Hello, this is Ellen Weatherford.

And this is Christian Weatherford.

And we're here with Just the Zoo of Us, the Animal Review podcast, where we rate your

favorite species of animals out of 10 based on the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity,

and aesthetics.

We're not zoological experts.

Christian and I are just enthusiasts, but we do a lot

of research and try our best to make sure we're presenting information from trustworthy sources.

Last week, I talked about the Blue Dragon Sea Slug, and I went first last week, so it's

Christian's turn. Yes, my turn. All right, Christian, let's hear it.

All right. So this week, our animal comes to us

from our good friend, Christina Sanders. Thank you, Christina. Yes, thank you so much. And the animal is

the Canada Links. All right. It's a very good animal, very cute. Before I get started, let me just talk about where I'm getting some of my information for this year, animal.

I'm not going to go specific into article names just yet because it might spoil some things coming up.

Oh, no, just make sure you come back and let us know when we're talking about.

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

So today I pulled from National Geographic as well well as the Journal of Wildlife Management, and finally, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. All excellent sources. Yeah. So let's talk about what these little guys look like. I say little, but they're about twice the size of a domestic house cat. Oh, I mean, that's not that big, right?

Cats still pretty little.

I mean, if one of these jumped on your lap, though, you'd notice it.

It's about the size of a medium dog.

Big cat, medium dog.

So specifically, though, in terms of length, they range from 75 to 90 centimeters or about 30 to 35

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