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The Hi there, friends.

It's Ellen Weatherford.

And this is 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 are not zoological experts, but we try to bring the best information we can.

We do hard work, grueling, manual labor, toiling deep in the minds of researchgate.com.

Yes.

Spending a lot of time over the hot keyboard.

I mean, the computer gets kind of hot sometimes.

Yeah, that's more because of the poor airflow.

Before we get started, do you want to talk a little bit about our Oregon trip?

We went to Portland.

We did.

We went and saw a science museum, so that was nice.

That was really cool.

They actually had some living animals there.

Wasn't expecting that.

Yeah, for sure was not expecting that.

Yeah, including a sloth. Which was really cool because I have not really gotten to see a sloth like that close before. I mean, obviously it's like behind glass. You can't just like touch it. They were still having to keep people back like to not stress out that sloth too much. Oh, Finley for sure was trying to stress out that sloth. He was doing his best. Yeah. But it was cool. So anyone in the Portland area, we can now recommend the Oregon Museum of Science Industry. It was really fun. Yes, it was. We didn't make our way to the zoo this time, but perhaps in a spring or summer trip. Yeah, going in February, we kind of felt like

that was not the best time. We felt like the zoo was not going to be putting its best foot forward

in the dead of winter. So we'll go back in the summer. Yeah. So Christian, this week is here

to go first. All right. What animal do you have for us this week?

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