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Just the Zoo of Us

34: Anglerfish & Desert Kangaroo Rat

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

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

4.8 β€’ 595 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week's episode, Christian lights the way with the humpback anglerfish & Ellen kicks back with the desert kangaroo rat.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford.

0:22.4

And Christian Weatherford.

0:23.8

And we're here with Just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast.

0:29.3

Each animal on the show, we review and rate on a out of 10 basis in three different categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

0:39.2

That's right. And even though Christian and I are not experts on animals, we do a lot of

0:45.2

research for the show to make sure that we're giving you really good information from good

0:48.7

sources. You know what we are experts on? Oreos. Dunking. That's weird. We had a motif.

0:56.8

All right.

0:57.8

Have any announcements before we jump in?

0:59.8

Yeah.

1:00.6

So if you remember back in December for Giving Tuesday, we gave our ad revenue to the Wildlife Conservation Network.

1:08.5

We decided to again donate our ad revenue since that donation to the

1:14.3

New South Wales Rural Fire Service in response to the bushfires going on in Australia.

1:20.4

So we would really encourage everybody listening to look into ways that you can support the

1:26.4

efforts to relieve Australia during these difficult times.

1:31.5

So this week, I'm bringing our first ever social media poll elected animal.

1:37.2

This was our first democratically chosen animal.

1:44.1

Now that I think about it, I forgot forgot to vote was I not supposed to vote

1:46.9

I don't think you were supposed to vote okay and that animal for this week is the humpback

1:53.4

anglerfish scientific name milanosetus johnsoni. Also known as the deep sea anglerfish.

2:04.1

So like I said, this was chosen by our social media poll.

2:08.1

Prior to that, it was also submitted by Michael Solon, Kyle Rouch, Abigail Cornett, and At Squirrel Beer 23.

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