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I don't know about you, but watching prestige nature documentaries is my idea of a wild Friday night.

The scorching sun means many desert animals only come out at night.

And there's a new one on Netflix narrated by the amazing Samarit Wiley called Night on Earth,

where a little desert mouse, a tiny grasshopper mouse, comes face to face with a scorpion, might want to steer clear.

This is in the Sennorin Desert.

Well, the Sennorin Desert is in like western New Mexico and sort of extends down into the Sennora, Mexico.

That's Lauren Esposito, and the curator of a Racknology at the California Academy of Sciences.

Scorpions, aka, Arachnids.

Team Scorpion all the way.

Yeah, you see where this is going.

Hey Lauren.

How's it going?

Oh, I'm so excited.

That's Ashley Ro.

I'm an assistant professor in the biology department at the University of Oklahoma.

Ashley studies the grasshopper mouse, which is, I believe this is the scientific term, adorable.

They look like Mickey Mouse, they have these big ears, these big eyes, these long whiskers, they look really innocent and cute.

We absolutely had to get Ashley and Lauren together, so we could learn everything about what happens next.

Many animals try to avoid venomous scorpions.

Everybody's got to eat, you know, but not this little rubbing.

In a flash, the mouse attacks the scorpion.

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