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From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.

Three weeks ago, we told you a story about a tiny little critter that did a lot of damage

to a friend of ours, while she was on a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.

Based on all the metrics that we look at in modern media, you really liked it.

Even if you've been checking your bedsheets ever since for scorpions, sorry about that part.

Anyway, since then, and maybe this is because Halloween is coming, we've been talking a lot

with our outside colleagues about the wild animals that scare us the most.

And the one that's on just about everyone's list isn't little.

It's big and furry, with teeth and claws.

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