Tigers are the only animal on the planet to ever be recorded to predate brown bears as a part of their diet.

And you think about how big a brown bear is and you think that a tiger to just choose to just consume them absolutely blows my mind.

So that is terrifying.

Think about that.

We're talking about a bear that they can get up to 800 pounds, 700 pounds. Like,

these are big animals. The massive animals, grizzly bears are twice the size of black bears,

if they're based on like environmental conditions and obviously the appropriate abundance of

resources for them. But like, we're talking about a tiger can just decide whether they want to

consume them or predate upon them. That is absolutely mental. Do they,

and they have a special, no, I'm talking about the adults, the adults. No way. Yeah, so they have a

specialized hunting technique that they used just for brown bears and I was reading about. I read the

whole dang page and I literally like if I had glasses on, I would have taken

them off. So I just, like, pretended to take my glasses off. Like, I would, like, I pretended to

pretend I'd take fake glasses off. And I put them down. I just had to, like, rub my eyeballs for a couple

second and re-look at the page.

Welcome to the show. Today's episode is a conversation with Tyas Williams.

Tynes is a wildlife biologist whose research has been featured on National Geographic,

and he is well known on social media for his informed commentary and, of course, his IQ Fridays.

We actually talked for almost three hours straight, amazingly, though I only started

recording once the conversation shifted to the topic of animals. But after I hit record,

our conversation included the following topics, mosquito extinction, the meaning of conservation,

pseudonaturalism, effective and ethical scientific communication, scientific contrarianism,

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