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Just the Zoo of Us

152: Rough-Skinned Newt & Pumpkin Toadlet

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

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

4.8 β€’ 595 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Christian takes competition to a whole new level with the rough-skinned newt and Ellen takes a leap of faith with the pumpkin toadlet.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hey everybody. It's Ellen Weatherford.

0:31.9

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 effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

0:43.7

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.

0:50.6

That's right. As always, I have so many sources for one.

0:53.7

I feel like you do, too. You were so deep in so many sources for one. I feel like you do too. You were so

0:55.9

deep in the papers for this one. I was. I got a little too deep and had to back up a bit.

1:00.8

I know you were, you got lost a little. We had to pull you up. You were in too deep. You were like

1:06.1

back in the archives. You were like digging back through, the dusty tomes of amphibian research.

1:15.8

I do have a really quick little update to our last episode we did together.

1:20.0

Just a follow-up, a little something.

1:22.6

You talked about the alligator gar.

1:24.4

I did.

1:24.9

My mom listened.

1:26.1

And she said that it brought back memories of fishing with her dad, my grandfather, when

1:32.4

she was a kid, and that she had a bit of a curse where every time she went, this was in

1:39.1

Mississippi.

1:39.7

By the way, my family is from Mississippi.

1:42.2

And every time they went out fishing, she would catch an alligator gar every time without fail.

1:48.9

And that it ended up getting very, very frustrating because they are very large fish that are difficult to catch.

1:55.6

And then there's not a lot you can do with them because you mentioned that they have those really tough scales and they're really difficult to prepare if you don't have the right tools. But if you get past them. Yeah, but they would rather just have something that's easier to eat, right? See, she says curse. I say blessing. See, I would have felt like that. I would have been so excited to see this really cool fish, but they were trying to like fish for food. So like, they would pull up a gar and be like, this is useless to me.

2:20.7

They were not pleased with the frequency with which they caught alligator gar.

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