Christine Del Turco at The Fort Worth Zoo gave me a behind the scenes tour of the elephant facilities at the Fort Worth Zoo and then we sat down to chat about what it takes to get a multi-ton elephant to participate in its own health care.  If you’ve ever had trouble giving your pet medicine, you might just pick up some tricks

Shane News!  My two-part comedy special TRIPS is finally finished with post production!

We are screening it and doing a Q&A in Portland, OR June 11!

https://portlandpsychedelic.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F18901 

Denver - Next week - I will be doing a Meow Wolf takeover on June 17th!

https://tickets.meowwolf.com/events/denver/shane-mauss-new-trip/ 

Stand-up Science Tour is getting booked for the fall!

Lots happening!  Stay up-to-date on my email list https://www.shanemauss.com/contact 

Dr. Sadie Ryan is professor of medical geography at the University of Florida, specializing in disease ecology, tropical conservation, human-wildlife interface, and geospatial models.

https://geog.ufl.edu/faculty/ryan/

APPEX helps ensure that the vision of pandemic science is not simply about filling in knowledge gaps but is about framing how to meet complex challenges, improving both our ability to respond to existing disease threats and to be flexible, nimble, and adaptable to the next emerging pathogen we cannot yet anticipate.

https://appex.org/ 

New shows announced at Shanemauss.com <http://shanemauss.com/> !

Join my email list to stay up to date with plans for the fall tour.

This week comedian Shane Mauss stops by UCLA to learn all about ants!

The Pinter-Wollman Lab studies how collective behavior emerges from individual variation and environmental pressures. We chat about how variation among ants shapes colony behavior, and how space influences social dynamics.

This work informs conservation strategies and provides insights into disease transmission and information flow.

https://pinterwollmanlab.eeb.ucla.edu/

I have new shows being announced in coming weeks so join my email list at shanemauss.com

Dr. Nina Fefferman’s research uses applied mathematics to study epidemiology, evolutionary and behavioral ecology, and self-organizing systems like networks. Her lab tackles a wide range of topics, from disease dynamics in human and animal populations to cybersecurity and the evolution of social behaviors.

Nina Fefferman - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

eeb.utk.edu

APPEX helps ensure that the vision of pandemic science is not simply about filling in knowledge gaps but is about framing how to meet complex challenges, improving both our ability to respond to existing disease threats and to be flexible, nimble, and adaptable to the next emerging pathogen we cannot yet anticipate.

https://appex.org/ 

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Athena Aktipis is a cooperation theorist in the social psychology department of ASU.

Her book “A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times”

 is a whole lot of fun packed into a pragmatic and optimistic examination of preparedness.

Check out Athena's books and podcasts here https://www.athenaaktipis.org/

I’m taking part in a few live variety shows she is putting together combining science, comedy, music and surprises.

Here is one at 

San Fran 4/17 https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/after-dark-resilience 

Joshua Tree 4/26 https://bubblingwellsranch.com/stagecoach/

Eureka Springs, AK 10/20-22 https://www.zombiemed.org/ 

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Sarah Cannizzo joins comedian Shane Mauss for a memorable conversation about elephants and their health.  Learn, laugh and subscribe!

Edited by https://loganraykeith.com/ 

‘InShane Evolution’ Artwork by Randal Roberts

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Sarah Cannizzo, MA, VMD, Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine (Dipl. ACZM), and certified veterinary acupuncturist (CVA), is an associate veterinarian and Board Certified Specialist in Zoological Medicine. ™

Dr. Cannizzo has been working in zoo medicine for 11 years. She completed an internship in zoological medicine at Wildlife Safari and a residency in zoological medicine at North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Zoo. She is a member of the EEHV Advisory Group. She was the veterinary advisor for the Texas Horned Lizard SSP. She recently became a certified veterinary acupuncturist (CVA).

Dr. Cannizzo has published research about cystinuria in servals, intraocular pressure in American bullfrogs, metastatic mineralization in earless lizards, urinary protein in callimico monkeys, the effect of water temperature on the hydrolysis of absorbable sutures, and parathyroid hormone/vitamin D/ionized calcium in ferrets. In addition to these topics, she has presented about stem cells as a treatment modality in flamingo species.

This week comedian Shane Mauss takes a field trip to the Fort Worth Zoo to talk to Senior Curator of Ectotherms Diane Barber and Reproductive Biologist Allison Julien all about toads, explosive reproduction, biodiversity, and why amphibians are the canary in the coalmine for the freshwater that humans and so much of earth’s life depend on.

We’ll have two more Ft Worth Zoo episodes coming zoon.  We’re gonna learn a lot about training and providing medical care for elephants.

In the meantime you can find other zoo episodes by listening back to the https://www.herewearepodcast.com/

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Diane Barber, senior curator of ectotherms at the Fort Worth Zoo, has 40 years of zoological experience (23 at the Fort Worth Zoo), with a primary focus on amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates, and aquatic species.

In addition to overseeing the ectotherms collection at the Fort Worth Zoo, Barber manages all aspects of conservation programming (e.g., population management, development, implementation of recovery goals, in situ and ex situ research, reintroduction, monitoring programs, assisted reproductive technologies for amphibians, biobanking, captive propagation and husbandry, genetic management, disease surveillance, radio telemetry, harmonic radar, audio loggers, trap cameras, tagging/marking, design of husbandry facilities, etc.) with native Texas species and in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Primary conservation programs include the Puerto Rican crested toad, Puerto Rican harlequin butterfly, Virgin Islands boa, Chiricahua leopard frog, Houston toad, Texas horned lizard, Texas kangaroo rat, Pecos pupfish, Texas freshwater mussels and Louisiana pine snake.

Barber is also involved in the following conservation organizations:

Puerto Rican Crested Toad Conservancy, Founder/President

Texas Horned Lizard Conservation Coalition Co-founder/Co-coordinator

Join comedian Shane Mauss as he talks with his friend Chris Wink about the early days of founding The Blue Man Group, getting inspired by vaudeville, and how his latest project Wink World combines art, science, philosophy, and play.

Checkout Wink World in Vegas and Minneapolis https://winkworld.com/ 

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Valentine's Day is also International Bonobo Day! Bonobos have become known as the amorous, peace loving, hippies of the primate order. Has the story been a little overly simplified?  

This week, comedian Shane Mauss apes around with the hilarious and wonderful Rachna Reddy. Rachna is an anthropologist and primatologist at the University of Utah whose fieldwork in Uganda studying chimps and bonobos can give us insights into our own social lives and lifespan development with a particular interest in those formative teen years.

https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/rachna-b-reddy 

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Nobel Prize biologist François Jacob about night science, "Day science employs reasoning that meshes like gears, where each step follows from the previous one. It is effective. It advances. But it proceeds only because night science exists. It is in the dark of night that science comes closest to its goals. It is there that it reveals itself, probing, groping, resting on intuition, on flashes of insight, on leaps into the unknown."

This week comedian Shane Mauss travels to NYU Medical School to catch up with his friend Atia Yania as they have a laugh-filled conversation about creativity and fun being an essential part of insights even when trying to study something as serious and deadly as cancer.

Itai Yanai is a biomedical scientist and Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is also a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU.

Learn more about Itai here https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/itai-yanai 

And here is his Night Science site https://www.night-science.org/ 

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