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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Ep. 29 | Animals and National Geographic's Almanac 2019 w/Cara Santa Maria

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Cara is talking about the brand new National Geographic’s Almanac 2019. While they’ve published a kids almanac for years, this is the first for readers 12-112!  It has tons of facts, amazing photos, great graphics and cool maps that present the world as only NatGeo can. Cara Talks About: Fun facts -- like how polar jet stream works, how chameleons change colors, where the world's biggest city is, and how the science behind addiction works Top travel trends, new explorations, and recent discoveries How the 2019 Almanac is organized and which are her favorite features Her role on the November 12 episode of NatGeo Explorer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to chewing the fat on demand.

0:07.0

Welcome to Saturday. This is Chewing the Fat Special Saturday Edition with yours truly Jeff Fisher. Thank you so much for coming along for the ride today.

0:17.0

I decided to dig into the fat pile that we left off on yesterday.

0:27.0

We've got, we've got, as I dug through the fat pile, I realized that there was all kinds of animal stories that we had not gotten to.

0:35.0

Okay? And I thought, well, let's get to them.

0:38.0

I mean, we've got a whole bunch of rhinos and tigers are about to die according to this story thanks to China

0:46.4

The China regime has now well they're calling it issued a death warrant

0:52.1

They clarified that only certified

0:54.2

hospitals and doctors would be allowed to use the animal parts. What are those

0:58.5

animal parts? Rinos and tigers. Oh my. You'll be able to horns and tiger bones used for

1:07.6

medical research in China have been banned. They are no longer going to be

1:12.1

banned. 25-year longer going to be banned.

1:12.8

25-year ban.

1:14.3

Now they said, like I said, that it can only be certified hospitals and doctors to use them.

1:18.2

What they're concerned about, though, is that, how do you tell where the rhino or the tiger came from?

1:24.2

So good luck, God bless.

1:26.8

To the tigers and the rhinos in China.

1:29.6

And there's only, I found it fascinating that there's only there's not that many left

1:37.8

3900 left in the wild of tigers that's I mean it sounds like it's not a lot, but do we want more than

1:48.4

3900 Tigers roaming around the earth? Yeah, I know all you animal lovers I got it. Hawaii has

1:56.8

crickets that have evolved to purr like cats. I don't even need to read the story for that. You just need to know the headline.

2:05.0

A dead fin whale pulled the shore on Belgian Beach calls Probe. You think?

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