Oh hey, it's that neglected hunk of gingerroot at the bottom of your crisper, hoping you'll use it

before it whithers alleyward back with a very classic on-brand episode of Oligies. Is it about a virus

or a vaccine or anything relevant to your life? Nope, not at all, which is why it's perfect. It's just a

murky bucket of slop holding glimmering science information. Now I loved every minute of recording

and editing it. I wanted to just send it off with a big long detailed and floored intro,

but all you need is for me to just shut the fuck up and get the show started. I totally get it.

And we will just as soon as I think everyone on patreon.com slash allergies, they make every single

week of the show possible from the start in 2017. Thank you to everyone wearing Oligies merch. That's

available at oligiesmerge.com. We have masks. Should you need them? And thanks to everyone,

subscribe, rating the podcast, and of course, reviewing it so that I can read it. Such as this review

left by Argy who writes, nobody will ever see this review. Oh, hi, Argy. Apparently review number

12,094. Having said that, I would like to give that show this many stars. Argy, I'm right here.

I told you I read all of them. Okay, alligator toxicology. Is there a topic more perfect for the

holidays? Yes. Yes, there's a lot of them, but we don't care because gator poisons. What's even

happening with those? Okay, so the word alligator has roots in Spanish. El lagarto, meaning the lizard,

even though alligators are not lizards. Eco means house, and it comes from the Greek oicos,

which you may remember from the oicology episode about decluttering your house. And toxicology has

some dusty Greek origins, meaning poisoned arrow. So the study of poisoned homes of non-lizard

lizards. So much to discuss. Just quick up top, an alligator is a crocodilian. Not all crocodilians

are alligators. There's 26 recognized species of crocodilians, which includes true crocodiles,

the alligators, camons, narrow-nosed garials, and false garials. But mostly we're going to be

talking gators. So thisologist tweeted something about her field work, and I clicked on her bio.

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