66: Pika & North American Giant Millipede

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

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

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week's episode, Christian takes us on a tour of the pika's digestive system & Ellen shows some love to the North American giant millipede and its role as an unsung ecological hero. (Heads up: this episode mentions poop a lot.)

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. This is Christian Weatherford.
0:21.2	And this is Ellen Weatherford.
0:23.0	And you're listening to Just the Zoo of Us, a podcast about animals where we talk about those animals and give those animals numbers.
0:32.1	Like phone numbers or?
0:34.5	Here's my digits.
0:37.2	The numbers correlate to ratings that we have given the animals, right?
0:42.4	That's what you mean, right?
0:43.4	Yes.
0:44.2	Thank you.
0:45.3	We are not zoological experts.
0:47.5	Barely an expert of speaking at the moment.
0:49.6	You're doing your best.
0:51.2	You're doing great.
0:52.4	I'm so proud of you.
0:53.7	However, we do a lot of research and we try our best to make sure we are presenting information from trustworthy sources.
1:00.5	Yeah, we do.
1:01.6	We put a lot of work into our research and make sure that it is good and that we're not just making things up out of thin air.
1:10.3	So this past week's animal poll was between the PICA and the Tenerick.
1:17.3	It was contentious.
1:19.1	It was.
1:19.7	It was really close.
1:20.8	Like some were doing it on purpose again.
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