Creature Feature

These animals seem like hoaxes! Living tampons that walk the earth, purple blobs who walk UNDER the earth, a new animal superhero, and the weird sex-capades of horny bees! Discover this and more with guest Vanessa Guerrero, as we answer the age-old question, is that a snorkel coming out of your butt or are you just happy to see me? 

Footnotes:

1. (Warning, icky) rat-tailed maggots look like crawling tampons
2. Purple frog (blob) 
3. Such a little blob
4. Backwards butt lookin guys 
5. Purple frogs in love :) 
6. Purple frog tadpole 
7. Alligators can regrow tails!
8. Blister beetle larvae tricking horny bees
9. Pile of larvae pretending to be a sexy female bee

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A quokka for your patience :) 

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This is the BEE MOVIE CANCELLATION SPECIAL!!! That’s right, we are TAKING ON BEE MOVIE, to HOLD IT ACCOUNTABLE for all its inaccuracies with Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante!! 

Footnotes: 

1. Bee orchid

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On this holiday special, we will explore three holiday classics, Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer, Die Hard, and The Santa Clause, and recast the leading roles as even more incredible real-life animals with Joelle Monique! 

Footnotes:

1. Rudolph the Glowing Tasmanian Devil?
2. Glowing platypus 
3. Glowing wombats
4. Glowing bilby ears 
5. Bioluminescent sea unicorns? 
6. GIANT pyrosome: 
7. Flashing pyrosome
8. Blizzard of glowing pyrosomes
9. Die Hard planarian 
10. Planarian looking silly
11. Oh come on 
12. Yeti crabs (aka hoff crabs) 
13. Rock ptarmigan summer fashion 
14. Rock ptarmigan winter fashion
15. Rock ptarmigan peekin’ out of a snow cave 
16. Queen bee body vs. Worker bee 

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The Creature Feature holiday special episode will air next week! In the meantime, please enjoy this soothing Q&A where I answer your questions about animals! And though we talk about alien parasites and the horrifying truth behind guinea pigs, let the soothing tones of my voice and ambient music bring you some tranquility. 

Footnotes: 

1. Parasitic salminicola
2. Sun bear epic tongue 
3. Plough snails absolutely booking it 

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Today on the show, we’re talking about those tubular dudes, those little wiggle pipes, those cylindrical squamates, SNAAAAAKES! From the goofiest, to the cutest, to the most dazzling snakes, we’re going to find out how truly odd snakes can be with our guest, Maggie Mae Fish!

Footnotes:

1. Arabian sand boa!
2. Madagascar leaf-nosed snake
3. Male and female leaf-nosed snakes
4. Tentacled snake 
5. Elephant trunk snake
6. Hognose snake 
7. Blunthead tree snake
8. Big-eye green whip snake
9. Sunbeam snakes
10. Brazilian Rainbow boa 
11. Formosan odd-scaled snake

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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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