192: Proboscis Monkey & Sarcastic Fringehead
Just the Zoo of Us
Ellen & Christian Weatherford
4.8 β’ 592 Ratings
ποΈ 10 May 2023
β±οΈ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hi there. It's Ellen Weatherford. |
| 0:33.2 | And we hear with just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take |
| 0:38.1 | your favorite animals and rate them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, |
| 0:42.6 | and aesthetics. |
| 0:44.4 | We are not zoological experts, but we try our best to bring the best and most accurate information |
| 0:49.1 | we can. |
| 0:50.0 | That's right. |
| 0:51.1 | And this week, I'm up first in our total weirdo power hour. |
| 0:57.5 | We got a couple of weird ones lined up for you this week. |
| 1:00.9 | So I hope you like them. |
| 1:02.9 | Bizarre. |
| 1:03.8 | I was going to say mine is at least very constantly flexing. |
| 1:08.2 | I like that. |
| 1:09.0 | So is mine in their own way. All way. This week I'm talking about the |
| 1:12.8 | proboscis monkey. Oh, scientific name is nasalus larvitous. Oh, what does that mean? You'll |
| 1:19.7 | never guess. I don't know about the larvitus part, but the nasalus is a reference to their |
| 1:25.8 | nose, which they are named for both scientifically and their common name, Proboscis. |
| 1:31.3 | Proboscis is the name used for any sort of nasal structure, like an elephant's trunk would be a proboscis. |
| 1:37.6 | Or even like the long, curly mouth part that butterflies have, That's a proboscis also. |
| 1:44.2 | Yeah, I guess for me it's usually the context of insects that I hear the word proboscis, |
| 1:48.7 | including mosquitoes. |
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