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A while ago, you interviewed Karen Bondar for the show. Yeah, we talked about sex in the

Animal Kingdom. Yeah, so what happens after sex? You just go to sleep. Yeah, we talked about sex in the animal kingdom. Yeah, so what happens after sex?

You just go to sleep. Okay. Or sometimes there's a baby. Oh, okay. And somebody sometimes becomes a

mom. And so in a sense, Karen wanted to follow up on wild sex with the sequel.

And this time it's called Wild Mom's Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom. And one of Karen's

strengths is that she really is a great science storyteller and she is not afraid to go the bold

route. And this book is no different. And I think it's actually going to be turned into a series

eventually too, which would be cool. If you don't know Dr. Bondar's work, she has a PhD in freshwater

population ecology. But she's probably best known for her series, Wild Sex, which reached over

60 million viewers. And she also has a TED Global talk on the topic called The Birds and the

Bees are just the beginning. Check it out. It's pretty awesome. Now, I know from our first chat,

not to make assumptions on how the animal kingdom operates in these territories based on how we

operate as human beings. Does that hold in this conversation? Yes. I mean,

there are a lot of differences. I mean, there are some sort of general principles that sort of apply,

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