Ep. 180: Teeth, Horns, and Claws

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Doug Emlen, Sam Lungren, and Janis Putelis.

Subjects discussed: Character above all else; good shit for a tombstone; fighting WW4 with sticks and stones; saber tooth cats and supination; a simple definition of evolution; a third generation biologist; GMO mosquitos; do does really go for big antlers?; animal arms races; Janis’ love for a good shirker; a fish that starts as a female and switches to a male; beetle battles; and Doug’s Animal Weapons.

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bugged bitten in my case
0:14.8	underwear.
0:15.8	You can't predict anything.
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0:25.1	hunters download the hunt app from the iTunes or Google Play store nor you stand with ONX.
0:32.1	Alright, can I call you Professor Doug M. Lennon?
0:37.4	That's right.
0:38.4	It works.
0:39.4	Okay, tell people what you do.
0:40.4	I'm a biologist.
0:41.4	I'm an evolutionary biologist and I study animal weapons at University of Montana.
0:45.9	Is the ITD up there?
0:46.9	Yep.
0:47.9	See how quickly I got?
0:48.9	That's a take care of.
0:49.9	Now, I'm a biologist at the University of Montana and most of my time I work on rhinoceros
0:54.7	beetles with horns, but more generally I'm interested in how and why animal weapons get
1:00.0	really big.
1:01.8	Including deer, teeth, saber tooth.
1:06.1	Yeah, including all of those things.
1:08.1	Clothes.
1:09.1	We can talk about any of them that you want to.
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