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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 219: Snake Oil

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Robert Reed and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: an entire peer reviewed publication from a single Burmese python poop; three dead deer inside a snake; death by hair; the Florida Everglades; being a sophomore at UC Berkeley and buying a snake to get girls to your dorm room; where the hell did they all come from?; low detection rates are a bitch; squirrels as biological exhibitionists; how Steve has a really bad endotherm bias; bio accumulation of mercury; python hunters; pivoting from Judas snakes to scout snakes; a python orgy in a gopher tortoise burrow; manipulating genomes to drive extinction; big props to Steve's bro, Dan; how the non-hunting life informs the hunting life; and more.

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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 list.

0:15.8

You can't predict anything.

0:20.4

Presented by ONX Hunt creators of the most comprehensive digital mapping system for

0:25.1

hunters download the hunt app from the iTunes or Google Play store nor you stand with

0:30.7

ONX.

0:35.3

Alright folks, before I even introduce what we're, uh, this question is going to reveal.

0:41.0

This question will reveal what we're talking about.

0:43.7

But before I introduce who we're talking about it with, I just got to get one of these,

0:48.2

I got to get something out of the way.

0:50.6

Um, Dr. Bob Reed.

0:54.0

Is it true that a Burmese that they, is this really, they found a Burmese python that

1:01.8

had the remains of three different deer and its lower GI tract?

1:08.9

That was, that's probably the publication I'm proudest of because I got an entire peer

1:14.6

reviewed publication out of a single poop.

1:18.9

And yeah, so this was a, this was a python that was picked up, it was about a 48 kilo

1:25.2

python, so a little over 100 pounds.

1:28.4

And it had a 14 pound poop inside it.

1:35.1

And in that poop were the hubs of three different deer.

1:39.7

And my buddy Scott Bobak, we, we, uh, he had his buddies collect deer legs and he made

1:45.5

a graph of hoof size of the deer that his friends were shooting and correlated with the

1:50.0

hoof size to the deer that were in the poop.

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