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Welcome to Creature Feature production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of mini-parasites Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, you, yes, you can be a citizen scientist.

This spring and summer, there are things to look out for in your own backyards.

I am talking about special events that are current, that are happening now, or in a few weeks that you can keep alert to in your backyard, well, if you

live in North America in certain locations. But in general, you can be a citizen scientist.

That means observing animals and then making reports to various research institutions, to

things like I naturalist. and this actually really helps researchers.

So we are going to be talking about new birds.

We're going to be talking about incredible broods.

We are going to talk about something that was discovered by citizen scientists that

sounds like it came out of the horror game slash TV show The Last of Us.

Discover this and more.

As we answer the age old question, when is it a good time for your butt to be a fun guy?

Joining me today is voice actress, host of the JV club, and a ton of other podcasts. Janet

Barney, welcome. Thank you so much. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to laugh when you said,

can you about be a fun guy and when? And so I stifled that giggle. Lafter is not allowed,

not permitted on it. This is a very serious, very serious science show. I'm

really doing it. I'm breaching our contract. Yeah, it's a very serious science show. No laughter, no fun.

Everything's really dry. All right. Okay. No, I'm so excited to have you suggested,

I really liked your topic suggestion, which is talking about like the kinds of animals that you can find sort of in your own city, in your own backyard.

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