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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 580 : MeatEater Kids V

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our brand new podcast, MeatEater Kids! It's a fun, educational, and engaging podcast for all of you outdoor kids. Learn about science and history from Steve's "Why It's the Way It Is" segment and impress your friends with your newfound knowledge, develop your ear for animal vocalizations with our "Guess that Critter" segment brought to you by Katie Rinella, and play long during "Kids Trivia" with host Spencer Neuharth.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Part 1, why it's

0:04.0

why it's.

0:09.0

8th

0:05.0

8th Eder Kids.

0:11.0

Part 1, Why It's Eat Eater Kids!

0:16.0

Part 1, Why It's the Way It Is.

0:22.0

On today's Why It's the Way It Is, we're going to talk about something called predator swamping.

0:28.2

You might hear that in picture of wolf running through a swamp.

0:31.4

That's not what this is, though predator swamping can involve wolves.

0:35.8

Predator swamping is a strategy. It's a technique or a way in which prey animals,

0:44.0

meaning animals that are consumed by other animals,

0:47.4

in which prey animals can produce their babies

0:52.1

in a way that reduces,

0:54.0

or diminishes the chance that their babies

0:58.0

are going to be killed by predators.

1:01.0

Now, to do this, let's picture ourselves up in the Arctic, okay, up in the far north.

1:08.0

So let's say we're going to go up to the top end of Alaska, where the northern end of Alaska where the northern border of Alaska comes up against the

1:16.6

Arctic Ocean. There aren't any trees up there. It's a type of low brush called

1:22.2

Tundra. It's a type of low brush called tundra.

1:23.0

It's a lot of water, a lot of mosquitoes.

1:26.0

There's a consistent wind that comes off the ocean,

1:30.0

okay?

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