14: Botfly & Cownose Ray

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

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Join the Weatherfords for an animal review! In this week's episode, Christian profoundly disturbs literally everyone by talking about the human botfly, and Ellen lightens the mood with some adorable sea puppies, the cownose rays.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. This is Christian Weatherford. And this is Christian Weatherford.
0:21.7	And this is Ellen Weatherford.
0:23.5	And you're listening to Just the Zoo of Us, a podcast where we rate your favorite animals, our favorite animals.
0:30.8	Your mom's favorite animals.
0:32.0	Especially hers.
0:34.1	Our mom's favorite animals.
0:35.8	Each animal we review on the show, we will rate out of 10 based on three categories, effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.
0:43.7	And a quick structural note to make.
0:45.5	We talked about this the other day.
0:47.2	Up until now, we've been compiling all three of those scores into an overall score, and we're not going to do that anymore. Yep.
0:55.2	Average of arbitrary was not great, I guess. Well, we were factoring the aesthetic score in with
1:02.7	the effectiveness and ingenuity score, which was fun and comprehensive, but unfair, honestly.
1:10.1	We're a new podcast.
1:11.7	We're only on episode 14.
1:13.7	So we're learning a little bit more each time we're getting a little bit better as we go.
1:17.8	So thank you for staying with us on this journey.
1:20.3	Yay.
1:21.4	We are not zoological experts.
1:23.4	We do a lot of research and we try our best to make sure we're presenting information from trustworthy sources.
1:28.1	So if we get it wrong, call us out. We'll fix it.
1:30.4	Along with your feedback in general.
1:32.1	Oh, yeah. Please do let us know what you think. I thrive on validation. I really just, I do it all for the gram, basically.
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