Ep. 243: Boggeying in the Brushworld

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Michael Tewes, Neal Wilkins, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: the ocelot as an animal that's unknown to most folks; how it hurts like hell to get bitten by a cat; chicken-ocelot bonding; the ocelot population in the US being less than 100 individuals; how mammalogists have more fun than ornithologists; a mad obsession with cats; reproduction and the minimum birth rate to maintain a population; the effect of declines in genetic variation; all the different ways of losing an ocelot; how conservation is dependent on private landowners; maintaining the ocelot population on the East Foundation's Texas ranch holdings; is the ESA antiquated what it means to be pro-ESA reform; sex, hunger, and fear; the insane number of birds killed by feral and domestic cats; a hope that ocelots will stick around; how to incentivize conservation when you can't ever go to the place in need of conserving; 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-less meat and pun.
0:15.8	Let me feed her podcast.
0:17.6	You can't predict anything.
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0:29.4	Nor are you stand with ONX.
0:31.4	All right guys, we're going to start right out with introductions.
0:40.0	Right off the bat.
0:41.4	Okay.
0:42.4	Michael Tewis, professor of Texas A&M University in Kingsville.
0:46.1	So that's how you say that Tewis?
0:47.4	Tewis, yeah.
0:48.4	Got it.
0:49.4	Yeah.
0:50.4	My computer keeps calling me two weeks, but yeah.
0:54.8	And I serve as a Cesar Claiburg at the Cesar Claiburg Wildlife Research Institute.
1:01.4	And I've been there since 1981 as a professor doing cat biology and cat research.
1:08.6	Cats worldwide.
1:11.0	We've done some work in Southeast Asia.
1:14.3	Some cats, clouded leopards, marble cats, golden cats.
1:19.4	Cats you've probably never heard of.
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