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Strange Animals Podcast

Katherine Shaw

A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!

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Episode 112: The Bullfrog and the Raven

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2019/03/25

I am sick and sound like a frog, or possibly a raven, so here's a croaky episode about both! Thanks to Corbin Maxey of Animals to the Max and Simon for their suggestions! A bullfrog: A common raven: A baby raven: NOT a baby raven (it's probably a corncrake): Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Guess who has a cold! That’s right, I do! If this is the first episode you’ve ever listened to, I promise I don’t ordinarily sound like this. Because

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18:32

Episode 111: Poisonous moths, venomous bugs

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2019/03/18

Let’s get gross and horrible this week! Are there any bugs with so much venom they could kill you? What would happen if you ate 5,000 moth digestive tracts? Why am I even talking about this stuff? Listen and find out! Thanks to Grady and Tania for today’s topic suggestions! The giant silkworm moth caterpillar. Do not touch. No seriously, don't! You might d i e The southern flannel moth and its larva, a puss caterpillar. Fuzzy, yes, but don't pet the caterpillar: A luna moth and its

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Episode 110: Three mystery animals from India

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2019/03/11

Thanks to Pranav for this week’s suggestion! We’re going to look at three mystery animals from India, ones you may not have heard of. A photograph reportedly of a kallana pygmy elephant, although scale is hard to tell: A pink-headed duck, deceased: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. It’s time for a mystery animals episode, and this one was a suggestion from Pranav, who suggested mystery animals from India. Pranav also gave me lots of other

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Episode 109: Convergent Evolution

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2019/03/04

I mention convergent evolution occasionally, but what is it really? This week we learn about what it is and some animals that demonstrate it. Thanks to Richard E. and Llewelly for their suggestions this week! Jaguars and leopards look so similar I’m not 100% sure this picture actually shows one of each: The adorable sucker-footed bat from Madagascar: The equally adorable TOTALLY UNRELATED disk-winged bat from South America: Metriorhynchus looked a lot like a whale even though it was a

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22:33

Episode 108: Strange Things Found in Amber

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2019/02/25

Thanks to Nicholas for suggesting this week’s episode topic! Lots of strange and fascinating insects and other animals are found trapped in amber. So what is amber, how does it preserve animal parts, and most importantly, what have scientists found in amber? A millipede preserved in amber, one of 450 millipedes discovered in Myanmar amber. Somebody had to count them: A newly described insect that got its own order because it's so weird. Look at that triangular head with giant eyeballs! A

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12:34

Episode 107: Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus

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2019/02/18

This week we’re going to learn about some armored dinosaurs, a suggestion by Damian! I love that there’s a stock picture of an ankylosaurus: Stegosaurus displaying its thagomizer: Thagomizer explained: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week’s episode is another suggestion, this one from Damian, who wants to learn about armored dinosaurs like stegosaurus. It turns out that stegosaurus and its relatives are really interesting, so thanks to

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18:39

Episode 106: Domestication with and without foxes

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2019/02/11

Thanks to M Is for Awesome, who suggested the topic of domestication! This week we look mainly at foxes and how they relate to the domestication of dogs. Also, chickens. Unlocked Patreon episode about chicken development and domestication: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21433845 A red fox: Domestic foxes want pets and cuddles also coffee: The fennec fox with toy I JUST DIED: The raccoon dog is actually a species of fox: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your

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Episode 105: The Hagfish and the Sea Spider

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2019/02/04

This week's episode is about two strange animals of the sea: the hagfish, which isn't a fish, and the sea spider, which isn't a spider. A curled-up hagfish: The sea spider is actually quite pretty as long as I don't have to touch it: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. A long long long time ago, and I can’t even remember which episode it was, I mentioned that one day I would do an episode about the hagfish because it’s such a weird animal. Well,

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14:21

Episode 104: Tiger Salamanders

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2019/01/28

Thanks to Connor who suggested this week’s topic, tiger salamanders! Not only do we learn all about the Eastern tiger salamander and the banded tiger salamander, we also learn where asbestos comes from AND IT’S NOT EVEN LIKE I GOT OFF TOPIC, I SWEAR The Eastern tiger salamander: The barred tiger salamander: A baby tiger salamander: A CANNIBAL BABY TIGER SALAMANDER: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’ll learn about an animal

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Episode 103: Trace Fossils

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2019/01/21

You may know what fossils are (I hope), but have you heard of trace fossils? You have now! A giant ground sloth footprint with a human footprint inside it, made some 11,000 years ago: Climactichnites: A “devil’s corkscrew”: A Paleocastor fossil found at the bottom of its fossilized burrow: Stromatolite: Coprolites: Gastroliths found with a Psittacosaurus: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re going back in time to look

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Episode 102: Three Mystery Apes

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2019/01/14

It's mystery ape time! Learn about de Loys' ape and two other mystery apes this week! The only photograph we have of de Loys' ape: A white-fronted spider monkey: Oliver the so-called "ape man": A better picture of Oliver late in his life: A Bili ape: A regular gorilla (top) and a regular chimp (bottom, hearing no evil) for comparison with the Bili ape and Oliver: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. I don’t know about you, but I’m in

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Episode 101: Flying Without Wings

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2019/01/07

What better way to start out the new year than by learning about some animals that fly (or glide) without wings! Thanks to Llewelly for suggesting the colugo! Colugo looking startled: A colugo, flying, which startles everyone else: Flying fish! ZOOM! A flying gurnard, not flying: Flying squid! ZOOM! Flying squid close-up, mid-zoom: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. It’s the first week of a new year, so let’s start it off right and

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27:21

Episode 100: The Centipede of Episodes!

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2018/12/31

It’s our 100th episode! Thanks to my fellow animal podcasters who sent 100th episode congratulations! Thanks also to Simon and Julia, who suggested a couple of animals I used in this episode. An Amazonian giant centipede eating a mouse oh dear god no: The kouprey: The Karthala scops owl: A sea mouse. It sounds cuter than it is. Why are you touching it? Stop touching it: A sea mouse in the water where it belongs: Mother and baby mountain goats. Much cuter than a sea mouse: A hairy

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Episode 099: Island Life

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2018/12/24

Those of us in the northern hemisphere are thinking a lot about island life right about now, where it’s warm and sunny. But there are islands everywhere, not just the tropics, and the animals on islands often evolve to look strange and different from their mainland cousins. Thanks to Richard E. and Lucy for their suggestions this week! A fossa: A tamaraw, miniature water buffalo: A Socotra starling, my new favorite bird: Adorable little Galapagos penguin: A dragonblood tree, good

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Episode 098: River Dolphins

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2018/12/17

This week let's learn about some unusual cetaceans, river dolphins! An Amazon river dolphin and the nose of another Amazon river dolphin: Another Amazon river dolphin. Note the teeny eye and disk-like teeth: A South Asian river dolphin. Note the almost nonexistent eye: A Chinese river dolphin in better days: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re going to learn about an animal I’ve wanted to cover for a long time but never got

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Episode 097: Unusual Reptiles

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2018/12/10

Thanks to listeners Finn and Leo, who suggested this week's topics of strange lizards, and the thorny devil and mata mata turtle, respectively! Join us this week to learn about those reptiles and a bunch more! Thorny devil. Definitely do not eat. The mata mata turtle. Big leafhead boi A frilled lizard BWAAAAAMP A Pinocchio lizard. Wonder where that name comes from. Poke poke poke does this bother you? poke poke om nom nom A shingleback, or as I like to call it, an ambulatory poop: Show

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Bonus! Reticulated siren discovered!

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2018/12/06

BREAKING NEWS, EVERYONE! A new giant salamander has been discovered, right here in the southern United States! It was only formally described YESTERDAY if you’re listening to this the night it goes live, assuming I manage to get it finished and uploaded before Friday morning. I should have put this together yesterday but didn’t think about it until today. Today being Thursday. We’re talking about the reticulated siren, also called the leopard eel although it’s not an eel. It’s also not a leopard

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Episode 096: Strangest Big Fish

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2018/12/03

Because there are so many weird fish out there, I’ve narrowed this week’s episode down to weird BIG fish! We’ll cover the smaller ones another time. Thanks to Damian and Sam for suggestions this week! A manta ray being interviewed by a diver: A manta ray with white markings: A mola mola, pancake of the sea, with a diver: The flathead catfish head. So many teeth: A Wels catfish with Jeremy Wade: A couple of red cornetfish: Howick Falls in South Africa. Put that on my endless list

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Episode 095: Giant Tortoises

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2018/11/26

This week let’s learn about giant tortoises! What’s the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? The most basic difference is that the turtle lives in water and the tortoise lives on land. And there are some really, really big tortoises in the world! A Galapagos tortoise: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This episode was supposed to be about strange reptiles, with more awesome suggestions from listeners. I was going to include some information

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Episode 094: The Koala and the Monato del Monte

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2018/11/19

Thanks for this week’s topic suggestion from Jideobi! This week we’re going to learn all about koalas and some of their strange friends! The Blood on the Rocks podcast (not for kids) where you can hear a segment by me in the WWI megasode! An unlocked Patreon episode about wombats So cuddly, little koala: I am dying of cute y'all: I have actually died. I am ded because this mama koala is feeding her baby a leaf: I came back to life but then I died again because of this monito del

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