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alleyward. Welcome to Smologies if this is your first Smologies or if you don't know what they're all about

so these are shorter and g-rated kids-safe classroom-friendly episodes of our classics.

So if you're looking for the full episode we've linked it in the show notes,

but if you're looking for a condensed and all-ages safe one, you've come to the right place.

So please enjoy lions and tigers and bears

and all the other carnivores out there.

What's their deal?

What's this ologists deal?

Well, I begged her to be on. she said yes. I freaked out. Then I talked to this

California-born genius and media queen. She is an active working carnivore ecologist,

Carnivore coming from the Latin for flesh devouring.

And her job involves tromping around grasslands

and forests and prairies and jungles tracking charismatic beasts.

Like she's in a children's book or a fever dream.

You can find her on camera hosting things like Crash Core Zoology on YouTube.

She also has her own PBS podcast now called Going Wild.

You may have also seen her in the PBS special American Spring Live where she was cradling tiny baby bears while

snowflakes fell softly past her radiant smile and onto once again tiny baby

bears she was cradling in her arms. So the first question I wanted to ask

her was like are you even a real person because you're perfect. So let's just

meet here. So get ready for flim-flam, hibernation, cuddling, career juggling, plus lions, tigers, and of course bears with

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