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Ologies with Alie Ward

Ursinology Part 2 (BEARS) with Thea Bechshoft, Lana Ciarniello, Drew Hamilton, Wes Larson, Tsalani Lassiter & Danielle Rivet

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Because one bears is not enough bears, SIX more ursinologists join to answer your questions about polar bear fur, monogamy, that scene from "The Revenant" and more. Five chapters of bear life, from mindblowing mating strategies to how bears get from point A to B, media portrayals of these beautiful beasts and how to save them. Also: do bears want you to sing to them? Bear biologists and conservationists Dr. Thea Bechshoft, Dr. Lana Ciarniello, Drew Hamilton, Wes Larson, Tsalani Lassiter & Danielle Rivet field more of the 500 listener questions and it gets… wild. Follow all of these Ursinologists: Instagram.com/tsalani, https://twitter.com/grizzlygirl87, Instagram.com/drewhh; https://twitter.com/LanaCiarniello, https://twitter.com/biothea, Instagram.com/GrizKid Donations went to: www.friendsofmcneilriver.org, Idaho Black Bear rehab, Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter, Polarbearsinternational.org, Grizzly Bear Foundation More links at www.alieward.com/ologies/Ursinology To become a patron: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, pins, totes, shirts, etc. Follow Ologies on Instagram or Twitter Follow Alie Ward on Instagram or Twitter.com Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris & Jarrett Sleeper Music by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, it's your internet friend who calls herself your dad, who said that this second

0:05.7

bears episode was going to come out as a midweek bonus episode just for funsies, and then

0:11.1

started putting it together, and it's like 37,000 clips from six different additional

0:14.9

or synologists, and I was like, what's even in my skull? Is it just a cauliflower? Because

0:20.4

no, that's not possible. So it's coming out as a part two, Aliborne. Back with another

0:26.9

episode of Allegies about bears. Fucking hell, yeah, bears, man. Part two of bears. So in

0:35.2

episode one of Ursonology, we asked Ursonologist Chris Morgan what bear conventions are like,

0:41.2

and in this Ursonology part two, you can kind of pretend that you're hanging out around

0:46.7

a campfire with a half a dozen human beings who have dedicated their lives to helping

0:51.4

and understanding bears. How lucky were we? Except for me, who did not know how to put this

0:56.4

many interviews together and who almost started crying in a hotel room this week going,

1:00.2

what was I thinking? But it's so fun. And it turned out great. Also, it's divided into

1:06.6

chapters. I'm getting it to that in a second. But first, thank you to everyone on Patreon

1:11.1

at patreon.com slash allergies for all of these questions that we just continue every week

1:15.9

to lob at experts and to everyone who reviews and rates allergies because I read every

1:21.2

single one of them when I feel like I have made a terrible decision to make a clip show,

1:25.7

and you remind me to keep going. Such as K Jackson 0529, who says, a friend played this

1:31.0

scorpion episode on a backpacking trip and I'm hooked. I went to school for fluvial geomorphology,

1:35.6

and we are a fun bunch. Just Google parachuting beavers. You're welcome. K Jackson 0529,

1:42.4

I did Google parachuting beavers. I am curious. I do need to hear more about how people toss beavers

1:48.0

at a place for science. But beavers before beavers, let's get into it. Okay, get ready to meet.

2:00.4

Six more bear experts first. West Larson, my pronouns are he, him. West Larson, a world-renowned

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