Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 231 of Just the Zoo of Us. This week, I'm joined by

a marine biologist who is here to suck up to the brilliant little mootures of the ocean

remoras. We discuss shark scales, suction cups, the most efficient way to eat tacos,

scrapped Pokemon designs, and so much more. Also, just as a

quick little housekeeping note, next week begins the Max Fun Drive. We have been super busy getting

ready for that, which is why we are putting up two guest episodes in a row this week. And as part of that,

we will be doing our annual Q&A episode. So if you have any burning questions,

whether it's about animals or nature or podcasting or us, send those into me at Ellen at

just the zoo of us.com with Q&A in the subject line, please. And we will be answering those

in just a couple of weeks. Now that that's out of the way, Just the Zoo of Us presents Ramora's with Amani Weber-Schultz. Hi everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford. I'm here with your favorite animal review podcast, Just the Zoo of Us. I'm so excited this week. We have a really cool animal to talk about with a really cool friend. This is Amani Weber Schultz. Say hi, Amani. Hello. I'm so excited to be here. I am so excited to talk to you. Real quick. Amani, what are your pronouns? She her. Thank you so much. And I'm really excited to talk about this animal because, little spoiler alert, little teaser. I've met one in person, in the wild, in their element. Can't say that for a ton of animals. Have seen this one.

So I'm very excited to learn more about my little friend.

But before we talk about our little friend for this week, let's talk about you.

Amani, you do some really, really awesome work out in the field with some of the coolest animals in the whole world.

I think you're kind of living the dream for a lot of people, especially kids like of my age. I feel like there's a whole generation of people like about our

age who wanted to be marine biologists growing up. You know what I mean? There's like a whole generation

of like little kids, like people who grew up wanting to be marine biologist but you like made it

happen and are living living the dream so for our friends listening at home let us know a little bit

what your work is like with these cool sea creatures yeah so i primarily work with sharks those are

my study species but i do work with fish as a whole um so i study fish morphology, which is essentially I study their bodies in different

parts of their bodies and how their bodies help them in the environment that they live in. So for

fish, it's water. I'm currently in my third year of my PhD, I'm studying shark morphology. Specifically,

I'm studying their scales, which I'm really excited about. So I get to spend a lot of time with shark skin and CT skinners and x-rays.

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