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Just the Zoo of Us

112: Mexican Mole Lizard & Echidna

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

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

4.8 β€’ 592 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week's episode, Christian reviews the reptile disguised as an earthworm, the Mexican mole lizard, and Ellen evaluates the eclectic, enigmatic echidna.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford.

0:22.2

And Christian Weatherford.

0:23.5

We're back for another episode of just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite animals.

0:30.4

We review them by rating them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

0:37.0

We're not zoological experts, though we do try our best to bring you factual information.

0:43.3

We do a lot of research and make sure that the information we're bringing you is quality.

0:48.3

This is top shelf stuff you're getting here, guys.

0:51.4

Stick around all the way to the end of the episode for our announcements, a fun follow-up to

0:57.6

our last episode together, where I got some really cool whale watching stories from our listeners

1:02.5

to share and a sneak peek at next week's episode. Awesome. Yeah. You want to start us off, Christian?

1:08.8

Yeah. So it's my turn to go first.

1:11.9

Mm-hmm.

1:12.5

I'm chomping at the bit.

1:13.5

I'm really excited for your animal.

1:15.4

This week, I bring the Mexican mole lizard.

1:18.7

I'm really excited for your animal because this is a funky little guy.

1:23.6

It sure is.

1:24.6

Scientific name Bipis.

1:27.5

Bipis? Byporus. Bipis?

1:28.3

Bipis.

1:29.9

Bipus.

1:44.7

That's how I say it. I say Bipis. I don't know. I made that up, though. Okay. I don't know if that's how you say it. It's funny. I looked up a lot of words of how to pronounce in this. And that's not one of them? This was not. You would think that's the more important one, but that's fine.

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