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Strange Animals Podcast

Katherine Shaw

A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!

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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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14:20

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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18:19

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!

Strange Animals Podcast ·

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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Episode 093: Insects Large and Small, mostly large

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2018/11/12

Many thanks this week to listeners Bob, Nicholas, and Damian, who all suggested insects of one kind or another! So this week is an insect extravaganza, or at least we learn about some gigantic insects, the rarest insect in the world, and a tiny ant. The Lord Howe Island phasmid: The longest insect in the world: The Queen Alexandra’s birdwing butterfly: The Hercules beetle with random frog. Onward, my steed! Further reading: An article about phasmid eggs Show transcript: Welcome to

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Episode 092: Marine Reptiles

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2018/11/05

This week we return to the sea to learn about some marine reptiles, both living and extinct! A marine iguana, eatin: Another marine iguana, swimmin: Maybe Darwin was right about the marine iguana looking like imps of darkness: A mosasaurus skeleton: A plesiosaur skeleton: Thalattosaurs: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. It’s been a while since we had an episode about the ocean, and I thought it would be interesting to learn about

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Episode 091: The Spookiest Owls

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2018/10/29

It's Halloween week! Join us this week for an episode about spooky, spooky owls...including the chickcharnie and the owlman. I've unlocked a few Patreon episodes as a Halloween treat. Click through and you can listen on your browser: The Hazelworm VAMPIRE BIRDS See-through animals And a reminder that my fantasy novel Skytown is available now in ebook and paperback. Buy many copies! The Eurasian eagle owl will murder you without remorse and look fabulous doing it: The Eastern screech owl is

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Episode 090: Spiders! NO COME BACK, IT’S SAFE TO LISTEN

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2018/10/22

As we get closer and closer to Halloween, the monsters get scarier and scarier! Okay, spiders are not technically monsters, but some people think they are. Don’t worry, I keep descriptions to a minimum so arachnophobes should be okay! This week we learn about some spider friends and some spider mysteries. I stole the above cartoon from here. I am sorry, Science World. A cape made from golden silk orbweaver silk: Further reading and listening: Blue spiders Varmints! Podcast scorpions

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Episode 089: The Lavellan and the Earth Hound

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2018/10/15

As we get closer and closer to Halloween, the monsters get weirder and weirder! This week let’s look at two mystery animals from Scotland, one of which is supposed to break into coffins and eat the bodies! That’s disgusting! A stoat in its winter ermine coat: The Russian desman: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. We’re one week closer to Halloween and things are getting spookier and spookier. This week, we’ll learn about two mystery animals from

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Episode 088: Megabats and the Ahool

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2018/10/08

Our next Halloween monster is the ahool, a mystery bat from Indonesia and Java, but along the way we'll learn about megabats in general--especially the hammerhead bat! Thanks to Grace, Grace's sons, and Tania for the hammerhead bat suggestion! I've unlocked a Patreon bonus episode about burrowing bats, which you can listen to here. A hammerhead bat (male) from side and front. DAT SNOOT. (Photos by Sarah Olson and swiped off the web, because I have no shame.) The Egyptian fruit bat (Photo

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Episode 087: Globsters

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2018/10/01

It's October! Let the spooky monster episodes begin! This week we're starting off with a bang--or maybe a squoosh--with an episode about globsters. What are they? Why do they look like that? Do they smell? Yes, they smell. They smell so bad. Trunko, a globster found in South Africa: A whale shark: The business end of a whale shark: A globster found in Chile: A globster found in North Carolina after a hurricane: A globster that still contains bones: Not precisely a globster but I

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Episode 086: Ammonoids and Nautiloids

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2018/09/24

Is it extinct? Is it alive? What is the difference between the ammonite and the nautilus? Did Kate get the two confused her whole life until a few months ago and thought they were both extinct? Maybe. A fossilized ammonite shell: Another fossilized ammonite shell of a different shape: A third fossilized ammonite shell of a yet different shape: A gigantic fossilized ammonite shell: A fossilized ammonite shell of gem quality, called an ammolite: This is what an ammonite might have

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