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Just the Zoo of Us

264: Orcas w/ Fred the Orca Man!

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

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

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this week’s episode, we are joined by science communicator Fred the Orca Man for a review of the iconic wolves of the sea.

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0:00.0

Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 264 of Just the Zoo of Us.

0:04.8

In this week's episode, we are joined by a passionate and insightful science communicator

0:09.7

for a review of the iconic wolves of the sea.

0:14.4

We discuss whale taxonomy, menopause in motherhood, hunting strategies, using fluid dynamics, and straight up lying.

0:22.9

What's up with the whole yacht thing?

0:24.9

The Dead Fish fashion trend that's taking the marine world by storm and so much more.

0:30.7

Just the Zoo of Us presents Orcas with Fred, the Orca Man.

0:34.5

Music Red, the Orca Man. Hello, everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford with Just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast. I'm so

1:11.1

excited this week to be bringing you all a new friend that I'm so excited to talk to. This is Fred

1:16.5

the Orca Man. Hello, everybody. I am so happy to be here. I'm so happy to talk to you. Real

1:22.8

quick, what are your pronouns? Uh, he, him. Thank you so much, Fred. Before we talk about our amazing animal for this week, I would like to talk about you a little

1:30.9

bit.

1:31.5

What does your work look like alongside these incredible animals?

1:35.6

It's a great question.

1:36.8

And so it's kind of twofold.

1:38.5

So my work alongside of the animals is largely trying to learn as much as I can for the

1:43.2

research that's currently happening.

1:44.6

So a lot of what I'm doing is kind of diving into the global states of killer whales, so to

1:50.3

speak. So that's conservation, research, different things happening with captivity that are going on

1:54.5

with regard to either policy or transfers and things like that. And then the other half is trying

2:00.2

to get people more engaged with

2:02.0

them in their local areas. So a lot of that comes to me going out myself and trying to find out

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