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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, right,

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Speaker 1: and this is Stuff you Should Know the podcast edition

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Speaker 1: of the podcast. But we should change the name of

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Speaker 1: the show to like stuff you might want to know

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Speaker 1: if you're you know, if you care about being an

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Speaker 1: enlightened individual. We need a colon in there. We've been

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Speaker 1: using colons alt l. Let's not change the name. We

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Speaker 1: should change the name to just try and find a pulse.

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Speaker 1: That's good, Thank you, Chuck. Yes, have you ever seen

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Speaker 1: him animal migrate? I see my dogs migrating to the

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Speaker 1: food bowl at five o'clock every day. Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 1: that is kind of migration. Yeah. Actually I see them

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Speaker 1: migrate to me at like four thirty and starts staring

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Speaker 1: at me like you know, you gotta Feti's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we talked about that and can dogs perceived time? That's right? Um,

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Speaker 1: I have seen animals migrate on the YouTube's Oh it's gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: It is, I mean, it's unbelievable. It is, especially depending

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Speaker 1: like the monarch butterflies. To everyone's like, that's the money migration,

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Speaker 1: not to me. Have you seen the bats, the fruit

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Speaker 1: bats in Zambia. That's pretty amazing. It is amazing and

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Speaker 1: like horrific. If you don't like bats, I like the

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Speaker 1: mammalion ones, like the elk, thousands and thousands of them

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Speaker 1: steaming across the tundra. Uh. And the the yeah, caribou,

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Speaker 1: that's another one. Um. Will the beasts also called gnoos

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Speaker 1: no canoes is good gnoos? Gary, Did you know that?

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that the will the beast a k a.

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Speaker 1: The canoo is also known for its huge migration, and

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Speaker 1: that doesn't always go very well. Did you know that?

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Speaker 1: What with? Uh? What happened in a river in Kenya

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven ten thousand, Will the Beasts

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Speaker 1: drowned at this one spot in this river because one

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Speaker 1: of them went in and got swept away, and the

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Speaker 1: rest of whom were like, oh, we went in, Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess we all just crossed and that's really sad. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One person of the population of the African will the

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Speaker 1: best population, died in that river that day. Quite a

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Speaker 1: mess too, I imagine. Yeah, I mean that would probably

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Speaker 1: damn up the river. I would think, I would think.

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Speaker 1: So ten thousand canoes will the beasts? I mean they're

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Speaker 1: about four and a half feet tall at the shoulder.

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Speaker 1: They're big, um and yeah, ten thousand of them, that's

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Speaker 1: a lot of biomass. It's like when a whale gets beached.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the one in Oregon in the seventies

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Speaker 1: that they blew up with kin of mine? Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: that's migration, Chuck, you got anything else, listener, mail it

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Speaker 1: just blacked out, Josh. Migration if we should define it

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Speaker 1: for our foreign friends, exactly. It is a large scale

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Speaker 1: movement of an animal species, and typically it's because of

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Speaker 1: a few things like whether or mating, or food trying

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Speaker 1: to find resources. Yeah, so when you said that you

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Speaker 1: see your dogs migrate to their food bowl every day,

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Speaker 1: that does technically count its migration because most of the

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Speaker 1: reason things migrates food, and then the other ones are

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Speaker 1: generally secondary. Josh, what are the three types of migration?

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Speaker 1: There is irreversive migration, eruptive migration. I just made up

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Speaker 1: a word. Irreversive and not eruptive is in the volcano.

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Speaker 1: But I are are compeat. That's right, um, And that

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Speaker 1: doesn't follow a pattern. Uh. Usually it kind of the

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Speaker 1: basically the species is making it up as it goes along. Um.

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Speaker 1: The wilder beasts are known for eruptive uh migration because

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Speaker 1: they follow water and wherever the water is, they're going

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Speaker 1: migration patterns can be based on like thunderclouds. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a dickey okay, uh josh. Another

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Speaker 1: one is complete and partial migration. Um. Obviously, complete is

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Speaker 1: when the entire species migrates. Um. Partial usually happens when

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Speaker 1: and that's removal migration. And that is when wherever you're living,

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Speaker 1: saddest migration. I think. So um, so chuck. That's the

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Speaker 1: they're finding that there's pretty much well, like we said, food, breeding,

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Speaker 1: and they all equal survival. Yes, that's the whole point, right,

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Speaker 1: you said that um partial migration is based on range. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what animals need is food. You gotta have food to survive,

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Speaker 1: and for the most part, that's why animals migrate is

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Speaker 1: for food. And what's interesting too, it's it's not always

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Speaker 1: tons of food over here. Sometimes they're smart enough to

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Speaker 1: know we'll deplete all the food here if we don't

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Speaker 1: so we can all live. Right, It's pretty cool. Water

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Speaker 1: then there's breeding and mating as reasons for migration. Whales

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Speaker 1: feeding and for breeding. Right, So they migrate to the

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Speaker 1: because it worked for them. Well, that's exactly why they

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Speaker 1: the to the old neighborhood exactly see what's going on?

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Speaker 1: And check you're talking about removal migration. UM. There's a

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Speaker 1: pretty there's a good example of UM. What happens as

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Speaker 1: a result of removal migration UM in the whooping crane? Right,

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Speaker 1: this is the best story. Do you like this one?

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Speaker 1: It's really awesome. The being crane UH in the United

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Speaker 1: States went down to twenty birds in the wild for

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Speaker 1: a little while. That's not a good part, by the way,

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Speaker 1: that's the funny part. Here's the good part. UH. The

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Speaker 1: I believe it was Rutgers ornithologists UM really started to

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Speaker 1: started breeding them in captivity. The problem is the annual

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Speaker 1: migration of the whooping crane is about twelve miles. They

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Speaker 1: go from the north down to Florida. UM. They learned

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Speaker 1: them what they're doing, Chuck, Well, this is the cool thing.

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Speaker 1: As sad as that is, and as down on humans

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Speaker 1: a whooping crane and flew from Wisconsin to Florida and

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Speaker 1: awesome is that? It's pretty awesome and it worked so far.

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Speaker 1: able to pass it down. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's so awesome. UM.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty rare actually that we understand why or how

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Speaker 1: still relatively a mystery. UM. There's different ways that that

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Speaker 1: we think an animal species can say, Okay, it's time

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Speaker 1: on the Circadian rhythm or the Circulean rhythm. Sunlight