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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature future production of I Heart Radio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology

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Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, we're firing

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Speaker 1: the Easter Bunny and looking for a replacement. That's right,

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Speaker 1: eb you're getting benched and we're sending in another animal

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Speaker 1: out there to make merry with the eggs and the

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Speaker 1: flowers and the chocolates and so on. We've got three

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Speaker 1: candidates on the show today, each of whom may be

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Speaker 1: able to beat the Easter bunny at his own game.

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Speaker 1: From the mountains to the deserts to the Australian outback.

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Speaker 1: Are contenders. Aren't bunnies, but that doesn't mean they can't

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Speaker 1: hop the dig and maybe even deliver you a bouquet

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Speaker 1: of fresh flowers. Discover this and more as we answered

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Speaker 1: the age old question what did rabbits ever? Due to

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Speaker 1: the Foundation for Rabbit Free Australia joining me today to

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Speaker 1: give the Easter Bunny the boot is front of the show,

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Speaker 1: co host of Quick Question with One and Daniel and

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Speaker 1: comedy writer Sore and Booie. Welcome, Hey, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for having me giving these an opportunity to kick

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Speaker 1: that Easter bunny and right in the are we allowed

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Speaker 1: to swear on this? I put a little quack sound

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Speaker 1: over it, like a little duck quack, so you can't.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. Yeah, yeah, that's cute. All right, Well I'll

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Speaker 1: stick with butt for now. People to hear my voices. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, the Easter Bunny has had a good run.

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Speaker 1: But I think we can all agree that it gets

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Speaker 1: too good. I would say it gets old. You know,

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Speaker 1: the nose twitching, the ears, the floppy ears, the cotton tail.

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Speaker 1: It's he's like he's a one trick bunny. He's a

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Speaker 1: one trick bunny. Yeah, I would say so. So I

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Speaker 1: actually thought of this idea because when I asked you

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Speaker 1: really interested in talking about the pika. Yes, yeah, I so.

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Speaker 1: I grew up. I grew up among the pika. They

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Speaker 1: from a feral tree up in the scree of the mountains.

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Speaker 1: We lived in the tiny holes of the screen, sort

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Speaker 1: of like the Jungle Book, except the the Alpine book.

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Speaker 1: And you learned the way of the pika, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess my sher con was sort of like an eagle. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Colorado and from an early age,

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Speaker 1: it's you're very encouraged from an early age to climb mountains,

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Speaker 1: soon as you get above timberline, which just means like

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Speaker 1: where the there's not enough air for the trees to survive,

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Speaker 1: then you run into these. You run into these, you'll

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Speaker 1: hear these little, tiny, adorable squeaks out there and it's

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Speaker 1: up in and I don't know who's been up above

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Speaker 1: like twelve feet, but there's like it's all rock up

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Speaker 1: there's giant boulders and you just like they're deep. I

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Speaker 1: mean you can kind of like if you dropped a

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Speaker 1: essentially crevasses of rock and that's where these pika would live.

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Speaker 1: And they come out and they're so territorial. But it's

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Speaker 1: adorable because they're there look like little cotton balls, essentially,

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Speaker 1: the gray cotton balls. They're so cute. They're round and

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Speaker 1: they come out and they yell at you, and they're

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Speaker 1: so nice. It's like they're they're adorable little animals. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I feel like you you don't even need to do

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Speaker 1: You just have this round animal be the egg itself.

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Speaker 1: So you get like little pikas and then you just

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Speaker 1: open up the pika and your treats are in there

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Speaker 1: that means you get out of here, get out of here,

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Speaker 1: Pikas have a variety of calls and songs they use

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Speaker 1: for communication. The purpose of the calls can range from

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Speaker 1: you've just never seen a hamster. This is a hamster. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: they do. They look like large hamsters. They're not big,

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Speaker 1: they're like sort of you could hold one in your hand.

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Speaker 1: It's like a handful hamster. And they have these round ears.

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Speaker 1: They're very fluffy, like you said, like little little egg

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Speaker 1: But even though they look like a rodent, they are

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Speaker 1: in fact much more related to a rabbit. In fact,

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Speaker 1: that's it. I didn't know that. Um, I have a

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Speaker 1: yes they do. And the way I know this is

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Speaker 1: I have been peed on by a rabbit. Uh my phone,

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Speaker 1: very scientific. Yes, my my friend had a rabbit when

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Speaker 1: get most of their their fluid from themselves exactly. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the collared pika. There are thirty four different species

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Speaker 1: of pika, all extremely adorable. They're typically around six to

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Speaker 1: little buddies. You did it. But they're very cute. They

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Speaker 1: Is this one of those situations where an animal just

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, I would be talking out of

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Speaker 1: the Piket's butts do. Yeah, we're not talking abou our

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Speaker 1: pike out there. There was just like contending with a

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Speaker 1: Their physical appearance is very different from rabbits, even though

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Speaker 1: They actually can have different dialects based on where they're located.

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Speaker 1: it's it's incredible. They can also jump two to three

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00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: ft vertically, which is almost a meter and ten times

423
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: its own body lengthwise. And so given that they're about

424
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: the size of your palm, like some are going to

425
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: be smaller, like the pigmy Jerboa is teeny tiny, uh,

426
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: and then oother the long yar Jibo is a little

427
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,439
Speaker 1: bigger than the pigmy Jrbo. But let's just say generally speaking,

428
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: they're about the size of your palm maybe five inches

429
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 1: or twelve centimeters, so scaled to human dimensions, the speeds

430
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,199
Speaker 1: and distances that they can the speedies that they can

431
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: run in the distances they can jump. So it would

432
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: be like, first of all, having feet the length of

433
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 1: your torso and being able to run around two hundred

434
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: miles per hour or three kilometers an hour and jump

435
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: fourteen ft or twelve mem is up in the air. Yeah,

436
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: I mean I want that. I like that would be

437
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: nice and and there's no like, there's no drawbacks. I

438
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like, oh but I'm not so cute anymore, right, No, Yeah, no,

439
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: they're adorable. I mean the drawback I guess is you

440
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: are small and everything wants to eat you. So you know,

441
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: usually when you're running, it's not because you're just having

442
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: a fun marathon with those like tiny little, tiny little

443
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: placards that you're wearing, and little other gerboas are tossing

444
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: tiny cups of water in your face. It's usually because

445
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: you're running for your life. It would be fun, though,

446
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: I know. Now they've got these they've got tails that

447
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: are like three times as long as their body. Yes, tail, Katie.

448
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: It helps them melts because they're actually typically by pedals,

449
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: so they will do a hopping motion for running and

450
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: for walking, and so having that tail helps them balance

451
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: when they are hopping on two feet at these really

452
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: high speeds, because if they stumble, if they trip over

453
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: and lose their balance, that could be death for them,

454
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: because they often are chased by things like the desert fox,

455
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: which can be faster than them. But the thing that

456
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: they have going for them is their mobility, so they

457
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: can the jerbo can run in a zigzag pattern and

458
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: be really really agile as they're running, so outmaneuvering their

459
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: predator can be as important as being fast they know serpentine. Yeah,

460
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: it's important. That's a good one. I saw my son,

461
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: uh plays Freeze Tag. Now he's an Ajor like that's

462
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: that's that's the game. That's fun. And uh, I see

463
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: him sometimes out there playing with the older kids on

464
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: the block and he just gets he just gets chewed

465
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: up by the your kids, like they know, especially when

466
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: like he's it and somebody's frozen and he's got to

467
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: catch the last kid. Like you can't do it because

468
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: the kids are they're so fast because they're you know,

469
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: two years older, and that means that they're two ft taller.

470
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: But I went out with him once and I was like,

471
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach you some strategies for for when you

472
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,239
Speaker 1: play Freeze Tag. That is they're gonna help you. Like

473
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: you you're not gonna beat these guys with speed, so

474
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: you're like, you need these you need some moves, is

475
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: what you need. And so I went out and we

476
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: worked on it, and that was the first time that

477
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,479
Speaker 1: we had like practiced the sport where he was like

478
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: he said, I saw the tangible benefit right away, and

479
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: was like, ah, you can see the light in his

480
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: eye where he was like, I want to learn more. Oh,

481
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: that is so cute. Did you learn that from your

482
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: time being raised by pikes or by jerboa's It was

483
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: the pike a yeah, it was so ill. You also

484
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: need a really long tail when you're up in the mountains.

485
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: The snow leopard will tell you all about it. When

486
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: you're like hunting and on the sides of mountains, you

487
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: need all that balance you can get. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

488
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: So so the jerboa, by by doing that serpentine pattern

489
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: that you are teaching your son, can out maneuver things

490
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: like desert foxes, owls, and snakes, which is it's also

491
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: good for your son. And I'm I think like, aside

492
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: from freeze tag, the fact that your son can now

493
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: out maneuver a desert fox is going to be really important. Um,

494
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be very helpful. They also, the Jerboas have

495
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: tufts of hair on their feet which act like little

496
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: little running shoes because they oh, my god, cute. It's

497
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: so cute because they provide some traction against the sand.

498
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: So it's like these little pom poms on their titsies

499
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's just it's so cute. It's

500
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: every adaptation that they have that for them is very serious,

501
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: Like I need these these running tufts otherwise I'm going

502
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: to be eaten viciously by a snake. Really, would you

503
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: usual cute? It's like, no, seriously, I will die if

504
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: I do not have these toe puffs. I will die.

505
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to eat you up, Port Garbos. It must

506
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: be so hard to be taken. Seriously, hard life to

507
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,959
Speaker 1: carve out when you're so darn cute, so darn cute.

508
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: The long eared Jerboa actually has one of the I

509
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: think actually the largest ear to body ratio in the

510
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: animal kingdom. I think their ears are like two thirds

511
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: the length of their body. It feels like if you

512
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: like kind of tossed one like a paper airplane, that

513
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: they would just like kind of take off. I'm not

514
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: don't do that, like, do not do that, but it

515
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: seems like that would be what would happen. Yeah, they've

516
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: got I mean they've got huge eyes, big ears, tiny

517
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: little nose. Like the baby schema is clicking on all

518
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: cylinders with this animal. Yeah, I want to cuddle one

519
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: of the is so so bad. They actually can carry

520
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: some diseases, so you don't really want to cuddle them.

521
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: That is probably not they're Actually I think they're banned

522
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: in the US as pets, which is good because pet

523
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: trade can be bad for animals. But I think the

524
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: reason is that they can spread. I think it's a

525
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:24,719
Speaker 1: version of monkey pox. Actually, she's yeah, so it's just

526
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: not in general, is not a great idea to have

527
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: a pet. It's nocturnal anyway, Yeah, you shouldn't be doing it.

528
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: They're the cutest ones, obviously because they've got the biggest egg. Yeah,

529
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: I mean, God, I remember having a hamster in my

530
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,239
Speaker 1: room going at the wheel all night long, just like

531
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: it's time to exercise. We've talked about maybe having the

532
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: Easter pikea the Easter Gerboa, both I think already like

533
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: a vast improvement over the Easter bunny right hands, hands down,

534
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: head and shoulders, even though they're so small. I mean

535
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: not literally head and shoulders over the Easter money, but figuratively,

536
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: because the pika is like both an egg and an

537
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,959
Speaker 1: adorable creature all in one. The Jerboa is, you know,

538
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: just the the kangaroo style hopping allows it to hold

539
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: a tiny basket, so you know, so you know, we've

540
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: got our non nondenominational springtime pika festival. We've got our

541
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: Jerboa Jerboa Bonanza I'd like to call this. Yeah, it's

542
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: like we do this. It's like a spring like the

543
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: fun run in the spring. Yeah yeah, and just like

544
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: instead of eggs, like little seeds and insects that you

545
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: feel the Jerboa's basket with. This sounds like such a

546
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: good holiday. Uh. And so finally I want to talk

547
00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: about an animal that I truly believe in to replace

548
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: the Easter bunny, and that is the Bilbie of Australia.

549
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with this animal. I'm looking at it

550
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: right now and I'm like, yeah, I don't know what

551
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: this is. This is um. It is an amazing and

552
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: bizarre animal. And I think people, I mean, certainly I

553
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 1: do underestimate how many ding marsupials there are because there

554
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: are a lot of weird marsupials. So this thing looks

555
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: like and it looks like some kind of weird rabbit

556
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: with a long tail and a long snoot, or maybe

557
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: even some kind of art arkh. This is in fact

558
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: a marsupial. Um. This is Australia's Easter bunny, the Bilbie.

559
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: It's actually a type of bandicoot, uh, which are you know,

560
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: they are a group of marsupials, which is I guess

561
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: that is the inspiration for Crash Bandicoot the video game.

562
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: Although if you look at an actual bandicoote and you

563
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: look at Crash Bandicoot, it's that there's not it doesn't

564
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: really look like a bandicoot. Yeah, something lost in translation.

565
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: I think same way Donkey Donkey Kong is a gorilla.

566
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: They definitely don't wear Jinko jeans real bandicoote. But yeah,

567
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: so Bandicootes are long snooted marsupials. They tend to have

568
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: sort of a shrew like a parents, but the bilbie

569
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: has these long rabbit ears that kind of I think

570
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 1: elevates them to this special position of cuteness in my

571
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: humble opinions. So they have these long, thin, furry tail.

572
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: It would be mouse like this tail, except that it's

573
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: covered in fur um. They have like a black stripe

574
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: on their tails, pink noses, and their bodies are overall

575
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,919
Speaker 1: sort of a grayish tan color. Yeah, I would say

576
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: that this animal seems to solve a lot of the

577
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: problems of the possum, Like the possum has like some

578
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: asthetic issues. In my opinion, it really needs to work past.

579
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: One is that bald tail that it's got that like

580
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: pink rat tail it's also got its ears are still

581
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: like clipped to its head in a really gross, weird way,

582
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: and its nose is really sharp and angular. And this

583
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: one it still has the long kind of snarrow nose,

584
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: but it pulls it off a lot better. And then

585
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: obviously it's got way bigger ears. That's and then the tail.

586
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 1: It has the decency to cover its tail in front.

587
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that it's rude, it's so gross, it's

588
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: in decent. Honestly, I actually do love possums. H there

589
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: to me to me cute, but I also think spiders

590
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: are cute, so I may have as somewhat skewed u

591
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: e skewed sense. There's actually the ustar alien possum, which

592
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: is super super cute. It is, I mean, it doesn't

593
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: look too much like the North American o possum, but

594
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: they are. I would definitely definitely recommend a Google Images

595
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: search of the Australian possum. Yeah, some genius has gone

596
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,439
Speaker 1: has gone to the like when you first just look

597
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: up the Australian possum, they've they've put a side by

598
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: side of the American possum versus the Australian ones. You

599
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: can see both of them side by side and be like,

600
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: oh yeah, one is clearly better here. The even like

601
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: the American possum has these like narrow evil eyes that

602
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: kind of slipped down its face like it's kind it's

603
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: angry all the time. Oh man, this, let's get this one.

604
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: Let's trade now. American possums serve a very important ecological purpose.

605
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: They do. They do they awful lot of diseases. They

606
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: eat a lot of ticks, so they prevent a lot

607
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: of lime disease. I keep them around. But yeah, so

608
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: actually the I should say, the Australian possum is not

609
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: really related to the North American opossum. They're both more supial,

610
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: so they're both distantly related. But just because they're both

611
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: got possum in the name, they're not actually that closely

612
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: related aside from the whole our soupial thing. Uh So,

613
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: like the probably the Australian possum is like I don't

614
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: know her. Oh no, we don't know. No no relation. Yeah,

615
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: so back to you're thinking of the opossum. You're thinking

616
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: of the possum. That's not me. That's very different. Yeah. Yeah,

617
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: So back to the bilbie. Uh. The it is the

618
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: bilbie is an objectively adorable creature. The little the pointy

619
00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: little snoot, the long ears, the fluffy tail, the large

620
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 1: ears that they have actually worked similarly to the giboah ears.

621
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: They help keep the bill be cool by dissipating heat,

622
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 1: and of course it also helps them to hear threats.

623
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: They are actually the largest of the little critters that

624
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. They're around ten toes or thirty

625
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: to fifty long. Uh. Like other marsupials, they have a pouch.

626
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 1: They give birth to very premature young that look more

627
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 1: like a gross little jelly bean or fetus than a newborn,

628
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: and they actually give birth after only fourteen days of development.

629
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: And when they give birth, that little tiny jelly bean

630
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: with like tiny stubby legs will crawl up into the

631
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: mother's pouch and latch onto a teat. Which is it is?

632
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 1: It's hardcore that they expect so much like of course

633
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 1: we expect a lot of our kids. Maybe we push

634
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: kids too much with extracurriculars and everything, but this is like, okay, now,

635
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: climb a hairy mountain that is your mom as soon

636
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: as you're born. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like

637
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: marsupials have got us. They've got us there. They're step

638
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: ahead of us in this respect that they having that

639
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: pouch is so valuable because you just station does not

640
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: need to be nearly as long. It's like kangaroos. Kangaroos

641
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: are born, they don't even like tadpoles. Basically, they don't

642
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: even have back legs. Essentially, like they crawl up into

643
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: the pocket and then they just hang out in the

644
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 1: pocket until they're enough to come out and explore. And

645
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,720
Speaker 1: that's God, that's so great. I wish we had something

646
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: like that, because I mean you're telling me, yeah, it is.

647
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: I am very jealous of a lot of the way

648
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: that a lot of animals have decided to deal with

649
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: bearing offspring. I think that marsupials have a great system.

650
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: In fact, the bilbie has such a good system here,

651
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: you know how, like kangaroo pouches open from the top.

652
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: Billbies like to burrow a lot, both in terms of

653
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: their their dens but also for searching for food because

654
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: they'll eat anything from like spiders, insects, small animals, seed, fruit, fungi,

655
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: so they'll diggle for a lot of their food because

656
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 1: they they love digging so much. If they their pouch

657
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: opened up at the top as they dig, their pouch

658
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: would just fill with dirt. So if they had they

659
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: would just like bury their young alive, which would be bad.

660
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: So instead their pouch actually opens up at the other

661
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: end at the bottom, and it's I mean, like the

662
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: entrance to the pouch is very like elastic, so it's

663
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: not just like this floppy kind of purse where the

664
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: babies are just gonna fall out, So that way, when

665
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: they're digging and burrowing, none of the dirt gets into

666
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: the pouch. But it also means that if they're just

667
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: like sitting there and you look at their butts, sometimes

668
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: like for for the females, sometimes you'll just see like

669
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: a little baby face come out from like where it

670
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: looks like she's just has like a fully formed like

671
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: little baby like coming out of her. But of course

672
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: it's not coming out of the butt, it's coming out

673
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: of the pouch. But it's very funny. I I'm in

674
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: the mistake of just searching for the Bilbie pouch so

675
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: that I could see it, and I feel like I

676
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: should have done this with safe search on incognito window.

677
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: It is there's like humans basically opening these pouches up

678
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: like and showing a baby inside of it. Five I'm scandalized.

679
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just just leave the bilbie pouch alone. Yeah,

680
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: don't touch them. So uh Bilbies on like bunnies are omnivores,

681
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: so you know, already cooler than the easter bunny. I

682
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: love that they eat spiders. I mean, I do love spiders,

683
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 1: but I also really admire animals that eat spiders because

684
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it's just it's just cool, you

685
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: know what I mean. The legs don't bother them, they

686
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: have like, uh you know, there's it's like, instead of

687
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: like smoking being cool, I feel like eating spiders should

688
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: be the new cool thing. Yeah I'm very cool in

689
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: my sleep. Then, from what I hear, not true, Actually

690
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: that is, don't worry you don't eat spiders and your sleep.

691
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: Spiders do not want to be Like it's the idea

692
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: that we eat a bunch of spiders and our sleep

693
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,919
Speaker 1: sort of supposes that spiders are like, oh a big

694
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: wet moist cave. Let me go right in there. Let's

695
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: see what we got in here rubbing their little pans together.

696
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 1: Let's oh no, oh, this is worse, this little caving equipment,

697
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: one of those little helmets with the light on it.

698
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: But yeah, so so they can actually that that long

699
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: snoot of theirs. They can smell food underground, and they

700
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: actually have a long, sticky tongue that they can use

701
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: to lap up either insects or seeds from dug up

702
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: holes in the ground. And in fact, this method of

703
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: eating means they ingest a lot of sand, and so

704
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: the sand they don't digest, it passes right through them.

705
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: So you can tell what Bilbie poop is because it's

706
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: mostly sand. Oh gross, that's a terrible existence. I don't

707
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: even like going to the beach. Yeah, I don't like

708
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: go to the beach because I don't like getting like

709
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: the idea of getting sand in your mouth is horrifying. Yeah,

710
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: it's the stuff of nightmare. And it's just its whole

711
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: life is that it's just everything tastes like that gray

712
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: that sandwich that you accidentally dropped in the sand. You're

713
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: like like boogie boarding and stuff is like when you

714
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: like going to shore and then it's just sort of

715
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: like sand getting into like it's everywhere and it's bad

716
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: and I sort of don't understand people who enjoy the beach.

717
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: Yeah you'll be two days later you'll be like sand

718
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: will just fall out of your pants and where was that.

719
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: You'll sneeze and like your hands are just full of sand.

720
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: But I guess they're into it, so you know, and

721
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: it's it's good for the environment because they're such proficient diggers.

722
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: They actually helped till the soil and make the ground

723
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: more fertile for plants to grow. So hey, you know,

724
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: good for you. A good Easter bunny animal, a good

725
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: bunny replacement. It's all about fertility, right, And probably people

726
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: who are listening to this from Australia, um, are you

727
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: know saying like uh, yeah, no, we use the bilbie

728
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: sometimes as our Easter bunny and yes, so in Australia

729
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: there is a campaign to make the bill Bei the

730
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: official Easter bunny. And it's really interesting why so chocolate

731
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: Easter bilbies have been sold for almost thirty years in Australia,

732
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: with the funds going to the Foundation for Rabbit Free Australia.

733
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: So suck it buddies. Whoa that is a uh? Is

734
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: that a genocide. What are we talking about here but

735
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: bunnigeddon rabbigeddon. Uh. Yeah, So why does Australia hate rabbits?

736
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: What have rabbits ever done to Australia. Well, rabbits invaded Australia.

737
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: They are an invasive species. Australia is an island that

738
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: is extremely prone to invasive species. I mean, kane tone

739
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: cough cough, wink wink. Uh, I mean I think I'm

740
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: among friends. And so these invasive species can steal habitats resources,

741
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: they can hunt native species. Of course, rabbits are not predators. However,

742
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 1: they you know, breed extremely prolifically and they can eat

743
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: a lot, and so they steal resources from native animals

744
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: like bilbies, and so ecologists have declared war on invasive

745
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: bunnies with the Easter bilbie as their mascot. Uh. And

746
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 1: I just love I love that this. I don't know,

747
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: it's such a vindictive use of Easter. Yeah it does. See,

748
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: it's like, well, we like this other animal to be

749
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: our Easter bunny. And I was like, okay, that's fine,

750
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: that's good. That's really cute. Yeah, and we would also

751
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: like to kill all the other ones that you're using.

752
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: That would be nice if we just didn't have to

753
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: look at them anymore. Yeah, yeah, no, seriously, buddies, get out,

754
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: we will murder you. Yeah no, it's I mean, I

755
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: understand it though, because when you have an island like

756
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: Australia and you have a lot of endemic species, that is,

757
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: species that are only found in Australia and nowhere else

758
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: in the world, and you have an invasive species that

759
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: is threatening these animals, you know, it's like, yeah, it is.

760
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: It is a serious problem. But yeah, just the the aggressive,

761
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: the aggressive and angry energy of the easter Bilbie is

762
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: is incredible and I do love it. It does feel

763
00:48:55,120 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: like nationalism to me. But that's fine, fine, what's fine animals.

764
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: We haven't we no one's no one's decided to stick

765
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: a claim in the ground over that an issue yet,

766
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: So have at it, Australia. Yeah alright, Well I don't

767
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: gonna agree with you. I think the Bilby could be

768
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: a really good choice, and already it seems like there's

769
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 1: already momentum built behind it. So the rabbit and let's

770
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: kill all of them. Let's kill him here too, Let's

771
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: just kill him. Let's kill the rabbits. I think this

772
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 1: is a great idea that Looney Tunes had it right.

773
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: Kill the webbit, Elmer Fudd had it right. Uncancelled Elmer Fudd.

774
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: He was right along. So before we go, would you

775
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: like to play a little game. This is like the

776
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 1: main reason I came, Katie, and I was, in fact,

777
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: as you're asking me what animal I want to do

778
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: this time, I was like the castuary and I was like, no,

779
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: damn it, that was the animal last time. That This

780
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: is just to make sure. This is the game where

781
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: I get to you play an animal noise for me

782
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: and I say I know what that is, and I

783
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 1: tell you what it is and then the fun is over.

784
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: But I look smart, right exactly, that is what this game.

785
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:16,439
Speaker 1: The game is make scorn seems smart game games like that.

786
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: So I hear dog that is the Great North Italian

787
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: nesting dog. She gets mad at the elevator, so I

788
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: know it's it's a it's witchcraft that I think. I

789
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: think science has gone too far with the elevator. A

790
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 1: people mover. Excuse me, people can move themselves, So ignore

791
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: the dog. The dog barking, But please do listen to this,

792
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: which is last week's mr animals sound and the hint

793
00:50:54,360 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: was could this be the call of a unicorn? M

794
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: h wow, it was like echoe. So do you know

795
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: who is squawking or talking or roaring? Could be any animal. Ah,

796
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: it's so deep and resonant, and it sounds like it's

797
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: echoing wherever it is. Um, I'm gonna say, hippo, is

798
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: that your final answer? Remember remember that show? Remember Who

799
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: Wants to Be a Millionaire? It's topical. Oh, does sound

800
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: like here's the problem I'm having. It sounds like so

801
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: many savannah animals, but also like the echoes really throwing me.

802
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: It feels like it has to be somewhere in a canyon.

803
00:51:55,160 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay with hippo, all right, Well you're close

804
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: and that it is an ungulate Mike a hippo. But

805
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: it is not a hippo. It is actually the Arabian rics.

806
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: So yes, So I was very shocked to hear this

807
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: is what an oorc sounds like. It it's it's just

808
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 1: much more imposing. But the Arabian oorcs is a really

809
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: interesting animal and it is uh. It is something of

810
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,439
Speaker 1: a unicorn, both in terms of its rarity and the

811
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: mythology behind it. So the Arabian Orics lives in the

812
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 1: desert and step area of the Arabian Peninsula. And it

813
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: is a an antelope that it's not. It's got sort

814
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:53,360
Speaker 1: of a I would say, you know, formidable body like.

815
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: It's not one of these very very lean and sleek antelope.

816
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 1: It's medium sized. The it's mostly sort of this whitish

817
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: color with some black markings on its nose and legs.

818
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 1: But the most remarkable part about it is that it

819
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: has these incredibly incredibly long horns, which are just they're

820
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: very long and pointy and frankly menacing looking. Yeah, it

821
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: would be hard for it to stab you with those though,

822
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: I think because they're so long they're unwheeling. It's actually both.

823
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll have ungulates, you know, these hooved animals, where

824
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: like only the males will have horns or antlers, but

825
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: in this case, both sexes actually have these horns, so

826
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: congratulations to them for a gender equitable society. And they

827
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: can be up to around thirty inches or long, which

828
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: is just incredible. Yeah, it's they're really big, is it?

829
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: Just do they do they use them like goats and

830
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: sheep or they just are button heads with each other. Yeah,

831
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: so I think it is used in uh sort of

832
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: posturing displays. They like to avoid the conflict more and

833
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: they will use them to defend their territory. But they

834
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: when they're doing sort of like conflict amongst themselves, they

835
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: often will do a display kind of thing of like hey,

836
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: check out how big my horns are. Seriously, you don't

837
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: want to deal with these. So they like to avoid

838
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Speaker 1: injuring each other because and they would rather sort of

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Speaker 1: just intimidate each other with like the their horns. That

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Speaker 1: checks out because it goes with the old adage you

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Speaker 1: mess with the orcs, you get the horns. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: the classic adage. Uh so yeah, and the uh these

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Speaker 1: orcs actually may have helped contribute to the unicorn myth

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Speaker 1: along with other animals because the if people saw one

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Speaker 1: of these animals with just a single horn, or maybe

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Speaker 1: found one of these horns, it's thought that this may

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Speaker 1: have lead people to believe that there is the mythical unicorn.

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Speaker 1: And because these are actually these are horns, these are

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Speaker 1: hollow bones that don't regrow. If an orcs loses one

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Speaker 1: of them, it will never grow it back, so it

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Speaker 1: will appear like a unicorn. For the rest of its life.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I know it's kind of sad, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know that that even happened. I

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Speaker 1: thought all animals were like elk and deer where it's

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Speaker 1: just like you lose them every year and then you

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Speaker 1: grow them back. Yeah. I mean it's really interesting because

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Speaker 1: like elk and deer, antlers are there there is a

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Speaker 1: lot of living tissue in there, so like they and

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Speaker 1: they will um like near the base of the horn,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they will break off and regrown. When

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Speaker 1: they regrow, they actually have this sort of velvety skin

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Speaker 1: coating on it that supplies to the hornet or the

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Speaker 1: antlers as it grows. But yeah, with these horns, they

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Speaker 1: actually don't go through that cycle of regrowth. Interesting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and well you stumped me, Katie. Yeah. And also, like unicorns,

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Speaker 1: these are very well, they used to be exceedingly rare.

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Speaker 1: They actually went extinct in the wild in the seventies,

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Speaker 1: but there was a reintroduction program and now they do

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Speaker 1: exist in the wild. Uh. And there's about um over

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Speaker 1: a thousand now in the wild. So it's an incredible Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing. Such good news. Okay, feel good story. At

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Speaker 1: the end yep. Uh, we gotta we gotta have those

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Speaker 1: feel good stories on this show. Yeah, considering the Pikes

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Speaker 1: won't be around in six years, this is good. It's

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Speaker 1: good at least the Orcs will unless they him up.

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Speaker 1: And you've got an angry little writing on ORCX with

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Speaker 1: its mouthful of flowers. I think you just made the

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Speaker 1: next Pixar movie. Yeah that sounds great. Yeah, So onto

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Speaker 1: this week's mystery animals sound. The hint does this ring

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Speaker 1: a bell? So? Who do you think is making that sound? God?

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Speaker 1: I at first I want to say a bird, but

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that that's a frog. If it's a bird,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be really in the weeds because there

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Speaker 1: I just don't know him well enough. But I'm going

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Speaker 1: to say that that is a that is a type

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Speaker 1: of frog. What an interesting guess? Well, sore And in

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Speaker 1: fact you'll find out next week when we will reveal

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Speaker 1: the answer to this week's mystery sound next Wednesday for

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