The

The Hey 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 our best to bring the best

and most accurate information we can. Something just occurred to me, something that would be

a fun way for you to try to figure out what animal it is that we're

talking about. A listener actually emailed in something recently about an online, like, in-browser

game akin to something like Wordle. It's called Metazua. It's like a guessing game where basically

like you try to guess what animal is like the intended one basically.

Okay.

And every time you put in a guess, it tells you what the goal animal's last common ancestor was.

Oh.

With the one that you guessed.

So you have to like taxonomically get like work your way towards like objective animal.

Uh-huh.

That would be a funny way for you to try to figure what animal I'm talking about today.

We would be doing that for a while, I think.

That would also involve a lot of Googling on my part.

Because a lot of times you'll put in, like, I'll start with like

an insect or something like that. And they'll be like, what your guess has in common with the one

we're thinking of is bilateria, which is like the level of animals having bilateral symmetry.

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