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Strange Animals Podcast

Katherine Shaw

A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!

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Episode 152: The Freshwater Seahorse and Other...

Strange Animals Podcast ·

2019/12/30

This week let's look at some (mostly) smaller mystery animals associated with water! Thanks to Richard J., Janice, and Simon for the suggestions! Further reading: What Was the Montauk Monster? The black-striped pipefish. Also, that guy has REALLY BIG FINGERTIPS: The Pondicherry shark, not looking very happy: A ratfish. What BIG EYES you have! The hoodwinker sunfish, weird and serene: The Montauk monster, looking very sad and dead: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals

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Episode 151: Fossils with other fossils inside

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2019/12/23

Thanks to Pranav who suggested this week's amazing topic, animals that fossilized with the remains of their last meal inside! Indrasaurus with a lizard inside. Yum! Baryonyx: Rhamphorhynchus (left, with long wing bones) and its Fish of Doom (right): The fish within a fish fossil is a reminder to chew your food instead of swallowing it alive where it can kill you: The turducken of fossils! A snake with a lizard inside with a bug inside! Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals

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15:57

Episode 150: Hamsters, Gerbils, and Ferrets

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2019/12/16

This week we venture into the land of CUTE to learn about hamsters, ferrets, and some other small domesticated animals. Thanks to Kim and the Angel City Ferret Club for the suggestions! Hamsters are SO CUTE: Hamsters have giant cheek pouches to carry food in: Gerbils are also SO CUTE: Ferrets are SO CUTE in a totally different way: The black-footed ferret does not want anything to do with the domestic ferret, thank you: An extremely complicated but neat way to use your pet's

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Episode 149: A Zebra with SPOTS

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2019/12/09

SOMEONE forgot their flash drive at work, so here's a short but hopefully interesting episode about a mystery animal, a zebra with spots instead of stripes! Ordinary zebras: A SPOTTED ZEBRA?!?? A BABY SPOTTED ZEBRA?!? Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This episode was going to be another listener suggestion, but I left my flash drive at work that has all my research and the half-written script on it. So that episode will be next week, and

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12:59

Episode 148: Gastric Brooding and Other Frogs

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2019/12/02

Thanks for Merike for suggesting the gastric brooding frog and to Hally for suggesting newly-discovered frogs!! The Gastric brooding frog: Darwin's frog, round boi: The Surinam toad carries her eggs and tadpoles in the skin of her back: Kermit the frog and a newly discovered glass frog: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we have another fantastic listener suggestion, about frogs! Merike is a herpetologist from Estonia, who

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14:36

Episode 147: Snails and the Gooseneck Barnacle

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2019/11/25

Thanks to Kim and Richard E. this week for two awesome suggestions! We're going to learn about land snails and about the gooseneck barnacle! Some baby snails and a mama snail, or at least an adult snail that is probably ignoring all those babies: A giant African snail: Unlocked Patreon episode about giant African snails (and other stuff) A rare Polynesian tree snail, white-shelled variety: A grove snail: Gooseneck barnacles: A barnacle goose. Not actually related to the gooseneck

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15:02

Episode 146: Three strange animals

Strange Animals Podcast ·

2019/11/18

The next few weeks will be all listener suggestions! This week, Dylan and Genevieve of What Are You? Podcast request a strange fish, Kim suggests a strange invertebrate, and Callum suggests a strange bird. Thanks for the great suggestions! An archerfish, pew pew pew: A regular roly poly and a spiky yellow woodlouse. Can you spot which is which?? A nightjar. Turn out light pls, is too bright: A white-winged nightjar showing off his wings: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals

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Episode 145: The Cheetah

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2019/11/11

This week is another suggestion from Wyatt, all about the cheetah! The cheetah moves fast and can zigzag at the same time: Baby cheetahs have silvery manes on their backs: Cheetahs and dogs get along well in captivity: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re talking about cheetahs! This is a suggestion from Wyatt, and it’s also an animal I’ve had on my list to cover for a long time. You may think the cheetah is just another big cat,

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Episode 144: Strange Bird Sounds

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2019/11/04

This week we're going to learn not about strange birds, but about strange sounds some birds make. Thanks to Sam for the suggestion, and thanks to Llewelly and Leo for suggesting two of the birds we feature today! Further watching: Greater prairie chicken courtship display A bittern, weird swamp bird: An American woodcock, adorable: Ocellated turkey, beautiful and goofy: Greater prairie chicken: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Halloween

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18:05

Episode 143: Rats, Giant Rats, and Rat Kings

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2019/10/28

It's almost Halloween!! We've got a great episode this week about rats--ordinary rats, giant rats, and the strange phenomenon called the rat king. Buy my book, Skytown! Buy me a coffee! Donate to our Patreon and get bonus episodes! Speaking of bonus episodes, I've unlocked a few for anyone to listen to. Just click through and listen in your browser, no login required: Spooky Animals Stories Irrawaddy dolphins and Dracula ants The Soay Island Sea Monster Further viewing: A squirrel king

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Episode 142: Gigantic and Otherwise Octopuses

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2019/10/21

Happy birthday to me! For my birthday, we're all going to learn about octopuses, including a mysterious gigantic octopus (maybe)! Thanks to Wyatt for his question about skeletons and movement that is a SURPRISE SPOOKY SKELETON SEGMENT of the episode, or maybe not that much of a surprise if you read this first. Further reading: How octopus arms make decisions Octopus shows unique hunting, social and sexual behavior Kraken Rises: New Fossil Evidence Revives Sea Monster Debate The larger Pacific

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Episode 141: Zombie Animals

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2019/10/14

We're inching closer to Halloween and it's getting spookier out there! This week let's learn about some animals that get zombified for various reasons. This is an icky episode, so you might not want to snack while you're listening. Thanks to Sylvan for the suggestion about the loxo and mud crabs! Further reading: Zombie Crabs! Ladybird made into 'zombie' bodyguard by parasitic wasp A mud crab held by a dangerous wizard: A paralyzed ladybug sitting on a parasitic wasp cocoon: A cat and a

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Episode 140: Rains of Fish and Frogs (and other things)

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2019/10/07

We're starting off October (you know, MONSTER MONTH) with accounts of animals that fall from the sky like rain, mostly fish and frogs! Is this a real thing that actually happens, and if so, what causes it? Further reading: Raining Frogs Recent observations of “mystery star jelly” in Scotland appear to confirm one origin as spawn jelly from frogs or toads Not a real photo of an octopus falling in a storm: This photo is probably real, two shrimp/prawns on a windshield in the same storm as above

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Episode 139: Skunks and Other Stinkers

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2019/09/30

This week we're commemorating my HOUSE getting SKUNKED by a SKUNK and it was STINKY The skunk, stinky but adorkable, especially when it's eating yellow jackets: The stink badger looks like a shaved skunk with a bobbed tail: The zorilla wants to be your stinky friend: A woodhoopoe, most magnificent: A Eurasian hoopoe, looking snazzy: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re going to learn about some animals that are infamous for

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Episode 138: City Animals

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2019/09/23

This week we're going to learn about some animals that have made their homes in cities alongside humans. Thanks to Corianne who suggested this amazing topic! Further reading: The BBC's Urban Fox FAQ Toronto vs. Raccoons The urban fox has a favorite coffee shop and knows where to find parking downtown: The urban raccoon's apartment is really small but it's in a great location: The urban (rock) pigeon can walk to work in good weather: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast

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Episode 137: The Orca, Jolly Terror of the Seas

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2019/09/16

Thanks to Pranav for this week's topic, the orca or killer whale! Further reading: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/07/killer-whales-orcas-eat-great-white-sharks/ Save Our Seas Magazine (I took the Jaws art below from here too) An orca: Orcas got teeth: Starboard and Port amiright: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week let’s return to the sea for a topic suggested by Pranav, the orca. That’s the same animal that’s

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Episode 136: Smallest of the Small

Strange Animals Podcast ·

2019/09/09

Last week we learned about the smallest species of animals not typically thought of as small, like snakes and cetaceans. This week let's look at some of the tiniest animals in the world, the smallest of the small! Further watching: A short video about jerboas. Really interesting and well-made! A button quail: Baby button quails are the size of BEES: Kinglets are teeny birds even when grown up. Left, the golden-crowned kinglet. Right, the goldcrest. These birds MAY BE RELATED, you think?

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Episode 135: Smallest of the Large

Strange Animals Podcast ·

2019/09/02

This week we're looking at some very small animals--but not animals that we think of as small. Join us for a horrendously cute episode! Further reading: The Echinoblog Further listening: Animals to the Max episode #75: The Sea Panda (vaquita) Varmints! episode #49: Hippos Further watching: An adorable baby pygmy hippo The Barbados threadsnake will protecc your fingertip: Parvulastra will decorate your thumbnail: Berthe's mouse lemur will defend this twig: The bumblebee bat will eat

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Episode 134: The Magpie

Strange Animals Podcast ·

2019/08/26

Thanks to Emma for this week's suggestion about the magpie! We'll learn all about the magpie and also about the mirror test for intelligence and self-awareness. The black-billed magpie of North America (left) is almost identical in appearance to the Eurasian magpie (right): Not all magpies are black and white. This green magpie is embarrassed by its goth cousins: The beautiful and altruistic azure-winged magpie: Chimps pass the mirror test. So do magpies: The Australian magpie, or as

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Episode 133: The mangrove killifish and the unicorn pig

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2019/08/19

This week's (short) episode is about two animals that should have been in the strangest small fish and weird pigs episodes, respectively. I left them out by accident but they're so interesting that they deserve an episode all to themselves anyway. Thanks to Adam for suggesting the mangrove killifish! Further reading: 25 Years in the Mud: How a Quirky Little Fish Changed My Life The mangrove killifish just looks normal: Not a unicorn pig (okay yes technically a unicorn pig): Unicorn pig

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