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Just the Zoo of Us

307: Jack Jumper Ants

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

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

4.8 β€’ 592 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ellen jumps to conclusions about jack jumper ants.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

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

0:33.9

And Christian Weatherford.

0:35.0

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,

0:41.7

ingenuity, and aesthetics. We are not zoological experts, but we try our best to bring the best

0:46.7

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

0:51.2

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

0:55.0

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

1:01.6

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

1:08.7

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

1:14.0

Okay.

1:14.4

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

1:22.8

Oh.

1:23.6

With the one that you guessed.

1:25.1

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

1:32.3

Uh-huh.

1:32.9

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

1:36.0

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

1:38.5

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

1:42.3

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

1:45.3

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

1:50.3

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

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