Ep. 469: Crime, Cutlery, and Just Say H2nO
MeatEater Conservation
MeatEater
4.9 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On this week's episode, Cal covers some duck hunters who killed over 200 birds in one morning, why we now think ancient humans used knives before we previously thought, and why scientists just can’t stop giving drugs to fish.
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| 0:49.1 | this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-A. |
| 0:53.8 | Here's Cal. |
| 0:56.3 | Scientists just can't stop giving drugs to fish lately. |
| 0:59.8 | A couple weeks ago, we brought you the story of researchers dosing salmon with cocaine |
| 1:04.3 | and observing them unsurprisingly going into beast mode. |
| 1:08.3 | Beast mode, of course, being the technical, scientific term for swimming |
| 1:12.6 | faster and farther than other fish, as well as wearing blazers with the sleeves rolled up. |
| 1:18.1 | This week, we learned of a group of much groovier scientists who administered the active ingredient |
| 1:23.2 | and psychedelic mushrooms to several mangrove rivulis, a fish species known for its aggression, |
| 1:29.8 | to study the effects of the compound on social behavior. |
| 1:33.1 | The rivulis makes a good test subject because it can reproduce asexually, resulting in multiple |
| 1:39.1 | fish with the exact same genetics, which allows researchers to rule out gene variations as a cause of the |
| 1:45.6 | experiment's outcome. Mangrove rivulis are also extremely cool because they can survive out of |
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