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The Hi there, everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford.

And Christian 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 most interesting and correct information that we can.

I have some interesting and correct information to share today. Me too, I hope.

I do have a couple of things I want to talk about before we get into like the main sort of content.

I have some supplemental materials.

First of which is a field note.

Anyone who listened to the last episode we did together, we did field notes, which are submissions that were sent in by listeners, people sharing things

like stories and observations and stuff like that. And this was sent in by Jules Leon, who was a guest

on our episode about Pinnipeds just a few weeks ago. And he just happened to send this into me

like just right after we had already recorded the episode.

So it didn't make it into the episode. But it's just such a funny story that I really wanted to share it. Okay. I think you're going to like it. So Jules, by the way, for anyone who didn't listen to the episode on Pinnipeds a few weeks ago, if you haven't, you should. It was really, really fun. Jules is hilarious.

Jules is a marine biologist.

And so Jules writes,

Hi, Ellen,

this one time, weeks ago. If you haven't, you should. It was really, really fun. Jules is hilarious.

Jules is a marine biologist. And so Jules writes, hi, Alan. This one time, I assisted a shark researcher while working at the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology. And we were doing a study on the vertical

migration of scalloped hammerheads. So, quick side note, vertical migration means traveling up and down

the water column. So they might go up towards the surface at one point of day and then back down

into the depths at another point in day. That's the up and down. That's what that means. And what

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