Varmints! – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Our last Frog-a-Day episode!
We didn't manage all 30 days but we only missed 2. We ended up learning a lot about frogs and we hope you did too!

Thanks for everything, especially to Henry, and until next time, be nice to animals!

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Urban Wildlife Institute at the Lincoln Park Zoo

The final frog of our series is the newly discovered zombie frog! Learn all about it from Moss. 

Megan tells us all about the troubles of the pumpkin toadlet.

They're cute and hungry and LOUD! Paul and Donna explore the world of Tasmanian devils this week!

Sources: https://www.livescience.com/27440-tasmanian-devils.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AU7AtY-js

https://www.aussieark.org.au/devil-ark/

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47659640

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-14/tasmanian-devil-island-fundraising-program-winds-up/9147124

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About our voice actors: The wonderful and supportive Kari McGinnis. Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast. Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1) Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit. Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast. Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty, and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe, and Run With Me On This.

It's moth season! Cover your drinks and listen to Paul and Donna talk about fluttery little weirdos!

Sources: Links to our sources coming soon.

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About our voice actors: The wonderful and supportive Kari McGinnis. Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast. Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1) Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit. Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast. Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty, and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe, and Run With Me On This.

Leopards! Paul and Donna love them. Join us as we talk about these amazing big cats. *Note, Paul and Donna discuss the appearance of a black panther in the Little House in the Big Woods, and thought this was probably a black cougar. After some research, though it appears that the cat in the book was either a jaguar (whose range was that far north at the time of the story), or, Grandpa Olsen made it up! We'll talk about that briefly next recording session. Cheers!

Sources:

https://www.positive.news/environment/three-good-things-animals-making-a-comeback/ https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/south-georgia-right-whale-project/south-georgia-right-whale-project-whale-tracking/ https://www.livescience.com/950-leopard-spots.html http://www.krugerpark.co.za/Kruger_National_Park_Wildlife-travel/kruger-park-wildlife-leopards.html https://blog.londolozi.com/2018/09/27/how-do-leopards-climb/ https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15954/163991139 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Cat_Diary https://www.hungertv.com/editorial/inside-the-book-celebrating-leopard-print-in-pop-culture-history/

Featured image: "2013-08-14 11.21.20" by MaxH42 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Any other images on the page are featured on the linked websites. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. "Fair use" is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

About our voice actors: The wonderful and supportive Kari McGinnis. Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast. Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1) Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit. Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast. Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty, and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe, and Run With Me On This.

On this special follow-up episode Dr. Sarah McAnulty, we talk about squid butts, delicious squid recipes and Skype A Scientist!

Sarah McAnulty, is the Executive director for the science communication non-profit Skype a Scientist and an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Connecticut. She is also an all-around squid nerd. It was a total delight to talk to her. Do visit Skype a Scientist. It's one of the most incredible free science resources we've ever seen. https://www.skypeascientist.com/

You can follow Sarah on Twitter and Instagram! She is @SarahMackAttack on both.

We support Skype A Scientist on Patreon. You should consider it too. https://www.patreon.com/SkypeAScientist.

Release the Kraken! Paul and Donna discuss squads of squid this week!

Sources:

https://www.change.org/p/noaa-office-of-science-and-technology-marine-ecosystems-st7-division-the-scientific-community-change-squid-scientific-name-to-a-squad-of-squid

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-amazing-underwater-blob-turned-out-to-be-a-gelatinous-ball-of-squid-eggs

https://aqua.org/blog/2017/October/Cephalopods-Arms-or-Tentacles

https://www.nature.com/news/deep-sea-squid-uses-tentacles-to-attract-prey-1.13614

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/deep-sea-squid-can-break-off-all-its-arms-onto-an-enemy

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Inkling

https://youtu.be/VbWXXWGomYk

https://youtu.be/7yLxva_nSAU

https://oceana.org/marine-life/cephalopods-crustaceans-other-shellfish/humboldt-squid

https://thedishonscience.stanford.edu/posts/if-squids-could-talk/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fourteen-fun-facts-about-squid-octopuses-and-other-cephalopods-45444510/

Featured image: "Bigfin Reef Squid" by Doug Finney is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 

Any other images on the page are featured on the linked websites. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. "Fair use" is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

About our voice actors: The wonderful and supportive Kari McGinnis. Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast. Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1) Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit. Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast. Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty, and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe, and Run With Me On This.

This week our good buddy Clay Groves from the Fish Nerds podcast joins Paul and Donna to talk about the rare and mysterious fur bearing trout! About our voice actors: The wonderful and supportive Kari McGinnis. Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast. Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1) Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit. Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast. Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty, and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe, and Run With Me On This.

Once you're caught up on Varmints and you need things to listen to because you're stuck at home please listen to:

The Soapy Madams Podcast: https://anchor.fm/soapymadams

Checkin' In With Csomo: https://anchor.fm/paul-csomo

Planthropology: https://www.planthropologypod.com/

Just the Zoo Of Us: https://anchor.fm/justthezooofus

CritterCast: https://crittercastpodcast.blubrry.net/

Animals To The Max: https://corbinmaxey.com/podcast-1

Hannah and Erik Go Birding: https://www.gobirdingpodcast.com/

Strange Animals Podcast: https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/ Be safe, wash your hands, stay indoors and be nice to EVERYONE.