Creature Feature

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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While us humans are all trying to figure out our favorite hobbies to occupy our time, animals are already running, crocheting, and baking circles around us! We’re talking bee bakers, web-spinners, carpenters, fake astronomers, and dolphin shenanigans with our guest, Teresa Lee!

Footnotes: 

1. Bee bread! 
2. Bee sorbet! 
3. Webspinner! 
4. Carpenter ants handiwork!
5. Honeypot ants! 
6. Carnivorous stars! 
7. Dolphin vape tricks!

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Reproduction is the key to evolution, which means that mother nature can get a little strange when it comes to sex. We’re talking about strange equipment, bizarre courtship, and fatal attraction with Arden Myrin!

Footnotes:

1. Crane Fly!
2. Echidna! 
3. Echidna penis (NSFW)
4. Bull penis cane? 
5. Whiptail lizards
6. Hanging flies hanging out
7. North American Porcupine!
8. Old world porcupine
9. Brown widows (yes that little guy is a male) 
10. Anaconda breeding ball
11. Dawson's burrowing bees (NSFW: BEE SEX) 

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Today on the show, we’re talking about INTERSPECIES BUDDIES! We’ll talk about the difference between mutualism and commensalism, why every birdy loves a capybara, how the beaches of the Galapagos are a great place for friendship, and the only time you want to be inside the mouth of a giant moray.

Footnotes:

Marine iguana! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Amblyrhynchus_cristatus_%283838137696%29.jpg

Marine iguana and lava lizard! https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/f5/aa/28f5aab7039f29b4f33bb950a12c1395.jpg

Marine iguana with a bad case of crabs! https://dhtt.smugmug.com/Other/Galapagos-789/i-NbXhP5D/0/L/P1030305-L.jpg

Capybaras with a bad case of birds! https://www.researchgate.net/figure/FIGuReS-21-26-Capybaras-as-clients-of-cleaner-birds-21-A-disturbed-capybara_fig5_277776494

Ducks walking all over a capybara! 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D6lrkc81Js&app=desktop

Moray eel and cleaner wrasse! https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/giant-moray-eel-and-cleaner-wrasse-mathieu-meur.jpg

Meat ant eating butt syrup! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Common_jassid_nymph_and_ant02.jpg/1024px-Common_jassid_nymph_and_ant02.jpg

Dolphins and birds coming together to screw over fish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE49xEU_z7g

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Today on the show we’re talking about ridiculous species names, and learning all about the animals behind them. Can you really judge a pigbutt worm by its name? Or a screaming hairy armadillo? Or a lumpsucker fish?

Footnotes:

1. Pigbutt worm:
2. Pigbutt worm face: 
3. Lumpsuckers! 
4. Lil lumpsucker sucking on a finger
5. Lumpsuckers on balloons
6. Lumpsuckers sucking on lumpsuckers
7. Tassled wobbegong
8. Hellbender salamander
9. Screaming hairy armadillo
10. Screaming hairy armadillo, well, screaming
11. Cinereous mourner
12. Cinereous mourner acting
13. Fried egg jellyfish
14. Red-lipped batfish
15. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/p/proboscis-monkey/

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