156: California Sea Lion & Giant Isopod

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

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Christian barks about the loud wet dog of the Pacific coast, the California sea lion, and Ellen gets to know her bottomfeeding best friend, the giant isopod.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hey, everybody at Selleyn Weatherford.
0:34.0	And we're here with just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite animals in the whole wide world and we review them by rating them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.
0:47.5	We are not zoological experts, but we try our best to get accurate information from trustworthy sources.
0:54.8	That felt like our best intro yet.
0:57.0	I think we nailed that one.
0:58.8	That someone feels that way.
1:02.1	After I edit it, it's going to sound so crisp.
1:04.2	All right.
1:05.5	That's all that counts.
1:07.0	So we're back.
1:08.5	We haven't been recording for a few weeks because we were on vacation. And now we're here to tell you all about it. That's right. Because it was an incredibly on-brand vacation. It was a business trip, really, if your business is nature. I mean, we won't be saying that to the IRS, but...
1:24.3	You're not trying to write off our family vacation as a business expense?
1:28.4	No.
1:28.6	I think we could swing it that way for sure.
1:30.7	It was a research mission.
1:31.8	It was field work, really, for this podcast.
1:35.4	So we did.
1:36.7	We went on a really big trip.
1:39.1	Me and Christian took our two kids, aged one and a half and eight, loaded them up, hauled them across the country
1:47.0	over to Monterey Bay, California.
1:50.2	Mm-hmm.
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