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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 2: An anthropologist at the University of Michigan, published a study

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Speaker 2: this week arguing that ice age humans may have eaten digesta,

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Speaker 2: the partially decayed vegetable matter from the digestive tracts of bison.

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Speaker 2: Digesta might sound like an off brand competitor to metamucil

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Speaker 2: or something your grand folks drink, but this anthropologist says

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Speaker 2: it may have offered a substantial source of calories and carbohydrates.

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Speaker 2: In fact, Professor Raven Garvey claims that a one thousand

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Speaker 2: pound bison would have provided enough digesta for twenty five

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Speaker 2: adult foragers to meet the USDA's average recommendations for proteens

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Speaker 2: and carbs for three days. I don't know what that

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Speaker 2: says about the USDA's dietary recommendations, but I had no

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Speaker 2: idea a bison's partially digested cud could be so nutritious.

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Speaker 2: If correct, Garvey's observations could have important implications for how

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Speaker 2: we understand the behavior of ice age humans. If these

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Speaker 2: folks could harvest their vegetables and protein from a single bison,

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Speaker 2: a prehistoric Walmart one stop shop, it's possible that hunter

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Speaker 2: gatherer activities were less strictly stratified by gender than we

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Speaker 2: previously believed. Maybe instead of wandering around looking for plants

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Speaker 2: to forage, ice age women could have participated in the

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Speaker 2: bison hunt and harvested those plants from the animal small intestine.

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Speaker 2: I promise you this is the case. Basically, everything we've

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Speaker 2: assumed about how the ice age people went about their

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Speaker 2: day is slowly getting debunked, So let's not think that

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Speaker 2: some sort of sexual stratagem was in place. Garvey had

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Speaker 2: met that fresher plant matter was likely available for many

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Speaker 2: hunter gatherer societies, but when plants were scarce, it's possible

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Speaker 2: that digesta offered a way to gain key nutrients and

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Speaker 2: free up time and energy for other activities, which, oddly enough,

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Speaker 2: is exactly what we modern humans do right now. Think

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Speaker 2: of all the drink mixes and meal substitutions that really

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Speaker 2: don't taste great that we willingly inhale in order to

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Speaker 2: free up our time. The price of convenience, have.

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Speaker 3: An ult justlimp fast shake for lunch, and feel the difference.

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Speaker 2: This week We've got amazing animals, legislation, and so much more.

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Speaker 2: But first, I'm going to tell you about my week.

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Speaker 2: And my week was super fun. I ran over to Missoula, Montana,

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Speaker 2: go Hellgate Knights and join a bunch of motivated and

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Speaker 2: talented people brought together by Pheasants Forever. These people represented

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Speaker 2: a long list of agencies, councils, and nonprofits committed to

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Speaker 2: open space, habitat improvement, and yes, even pheasants, but turkeys

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Speaker 2: and miagratory birds too. I learned about building beaver dams

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Speaker 2: in the absence of beavers in order to restore groundwater,

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Speaker 2: create fire breaks and drought tolerance zones. I learned about

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Speaker 2: rural coalitions that have been formed in order to take

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Speaker 2: advantage of water and grazing restoration programs available from the

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Speaker 2: FEDS in the state. I just felt good to see

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Speaker 2: a bunch of folks doing good work, and also being

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Speaker 2: as how the meetings didn't start until nine am, I

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Speaker 2: squeezed in a few morning turkey hunts. Nothing like calling

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Speaker 2: birds on private ground from the wrong side of the fence. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: I stuck around Missoula for a couple of reasons. One

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Speaker 2: Missoula Club Burger. Two the HHA Wild Night for Wildlife

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Speaker 2: was Saturday night. If you're not familiar with this most

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Speaker 2: excellent organization, Hellgate Hunters and Anglers. It's the type of

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Speaker 2: local rotten gun club everyone should be a part of.

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Speaker 2: Great membership. They show up to the capitol to testify

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Speaker 2: on issues affecting hunters and anglers across the state, as

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Speaker 2: well as fishing game meetings, and they even built a

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Speaker 2: heck of an awesome archery range in town. On top

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Speaker 2: of that, if you ever make it to a Wild

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Speaker 2: Night for Wildlife, the food is really good. Whoever was

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Speaker 2: pumping out the enchiladas, meatballs, impanadas, elk kso cheese dip sandwiches.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, but it was fantastic.

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Speaker 2: If you live in the greater Missoula area, do yourself

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Speaker 2: a favor and look up Hellgate Hunters and Anglers. Next

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Speaker 2: reason I stuck around town. A bunch of friends I

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Speaker 2: grew up with flew into Missoula, and amongst the many

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Speaker 2: highlights that occurred during the weekend of hanging out with

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Speaker 2: this group on the banks of the Blackfoot, our buddy

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Speaker 2: Dave got his first game animal ever. That damned turkey

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Speaker 2: decided to cross the fence and then made another bad

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Speaker 2: day of shaking on the ground next to the decoy

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Speaker 2: and I'll be darned if we didn't hear a single

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Speaker 2: up right back at the truck. Great shooting, Dave. Congrats

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Speaker 2: on your first bird. I'll let you know what he

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Speaker 2: did with it. Onto the snort report. Ol Snorticus is

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Speaker 2: three years old. She was able to ring in this

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Speaker 2: benchmark age with roughly three hundred water retrieves from the

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Speaker 2: icy cold Blackfoot. She's still asking for more. Happy birthday,

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Speaker 2: little girl. Okay, housekeeping, Remember every Tuesday, the Element Crew

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Speaker 2: Giannis ptellus all right. Moving on to the wildlife desk,

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Speaker 2: A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports has

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Speaker 2: found that pheasant feathers could be used to determine the

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Speaker 2: presence of heavy metals on the landscape. Birds tend to

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Speaker 2: are herbivorous and territorial, meaning they eat plants and stay

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Speaker 2: indicate the presence of heavy metals like lead, arsenic, nickel,

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Speaker 2: and zinc. But these Polish researchers wondered if that same

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Speaker 2: information could be collected from feathers, so they harvested tail

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Speaker 2: that were killed during hunting season in four forested areas

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Speaker 2: of Poland. Sure Enough, when they analyzed the feathers for

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Speaker 2: heavy metals, they found a strong relationship to soil contamination

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Speaker 2: this is the first analysis of pheasant feathers and monitoring

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Speaker 2: environmental pollution. It could be a non invasive way for

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Speaker 2: few months. This could be a cool way to measure

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Speaker 2: your cock after a hunt against a fellow hunter's bird.

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Speaker 2: We know pheasants like to live on that edge habitat

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Speaker 2: So you could determine the wildness of your bird, and

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Speaker 2: thusly how far you ranged as a hunter by how

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Speaker 2: those numbers off against your fellow hunter's feathers, and then

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Speaker 2: you'll get it. You know, then you know who's better.

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Speaker 2: In another cool study sent in by listener Carl Kaufman,

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Speaker 2: scientists report that northern elephant seals sleep twenty minutes at

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Speaker 2: I do not believe college students and maybe new parents

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Speaker 2: congrats Kevin and Laura Farron are included in any of

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Speaker 2: that data. Elephant seals live in the Pacific Ocean for

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Speaker 2: for fish, squid, and other food. During these months long expeditions,

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Speaker 2: they have to worry about keeping their two thousand pound

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Speaker 2: It's hard to get much quality shut eye when you're

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Speaker 2: worried about free willy snacking on your hind quarters. So

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Speaker 2: elephant seals dive way below the surface sixty to one

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Speaker 2: which point they hold themselves upright. As they continue sleeping,

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Speaker 2: also showed them that unlike many marine mammals, which sleep

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Speaker 2: them better rest. They have to dive down to over

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Speaker 2: could sell that ability for a premium during the upcoming

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Speaker 2: election cycle. In our final story at the Wildlife Desk,

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Speaker 2: a bee researcher in Arizona recently released a book claiming

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Speaker 2: that bees feel complex emotions similar to mammals. According to

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Speaker 2: a review of the book in the newspaper The Guardian,

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Speaker 2: Stephen Buckman claims that bees can demonstrate sophisticated emotions resembling optimism, frustration, playfulness,

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Speaker 2: and fear. He also says bees can experience PTSD like symptoms,

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Speaker 2: more humane and ethical treatment of bees given this apparent sentience. This,

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Speaker 2: Honey isn't the only food that relies on bees. Virtually

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Speaker 2: producers trucking and bees from somewhere else for that purpose. Thousands,

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Speaker 2: if Buckman is right, makes them very very sad. Of course,

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Speaker 2: For example, one experiment hit a robotic spider inside a flower,

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Speaker 2: Bees learned to look for that spider before landing on

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Speaker 2: They showed false alarm at safe flowers, scanning them briefly

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Speaker 2: believe that honeybees get angry or bored or that's just beeswax,

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Speaker 2: their history in North America is fascinating. Honey Bees are

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Speaker 2: not native to this continent. They were imported by Europeans,

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Speaker 2: but they also out competed native species of bees for resources.

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Speaker 2: All bees pollinate plants, but humans have given honeybees an

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Speaker 2: advantage because it's easy to transport box hives across the country.

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Speaker 2: Other bee species, which live in the ground or plant stems,

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Speaker 2: as much attention. In fact, you may have seen these

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Speaker 2: Take a little time to learn what kind of native

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Speaker 2: to protect them by planting some pollinator plants. And if

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Speaker 2: you're interested in and reading more about emotional bees, Buckman's

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Speaker 2: book is called What a Bee Knows, exploring the thoughts, memories,

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, please thread these bees.

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Speaker 2: Moving on to the animal attack desk. Public health officials

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Speaker 2: swift brown fox did not jump over the Lazy Dog,

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Speaker 2: but it did bite six people in one day, and

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Speaker 2: she was walking down her driveway. Quote, I felt this

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Speaker 2: I have good news out of Michigan. The Michigan Department

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Speaker 2: and this one's from Meat Eater's own Corin Schneider. Canadian

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Speaker 2: photographer Ken Pritty photographed a thirty foot tall fallus shaped

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Speaker 2: in the Bay of Conception. Thank you. Krin Schneider and

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Speaker 2: thank you to everyone for listening. Remember to write into

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