Oh hey, it's your neighbor with the smelly trash cans. What's in there? Alley Ward, I am gonna make this intro as short as possible

Because I have squirrels in my pants. I want to start this first things first

I wanted to interview this person for years somehow my emails never got returned my dreams never materialized

And then one day I realized she followed me on social media hot dang I DMed her with so many exclamation points

It was embarrassing and from the first second of this interview

I'm losing my shit and I think you will too. So she got her undergrad in cellular and molecular biology at Arizona State University

She'd a masters in ecology and evolutionary biology at Purdue and then got a PhD in wildlife ecology and conservation back at the University of Arizona

We're gonna talk about it

She's now a professor of biology at Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio where she has done many things one of them

co-creating a full-length dance work called Liars in Fur Coats

About the social and mating habits of squirrels. She studied fox squirrels, gray squirrels, grouse squirrels and more

For decades and her handles on social media reflect this commitment

Squirrel doc it's linked to the show notes also linked patreon.com slash allergies for a buck or more a month

You can submit questions ahead of time and I might say your name with my face

Alley G smurch is also linked to the show notes and thanks to everyone who leaves reviews and subscribes

I read all of them such as this one left this week by iFamily who wrote there are a billion podcasts

But not all are worth a regularly scheduled listen this one absolutely is thank you so much

Also, I've been told that this particular episode has the potential to make life good again no pressure

So let's get into it. So

Ski re ideology it's hard to say but it's a real word

People and it comes from the Greek for shade tail and we're gonna talk about who's who and the family of

Scurriedie will also chat about the best part of the acorns

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