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This year I know a lot of your responsible folks are modifying your normal holiday season to be safer. But we don’t have to isolate from turkeys, so I’m gonna invite a whole flock of turkeys into your home! We’re gonna talk turkey facts, turkey romance, turkey history, and alternative turkeys with our guest Alison Stevenson!

Show Notes:

1. A turkey snood that's... um...
2. Turkey sounds!
3. Ocellated turkey!
4. Ocellated turkey sounds!
5. Australian brush turkey!

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The past few weeks have been pretty hectic when it comes to news, so here are some animal news stories that you may have missed with our guest Alex Schmidt! 

Footnotes: 

1. Anti-bear robot wolves! 
2. Dystopian bear facial recognition! 
3. Bear raids convenience stores!
4. Wolves got voted in! 
5. Giant murder hornet nest found! 
6. Two new species of greater glider discovered, found to be TOTALLY CUTE! 
7. Somebody let the devils back into Australia! 
8. GLOWING. PLATYPUS. 
9. Half male, half female bird, split right down the middle! 
10. Wrinkles faced bats think mask-wearing is sexy! 

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I don’t know about you guys, but my brain is completely melted after this election week! So I thought I’d take it easy today and answer some fascinating listener questions!

Footnotes: 

Baby pygmy hippo ;) 

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Today we’re discussing some horror tropes you can find right in nature! Evil deadly lakes, fungus that isn’t fun, terrifying ANT-ics, and things that go bump in the night! Stay tuned for an audio guessing game with David Bell & Tom Reimann !

Footnotes:

1. Lake Natron
2. Dead animal statues of Lake Natron 
3. Alien fungus
4. Uh oh more alien fungus 
5. Jumping spider ant mimic
6. Predatory female spider ant mimic
7. Predatory male spider ant mimic 
8. Ant algorithim
9. Extinct vampire ant trapped in amber
10. Mystery caller #1
11. Mystery caller #2
12. Mystery caller #3
13. Mystery caller #4

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Today we’re visiting the spookiest, smartest, most spectacular family in the animal kingdom: the corvids! Crows, ravens, rooks and more! Are crows

the smartest being on earth? Do they mourn their dead? Featuring crow expert Dr. Kaeli Swift!

Footnotes!

Dr. Swift's spooky crow study! 

DO NOT BE ALARMED! CROW RESEARCH! 

Genius New Caledonian crows 

Crow gifts? 

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On this first episode of our two-episode spooktacular, Bridgett Greenberg and Abe Epperson help us flee from a chitinous terror, a ten-legged devilish decapod, a creepy crustacean crawling closer and closer! ATTACK! OF THE KILLER CRAAAAABS! 

Footnotes: 

1. King "crab" 
2. Porcelain "crab"
3. Hairy stone "crab" 
4. Inspirational tweet 
5. Flower crab spider
6. Another crab spider 
7. Happy face spider
8. Clown face on a green crab spider! 
9. Pubic lice, aka, "crabs" 
10. Halloween crab, spooooky! 
11. Christmas island crabs! 
12. Coconut crab! 
13. Yeti Crabs!
14. Japanese spider crab!

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From slimy love unicorns to sexy eight-legged twerking, we’re looking at all the beautiful and bizarre mating habits of all sorts of creatures, gastropods, arthropods, birds, and mammals with our guests Carolina Barlow & Devin Leary.

Footnotes:

1. Snail love dart, aw yeah...
2. Black widow males twerk for love!
3. Cosmophasis umbratica rave! 
4. Twelve-wired bird of paradise video
5. Wilson’s bird of paradise video
6. Six-plumed bird of paradise video
7. Naked mole rat mutant sperm
8. Mouse sperm swim teams 
9. You know what they say about mice who eat yogurt... 

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Today on the show we’re scouring the animal kingdom to look for a new species of animal to cast as the replacement Garfield! Will it be the pygmy bluetongue skink? The gulper eel? Reticulated python? Or another candidate? Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: is Garfield measured more by his laziness, his hatred for Mondays, or his ability to eat an entire tray of lasagna in one bite? Find out with our guests Hana Michels and Joey Clift.

Footnotes: 

1. Pygmy bluetongue skink pokin' out of its burrow!
2. Starfish everting its stomach!
3. Gulper eel caught on camera
4. Tasmanian devil
5. Garfield colored pythons? 
6. Golden pheasant
7. Tiger moth caterpillar
8. Carrion beetle

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I got my brother, Aaron Goldin, to come on the podcast to talk about siblings in the animal kingdom! From siblicide to unstoppable armies of siblings! 

Footnotes: 

1. Baby sand tiger sharks eat each other in the womb! 
2. Tiger salamander cannibal morph! 
3. Baby bald eagles
4. A giant caterpillar?
5. Millipede baby buddy ball! 
6. Black lace weaver spiders at a uh, family dinner... 
7. Copidosoma floridanum wasp caterpillar thunderdome (warning: NSFE, not safe for eating)

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