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Visit travel Texas.com slash get your own to get the trip to Texas that really matters yours. From outside From Outside magazine, this is the Outside Podcast. Here's a thought experiment. How many wild animals throughout history have had a name?

I don't know how you would figure out the answer to that question in absolute numbers,

but if you somehow had a graph of this data throughout history,

I think it would have a sharp hockey stick-like increase in the last decade.

Between cell phones and game cameras and ring doorbells, it seems like we've got more information

about individual animals than ever.

Most of the time, the animals aren't named.

The captions just say, a deer sheds its antlers, a puma, a coyote.

But every now and then, an animal captures

a larger share of the internet's attention.

Someone gives it a name.

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