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Just the Zoo of Us

327: Mandarin Duck

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 12 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ellen falls in love with the Mandarin duck.

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0:00.0

The

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The Hi 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

0:41.6

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

0:47.1

and most accurate information I said best twice there that's okay it's worth repeating

0:52.3

as an I should go again?

0:54.7

Best squared. Oh, okay. I see.

0:56.8

No, lean into it.

0:58.8

My new thing I'm doing this year is that I'm leaning into mistakes and just rolling with them.

1:04.1

And I'm like, I intended to do them all along.

1:06.8

Delusional confidence is my theme now.

1:11.2

One thing that I wanted to let people know about right at the top here is that in, I think

1:16.1

it's two weeks, in some number of weeks, I will be presenting for the first returning

1:22.6

Nerd Night Seattle.

1:24.7

If anyone's ever been to a Nerd Night event, they're done sort of all over the

1:28.0

country. And they haven't done one in Seattle in a very long time. So this is sort of the comeback

1:32.7

of Nerd Night Seattle. So anyone who is in Seattle and is looking for something to do on the

1:38.1

evening of Friday, March 27th, head over to, you can go over to our social media. I'll have, like, links and stuff to where

1:46.0

you can go. Tickets are free, but they do ask you to please RSVP so that they have a head count,

1:53.2

know how many people to expect. And I will be talking about the zoology of dragons, which I'm

1:59.6

very excited. There's also two other presenters

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