Oh, hello, it's that frog singing on your porch alleyward and welcome to small

jizz. Here's the deal. Small jizz are small. There's shortened versions of our full length

episodes. We chop them all up. We make them fit for your small jites. So they are all ages

in classroom friendly. We've cut out all my swear words, kid friendly. So this is an episode

from 2019 with some supplemental updates from literally today. But if you're not around kids,

if you are a full blown adult and you can handle some swear words and you have some time,

hit the full length original version in the show notes because, whoo, it's worth it. It's such a good

episode. But this is a small jizz version. It's rated G for general audience and it's really good

and it's shorter. So this episode was recorded in beautiful Hawaii. Have you ever heard of it?

A few weeks ago, you're about to just get an earful of coral. Now all I want to do is stare

at videos of coral. Honestly, I used to just consider them to be like the really plucky kind of quirky

settings of a snorkeling john kind of like a splashy backdrop in a community theater play.

Like, oh, that's nice. But you know, what's happening in front of them? What kind of fish do we have?

Oh, contrary. After this episode, you'll be like, move out of the way fish. I'm staring at a

polyp. And yeah, it's totally fine. If you don't know what a polyp is, we will get to that. Okay,

nadaryology. Totally a word. It's a well-documented legit term. It's a study of animals. They're over

10,000 species who have nitocytes, which are these specialized cells for catching prey. And where does

this lovely silent, consonant weird word come from? It looks like when your mom tries to weasel a fake

term into a words with friends play and you're like, no way, Nancy, that's not enough vowels.

But it comes from the old Latin knee day, which means a nettle. And it might also have ties to old

latrian and Lithuanian words, meaning to itch and to tickle. So corals are nadarians. They're

underwater animals that poses these kind of beautiful plant looking things from Mars. And they want to

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