: a rock between its front paws and proceeded to procure 217 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: itself a drink. That's tool use. And just recently, scientists 218 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: from the University of Akron observed the triangle weaver spider 219 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: using its web, which it unsurprisingly weaves into a triangle. 220 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: The triangle weaver spider hauls on a line of web 221 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: attached to the point of the triangle until it's stretched 222 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: top like a bow. When potential prey passes by, the 223 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: spider releases the stored tension in the web, catapulting the 224 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: web and itself onto its victim. Another example of tool 225 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: use from the animal world. I bring this up because 226 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: we're all is pointing out examples of animals being like 227 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: us or not like us. Some people love stories that 228 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: make animals seem more human like by using tools, for instance. 229 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: Others would prefer that we keep our corner on the 230 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: tool use market. On top of that, we have a 231 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: sort of prejudice about which species we celebrate. A chimpanzee 232 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: uses a tool, everyone gets all excited. Some skunk or 233 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: spider uses a tool, nobody really talks about it. Come on, 234 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: people now. From our fishing records desk, I feel, without 235 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: doing too much digging, that when it comes to record books, 236 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: folks are more inclined to get into trouble for stretching 237 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: the truth in the fishing categories. Something of this nature 238 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: just recently came to light in South Dakota, though it 239 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: could be categorized as an honest mistake. What happened is 240 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: that South Dakota just avoided its longest standing fish record, 241 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: that of a channel catfish weighing fifty five pounds, which 242 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: is a big gas channel cat. The fish was caught 243 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: by a guy named Roy grow As. To give you 244 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: an idea of just how big of a channel cat 245 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: this would have been. This fifty pounder was also the 246 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: world record channel cat for fifteen years until South Carolina 247 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: Angler broke that record back into Oddly enough, the South 248 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: Carolina Angler was fishing in a lake famous for big 249 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: blue cats that will come in later, Why would South 250 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: Dakota declare such a long standing record null and void 251 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: after all these years, I'll tell you why. Unluckily for Roy, 252 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: there is photographic evidence of his catch, and over the years, 253 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: whenever catfish aficionados have looked upon this yellowing photograph, they'd 254 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: often comment on that being a nice blue catfish instead 255 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: of a channel catfish. That's right, It was somehow classified 256 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: as the wrong species. How could this happen? One might ask? 257 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: After all, blue catfish can get to be well over 258 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: a hundred pounds, but channel catfish rarely exceed thirty. The 259 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: height of the blue cap is unspotted and generally has 260 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: a bluish tent, while the channel cat is generally gray 261 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: with speckles or olive colored spots. But these relatively easy 262 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: clues that distinguish a channel cat can get a little 263 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: bit murkier as the fish gets into the tin to 264 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: fifty pound range. Channel cats will generally start losing their 265 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: spots as they creep into old age. Anyone was fished 266 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: for a while can also tell you that coloration can 267 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: vary within a species on occasion, and brown trout can 268 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: look awfully silver, and a fish like the Atlantic salmon 269 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: can look a lot like a brown trout after it's 270 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: been in the fresh water for a bit, But there's 271 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: a bullet roof way to tell a blue from a channel, 272 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: which is why so many folks who have seen the 273 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: photo of roy Groves fish gave pause. There's a fin 274 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: on all of America's catfish called anal fin. It's located 275 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: between the vent and the tail fin on the bottom 276 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: or ventral side of the catfish. Channel catfish has a 277 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: curved anal fin with nine anal rays. A blue cat 278 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: has a straight anal fin with thirty to thirty six 279 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: anal rays. Although the photograph from nine has faded, yellowed 280 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: and blurry, one can clearly see the antal fin as 281 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: straight as a damn board. Before you start feeling too 282 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: bad for Roy Groves, take heart in the fact that 283 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: is reclassified channel catfish now sits as a record blue catfish, 284 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: albeit way lower than number one. It should also be 285 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: noted that his channel catfish had actually landed him the 286 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: national record books for a while, however, erroneously, until it 287 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 1: was beat by a real channel catfish weighing fifty eight 288 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: pounds from Santia Reservoir, South Carolina. In the year nineteen 289 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: six and four. At this point, Roy has had the 290 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: same fish land him in three record books. That's not 291 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: a bad day on the water. If you're looking to 292 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: see your own name in the record books, South Dakota 293 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: is the place to do it. And right now the 294 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: Channel Cat record has been reset to zero, meaning any 295 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: entrent will be a state record holder. Just like when 296 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: gold was discovered in Klondike and folks struck out for 297 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: the wild seeking fame and fortune, the waters of South 298 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: Dakota are inviting the same kind of fever. The state 299 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: has declared cat rush two thousand nineteen. All you have 300 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 1: to beat is the new verified Channel Cat record of 301 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: eight pounds three ounces. I'm gonna hit you with one 302 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: more before we go. The City Council of New York 303 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: City has proposed a bill to ban fur sales. To 304 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: make this complicated right out of the gate, new for 305 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: sales specifically would be banned recycled for as in old 306 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: fur on new garments, will we find as our vintage first, 307 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: but not that new new for Also, there are no 308 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: restrictions on leather, which I find odd seeing as how 309 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: a piece of leather is a fur with the fur 310 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: all scraped away. I don't think this distinction matters one 311 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: little bit to the critter who supplies the fur or leather, 312 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: but the New York City City County sold must have 313 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: a better understanding of animal hides than I do. Right now, 314 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: the fur market in New York City is located in 315 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: the Fur District South the Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, 316 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 1: pretty fitting roughly a hundred and fifty businesses, creating eleven 317 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: hundred jobs and bringing in around four hundred million dollars 318 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 1: in revenue. Despite that, it's not what it once was. 319 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: One of the founding fathers of New York City is, 320 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 1: of course, John Jacob Astar. When he died in eight 321 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: his net worth was an estimated twenty million dollars. In 322 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: today's money, that would be six hundred and twenty six million, 323 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifty six thousand, nine hundred and sixty 324 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: two dollars and three cents. A couple of interesting facts 325 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: about Astor. He opened his New York City shop in 326 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: seventeen eighty six, and then he formed the American Fur 327 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: Company in eighteen o eight. The American Fur Company is 328 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: credited by some for delaying British trade resource is on 329 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: the west coast, just long enough to prevent permanent British 330 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 1: establishment there. Additionally, the men of the American for A 331 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 1: Company identified what would become the Oregon Trail and inadvertently 332 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: opened the West Settlement. Beaver Pelts allowed Aster to initiate 333 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: his fortune, which he later leveraged into myriad other business 334 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: operations that built New York. If you look at the 335 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: State Seal of New York, you'll find not one beaver 336 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: but to now. The city Council might take the beaver 337 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: out of New York, but you can't take the Yeah, 338 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: you know what I'm trying to say. Thanks for listening 339 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: to Cal's weeken review. 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