Animal Facts Part 3: A Doughnut Brain, Dung and the Milky Way, Ant Overlords and More

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

History, Education

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at the massive creature that has a doughnut shaped brain with its esophagus running right through the middle. Next we discuss Wix! Go to https://www.wix.com/go/brainfood to get started on your website today! Check out our website at https://brainfood.fm Next up we begin by looking at the fascinating reason Dung Beetles do a little happy dance after they find and roll up some poop. We then move on to a myriad of fascinating facts about various ants, including their absolutely remarkable ability to find the most efficient route to something, which has in recent years been used by humans to come up with more efficient algorithms for a variety of applications. We follow all that up discussing a rather unique and hilarious way school swimming herring talk to each other. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Animal Facts Part 3: A Doughnut Brain, Dung and the Milky Way, Ant Overlords and More appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode the brain food show in this one.
0:04.8	We're continuing our theme from last episode.
0:07.2	I believe this will be titled
0:08.8	Amazing Animal Facts Part 2.
0:11.0	And as I said last time time these are not your regular amazing
0:15.6	animal facts that you'll see on some list on online where you know there's something
0:20.0	and you already know it and it's boring if That would be boring.
0:23.0	If you missed last week, it would and they always saw...
0:25.0	Well, and like I wouldn't want to research those,
0:28.0	like because that's just boring.
0:29.0	It's like why...
0:30.0	Like even researching it, it's like that's awful.
0:32.0	I want to research things that are actually cool and interesting.
0:35.3	Which is why we stand out from the crowd. But also, yeah, those things you've seen them all before, they're boring.
0:44.0	Last week's episode, or yesterday's episode, I don't know when these things are at least, but whatever.
0:50.0	I was, I thought when I was like, animal facts, are these going to be good?
0:54.0	I don't know why I doubted you man because then I look at the notes
0:58.0	and they're all stupidly good.
1:00.0	So there's that.
1:02.0	I still sound funny if people are wondering why I sound funny.
1:05.1	It's because we recorded this episode about 10 minutes after we recorded the last
1:09.0	episode. I still haven't got used to my new I'm having dental work done and I've got this thing in my mouth so I still haven't got used to it yet.
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