Episode 193 - Hopping

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Education, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2024

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Terrestrial animals get around using a variety of gaits: walking, running, galloping, etc. Some of these gaits are particularly bouncy! Hopping comes in many forms in many different groups of animals. This episode, we’ll discuss what makes a particular gait “hoppy,” what functions hopping serves, and what adaptations are found in the best hoppers. Then, we’ll explore what we can tell about hopping in the fossil record. In the news: dinosaur skin, marine worms, ancient monotremes, and plant-ant relations Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:45Main discussion, Part 1: 00:36:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:19:00Patron question: 01:50:10 Check out our website for this episode’s blog post and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.1	Hello, everybody out there listening to the podcast.
0:23.8	This is the Common Descent podcast episode 193.
0:28.6	This episode's topic is hopping.
0:32.2	Hopping.
0:32.8	Hopping, like the mode of locomotion, the way you get around.
0:36.1	Yeah.
0:36.9	This is a weird episode topic because we're going to talk about a bunch of different, not
0:43.0	particularly related things that are referred to as hopping or kind of hopping.
0:48.6	We're talking a bunch about the way the different animals get around.
0:51.3	Yeah, there's a whole bunch of animals that hop, and we all agree they hop, but they all are doing very different things.
0:55.6	So along the way, we're going to talk about some of your absolute favorite hopping animals from around the world, and indeed, from the past.
1:03.8	There will be some discussion of hopping in the fossil record.
1:07.4	Of course, returning listeners know that we're talking about this because it was requested.
1:10.9	All of the topics of our episodes come requested from our audience. This subject was requested
1:17.0	by Tony, Jamie, Taterboy, Sir Psychopathic Cows, and Lady Fuzzlebutt.
1:24.8	Thanks for the requests. Thank you, everybody. As a reminder, if you, dear listener, listening right now, want to send in a request for an episode topic, check the episode description or our website for the topic request form and send it in there.
1:37.9	We will go on to talk about hopping after the break, after the news, after the announcements.
1:42.4	First and foremost, we have a Patreon.
1:46.2	We do. The support we get on Patreon helps us to fund the entire podcast, everything that we do, all of this sciencey content that we
1:51.1	bring to you. There are a bunch of cool rewards and goodies and bonuses that our patrons can
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