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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kelly. Now here's Kel.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever felt a little down and out, a

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Speaker 1: little unattractive and unwanted, maybe just some rough patches in

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Speaker 1: your love life, this makes cheer you up. A study

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Speaker 1: published in the journal Ecological Society of America, written by

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Speaker 1: Dr Khalifa and brought to my attention by That Mule

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Speaker 1: coups or cows and Antelope jack Rabbit Love and biologist

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Speaker 1: Jim Heffelfinger, documents the act of faking death in order

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Speaker 1: to avoid male coercion. This is described as and this

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Speaker 1: is a direct quote, extreme sexual conflict resolution. Specifically, this

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Speaker 1: study observed moreland hawker or edge darner dragonflies and was

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Speaker 1: kicked off by the initial sighting of a female dragonfly

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Speaker 1: being chased by a male, when suddenly the female's wings

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Speaker 1: male departed after only a short look at what appeared

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Speaker 1: to be the deceased female. Now, this observation had been

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Speaker 1: made previously, but apparently it had not been linked to

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Speaker 1: a sexual avoidance technique. In this study. At least this

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Speaker 1: was not a fluke or random act. In eighty eight

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Speaker 1: point six percent of the observed chase sequences, females crashed

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Speaker 1: to the ground when pursued by a male, and those

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Speaker 1: were no longer pursued. The ones that hit short grass

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Speaker 1: continued to be harassed. Why are these females pursued so heavily, Well,

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Speaker 1: the males set up and wait around bodies of water,

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Speaker 1: which the females like to deposit their fertilized eggs around.

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Speaker 1: There is surplus of males, So when a female becomes

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Speaker 1: non deceptive due to the fact that she has already

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Speaker 1: Hence the need for sexual conflict resolution. And yes, I

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Speaker 1: would hope everyone listening would consider the act of playing

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Speaker 1: we know the dragonflies do. Another interesting tidbit from this paper,

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Speaker 1: the female dragonflies were found to be fully conscious, as

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Speaker 1: comatose physiological state like that of one of my favorite critters,

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Speaker 1: the apossum. This maneuver is a conscious act of fakery,

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Speaker 1: which is not common at all in the animal world

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Speaker 1: speed she's a robber fly, the European mantis, and Pissura mirabilis,

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Speaker 1: as Russia, at China, and North Africa. In the case

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Speaker 1: during and after sex in order to avoid being eaten

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Speaker 1: male who's feigning death around for a while. This is

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Speaker 1: after he presents a quote nuptial gift in the form

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Speaker 1: you've got nothing on Pissura mirabilis. But back to dragonflies

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Speaker 1: and listen up. This is interesting stuff. Dragonflies are classified

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Speaker 1: as odinata, which refers to their serrated teeth. In Greek,

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Speaker 1: odinate means to the one. If you are a dragonfly watcher,

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Speaker 1: just like a bird watcher, that hobby is called oding.

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Speaker 1: You are an odor, which is a good thing and

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Speaker 1: The act of voting has led to all sorts of

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Speaker 1: truly incredible observations, including the act of extreme sexual conflict resolution.

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Speaker 1: But also dragonflies migrate. In fact, I have personally seen

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Speaker 1: a swarm, which is the term for a group of

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Speaker 1: dragonflies migrating right over the top of my highly industrialized,

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Speaker 1: one study tracked the glow skimmer dragonfly, which I'll just

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Speaker 1: Dragonfly Swarm Project. You can report the swarms you find.

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Speaker 1: But back to the point, which is why would this

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Speaker 1: mosquitoes and gnats, things that bite you. Sometimes they'll consume

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Speaker 1: That's all I was trying to say. It's a big

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Speaker 1: old goofy world. This week good news, guns, corrections, national

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Speaker 1: park goats, and so much more. But first I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you about my week. My week started a little rough.

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Speaker 1: If you listen to the first ever shamefully phoned in

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Speaker 1: Meat Eater podcast recording, episode number two fifteen, titled I

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Speaker 1: missed my Friends. I got robbed, more correctly burgled, as

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Speaker 1: a listener pointed out, people get robbed, stuff gets burgled.

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Speaker 1: The thieves, low down, dirty, shameful creatures that they are,

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Speaker 1: spent the week cleaning up the garage and properly organizing

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Speaker 1: things so it will be, you know, much easier to

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Speaker 1: cart away all my good stuff in the future. One

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Speaker 1: will remain very hurtful, the knife from this old, crusty, unattractive,

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Speaker 1: one legged viking and blacksmith named rick Schmitt a k A.

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Speaker 1: Ricky Ray of Schmidt Knives and Forage had a whitefish

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Speaker 1: Montana and uh former fishing guide. I met Ricky Gray

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Speaker 1: a long time ago when I had first started guiding

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Speaker 1: fishing full time out of West Glacier, Montana. Ricky would

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Speaker 1: Well or rich Schmidt just seemed happy to be there

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Speaker 1: Aside from this, he made knives that were absolutely gorgeous

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Speaker 1: at that time, he had gotten ahold of as in

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Speaker 1: something to envy, absolutely gorgeous. Every guy wants a good knife. Now,

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Speaker 1: whole enchilada. That's what I was feeling. Now. Life moves along,

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Speaker 1: and we take different gigs and move around, and occasionally

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Speaker 1: I would hear about Ricky Ray and pass along my

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Speaker 1: the Great Public Land nonprofit back Country Hunters and Anglers.

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Speaker 1: He had donated knives for about ten different raffles and auctions.

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