1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Kel's we Can Review with Ryan Kel Kelly and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: here's Kel. If you recall that great old John Prine 4 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: song the jet Set, which may be a commentary on 5 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: how the other half lives kind of broken down in 6 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 1: terms of the jet set, the old Chevrolette set well. Recently, 7 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: in Rome, New York, not to be confused with Rome, Georgia, 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: a man who was openly barbecuing a canine was approached 9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: by a police officer to enforce New York state animal 10 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: cruelty laws. The man's meal was confiscated and a violation 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: is pending on whether the test results come back positive 12 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: for domestic dog or wild Canada. No word on whether 13 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: the meal is being kept frozen while the results are out, 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: but the Rome Police Department did confirm that there are 15 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: no missing animals that fit the description of the one 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: on the grill. For those of you wondering the grill 17 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: master belongs in the Old Chevrolette set category is baching. 18 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: Tchaikowski is haggard and husky. What I'm saying is his 19 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: steak and Martinis is clam beer with wienies. I'm confident 20 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: it won't be clam beer with wiener dogs. But we 21 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: gotta love Colorado parks and wildlife. In conjunction with three 22 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 1: members of the Loveland, Colorado Fire Department, fished cow elk 23 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: out of an outdoor pool in Loveland, Colorado, Which is 24 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: how you know you're in Colorado, v state with the 25 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: largest elk population. You have an elk in your pool. 26 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: If you were in Florida, it would be a gator 27 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: in Texas, a feral pig Montana, possibly a grizzly South Dakota, 28 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: a pheasant New York Rudy Giuliani. Anyway, we finally have 29 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: the answer to that question of how many people does 30 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: it take to get an help out of the swimming pool? 31 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: A lot more than it takes to get it in 32 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: the oldest grizzly in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem has been confirmed. 33 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: The bore or male bear number one six eight was 34 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: in a rough shape, reportedly emaciated and missing practically all 35 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: of his teeth. He was killed as he apparently tried 36 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: to come to death some livestock on the Wyoming side 37 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: of the g y E or Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, which 38 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: when it comes to old age. Honestly, sounds a lot 39 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: better than getting your food through a straw and wondering 40 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: if the kids are gonna come by One six eight 41 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: was thirty four years old. He was captured as a 42 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty pound three year old bear in 43 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: n six which makes it the oldest recorded grizzly in 44 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: the lower forty eight. This week, we've got the Wells Catfish, 45 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: a pigeon who done it, and the art desk. But first, 46 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week. In my week 47 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: as well as this podcast is sponsored by Steel Power Equipment, 48 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: so much to talk about this week. We're just getting 49 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: back from northern Sonora, Mexico, where we once again hunted 50 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: Cou's deer, that famous little southern white tailed that you 51 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: just have to burn your eyeballs out to get a 52 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: look at. They're tiny, the brush is tall. They blend 53 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: in amazingly. Well. I caught some deer in odd, odd ways, 54 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: one of which was looking at a rock that was 55 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: definitely a rock, but to the right hand side the 56 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: lookers right side of that rock, there was a perfect 57 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: deer shadow staring at the rock long enough eventually got 58 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: the shadow and the rock to move another good one 59 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: and glassing tip for you are vertical and horizontal lines, 60 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: not many straight lines in nature. A dark shaded hillside 61 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: resulted in two vertical white stripes, and if you stared 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: at those white stripes long enough, they would walk. They 63 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: were the inside the white insides of a deer's legs 64 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: at many, many yards. You need very good optics, you 65 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: need a good chunk of time, and you need to 66 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: be able to recalibrate your brain to the size of 67 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: this deer. It is so small. Everyone you walk up 68 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: to you're like, I really didn't understand how small this is, 69 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: which makes it hard to put in context of the 70 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: brush and the oak trees. I brought Vortex eighteen by 71 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: fifty six binoculars this year. They were fantastic. If you 72 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: were considering a coup's hunt, or cows deer hunt, or 73 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: even in addition to your shed hunting optics, I would 74 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: consider the eight teen by fifty six U h d s. 75 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: People ask me all the time for gear tips, not 76 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: selling you anything, Okay, this would just be something to 77 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: consider it as an investment. They're expensive, but it is 78 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: one of the few pieces of new gear that I 79 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: tried this year. That really made a difference. So there 80 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: you have take it to leave it. Great eye relief, 81 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: field view clarity, Wow, triple action relief changes This year. 82 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: It was my third year down there. Pretty darned dry 83 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: down in Old Mexico. The oaks, which are typically green, 84 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: were dropping leaves on a lot of the aspects. The 85 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: southern face and slopes were getting real beat up. The 86 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: deer we're eating acorns and manzanita berries, spending very little 87 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: time in the open. It seemed to me like instead 88 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: of playing in the grass like they typically do, they 89 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: were just hauling butt from tree to tree, bush to bush. 90 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: The rut activity, which is the breeding craziness that you 91 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: count on to bring big deer into the open, seemed 92 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: much more limited as well. But despite this, we almost 93 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: all got dear. I am the only one who did 94 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: not snap a cap, but all of our first time 95 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: cows deer hunters did and that's just an awesome thing 96 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: to be a part of. It's an amazing trip. It's addictive. 97 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to fig year out how to get 98 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: back there again next year. Tell you it's kind of 99 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: a sickness. Sonora is gorgeous. The food is amazing, and 100 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: as I've said before, there is something about hiking those ranches, 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: interacting with those folks down there that makes me think 102 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: of Montana a few hundred years ago, which I like. 103 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: This next week, I'm hitting the road again for the 104 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: Sacramento Valley and the last weekend of waterfowl season there, 105 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,119 Speaker 1: hoping to bring a little snort for one last hunt 106 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: before we have to go into our yearly depression, which 107 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: lasts coincidentally until Turkey and maybe Bear starts up. Moving on. 108 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: In case you missed it, a Knew presidential administration has 109 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: just begun, and already we have narrowly averted an international 110 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: diplomatic crisis that had geopolitical feathers flying. Get off my plane. 111 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,359 Speaker 1: The Australian government recently announced that they had no choice 112 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: but to destroy a pigeon that had apparently flown all 113 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 1: the way across the Pacific Ocean from Oregon. The rock 114 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: Duve was ideed faster than a rioter at the Capitol 115 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: by a leg band stating its point of origin. That's 116 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: over eight thousand miles. You'd think that kind of a 117 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: journey might be rewarded with the bottle of champagne. Or 118 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: a sleepy retiree on a park bench with a spilt 119 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: bag of popcorn. However, as any listener to this show knows, 120 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: non native animals can introduce disease to a new ecosystem, 121 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: whether that animal shows up in the hold of a 122 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: ship or under its own power. So the pigeon had 123 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: to go. But this is just the shallow end of 124 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: the bird bath my squabs. The Australian man who found 125 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: the pigeon, Kevin Kelly Bird, seriously had named him Joe, 126 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: after Joe Biden, so killing him would have been a 127 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: terrible look for the Australian government. Yet another reason not 128 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: to give names to wild animals. It can bring two 129 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: countries to heighten international tensions and do terrible thanks for 130 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: this podcast as people lose their minds when I mentioned politics, 131 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: yet somehow still managed to write direct messages if you 132 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: were skeptical at a pigeon flying eight thousand miles across 133 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: the ocean, rightfully, so it seems that you weren't the 134 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: only one that bird seed sat a little wrong in 135 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: their crop. As soon as this story broke, people began 136 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: to get a bit skeptical. Pigeons aren't migratory outside of 137 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: some intentionally long races that people organize, pigeons don't fly 138 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: farther than a few dozen miles. That's where the homing 139 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: comes in in the term homing pigeon. These are birds 140 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: who have an uncanny ability and drive to return to 141 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: where they came from. The next fact that didn't sit 142 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: right was the band around Joe's leg. Initially, Mr Kelly 143 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: Bird had called up the American Pigeon Racing Union, the 144 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: authority that issues the kind of band that Joe was wearing, 145 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: to report the band's I D number. Their records showed 146 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: that the number matched a bird that had in fact 147 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: been lost in Oregon. But wait, when the a p 148 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 1: r you inspected pictures of Joe, they saw that he 149 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: wasn't a racing pigeon at all, just a standard blue 150 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: bar rock dove, almost definitely an Australian native. The Australian 151 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: government could be executing one of their own. At first, 152 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: people suspected an I D band counterfeiting scheme designed a 153 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 1: dupe novice pigeon fanciers into paying top dollar for what 154 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: they thought was a highly trained specialty bird from the US. 155 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: After all, as reported right here on the Weekend Review 156 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: November of a prized pigeon sold for one point nine 157 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: million dollars, and just as tensions could not get any higher, 158 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: possible pigeon thieves ideed getting ready to fly the coupe 159 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: came the more banal truth. Turns out that the American 160 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: Pigeon Racing Union just makes a pretty darn good leg band, 161 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: and people all over the world by them for their 162 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: own domestic birds instead of going to the trouble of 163 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: making their own. So Joe Biden the pigeon was granted 164 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: a pardon and is now free to strut around sunny 165 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: Melbourne for the rest of his days. Where there's bird seed, 166 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: there's birds. Moving on to the French city of Albi. 167 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: National Geographic reported recently that Frederick Santol, a fish ecologist 168 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 1: living in Albi, which is about four hundred miles south 169 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: of Paris, was crossing a bridge over the River Tarn 170 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: when he glanced down to see a flock of pigeons 171 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: on a sandbar, which is nothing special, But then Sam 172 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: Toole witnessed a catfish launching itself out of the water 173 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: on the dry land, grabbing one of the pigeons in 174 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: its mouth and disappearing back into the water with its prey. 175 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: Although city dwellers don't usually shed a tear for pigeons, 176 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: that is some terrifying fish behavior. No matter how you 177 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: slice it, listeners to this show might be able to 178 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: predict where I'm going next. This particular fish, the Wells catfish, 179 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: is non native to Western Europe. He said it, He 180 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: said it. It was introduced in the nineteen seventies from 181 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: its home range in eastern Europe by anglers who were 182 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: eager for a new species to go after. It's a 183 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: classic bit of bucket biology, and the results for the 184 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: waterways of France, Belgium and elsewhere in the continent haven't 185 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: been pretty. You will not be surprised that a predator 186 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: bold enough to snatch pigeons off of dry ground has 187 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: been murder on native fish populations, including the already threatened 188 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: local ala shad and Atlantic salmon. The Wells catfish can 189 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: grow to ten feet in length and over six hundred pounds, 190 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: and not only does it eat native wildlife, it also 191 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: thrives in conditions that other species can't handle, specifically as 192 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: temperatures go up and oxygen levels decrease. In European waterways, 193 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: the Wells catfish flourishes, while fish adapted to cooler tamps 194 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: and more oxygen die off. According to National Geographic which 195 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: did a deep dive on this problem, fishing for the 196 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: Wells catfish is popular in your but it is almost 197 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: entirely limited to catch and release. We all know catfish 198 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: are very hardy. Mortality with catching release angling is very low. 199 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: Anglers aren't doing their job in reducing their problem. Child. 200 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: Although the species is occasionally eating in Eastern Europe, it 201 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: hardly ever makes its way to the table further west. 202 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,599 Speaker 1: Seems like an easy fix, after all, fried fish is 203 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: an an American invention. However, the meat eater dot com 204 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: has some catfish recipes that can make it as popular 205 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: in Brussels or to lose as it is in Louisiana. 206 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 1: Or how about introducing a Wells catfish world record. Who 207 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: doesn't love beating a record. Although some records would exist 208 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: even if humans didn't keep track of them World's tallest mountain, 209 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: for example, wheels of cheese have no doubt gotten bigger 210 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,719 Speaker 1: and unbroken stretches of juggling have gotten longer because a 211 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: record exists and people want to break it. For instance, 212 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: the state of Maryland last year introduced a state record 213 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: for largest flathead catfish, which is another invasive species to 214 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: that area. Any fish over forty pounds would qualify. In 215 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: late December, three year old Joshua Dixon caught a fifty 216 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: inch fifty seven pound cat fish from the Susquehanna River. 217 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: Dixon is the first holder of the Maryland record, and 218 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: so many news outlets mentioned that his catch bested a 219 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: couple of Pennsylvania anglers also pubbling fish out of the Susquehanna. 220 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: And that's how you get a good rivalry going. So 221 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: maybe our friends and Albi can start by calling Marseille 222 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: anglers a bunch of whosses, and then Madrid can say 223 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: that Frankfurt can't tell one end of a catfish rod 224 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: from the other. In no time, Wells catfish will be 225 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: under control. I will gladly come over for some topwater action. 226 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine dragging a pigeon imitation across 227 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: the pond? Or even better, when we're talking about rural 228 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: and populated waterways, if this cat could eat feral cats 229 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: and pigeons, well, we may need to just start stocking 230 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: them in the US. Moving on, It's time this week 231 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: to get back over to the surprisingly busy prehistoric art desk. 232 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: Researchers recently discovered the oldest known figurative painting, a forty 233 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: five thousand year old depiction of a work covered pig 234 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: on the Indonesian island of Sulawassi. There have been several 235 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: oldest paintings in the world, but this time we're talking 236 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: very old, so old that we can't be sure that 237 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: it was US Homo sapiens who did the painting. Even 238 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: though scientists have good evidence that the art is at 239 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: least forty five thousand years old, none of the ancient 240 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: human remains found on Sulawassi are even close to that old. 241 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: Some scientists are nevertheless certain that the paintings have been 242 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: done by anatomically modern humans. We always have to be 243 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: the best and brightest, right, But some of the other 244 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: scientists are wondering whether another member of the hominent family 245 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: might have had an artistic temper meant before we humans 246 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: even thought about holding a brush. So far, the only 247 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: other human relative thought to have made any kind of 248 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: aesthetic mark at all is Neanderthal, and those markings found 249 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: in Europe are very simple lines and patterns. This Indonesian pig, 250 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: on the other hand, is art with a complex use 251 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: of perspective and shading. There's no lipstick on this pig, 252 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: but it doesn't need any. So if this sophisticated painting 253 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: was done by a pre Homo sapien hominid, that would 254 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: be very interesting news. The pigment used for the pig 255 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: painting is red ochre, one of the most common and 256 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: important pigments in ancient painting all over the world, from 257 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: Indonesia and Australia to Europe. In the Americas. Some scholars 258 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: of prehistory speculate that red ochre is found so widely 259 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: that it couldn't have been limited to just painting walls. 260 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: People probably painted skins, wooden artifacts, and even themselves with 261 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: red ochre. But because pigment is made up of clay 262 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: and iron oxide, you can't use carbon dating to tell 263 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: how old it is. Ocre contains no carbon to date, 264 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: and so with this Indonesian pig painting, scientists had to 265 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: get more sophisticated. A mineral deposit had collected over the 266 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: surface of the painting, so by analyzing how old the 267 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: deposit was, scientists could be sure that the painting was 268 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: definitely made sometime before that. Luckily, the mineral deposit contained uranium. 269 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: Because we know how long it takes uranium to decay, 270 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: scientists were able to analyze the amount of each substance 271 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: to determine how long ago the deposit formed, and that's 272 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: how they came up with at least forty five thousand years. 273 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: Evidence of artwork is one of the main ways we 274 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: can tell when anatomically modern humans, those whose bodies are 275 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: just like ours, became humans whose minds are like ours. 276 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: Once there's art, we know that Homo sapiens were not 277 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: just running and throwing and eating, but thinking and m 278 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: magining and having the free time to do so. On 279 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: the other end of the artistic time scale, a completely 280 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: new blue pigment was just approved for commercial use. Ancient 281 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: art has no blue in it at all. The first 282 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: time humans were able to paint with blue was in 283 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: ancient Egypt, when people began mixing calcium and copper together. 284 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 1: But even since then, the blue pigments we have had, 285 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: like cobalt or ultramarine, have always been expensive and not 286 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: very durable. Enter Yen mean blue. The first new blue 287 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: to be discovered in over two hundred years a combination 288 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: of it tri um indium and manganese. It was discovered 289 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: by accident in Oregon State University in two thousand nine. 290 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: This stuff blows other blue pigments out of the water, 291 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: extremely bright, much more durable, and it even reflects heat 292 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: away from surfaces, which could make buildings painted with the 293 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: stuff easier to cool. For now, though Yeman Blue costs 294 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: almost two hundred bucks for three ounces, it should get 295 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: cheaper and cheaper, and maybe soon anyone could have it 296 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: in their paint kit, because, as that pig in Indonesia 297 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: shows us, one of the things that makes us human 298 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: is making art, and we're not about to stop anytime soon, 299 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,679 Speaker 1: which is exactly why this blue pigment discovery is included 300 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: on the Weekend Review. Is a brand new discovery that 301 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: ultimately shows us that we are not so different from 302 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: Homo sapiens of forty five thousand years ago, possibly even Neanderthals, 303 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: and to me, that is really cool stuff. We have 304 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,239 Speaker 1: this constant need to look back on the past and 305 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: assume the worst. The environment was terrifying. Everything was out 306 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,959 Speaker 1: to kill us and eat us. There was no time 307 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: to do anything other than survive. But as this site 308 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: in Indonesia could possibly tell us. Despite things being very 309 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: very very very very different than they were today, Bacon 310 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: is good moving on. Even though most hunting seasons have 311 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,959 Speaker 1: come to a close, America's game wardens are still keeping 312 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: plenty busy. Jeff Klausser, a warden with Kansas Wildlife, Parks 313 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: and Tourism, was recently dispatched to the scene of two 314 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: white tail bucks with antlers locked in Jackson County. It 315 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: was unclear how long they had been tangling, but they 316 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: seemed to have plenty of energy left, driving each other 317 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: through thick forest up and down embankments, giving no opportunity 318 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: to come close enough to get them unstuck. Bucks getting 319 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: locked together and dying from exhaustion is not entirely uncommon, 320 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: and it can be dangerous for the willing volunteer to 321 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: help them out. However, you may remember a story from 322 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: almost exactly a year ago of a warden up in Alberta, Canada, 323 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: faced with exactly this problem. That warden shot the two 324 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: dear apart with a well placed shotgun slug to the antlers. 325 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: Back in Kansas, Klausser took the same approach, but with 326 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: distinctly American flair, possibly even some South versus North one upsmanship. 327 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: After taking careful aim, he shot the two bucks apart 328 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: with his service pistol, a very neat bit of high 329 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: speed surgery, one detail I particularly liked. In order to 330 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: get the bucks to calm down for long enough for 331 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: clouds you to get a clear shot, he managed to 332 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: throw a towel over their heads, the same way you'd 333 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: put parakeets to sleep. Thankfully, the antlers weren't completely hidden 334 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: by the covering, and both deer bounded away, likely with 335 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: ringing ears and splitting headaches, but free to tangle up 336 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: another day. One more from the crime Desk. Twenty two 337 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: year old Cody Cape of Blair, Nebraska was charged this 338 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: month for threatening to kill a federal wildlife officer who 339 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: had been investigating Cape for multiple poaching and fractions in 340 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: Nebraska and Iowa. According to authorities, Cape and another man 341 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: were issued violations for illegal hunting and fishing near the 342 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa, which led to a 343 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: more serious investigation for several earlier deer poaching incident. In response, 344 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: Cape allegedly started casing the officer's house, then drove with 345 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: a friend past the house, threatening to shoot the officer. 346 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: He spoke of setting explosives in his car and throwing 347 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: dynamite through the windows of his house, basically being a 348 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: human version of wildly coyote. But dear, poaching is bad, 349 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: murder and arson much worse. Although some of the threats 350 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: seemed a little far fetched, Cape didn't exactly come off 351 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: as a demolitions expert, many of the threats seemed very credible. 352 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: Cape story brings to mind the recent arson that our 353 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: friend Brandon Butler suffered when poachers burned down his hunting 354 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: cabin in southern Missouri after he challenged their brazen poaching 355 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 1: on his land. When talking about the incident, Brandon discussed 356 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: the predicament of the wardens responsible for combating poachers. Game 357 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: wardens wildlife officers just about anywhere, work in remote situations, 358 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: mostly by themselves, and almost everyone they interact with is armed. 359 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: They protect the wildlife we love. They protect the activities 360 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: that we love. So next time you hand over your 361 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,400 Speaker 1: license or stop in at a deer check station, give 362 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: him a big thank you. That's all I've got for 363 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: you this week. Thanks so much for listening. 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