Happy holidays everyone, it’s me, Katie Goldin, your host of many parasites! Today, on the second part of our two-part holiday special, we’ll be creating our own non-denominational holiday using evolutionary biology to make this magical time of year scientifically accurate! We’ll talk the biology of reindeer, and the best bacteria-filled lightshow in the world! With special guest Jamie Loftus of The Bechdel Cast.  FOOTNOTES: 
Cute reindeer noses
Reindeer eyeballs magically change color
Glowing Firefly squid looks like festive holiday lights
Glowing railroad worm
Foxfire (not firefox) glowing fungus
Angler fish's deadly but festive glowing light
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Creaturekringletimes Holiday Special Part 2

We take a critter’s eye view to explore how animal behavior parallels humans. Join comedians and science-lovers as we get inside the minds of animals

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The Wise owl, the lazy sloth, and the courageous lion, how much do these animals live up to their names, or should we not judge a book by its cover or a sloth by its algae? Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: is owls stupid?
Guest: Adam Todd Brown
Source of last week's mystery animal sound: 
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Animal Stereotypes

To celebrate cicadageddon 2024, here's one of my favorite past episodes, this one on cicadapocalypse 2021: BROOD X has been waiting 17 years to emerge from the ground. What is Brood X? Should we panic? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: How is it fair that swarms of baby turtles are considered cute, but swarms of bugs are considered “horrifying?” 
Guest: Mara Wilson
Footnotes:
Cicada
https://live.staticflickr.com/3067/2607912292_150e08400e_z.jpg
 
Cicada tymbal 
https://www.cicadamania.com/images/tymbalanism.gif
 
Cicada sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJ6DL_1R9I
 
Holes left by mass cicada emergence (warning for trypophobia)
https://plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/A-e1373044330806.jpg
 
Lots of cicadas!
https://mk0charlottestopdskr.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cicadas-swarm-north-carolina.jpg
 
Mass sea turtle hatching! 
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/olive-ridley-sea-turtle-swarm-filmed-costa-rica
 
Giant river turtle!
https://zooinstitutes.com/img/animals/83/831567514683_33.jpg
 
Mass river turtle hatching!
https://www.treehugger.com/rare-turtles-hatch-beach-brazil-5092340
 
Soft coral
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/84bPOAlpoBNPmyhMTsbhJ-iF7UDOo1lCST_18GrEChIqlOg6CL-nO1yx_6AVw8g2FWgRFAndhaD3HAUw_zMrVDbbNGYQS2Uqob1196fcVrNv7bveRZTylg03CdBwB3BCnpQ
 
Stony coral
https://www.ecomagazine.com/images/Newsletter/0_2020/Week_1-6-20/underwater-photography-of-coral-reef-3100361.jpg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Creature Classic®: Brood X!

You can be a citizen scientist in your own backyard! Broods! Birds! And mushroom butts! I'm joined by podcaster and voice actress Janet Varney.
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Backyard Science

They're in the air! There's billions of them! And they're tiny! We're talking about aeroplankton, what they're doing up there, and what happens when they get in your nose. 
Guest: Soren Bowie
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Aeroplankton

Today, we talk RATS! From plague to pets, rats have had a huge impact on humanity! What was the role of rats in the plague? What even is a rat?? Should you keep them as pets??? And are we so different after all? 
Guest: Jeff May
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Creaturekringletimes Holiday Special Part 2

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