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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 254: Illegal Menageries, Death by Pet, Bad Legislation and so Much More

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week Cal talks about why you should collect baseball cards, not critters, trashy folks in Illinois, good bills, bad bills, and what makes a turtle a terrapin and a tortoise.

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0:00.0

From Meteor's World News Headquarters

0:04.0

Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cal's weekend review presented by Steel.

0:09.6

Steel products are available only at authorized dealers.

0:13.2

For more, go to steel dealers.com.

0:16.4

Now, here's your host, Ryan Calcalahan.

0:22.4

Folks, as you know, this show must go on and it gets recorded all over the place.

0:28.0

And once again, I'm on the long and lonesome.

0:31.0

Well, not that lonesome, because I got old Chester Floyd. long and

0:35.0

we're longed and longed some because I got old Chester Floyd guy named Chilly and a dog named Snort and we're road tripping

0:39.0

to Feasant Fest in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

0:41.0

Now by the time you hear this, you know, it'll be done. But, you know, I'll get to that later on. So, excuse the background noise. That's just America in the background.

0:53.2

I said be careful his boat tie is really a camera.

1:02.0

A New York man was cited last month for hoarding more than 100 animals inside his

1:06.4

Nassau County home. Conservation officers received a tip from the local SPCA and, sure enough, they found a menagerie inside his residence.

1:15.9

He was keeping several regulated species including an endangered tiger salamander, two monitor

1:21.4

lizards, and a protected diamond-back terrapin, which is a kind of turtle.

1:27.1

Or is it?

1:29.0

Pop quiz, or rather help for your next round of meat-eater trivia. Is it a turtle, a terrapin, or a tortoise?

1:36.6

No matter what, it is a chalonian, which is the name of the group of shelled reptiles.

1:42.4

Tortoise are land-based with domed shells sticking to almost an exclusively plant-based diet.

1:48.0

Terrapin is a freshwater aquatic chalonian with feet and a varied diet and turtles are primarily saltwater flippered

1:56.9

chalonians. Unless of course you live in the United States where we shun the metric system and a lot of general naming

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