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Speaker 4: It's time for Why It's the Way it Is.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 5: On Why It's the Way it Is, we're going to
Speaker 5: talk about gizzards, which is kind of a funny sounding word, gizzards,
Speaker 5: and I'm going to stay out by saying you don't
Speaker 5: have a gizzard.
Speaker 2: Birds have gizzards.
Speaker 5: All birds have gizzards, but not all birds gizzards are
Speaker 5: the same. Now, if you've ever been out with your
Speaker 5: folks or family friends or whatever hunting and you see
Speaker 5: them clean a bird like a duck or a goose,
Speaker 5: or a turkey, or a grouse or a pheasant or
Speaker 5: any of the birds we call game birds, you.
Speaker 2: Might have noticed that they have an organ like a.
Speaker 5: Big kind of egg shaped purple, real strong, muscular organ
Speaker 5: in their bodies, kind of like the biggest organ they
Speaker 5: have inside their body cavity. That thing is called a gizzard.
Speaker 5: You'll know when you're looking at it, because, like I said,
Speaker 5: it's kind of like a clam almost, or like an egg,
Speaker 5: and it's real strong and rubbery, like it looks like
Speaker 5: a thing you could play racquetball with.
Speaker 2: That's a gizzard.
Speaker 5: Now, the reason you might see large gizzards in those
Speaker 5: birds that people hunt for, like ducks and geese and
Speaker 5: game birds like kway and turkeys and doves, is because
Speaker 5: those birds, those birds we hunt for, tend to eat
Speaker 5: a lot of seeds and nuts. Now, if you think
Speaker 5: of birds we don't eat like hawks and owls and eagles,
Speaker 5: they don't eat a lot of seeds and nuts. They
Speaker 5: eat a lot of meat, and meat is digested differently.
Speaker 5: But game birds, the ones we like to eat, eat
Speaker 5: a lot of hard seeds and nuts, and the gizzard
Speaker 5: is what helps the bird digest those hard materials. Here's
Speaker 5: how a gizzard works. First, let's take a turkey. When
Speaker 5: a turkey goes out in the woods and he finds
Speaker 5: something to eat, let's say he eats a grasshopper. Then
Speaker 5: he might eat an acorn. Then he might wander around
Speaker 5: a little more and go into someone's yard and eat
Speaker 5: some bird seed that got left out, like a piece
Speaker 5: of corn. Okay, that food will initially go into his crop,
Speaker 5: which is like a little storage bag right in his throat.
Speaker 2: It just holds the food.
Speaker 5: If you open up a bird's crop and take the
Speaker 5: food out, it's gonna look just like it was before
Speaker 5: he ate it, because they don't chew their food. In fact,
Speaker 5: I opened a crop up one time on a bird
Speaker 5: called the Hungarian partridge people call them huns, and it
Speaker 5: had been eating grasshoppers, and the grasshoppers in his crop
Speaker 5: were still alive.
Speaker 2: So a crop just holds it.
Speaker 5: Once it leaves its crop, it goes down into a
Speaker 5: first stomach, which is kind of like your stomach, with
Speaker 5: some enzymes in it to help break it down.
Speaker 2: But then it.
Speaker 5: Passes into the gizzard. And here's what's crazy about the gizzard.
Speaker 5: The gizzard is full of gravel.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: A bird that has a big gizzard, a game bird
Speaker 5: or a dock or goose or whatever that has a
Speaker 5: big gizzard, goes out and eats little rocks, little pieces
Speaker 5: of gravel, little pieces of shells from like seashells. Okay,
Speaker 5: whatever he can get that's hard, he'll eat that. And
Speaker 5: that stuff goes down to live in the gizzard, and
Speaker 5: the gizzard takes that. It's like a little meat grinder.
Speaker 5: That muscle full of the those rocks can take and
Speaker 5: contract and just smash up any kind of food to eat,
Speaker 5: and the rocks just live in that gizzard and it's
Speaker 5: like a little grinder and it grinds that food down
Speaker 5: and that's part of its digestion. What's weird about gizzards,
Speaker 5: besides what they look like, is how good they are
Speaker 5: to eat. When you buy a Thanksgiving turkey, for instance,
Speaker 5: it'll sometimes come with a bag of what they call giblets.
Speaker 5: The heart might be in there, the liver might be
Speaker 5: in there, the neck might be in there. And what
Speaker 5: will be in there too is the gizzard. Because meat
Speaker 5: is muscle, right, Muscle is meat. Meat is muscle. A
Speaker 5: gizzard while part of the digestive tract is a big
Speaker 5: hunk of muscle, so it's edible. And since they're so tough,
Speaker 5: they're kind of hard to cook. You have to cook
Speaker 5: them a long time or simmer them in water a
Speaker 5: long time to break them down because you're trying to
Speaker 5: like break down that muscle in a way that you
Speaker 5: can digest it.
Speaker 2: So that is what is up with a gizzez.
Speaker 5: And the next time you're cleaning birds with someone, make
Speaker 5: sure they get you out the gizzard. Make sure you
Speaker 5: cut it open and get all the gravel out, and
Speaker 5: then make sure you simmer it in some salty water
Speaker 5: for an hour or two and then try it, and
Speaker 5: you will see just how good gizzards are. And you'll
Speaker 5: learn while you're cleaning it how they work because you'll
Speaker 5: see all that gravel inside there. And if you want
Speaker 5: to do something pretty cool, clean that gravel up and
Speaker 5: save it in the jar, and over the course of
Speaker 5: your lifetime you'll have a big jar full of real
Speaker 5: cool rocks.
Speaker 6: Why do you fish live in salt water because pepper
Speaker 6: makes them sneeze.
Speaker 4: It's time for Guess that critter where we play animal
Speaker 4: sounds and critter calls, and you've got to guess what
Speaker 4: creature is making those sounds.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, it ain't too hard.
Speaker 4: We're gonna throw in some clues.
Speaker 2: Now open up you years.
Speaker 7: These critters live across the western US, with another large
Speaker 7: population in southern Florida. They can live high up in
Speaker 7: the mountains, in deserts, and even in coastal swamps. They
Speaker 7: have huge home ranges or territories. Males range across more
Speaker 7: than one hundred square miles. A female's home range might
Speaker 7: span up to eighty square miles. While that might sound
Speaker 7: like a bird chirping, it's definitely not a bird. These
Speaker 7: high pitched chirps carry over short and long distances and
Speaker 7: are a form of communication between these mainly solitary critters.
Speaker 7: These animals are known to make a spooky sound as well,
Speaker 7: which has scared many people in the woods at night.
Speaker 7: That's a scream call, which is a noise a female
Speaker 7: makes when she's ready to breed and wants to be
Speaker 7: found by a male. Here's an example of another sound
Speaker 7: used during courtship or breeding. It's known as catterwauling. These
Speaker 7: critters can long jump up to forty feet and sprint
Speaker 7: up to fifty miles per hour. They mostly hunt at
Speaker 7: night and love deer and elk meat. They'll also eat
Speaker 7: big horn sheep and smaller animals such as rabbit, turkey, raccoon,
Speaker 7: and porcupine. Adult males can reach over eight feet in
Speaker 7: length and weigh one hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds,
Speaker 7: while adult females are slightly smaller at up to seven
Speaker 7: feet long and weigh between sixty five and ninety pounds.
Speaker 7: They can appear reddish, brown, beige, tan, and grayish in color.
Speaker 7: Do you think you know it? Time for the reveal.
Speaker 7: It's a mountain lion, also known as a cougar, catamount, panther,
Speaker 7: and puma. So if you guessed any one of those,
Speaker 7: you're right. Mountain lions are big cats that can't roar
Speaker 7: because they don't have the hyoid bone required to make
Speaker 7: the deep roar that other big cats like leopards, lions,
Speaker 7: and jaguars use. Mountain lions are managed as a game
Speaker 7: species in most of the states where they live, which
Speaker 7: means you can hunt them. Their meat is light in
Speaker 7: color and delicious. It tastes kind of like pork, and
Speaker 7: you can make a darn tasty mountain lion honey ham.
Speaker 7: While mountain lions are cautious and tend to avoid huge
Speaker 7: in the wild, if you ever encounter one of these
Speaker 7: big cats outside, raise your arms and yell at it.
Speaker 7: Don't run away, just try to look big and scary.
Speaker 8: Why do French people eat snails because they hate fast food?
Speaker 4: It's time for everyone's favorite game show, Trivia. Let's all
Speaker 4: join in.
Speaker 9: I'm joined by Mabel, Matthew, Rosie, Hayden, Conley, Sage, Hattie,
Speaker 9: and Bay. Each player will earn ten dollars for conservation
Speaker 9: with every question they get right today. There's a potential
Speaker 9: for this room to earn up to two hundred and
Speaker 9: forty dollars this week. That donation is going to the
Speaker 9: National Wildlife Federation, who publishes the kids magazine Ranger Rick.
Speaker 9: Let's see how much money our players can raise. Question one,
Speaker 9: What state is Mount Rushmore in? Is it South Dakota,
Speaker 9: Arizona or Washington? What state is Mount Rushmore in? South Dakota,
Speaker 9: Arizona or Washington? A lot of quick answers. Is everybody ready.
Speaker 8: Concerned about some people's answers?
Speaker 9: Rosie is entertained? What is that? Is everybody ready?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Go ahead and reveal your answers.
Speaker 8: Baye, South Dakota, Rosie Washington, let me explain.
Speaker 9: Go ahead and explain. Okay.
Speaker 6: So I was like I had my answer right, but
Speaker 6: I was looking at their boards and I meant to
Speaker 6: say Washington.
Speaker 9: Washington, base as Washington, Rosie, I say Washington, Mabel.
Speaker 8: South Dakota, Hettie, South Dakota.
Speaker 9: Hayden, South Dakota, Conley.
Speaker 2: South Dakota.
Speaker 10: Matthew, what if it's Arizona, The correct answer is South Dakota.
Speaker 6: I messed up because I said that I was concerned
Speaker 6: with people's answers, and.
Speaker 9: Oh and you told that you were concerned with your
Speaker 9: own answer. You people was most.
Speaker 6: Concerned when Bay looked at other people's born.
Speaker 9: Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Speaker 9: The four presidents on Mount Rushmore or George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Speaker 9: Theodore Roosevelt, and Abe Lincoln. Has anyone been to Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 9: My dad has, Your dad has? Because I've been there,
Speaker 9: you've been there. What's your review of it?
Speaker 3: Was worth the drive?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 9: I was kind of five years old or like I
Speaker 9: was not. I don't really remember, but I have like
Speaker 9: small memories.
Speaker 2: Mountain.
Speaker 9: What do you think his review of Mount Rushmore is
Speaker 9: Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Did you even go? I think he.
Speaker 9: Thought you think he thought it was cool? Okay, there
Speaker 9: is uh Steve's endorsement via Matthew. It's cool. Question two,
Speaker 9: what's the name for a baby moose? Is it cult,
Speaker 9: foal or calf? What's the name or a baby moose, colt,
Speaker 9: foal or calf. Hayden declared, this is an easy one.
Speaker 9: I feel like if you think about the names that.
Speaker 6: You would call like the other animals, like if you
Speaker 6: like think about some of the answers, you can think
Speaker 6: about what the baby think about.
Speaker 9: I like, I hope I didn't get this wrong.
Speaker 6: I hope want to get it wrong because thinking about
Speaker 6: a different thing, that's kind of like the answers.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you go ahead, your answers.
Speaker 9: We have Bay Calf, Rosy, Mabel Calf, Hettie Calf, Hayden, Sage, Conley,
Speaker 9: Matthew Calf. You guys got it. The correct answer is
Speaker 9: and foles are names for baby horses. A male moose
Speaker 9: is a bowl, a female hoose moose is a cow,
Speaker 9: and a baby moose is a calf. What are some
Speaker 9: other baby animals that are called calves? Cows? That's right, cows,
Speaker 9: that's right? Anything else you can think? And then I
Speaker 9: don't think I don't know about a big I can't
Speaker 9: prove you wrong.
Speaker 6: I'll say that, and yeah, bark camels.
Speaker 9: Elephants, giraffes, hippos, rhinolds, rhinos, and whales. Question you guys
Speaker 9: got me good on that one.
Speaker 2: Question three?
Speaker 9: What kind of animal is blue from the Jungle Book?
Speaker 9: Is it black panther, sloth bear, or Indian elephant?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: What kind of animal is blue? I've never reached jungle. Well,
Speaker 9: you're gonna have to think of which animal? Which animal
Speaker 9: sounds like it'd be named blue? Stage, sloth bear or
Speaker 9: Indian elephant? Conley, do you know this one? No, Sage,
Speaker 9: do you know this one?
Speaker 5: I think so?
Speaker 9: Okay? What kind of animal is blue from the Jungle Book?
Speaker 9: Black panther, sloth bear, or Indian elephant? Wouldn't it make
Speaker 9: sense if it was like an elephant?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's elephant. What's the Jungle Book?
Speaker 9: It's a movie, it's a play?
Speaker 1: Or not?
Speaker 6: Does he think about how it's an Indian elephant?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 9: Is that helping if you think about how it's an
Speaker 9: Indian elephant? I mean, I don't.
Speaker 7: Really an elephant.
Speaker 6: Rosy have seen the Indian elephant?
Speaker 9: Okay? Is everybody everybody read?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 9: Is mout rushmore in Arizona? Go ahead and reveal your answers.
Speaker 9: Bear Flo bear Rosie floft Bear, Mabel Sloftbear, Hattie flopp Bear,
Speaker 9: Hayden sloth bear, sage bear, Conley Matthew sloth bear. The
Speaker 9: correct answer is sloth bear. You guys got it.
Speaker 8: I was always competent.
Speaker 9: Slock bears are real animals that are native to India.
Speaker 9: Their diet primarily consists of termites, ants, honey, and fruit,
Speaker 9: which Blue says are part of the bear necessities. What
Speaker 9: do you guys think are some things that are part
Speaker 9: of the bear necessities for you bears? You think bears?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 9: The bare necessity is something you can't live without.
Speaker 6: You can't live without be.
Speaker 5: Blueberries.
Speaker 9: Blueberries, that's a good one. Food of course, yeah.
Speaker 2: Food.
Speaker 9: The other bearness necessities water, Okay, that's a good one. Blueberries,
Speaker 9: food and water and fur. Those are the bare necessities
Speaker 9: for our eight trivia players today. That's it for this
Speaker 9: round of trivia. Filled the engineer. How much money did
Speaker 9: we raise? They raised two hundred ten dollars. Two hundred
Speaker 9: and ten dollars going to the National Wildlife Federation. Well done, kids,
Speaker 9: Join us next time for more meat Eater Kids Trivia
Speaker 9: the only other game show where conservation always wins.
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