Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 312 of Just the Zoo of Us. This week, I am joined by a friend

in wildlife rehabilitation for a review of the chompy rogues lurking at the bottom of ponds all over

the country, snapping turtles. We discuss working with wildlife and getting to raise and release

baby snapping turtles, a jury of one's

deers, a cat named CrunchRap Supreme, butt breathing, magnets, simple English Wikipedia,

eating board game pieces, and so much more.

Just the Zoo of Us presents the Common Snapping Turtle with Emma Radway. Hey there, everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford with Just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast. I'm so

excited. I have a brand new friend that I'm talking to this week about an animal near and dear to my heart.

So I'm very excited to learn more about them. This is Emma Ratway. Say hi, Emma. Hi. Emma, what do your pronouns?

My pronouns are she, her. Thank you so much. I'm really, really excited to talk about our animal this week because you reached out to me to show me pictures of some baby critters that you got to have some firsthand experience setting out into the world. So I'm very, very excited to talk about them before we talk about our animal. Let talk about you a little bit emma what got you

into working with wildlife honestly i have always been animal kid i was a big fan of steve irwin and

like jane goodall i just loved watching them i would call the milwaukee county zoo my zoo yeah I feel like that's calm. I feel like we all have

like our like a home zoo, right? Like I still feel that way about the Jacksonville Zoo, even though I

moved away a couple years ago. I still call that like that's like my home zoo. I feel like it was

partially an only child thing for me because I was like a little protective over it but I loved it even

now I'm still the person of my family being like um actually like with bald eagles they'll be like

oh it's a female eagle and it's just brown I'm like uh actually no they're not sexually dimorphic

it's just a baby yeah it's just a young one'm like, actually, no, they're not sexually dimorphic.

It's just a baby.

Yeah, it's just a young one.

Well, I've had that experience of being tripped up by bald eagles that were just, like, not old enough to have, like, the white head yet. Yeah. And they get really tough to tell apart from, like, a hawk or something. Yeah, they are. I've been tripped up by that. But I feel like every zoo trip is incomplete without someone, without your little polka-dex, following the group around.

Whenever anybody has like a question, they all just kind of like slowly turn to me. Same with trivia too. They're like, an animal question comes up. They're like, Emma, please.

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