All right.

Hi everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford.

I'm here as usual with Just the Zoo of Us.

This is your favorite animal review podcast.

And this week I have a new friend that we're talking to.

Say hi, Ryan.

Hi, everyone.

Awesome.

Well, thank you so much.

I'm really excited to talk to you and talk about our cool animal for today,

which is a really awesome one that I think

a lot of people probably know about generally, like are aware that it exists, but maybe don't

know a lot of information about it. So a cool learning opportunity. But first off, let's learn

about you. Can you introduce yourself a little bit to our friends? Yeah. Hi, everyone. My'm, my name is Ryan Higseth. I'm a marine biologist. I graduated from

Florida Southern College down in Florida, of course. And I have a specific field focus on behavioral

ecology. So that's why animals act the way they do in their environment and

like how that behavior like helps them survive. I have a lot of past experience with exotic

animals such as like monkeys, reptiles, sharks and rays and even an octopus that I worked with

for like four months. And I've done a lot of behavioral training

with those animals as well. Also, I guess I could say I'm an avid photographer. I shoot a lot of

photography for animals and stuff like that too. Awesome. So what kind of setting has your

experience with these animals been in? Has it been like in personal or professional? Like what

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