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The Hey, everybody. It's Ellen Weatherford.

And we're here with just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite animals and rate them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We are not zoological experts, but we do a lot of research and try our best to make sure we're presenting information from trustworthy sources.

We may not be zoological experts, but Christian's definitely an expert in making me a really

nice cappuccino, which you just did mere moments ago.

And it's really tasty, and I appreciate you for that.

Oh, you're welcome.

I was panicking for a second that you were about to cite my ability to eat crab legs.

Oh.

Because of my animal this week. Well, I mean, you can reveal that

about yourself as you like. I'm not going to out you as a crab leg eater. Before we do jump right

into our animals for this week, I had just a couple of quick little follow-ups from the last

couple episodes we've done because folks have reached out with some very lovely responses. First of all, Mark and Gem on

Twitter replied to our hedgehog episode with adorable trail cam footage of their very own hedgehog

visitor to their garden, which I think is just so sweet. Because we talked about how, like,

we never see wild hedgehogs where we live. And I'm not very familiar with a dynamic between

people that live where hedgehogs are and, like, the hedgehogs that live there. It seemed like it was a

very welcome visitor. Oh, yeah. We were trying to figure out if they were destructive to the garden

or not. Yeah, they're not.

They're little pest control cutie pies. Perfect. So Mark and Jen provided a really cute video of one crawling around their garden at night that I really like. And also last week,

we put up an episode on Assassin Bugs that got a lot of really nice responses. Y'all really

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