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And we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.

There are any number of ways to procure food in the animal world, but for the purposes of today's show, I will reduce them to two.

The way of the whale and the way of the oyster.

The whale travels thousands of miles to find food

from cold, high-latitude feeding grounds in the polar regions

to warmer low-latitude breeding grounds,

consuming untold amounts of krill and small fish as it moves.

The oyster instead lets the ocean bring things its way by cementing itself to a rock,

using a special limestone protein to stay secure.

Periodically lifting its shell to pump seawater over its gills,

it takes in plankton and other nutrients

with tiny hair-like structures called cilia.

For the record, the host of this radio program is an oyster who holds fast to the rock

of Stanford University, where the world's oceanic currents

bring in all sorts of things for the feasts

we share with you, the brigade.

And oh my, look at what those currents have brought us today.

Stay tuned, friends.

We have an immense whale swimming in the waters of KZSU, ready to share his cetacean song with us here on Entitled Opinions.

That's a beautiful introduction.

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