Pinnipedology (SEALS & WALRUSES) with Luis A. Hückstädt

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Seals. Sea lions. Walruses. Walrus dongs. Classic Ologies. We sit down with Luis A Hückstädt, PhD and talk about blubber, ocean currents, psychedelic teeth, whisker tech, receding ice, boops, snoots, barks, butt nubbins and whether or not that one seal from the video actually felt bashful about getting that fish cake? Or was it a sea lion? Which is which? Spoiler: you’ll find out in this episode of Ologies: Pinnipedology. Follow Luis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luishuckstadt And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lahuckst/ A donation from this episode went to https://www.feedingnunavut.com/ and also to www.alaskasealife.org Sponsors of Ologies: alieward.com/ologies-sponsors More links and info at alieward.com/ologies/pinnipedology Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and now… MASKS. Hi. Yes. Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Transcripts by Emily White of https://www.thewordary.com/ Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's the first three alarms that you turned off in your sleep. It's alley board.
0:05.2	Allegis were doing it. Pinipedology for conceals, sea lions,
0:09.2	walrus tongs. Let's talk. First, though, thank you to patrons at patreon.com slash
0:14.8	allegis for submitting questions. It costs just a buck a month to join that club. Come on over.
0:20.8	Also, thank you to anyone who has hit subscribe, who's told a friend, texted, tweeted, left
0:26.1	reviews, I read all your reviews, like a gentle creep. And this week's fresh review is from
0:33.3	someone named M. Fox who says allegis is a life changingly good podcast. Did I get a snail tattoo
0:39.8	after listening to the Malacology episode? Yes. As your internet dad, I approve. Also,
0:45.4	congrats to a hopeful scientist for heading back to school to get a PhD. Hell yeah, go get it.
0:50.8	Okay, Pinipedology comes from the Latin for having fins for feet. And it wasn't until maybe 15
0:58.4	minutes ago that I knew that it wasn't related to Pinnah, meaning ear, even though ears play a
1:04.3	very important role in triumphantly explaining the difference between a seal and a sea lion.
1:09.0	More on that later. But thisologist studied marine biology for his bachelor's, got a master's
1:14.4	in oceanography in Chile and a PhD in ocean studies from UC Santa Cruz and is now an assistant
1:20.0	researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
1:24.5	And and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He's studied marine
1:30.3	mammals for years and years. And his name comes up in over a hundred published papers on seals and
1:36.6	sea lions. And I have had him on my sonar for at least six months. Oh, so excited to talk to him.
1:43.2	And after his land seal, aka his dog went for a potty outside. We met up. We hopped on the horn.
1:49.6	I asked him about everything from blubber to ocean currents, psychedelic teeth, receding ice,
1:56.6	whisker technology, belly scooting, snoot boops, octopus smacking, walrus tusks, and other
2:03.0	bony structures, and Arctic expeditions, butt nubbins, and more. With world explorer, sea mammal,
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