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The Hey there. This is Ellen Weatherford.

And this is Christian Weatherford.

We're here with Just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast where we rate your

favorite animals out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We're not zoological experts, but we try to get the most accurate information we can.

I'm excited.

I have some cool surprises in store for you this episode.

Same.

I'm excited. What animal do you have for us to talk about this week? Baby, it's your turn to go first. Yes. So jumping right into it, I'm talking about the

pom-pom crab, also known as the boxer or boxing crab. Nice. Yes. And this is actually a genus of

crabs called Libya, L-Y-B-I-A. Not like the country of Libya. Not spelled that way, at least. Okay. All right. So this is like a whole group of crabs. There's not just like one specific one. Correct. But it's not like a huge, huge group. I think it was around 10 to 15 species in there. Okay. Yeah. So when you say pom-pom. Yes. Do you mean pom-pom like what cheerleaders use? Yes. Excellent. Now, I am talking about the marine pom-pom crab. Are there non-marine pom-pom crabs? Yes. So not to be confused with the freshwater pom-pom crabs. And more on that difference later, because it's not just a difference of where you'll find them. Right. Because I would imagine that, like, it would have to be a very different creature for it to be living in a very different environment. Yes. Interesting. Now, pom-pom crab was submitted by Justice Lively and Ilan Donnich. Thank you both. And listeners who have been listening for a long time may recognize Ilan's name from our Assassin Bug episode, a former guest. Yes, I believe from last year. Yes. That was a great episode. Very long. Had a lot to say about Assassin bugs, but completely mind-blowing. Awesome. I've pulled my information from Eye Naturalist as well as a paper that I will cite more specifically

later.

Can you give people a quick, like, one-sentence summary of what I-naturalist is?

A-naturalist is a website where you can, as a regular person, upload pictures and sightings

of animals with your own kind of best guess at what species it is.

But then it kind of, what's this called?

Community sourced information.

It's community science, yeah.

Yes.

Where others can then correct the identification or confirm that identification and add other

pieces of information as necessary.

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