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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 68: Swimming the Frog, Shady Land Deals, and Urban Rat Hunting

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal talks about a shady land deal in Razorback country, how frogs use beetles to cleanse their systems, dam news and so much more.

 

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0:00.0

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0:07.9

serves as a secure location for your binoculars and other critical gear during your outdoor

0:13.4

pursuits.

0:14.6

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0:19.6

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0:22.0

What's more, it comes with our new airframe shoulder harness and wind-call pouch.

0:27.1

Head ahead of your season planning and check out the industry's best Bino Harness only

0:31.5

at FHFgear.com.

0:36.5

From Meadier's world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

0:50.4

with Ryan Cal Calan.

0:52.7

Now, here's Cal.

0:55.3

Over the lips and past the gums, look out stomach here it comes.

1:00.6

Ecologist and researcher with Kobe University Shinji Sugiyura set out to write a paper on the

1:06.2

predator-pray relationship between Regen Bartia at Tenuata and Pelo Philax Nigro Maculatus.

1:14.4

That's some fancy Latin for water beetle and a frog that cohabitate in Japan's rice

1:19.2

field.

1:20.6

Published in the journal Current Biology, Shinji observed a water beetle disappear into

1:25.6

the mouth of a hungry frog.

1:28.0

Then, 115 minutes later, he observed the reappearance of the still swimming water beetle

1:34.2

only this time the beetle was observed as it emerged from the frogs anus.

1:39.4

The water beetle had apparently gone the length of the frog's digestive system and reemerged

1:44.4

on the other end unharmed.

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