16: Blobfish & Three-Toed Sloth

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

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week's episode all about dismantling unfair animal prejudices, Christian caves to peer pressure and sets the record straight on the blobfish, and Ellen shifts the narrative on the three-toed sloth.

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0:00.0	Hey, friends. This is Ellen Weatherford. And this is Ellen Weatherford.
0:21.8	And this is Christian Weatherford.
0:23.3	And this is just a zoo of us, the Animal Review podcast, where we take your favorite species of animals.
0:28.7	We review them and we rate them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.
0:35.6	Christian and I are not zoological experts.
0:38.4	We do a lot of research and we do our best to make sure we're presenting information
0:42.5	from trustworthy sources.
0:45.2	As best we can.
0:46.8	Yep.
0:47.7	And in that vein, I would like to make our first ever self-correction.
0:53.3	Oh?
0:53.8	Yes.
0:54.5	I was listening to something recently where I heard them talk about nudie branchs.
1:01.1	Oh.
1:02.5	In episode five, we talked about the Blue Dragon Sea Slug Gluckus Atlantis, and I repeatedly
1:08.4	referred to them as nudib branches.
1:11.6	Okay.
1:12.6	That's how I would have pronounced it, too.
1:14.6	This is a pronunciation issue.
1:16.0	Apparently a lot of people do pronounce it that way, but the most commonly accepted way of pronouncing it is nudibranch.
1:22.4	Kind of in that same etymology as the bronchial parts of the breathing system maybe? Sure, or like
1:30.6	chiropractic things. So anyway, I heard someone refer to them as nudibranx and I remembered
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