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This is a holiday week for us.

So today we have another Vault episode for you.

This is going to be a case of the urine sweats.

This is an episode that originally published 1119, 2024. And we're going to get into the avian habit of urinating

and or defecating onto the scaly parts of one's own legs. Let's find out all about it.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we're going to be talking about a concept called Eurohydrosis.

I'm not going to do any fancy roundabout introduction. I think we owe it to you to cut right to the chase, which is that today we're going to be talking about

the biological reasons an animal might want to poop and pee all over itself. Yeah, yeah.

This is going to be one of those episodes. So if you're not in the right headspace for this

discussion, you know, come back and listen to the episode another time, but I think

most of you are probably on board for this. So before we get to the reasons why, I think we should

start with just a kind of visual introduction, an observation. And it is that if you look at some

long-legged birds strutting around in their natural habitat, maybe wandering in the grass or on the rocks,

foraging for food, or getting ready for mating, you will sometimes see their legs covered in a pale

residue. And Rob, I'm attaching some images for you to look at here in the outline, but people at

home, you may want to look these up for yourself

when I give you the names. So the examples I'm about to mention would be three stork species.

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