Ep. 284: Poachers, Energy Remediation, and $1.4 Million for Joshua Trees
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4.9 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This week, Cal talks about giraffe necks, the cost of green energy, prolific poachers, and why you should be careful with thermals.
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| 0:00.0 | After three years of work, our follow-up to the Meat Eater Fish and Game Cookbook is here. |
| 0:04.8 | It's the Meat Eater outdoor cookbook. Wild game recipes for the grill, smoker, campfire, and camp stove. |
| 0:11.5 | Here is your book for everything that's best cooked or eaten outside. From grilling to open fire cooking to Dutch ovens to smokers to barbecue to backpacking meals to how to pull off the perfect fish fry with pit stops |
| 0:26.4 | along the way for lessons about Ice Age cooking methods and the best five ways |
| 0:31.4 | to construct a cooking fire you can be proud of. |
| 0:34.8 | And of course we're focusing on wild game and fish here with over 100 recipes |
| 0:40.5 | including stuffed venison burgers three ways, wild duck with ahi Verdi sauce, a jerky |
| 0:46.8 | made with cola, a gin and tonic made with fire charred lemons, and grilled froglegs made with a sticky sweet sauce. This ain't your normal cookbook |
| 0:56.3 | so be prepared to be surprised. Get your copy now. For more info visit the |
| 1:02.1 | meat eater.com or buy it wherever books are sold. From Meadeers, World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cal's weekend review |
| 1:21.0 | with Ryan, Cal-. Now here's cattle. |
| 1:26.0 | Why do giraffes have long necks? |
| 1:28.0 | That might sound like a frequently asked question on a fifth grade field trip to the zoo, but until now the scientific answer |
| 1:34.9 | wasn't what you'd call school appropriate. The Next for Sex hypothesis argued that |
| 1:41.9 | giraffes have long necks for the same reason deer have big antlers. |
| 1:46.0 | Male giraffes fight by swinging their giant necks into each other, |
| 1:50.0 | so necks for sex made sense, it also rhymed which is a plus. |
| 1:56.0 | However a new paper published in mammalian biology has found that female |
| 2:01.0 | Messiah giraffes have proportionately longer necks and trunks than males. |
| 2:06.0 | Males are taller, but researchers point out that everything else is bigger as well. |
| 2:11.0 | Proportionally speaking, females actually have longer necks as they relate to other parts of their |
| 2:16.3 | bodies. |
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