Ep. 95: Abstinence, Cicadas, and Wolves
MeatEater Conservation
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4.9 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This week, Cal talks about perch finding, the 100 decibel cicada, why beavers need glasses, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | From Meadie-Dooz World News Headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review |
| 0:14.9 | with Ryan Cal Calan. |
| 0:17.2 | Now here's Cal. |
| 0:20.0 | If you play with your outdoor cat and feed that cat more meat, it is less likely to kill |
| 0:27.0 | and far less likely to bring home its kill to you. |
| 0:31.2 | A new study titled Provision of High Meat Content Food and Object Play Reduce Predation |
| 0:37.7 | of Wild Animals by Domestic Cats. |
| 0:40.5 | Fueless Catas from the Journal Current Biology aimed at making, quote, positive contributions |
| 0:47.7 | to cat husbandry, which sounds like something you would find in the bowels of the internet, |
| 0:53.2 | but I assure you, is not that person who wears a cat sweater every day of the year getting |
| 0:58.5 | hitched. |
| 0:59.5 | Is she cleaning the cat with her tongue? |
| 1:02.1 | This is getting weird. |
| 1:04.1 | So put those claws away. |
| 1:07.2 | This is real meaningful science in a real scientific journal which had to be developed because |
| 1:13.4 | people can't stand the thought of keeping their pee on everything murderous house cat in |
| 1:19.0 | the house. |
| 1:20.6 | This study found that households where high meat protein, grain-free food and households |
| 1:27.3 | were 5-10 minutes of daily object play recorded decreases of 36% and 25% respectively in numbers |
| 1:36.4 | of animals captured and brought home by cats. |
| 1:40.0 | So let's recap all we've learned on Cal's We Can Review about outdoor cats. |
| 1:46.3 | Outdoor cats kill over 3 billion birds a year. |
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