This is an I-Heart podcast.

Welcome to Creature Feature, production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of mini parasites, Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show we are talking about cute,

adorable, sweet, petable animals, except maybe not really because they are serial killers.

These animals love killing and they're really good at it. From little critters to animals that

you might not want to touch either.

Joining to, joining me today is animal lover, children's book author and writer of the book,

Cute Animals That Could Kill You Dead, Brooke Hartman.

Welcome.

Thank you.

This is one of my favorite topics. I love, I both love talking about animals that look terrifying, but are really

sweet and wonderful, like, say, a whale shark, right? It looks like something that would eat

you, but they're really sweet, they're really harmless. And of course, the inverse of that is

talking about animals that are adorable, but are just the most fierce little killers

of the animal kingdom exactly and so your book is it's for children so it's a little more

it's more focused on the animals that kill other little critters like insects or other small

animals, correct? That's true. I mean, I tried to make it fun where it's like, okay, kill you

dead. Maybe you is sort of metaphorically like if you happen to be an aphid or a, you know,

a rodent or something like that. But there are a couple of

animals in there that you still would definitely not want to mess with. That if you didn't have

a hospital or at least a very well-stocked urgent care nearby, that there was a potential

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