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Just the Zoo of Us

223: Tiger Beetles & Giant Siphonophore

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

Wildlife Science, Science, Zoology, Wildlife, Nature, Science Communication, Kids & Family, Animals, Pets & Animals

4.8 β€’ 592 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ellen gets the zig-zagging zoomies with tiger beetles & Christian has an existential crisis over the giant siphonophore.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hi there. It's Ellen Weatherford and Christian Weatherford. And this is just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your favorite animals and rate them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics. We are not zoological experts, but we try our best to get the most accurate and interesting information we can. We do. We did good, I think. Here's hoping. Put in the work.

0:55.9

It snowed this week.

0:57.1

That was big for us.

0:57.7

Very big.

0:58.6

Big news.

0:59.9

A light dusting.

1:06.5

I mean, like the bare minimum, you could even consider it to even be snow.

1:11.5

But we've lived in Florida for our entire lives up until this point, so.

1:14.8

Yes, and we weren't expecting any snow in this particular part of Washington.

1:20.9

So it was a nice little surprise, and we also played it up because it was the kid's first experience with snow at all.

1:24.1

Neither kid had ever experienced snow in person.

1:24.5

Yeah.

1:26.0

Big day for them.

1:26.2

Yes. It was really exciting.

1:28.3

Perhaps silly to the other folks that have grown up living here, but big deal to us.

1:33.1

Yeah.

1:33.8

It was not that exciting to a lot of people who were like, oh, now I have to, like, shovel my driveway.

1:41.5

Although it wasn't an amount that would have inconvenienced anybody yeah it was literally

1:46.6

like less than a tenth of an inch of snow but we were like going outside and walking around

1:54.4

at the neighborhood late at night because the snow was falling we were so excited about it so we

2:00.1

were really playing it up it was it was a big

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