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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 79: Brooklyn Man, Lamprayers, and Desert Sea Cows

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal talks about good eels and bad lampreys, ancient sea cows in Cairo, and how it's time to vote.

 

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0:00.0

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0:07.9

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0:13.4

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0:19.6

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0:27.1

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0:45.0

From Meadieder'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.

0:55.5

Subbing in for Florida Man, this week a Brooklyn New York Man was recently caught on camera

1:02.4

dragging two large garbage bags full of live eels into Brooklyn's prospect park, where

1:08.9

he proceeded to dump those eels into the park's 40-acre lake.

1:13.8

When confronted, the man protested that he was just trying to quote, save lives.

1:20.2

The Asian Squamp eel, aka the Rice eel, or Monopterus Albus, is about a foot and a half

1:27.2

long and looks a little like the front end of a python.

1:30.7

You might encounter eel as unagi and a sushi roll at a Japanese restaurant, and although

1:36.2

we don't know where this Brooklyn Dumber got his eels, it's possible that he liberated

1:41.4

them from one of the nearby live fish suppliers for the city's restaurants.

1:46.7

Eels are an important food source in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and elsewhere in Asia, where

1:51.9

they are grown in in flooded rice paddies, then sold along with the rice, which is a

1:57.5

pretty neat technique, selling all the parts of the meal together like slightly less packaged

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