106: Mudskipper & Hoatzin

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

Science Communication, Pets & Animals, Zoology, Kids & Family, Nature, Wildlife Science, Animals, Science, Wildlife

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week's episode, Christian reviews how the mudskipper gets the best of both worlds & Ellen strongly relates to the smelliest living dinosaur, the hoatzin.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford.
0:22.4	And Christian Weatherford.
0:23.9	And it's us with just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite species of animals.
0:30.3	We review them by giving them ratings out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.
0:36.5	We are not zoological experts, though we try our best to find the facts to present to you.
0:42.7	We're not getting our information from totally true animal stuff.biz.
0:49.7	No fake news here.
0:51.5	I believe that this week it is your turn to go first, Christian.
0:55.0	All right.
0:55.7	I'm really excited to hear about your animal this week.
0:58.3	I already know what it is, but I think it's going to be great anyway.
1:01.8	One of these weeks, I'm just going to switch it on you.
1:04.3	No.
1:07.0	Chaotic energy that you're bringing into the studio.
1:10.0	This week, I bring the Atlantic Mud Skipper.
1:14.0	I'm so excited about this.
1:15.5	I love these weird little guys.
1:18.3	They are a little weird.
1:19.9	It's a scientific name Perry Opthelmus Barbarus.
1:24.6	So Mudskipper in general was submitted by Catherine via email.
1:28.6	Mudskipper can refer to any of the living 32 species in the Oxedersona subfamily.
1:34.4	So I just found one species and went with it.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ellen & Christian Weatherford, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ellen & Christian Weatherford and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.