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The Hi, everyone. This is Christian Weatherford.

And this is just the zoo of us.

Your favorite animal review

podcast where we take your favorite species of animals and rate them out of 10 in the categories

of effectiveness ingenuity and aesthetics we are not zoological experts um though we've received

some comments that maybe we're making progress on that okay they went straight to your head I see I was trying to stay humble I'm trying to remember our roots maybe we're making progress on that. Okay, they went straight to your head, I see. I was trying to stay humble. I'm trying to remember our roots. Remember where we came from? I'm going to wear it directly on my chest. However, we do a lot of research. We try our best to make sure we're getting the most accurate information we can. That's true. Yeah, sorry, we're recording a little later than we usually do this

week. It's been a little bit of a crazy week, but we're here. It happens. Yeah, such as life when you

have two kids. Sometimes things get a little nuts, but we're here to talk about animals, and there's

nobody I'd rather talk about animals with than you.

And Christian, you go first this week. What animal do you have for us?

So this week, I'll be talking about the Japanese rhinoceros beetle. I'm so excited about this. Yes. A couple of names that could be known by. Scientific names trapoxulus dichotomus or alimarina

dichotoma oh it has two how does it have two scientific names it has been a little bit

controversial oh with its taxonomy oh okay i'm not sure which of the two is more correct i've seen

contrasting opinions on that as as opposed, even in the

specific sources I'm looking at. All right, we're just going to skirt right on by that. Let's

just sidestep that entire conversation. I'm just going to Neo-Matrix dodge. In Japan,

they're known as Kabuto Mushi. Kabuto sounds very familiar to me because of the Pokemon Kabuto.

Yes, Kabuto is the Japanese word for helmet.

Oh.

And Mushi is the word for insect or bug.

Okay, it's all coming together then.

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