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Just the Zoo of Us

116: Painted Bat & Dracula Parrot

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

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

4.8 โ€ข 592 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 27 October 2021

โฑ๏ธ 47 minutes

๐Ÿงพ๏ธ Download transcript

Summary

Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week's festively spooky episode, Christian kicks off the celebration with the painted bat & Ellen counts up points for the iconic Dracula parrot.ย  Photos: Merlin Tuttle (painted bat), Ondrej Prosicky (Dracula parrot)

Transcript

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I'm

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Pseller

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P-Benzhen

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B.

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...

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... Hi, everybody. It's Ellen Weatherford and Christian Weatherford.

0:32.4

And we're here with just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite species of animals

0:38.7

and we review them by rating them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity,

0:44.1

and aesthetics.

0:45.1

We are not zoological experts, but we do a lot of research and try our best to make

0:49.5

sure we're presenting information from trustworthy sources.

0:52.9

We do.

0:53.8

I do actually have a follow-up to our last

0:57.3

episode that you and I did together. Okay. So last time you and I did an episode together,

1:02.0

you talked about the Ardvark. Yes. So we got a response on Twitter from Max Waugh, who is an absolutely spectacular wildlife photographer who have

1:14.3

been following for quite some time. Awesome. Yeah. So Max said, can't believe we got Ardvark so

1:19.2

soon after the Echidna's, because we did just do the Echina episode as well. And Max said, my

1:24.5

biggest surprise when seeing one, like a real life in person, Ardvark, how big it was, because we mentioned that, that they're bigger than you think, the chunky claws that are weird shaped for a digging animal, and get this, the hairy nostrils for filtering dust.

1:42.2

That makes sense.

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Right?

1:44.5

So he included some photos that he took of Ardvark's, very, very cute photos of

1:51.2

artvarks digging around in the dirt.

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