Podcasts about strange animals

Kate met Chad Kultgen when they guested on each other's podcasts. Chad is a journalist, screenwriter, and podcast host. His novels include The Lie; The Average American Male; Strange Animals; The Average American Marriage; and Men, Women, and Children. He is also the creator of the NBC series Bad Judge and Co-author of the "How to Win the Bachelor: The Secret to Finding Love and Fame on America's Favorite Reality Show” with his Game of Roses podcast co-host Lizzy Pace. Reality Life with Kate Casey Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: http://www.tiktok.com/itskatecasey Cameo: https://cameo.com/katecasey Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon.com: www.amazon.com/shop/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Summary: It's Halloween again for the Strange Animals of Rangersplain! This year, Ashley and Sid are joined by author Lillian Boyd to have a round table discussion about Jordan Peele's 2022 film Nope. Hey, it takes place out where a lot of Power Rangers was filmed and features some wild creature effects. It counts for the Toku chart.Show NotesPatreon

Throughout history, criminal acts have taken on many forms…some disturbing, while others are just strange and obscure. Today, we're going to delve into some unsettling cases where murderers have been found to harness the instincts and lethal capabilities of innocent creatures to carry out their sinister agendas. 

Kate joins in on my wild frenzy as we nerd over weird animals, parasites, poop, and our mutual hate for Bigfoot! As the host of Strange Animals Podcast, Kate spends each week meticulously researching unusual animal species with all their magnificent adaptations. At over 300 episodes and counting, she still finds herself blown away by the sheer number of animals left to discover and learn about! Today we joined forces to share stories of photosynthetic slugs, creepy deep sea fish, nasty parasites, giant prehistoric bugs, and an insane amount of poop-eaters! But along the way we put our debunker caps on to completely stomp over your love for Bigfoot, Nessie and aliens! Because real animals are so much cooler! I highly recommend checking Kate's book "Beyond Bigfoot & Nessie: Lesser-Known Mystery Animals from Around the World" on Amazon ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Kate Shaw from Strange Animals Podcast for joining me in this magnificent nerd-out over the weirdest animals, and cryptids, we both love! ❤️ Also for joining me in multiple bouts of debunkery!

Thanks to the Tracing Owls podcast for this week's suggestion. I'm a guest on that podcast so make sure to check it out (but while my episode is appropriate for younger listeners, most episodes are not, so be warned). Further reading: Huge Hippos Roamed Britain One Million Years Ago Kenyan fossils show evolution of hippos The Kilopilopitsofy, Kidoky, and Bokyboky: Accounts of Strange Animals from Belo-sur-mer, Madagascar, and the Megafaunal “Extinction Window” A sort-of Malagasy hippo: Actual hippo (not from Madagascar, By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121282994): A modern hippo skull. There's a reason the hippo is more dangerous to humans than sharks are [By Raul654 - Darkened version of Image:Hippo skull.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=242785]: A pygmy hippo and its calf! Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. This week we're going to learn about a topic suggested by the host of the podcast Tracing Owls, because I'm actually a guest on that podcast in an upcoming episode! I think the episode releases later this week. I'll put a link in the show notes, but be aware that while the podcast is interesting and often very funny, with topics that focus on weird stuff related to science, most episodes are not appropriate for younger listeners. (I think my episode should be okay.) Several years ago now there was a movie called Madagascar, which is about a group of zoo animals that end up shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. I love this movie, especially the lemur King Julian, but one of my favorite characters is a hippopotamus named Gloria, voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith. The island country of Madagascar is off the southeastern coast of Africa, but as we talked about in episode 77, it's been separated from the continent of Africa for millions of years and the animals of that country have mostly evolved separately from the animals of Africa. That's part of why the movie Madagascar is so funny, since the main characters in the movie are all native to Africa—a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and Gloria the hippo—and don't know anything about the animals they encounter on Madagascar. Like this guy: [King Julian clip] But it turns out that hippos did once live on Madagascar, and that's what we're going to learn about today. We're not sure when the first humans visited Madagascar, but it was at least 2500 years ago and possibly as much as 9500 years ago or even earlier. By 1500 years ago people were definitely living on the island. It's likely that hunting parties would travel to Madagascar and stay there for a while, then return home with lots of food, but eventually people decided it would be a nice place to live. Madagascar is a really big island, the fourth largest island in the world. It's been separated from every other landmass for around 88 million years, and has been separated from Africa for about 165 million years. Many of the animals and plants that live on Madagascar are very different from the ones living anywhere else in the world as a result. To put this into perspective, here's your reminder that the closest living relative of the hippopotamus is the whale, and 60 million years ago the common ancestor of both hippos and whales was a small semi-aquatic animal. That was about 28 million years after Madagascar was on its own in the big wide ocean, and 105 million years after the landmass that we call Africa broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana and began moving very slowly into the position it's in today. When Madagascar finally broke free of the landmass we now call India, dinosaurs were still the dominant land animal. So why are there remains of small hippos on Madagascar? How did the hippos get to Madagascar and why aren't they still around? Did the hippo originate in Africa or in some other place? So many questions!

Welcome to the One Piece at a Time Podcast where I'm joined by Brandon Bovia to read and discuss 5 chapters of the One Piece manga every week. Though this week marks the final detour before we return to the manga as we talk about the 3rd One Piece Movie! It's certainly the most uneven entry so far, but why is that? What does it do well? Where does it miss the mark? Join us as we cover One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals! Support the One Piece at a Time Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DerrickBitner Check out more from Brandon Bovia! https://twitter.com/brandonbovia

Michael and Charlie team up with Kate of Strange Animals Podcast for a fun and freewheeling discussion of legendary insects, some very strange precipitation, and lots of other excellent stuff! Links:  Strange Animals Podcast (Blubrry) Beyond Bigfoot & Nessie (Bookshop.org) Skytown (Goodreads) Skyway (Goodreads) ConCarolinas Upcoming Live Recordings: Arcana (Durham, NC - 9/29) Splatterflix @ Carolina Theatre of Durham(Durham, NC - October 7 & 9) Upstate Spirit Conference(Abbeville, SC - October 8) Ret-Con (Cary, NC - February 24-26, 2023) Follow us! AC Monthly Arcane Carolinas on Patreon Arcane Carolinas on Facebook Arcane Carolinas on Instagram Arcane Carolinas on Twitter Contact us! arcanecarolinas@gmail.com

Episode notes The Strange Animals Podcast on Twitter: @StrangeBeasties Website: https://linktr.ee/KateShaw Kate's book: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Bigfoot-Nessie-Lesser-Known-Mystery/dp/B09VCY1P44 For more information about The Baldscientist Podcast, please email me at orpagan@yahoo.com or leave a comment at baldscientist.com. I can also be reached on Twitter: @baldscientist. Credits, Acknowledgments, and References • Introduction courtesy of Mr. Micah Hanks (@MicahHanks). • Baldscientist logo by Ethan Kocak (@Blackmudpuppy). • Music courtesy of YouTube Audio Library. • The opinions expressed by me, or my guests do not necessarily represent the opinions and policies of my employer, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, my family, our dog, Ginger, or Charles Darwin. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/one-r-pagan/message

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This episode we're talking about One Piece : Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals ! The third movie in the One Piece universe. We revisit the Straw Hat crew and their shenanigans taking place just after Drum Island, but before the Arabasta Arc. Come join us as we discuss yet another step in Luffy's journey to become the King of the Pirates!   Episode Discussion Yay or nay? and would we recommend it. Every One Piece adventure starts with a yeet. Luffy gets beat in a fight, but a filler fight. Zoro and Sanji get serious. What we did and didn't like about it. Also, what we would change to make it better. Who's our favourite character? Social links Follow us on Instagram : Filler Academy | anime podcast (@filleracademy) Follow us on Twitter : Filler Academy (@FillerAcademy) Reach out and and send us an email : filleracademypodcast@gmail.com   Episode Links If you'd like to see what the anime community thought of it, check it out here! https://myanimelist.net/anime/461/One_Piece_Movie_3   How we determine what is filler:  www.animefillerlist.com

This week we look into some more Missing 411 cases but this time we look at some that are a little more paranormal then others. Everything from UFO, Werecows, Strange Animals, and much more! We hope you enjoy! Check out our new affiliate Para-Box.  Go to https://para-box.cratejoy.com?afmc=PARANORMALCY and enter Promo Code PARANORMALCY at check out to get 10% off your first box!Check out our websitehttps://www.unpnormalcy.com/   Smuts Up,  Faith Blind Council, Lux Occult, Ad Hoc History, Administrism, Unearthing Paranormalcy, The Green Podcast Network Also don't forget our other linksDiscordhttps://discord.gg/NhZxdPfdEdFollow us on Facebook and Join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/unpnormalcyhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2147778561941881/ Follow us on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/unpnormalcy/ Follow us on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/UNPnormalcy Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/unpnormalcy)

I had a quick sit down with a few of the ladies to see how they feel about a few things that have been going on. We have women using super duper glue on their hair and guys eating baby mice for attention. This isn't anything new but it's still interesting to see. People are really willing to make a fool out of themselves just to become internet famous. The crazy thing is there are people who appear to be getting exactly what they want using this method so it's no surprise the trend hasn't died down. If you've ever been caught goosing then you know it's an experience you can only laugh about years later. Wifey and I go into when her stepdad busted us out one night. Tune in ..Tell a Playa friend. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplayaspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplayaspodcast/support

Masterpiece! 10/10 IGN, no individual should go on living without seeing this film. Yes it is better than the live action Avatar The Last Airbender movie. Dipping sauce included. Follow us @PandaSightings on Twitter. Thank you for listening and have a lovely day.

This week Paul is joined by special guest host Kate Shaw from the Strange Animals podcast to revisit an episode we did four years ago! Bats!Please go listen to the Strange Animals Podcast wherever fine podcasts are sold. You can also go to her website: https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/science/vampire-bats-viruses.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151818.htm https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sound-absorbent-wings-and-fur-help-some-moths-evade-bats https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/how-bats-have-outsmarted-viruses-including-coronaviruses-65-million-years https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2020/03/covid19-faqs.php#:~:text=COVID%2D19%20is%20the,%E2%80%9Cnovel%20coronavirus%E2%80%9D. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49496760 https://weeklyworldnews.com/ 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. The feature image used is "bat" by Noel Reynolds and is shared under a Creative Commons license (Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). You can view more of Mr. Reynolds' photographs on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29237715@N05/      

Hour 1: + Kevin Powell, WGN Sports Hour 2: + Defunct Sports Teams Hour 3: + Jeff Wamsley, The Mothman Museum + Weird animals you won’t believe Hour 4: + Weird animals you won’t believe (cont.) Hour 5: + Stupid Legal Defenses

This week we'll look at an ancient mystery from the Middle East, a mythological dragon-like animal called the Mush-khush-shu, popularly known as the sirrush. Thanks to Richard J. for the suggestion! The Ishtar Gate (left, a partial reconstruction of the gate in a Berlin museum; right, a painting of the gate as it would have looked): The sirrush of the Ishtar Gate: Two depictions of Silesaurus: The desert monitor, best lizard: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week I have an interesting mystery animal suggested last September by Richard J. Thanks for the suggestion, Richard! Before we learn about what the sirrush is, though, a quick note, or at least I’ll try to make it quick. I know a lot of people listen to Strange Animals as a fun escape from the everyday world, but right now the everyday world has important stuff going on that I can’t ignore. I want to make it clear to all my listeners that I fully support the Black Lives Matter movement, and I also support LGBTQ rights. Everyone in the whole world deserves respect and equality, but unfortunately right now we’re not there yet. We have to work for equality, all of us together. If you’re not sure what to do to make the world a better place for everyone, it’s actually really simple. Just treat everyone the same way you want others to treat you and your friends. This sounds easy but when you meet someone who seems different from you it can be hard. If someone has different color skin from you, or speaks with an accent you find hard to understand, or uses an assistive device like a wheelchair, or if you just think someone looks or acts weird, it’s easy to treat that person different and even be rude, although you may not realize that’s what you’re doing at the time. When that happens, it’s always because you’re scared of the person’s differences. You have to consciously remind yourself that you’re being unreasonable and making that person’s day harder when it was probably already pretty hard, especially if everywhere they go, people treat them as someone who doesn’t fit in. Just treat them normally and both you and the other person will feel good at the end of the day. So that’s that. I hope you think about this later even if right now you’re feeling irritated that I’m taking time out of my silly animal podcast to talk about it. Now, let’s find out what the sirrush is and why it’s such a mystery! The sirrush is a word from ancient Sumerian, but it’s actually not the right term for this animal. The correct term is mush-khush-shu (mušḫuššu), but sirrush is way easier for me to pronounce. So we’ll go with sirrush, but be aware that that word is due to a mistranslation a hundred years ago and scholars don’t actually use it anymore. My first introduction to the sirrush was when I was a kid and read the book Exotic Zoology by Willy Ley. Chapter four of that book is titled “The Sirrush of the Ishtar Gate,” and honestly this is about the best title for any chapter I can think of. But while Ley was a brilliant writer and researcher, the book was published in 1959. It’s definitely out of date now. The sirrush is found throughout ancient Mesopotamian mythology. It usually looks like a snakelike animal with the front legs of a lion and the hind legs of an eagle. It’s sometimes depicted with small wings and a crest of some kind, sometimes horns and sometimes frills or even a little crown. And it goes back a long, long time, appearing in ancient Sumerian art some four thousand years ago. But let’s back up a little and talk about Mesopotamia and the Ishtar Gate and so forth. If you’re like me, you’ve heard these names but only have a vague idea of what part of the world we’re talking about. Mesopotamia refers to a region in western Asia and the Middle East, basically between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. These days the countries of Iraq and Kuwait,

We’re all about nostalgia lately at Miss Information, so time to throw back all the way to Episode 8, to return to a topic we know and love: Strange Animals! Get your fill of our cute, weird, and gross animal friends that swim, scurry, and fly. Later take a quiz on creatures in film, literature, and folklore! . . . [Music: 1) Gowan, “(You’re A) Strange Animal,” 1985; 2) Frau Holle, “Ascending Souls,” 2017. Courtesy of Frau Holle, CC BY-NC 3.0 license.]

Dave and Abby talk about some of the world’s strangest animals.

We were excited to receive a copy of “A Book of Rather Strange Animals” by Caleb Compton. Just like it sounds, the book is a collection of unusual, weird, wacky, and just plain cool animals.  In this episode we talk about a few of the animals in the book: the purple frog; sea bunny; hammerhead worm; and vampire squid.   Want to answer the creature quiz, riddle, or tell us about how you did on the kid challenge? You can reach us at coolfactsaboutanimals@gmail.com or tweet us at @coolanimalspod. And if you’d like to financially support us, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/coolfactsaboutanimals

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 Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. I’m really, really behind in getting to suggestions, as you will probably know if you have sent in a suggestion and you think I’ve forgotten all about it. So before the end of the year, which is coming up frighteningly fast, I’m going to try to get to a lot of the older suggestions. So this week we’re going to learn about a fish, an invertebrate, and a bird. We’ll start with the archerfish, suggested by Dylan and Genevieve, who are part of the What Are You? Podcast. If you don’t already listen to What Are You?, I really recommend it. It’s a new animal podcast that’s especially for younger kids. If you like Cool Facts About Animals, you’ll like What Are You? Anyway, Dylan and Genevieve both really like the archerfish, so let’s find out why it’s such a weird and interesting fish. The archerfish isn’t one fish, it’s a family of fish who all catch insects in an unusual way. Most archerfish species are small, maybe 7 inches at the most, or 18 cm, but the largescale archerfish can sometimes grow up to 16 inches long, or 40 cm. All archerfish live in Asia or Australia, especially southeast Asia. They like rivers and streams, sometimes ponds, and a few species live in mangrove swamps and the mouths of rivers where the water is brackish. That means it’s saltier than ordinary fresh water but not as salty as the ocean. The reason the archerfish is so weird is the way it catches insects. Think about its name for a minute. Archer-fish. Hmm. An archer is someone who uses a bow and arrow, but obviously the archerfish doesn’t have arms and hands so it can’t shoot tiny arrows at insects. But it can shoot water at insects, and that’s exactly what it does. The archerfish has really good eyesight, and it learns to compensate for the way light refracts when it passes from air to water. When it sees an insect or other small animal, maybe a spider sitting on a branch above its stream, it rises to the surface but only far enough so that its mouth is above water. Then it forms its tongue and mouth to make a sort of channel for the water to pass through. Then it contracts its gill covers, which shoots a stream of water out of its mouth. But because it shapes it mouth in a really specific way, the stream of water turns into a blob as it flies through the air, like a tiny water bullet. The water hits the spider, which falls from its branch and into the stream, where the archerfish slurps it up. But the archerfish has to learn how to aim. Young archerfish aren’t very good at it, and they have to practice to shoot accurately and far. They can even learn by watching other archerfish shooting water, which is rare among all animals but practically unheard-of in fish. Sometimes the archerfish will shoot underwater, sending out a jet of water instead of a bullet. It does this mostly to expose small animals hidden in the silt at the bottom of a pond or stream. And sometimes, of course, if the insect is close enough to the surface of the water, the archerfish will just jump up and grab it. The archerfish shoots water with a force that’s actually six times stronger than its muscles would allow, and it does this by taking advantage of natural water dynamics. This means it uses a lot less energy to shoot water than if it was only using its muscles, and it gets a better result. It can shoot water up to ten feet away, or three meters, to bring down an insect or other small animal,

What do the duck-billed platypus, antarctic toothfish, and sleepy lizard have in common? They exist, they're weird, and it is evolution's fault. In this episode, Sean and Nathan take a very very small survey of weird wildlife and some of the evolutionary forces behind their oddness.Check out our patreon page! www.patreon.com/petridishContact us about corrections and/or questions at petridishpod at gmail.comRate us on iTunes (we're up on iTunes now!), and/or check us out on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or whatever dude. References:https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1601329https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(08)00665-9https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dvdy.23887https://www.pnas.org/content/94/8/3485https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1562/2006-02-24-IR-813https://jeb.biologists.org/content/213/12/2048

Interview with Caleb Compton, Author of A Book of Rather Strange Animals

This week thanks to Romy, who suggested the topic of hedgehogs! And researching hedgehogs led me to their only close relation, the moonrat. Hedgehogs are adorable: Pictures of listener QuillviaPlath's adorable friend Delilah, an African pygmy hedgehog. Delilah has crossed the Rainbow Bridge since these pictures were taken, but QuillviaPlath has a rescue hedgehog named Lily now and will soon be adopting another rescue named Toodles too! Moonrats are a little less adorable but still cute: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re going to learn about a humble little animal that’s well-known in much of Europe, Asia, and Africa, but totally unknown in the Americas except as a pet. It’s the hedgehog, a suggestion from Romy. Thank you, Romy! We’ll also learn about the hedgehog’s closest relation, the moonrat. There did actually used to be a hedgehog native to North America, but it went extinct some 50 million years ago. The hedgehogs alive today pretty much haven’t changed in about 15 million years. The North American hedgehog is called Silvacola and only grew a few inches long, or maybe 7 cm. It lived in what is now British Columbia, Canada. We don’t know if it had quills, but the hedgehogs living in Europe at the same time as Silvacola lived had already evolved quills, so maybe it did. I have seen exactly one hedgehog in my life, a pet named Button. I got to pet her and everything. She was very sleepy, though, because it was daytime and hedgehogs are nocturnal. But I can verify that hedgehogs do have spines on the back and sides, although if you pet the hedgehog properly you won’t get your fingers poked by the spines. I can also verify that hedgehogs are adorable. But other than adorable and prickly, what are hedgehogs? Are they related to porcupines? Are they related to hogs? Do they really live in hedges? The answers are no, no, and yes. Thanks for listening. You can find Strange Animals—ha ha, just kidding! There are a number of hedgehog species in five separate genera. A few species have been domesticated, although it’s illegal in many places to keep a wild hedgehog as a pet. In some places it’s illegal to keep a hedgehog as a pet at all, since hedgehogs can become invasive pests if released into the wild in areas where they shouldn’t be. This has happened in New Zealand and a few other places, where introduced hedgehogs have no natural predators and have become so numerous they’ve caused damage to the local ecosystems. The hedgehog is an omnivore, and will eat bird eggs, insects, frogs and toads, snails, plants, and pretty much anything else. It’s especially damaging to shore birds that nest on the ground. But in its natural habitat, the hedgehog plays an important role as both a predator of small animals, including garden pests, and as prey to larger animals like foxes, badgers, and owls. The hedgehog will also eat small snakes, and actually has some natural immunity to certain snake venoms. Of course, if a snake injects enough venom it will overwhelm the hedgehog’s protections and make it sick or kill it anyway. It also has resistance to toxins and will eat toxic toads that would kill other animals. But the hedgehog’s best protection is its spines, more properly called quills. If a hedgehog feels threatened, it will roll itself into a tight ball with its quills sticking out. The quills are hairs that are hollow and stiffened with keratin. Good old keratin. You know, keratin is the same tough material that fur and fingernails and rhinoceros horns and hooves and baleen are made of. European hedgehogs are famous for the number of fleas they carry, a specific species of flea called the hedgehog flea. Who named that? They were a genius. Hedgehog fleas won’t infest dogs or cats. They only like hedgehogs. The hedgehog is a good digger and sometimes digs burrows to sleep in during the day.

Among the swamps and billabongs of Australia there is a vicious and terrible creature that wants to hug you to death - the Bunyip! We're headed down under to explore this fearsome, chimeric cryptid. Is it a diprotodon? Is it a giant platypus? Who knows?!   Cocktail of the Week: The Bunyip. See here for the recipe/show notes: http://folkloreontherocks.com/show-notes-for-episode-10-the-bunyip   Promos are from Strange Animals and Cutting Class!   We are giving away FREE STICKERS! If you want some, leave us a (hopefully nice so Lindsay doesn’t cry) review on iTunes, take a screenshot, email that and your mailing address to mail@folkloreontherocks.com, and we will mail you some stickers for free! Also, once we hit 100 iTunes reviews, we'll release a bonus episode with a listener selected creature! If you have any personal stories about creatures, monsters, or cryptids (even if you don't know what it was), please email us at stories@folkloreontherocks.com so we can eventually do a listener episode (similar to this but more creature-based)! Visit us at folkloreontherocks.com for more in depth notes, links, and pictures.   Website: www.folkloreontherocks.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folkloreontherocks/ or @folkloreontherocks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FolkloreOnTheRocks/ or @FolkloreontheRocks Twitter: https://twitter.com/FolkloreRocks or @FolkloreRocks Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FolkloreOnTheRocks   Keywords: podcast, podcast, podcasting, folklore, cryptid, cryptids, creature, creatures, monster, monsters, cocktail, cocktails, whiskey, booze, alcohol, drink, education, ghost, scary, spooky, creepy, funny, comedy, streaming, audio, listen, lore, legends, mythology, culture, worldwide, world, interesting, learning

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 tiny but has a loud, creepy call: The barn owl is sometimes called the ghost owl FOR OBVIOUS REASONS: A great horned owl: Further reading: The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. It’s finally Halloween week, my favorite week of the year! Let’s learn about another animal frequently associated with Halloween spookiness, the owl! First, though, a reminder that if you want a Strange Animals sticker, always feel free to contact me and ask for one. You can email me at strangeanimalspodcast@gmail.com or contact me through social media. If you’ve got an extra dollar or two a month just lying around, you can support the podcast on Patreon and get access to twice-monthly bonus episodes. And if you want to read a fun book that actually has very little to do with animals, my novel Skytown is now out in both paperback and ebook. I’ll put a link in the show notes for both my book’s Goodreads page and to the Patreon page. Not everyone knows what Patreon is, so briefly, it’s just a site where you can set up recurring monthly donations and in return get patron rewards. I have unlocked two more patreon bonus episodes for anyone to listen to. I’ll put a link to them in the show notes too. You can click on the links and listen via your browser, without needing a Patreon login. Now, with housekeeping out of the way, on to the owl episode! Like bats, owls are mostly nocturnal animals and that makes many people afraid of them. They also look kind of weird, can sound really creepy, and fly so silently that they’re like ghosts. But we’re going to start this week’s episode off with an owl-like mystery animal in a place you might not expect. The Bahamas is a country made up of over 700 islands, many of them tiny, located roughly between the Florida peninsula and Cuba. These days it’s famous for sunny beaches and warm waters. Tourism is a big part of its economy and lots of people take cruises to the Bahamas. But between about 500 years ago and 200 years ago, the Bahamas was a terrible place. The native people of the area, called the Lucayan, were enslaved by the Spanish and forced to work on plantations under horrific conditions. Most of them died. The British took over the islands around the mid-17th century, bringing enslaved people from Africa to work the plantations. Also during this time, pirates treated the area as a haven, leading eventually to one really good Pirates of the Caribbean movie and a lot of terrible sequels, although this is perhaps a little off topic. In 1807 the British came to their senses and abolished the slave trade, although they didn’t actually abolish slavery until 1834. British ships sometimes attacked slave ships and rescued the captives on board. Many of the captive people were brought to the Bahamas, where they made new homes. Freed and escaped slaves made their way to the Bahamas too, where they could live in relative peace. The largest of the islands that makes up the Bahamas is called Andros Island, although it’s technically a collection of three main islands and some smaller ones that are all quite close together, protected by a barrier reef. It’s the only island in the Bahamas with a freshwater river, and naturally there are many animals found on Andros Island that live nowhere else. There used to be even more native animals,

It’s update week! I call myself out for some mistakes, then catch us all up on new information about topics we’ve covered in the past. Then we’ll learn about the Nandi bear, a mystery animal that is probably not actually a bear. Check out Finn and Lila's Natural History and Horse Podcast on Podbean! Check out the Zeng This! pop culture podcast while you're at it! A new species of Bird of Paradise: Buša cattle: Further reading/watching: http://www.sci-news.com/biology/vogelkop-superb-bird-of-paradise-05924.html Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re going to dig into some updates to previous episodes! Don’t worry, it’ll be interesting. We’re also going to look at a mystery animal we haven’t examined before. First, though, a big shout-out to Sir Finn Hayes, a long-time listener who has started his own podcast! It’s called Finn’s Natural History, although now I see it’s been renamed Finn and Lila’s Natural History and Horse Podcast, and you can find it on Podbean. I’ll put a link in the show notes. The great thing is, Finn is just ten years old but he and his younger sister Lila are already dropping knowledge on us about animals and plants and other things they find interesting. So give their podcast a listen because I bet you’ll like it as much as I do. Before we get into the updates, let me call myself out on a few glaring mistakes in past episodes. In episode four, I called my own podcast by the wrong name. Instead of Strange Animals, I said Strange Beasties, which is my Twitter handle. In episode 29, I said Loch Ness was 50 miles above sea level instead of 50 feet, a pretty big difference. In episode 15 I called Zenger of the Zeng This! podcast Zengus, which is just unforgiveable because I really like that podcast and you’d think I could remember the cohost’s name. There’s a link to the Zeng This! podcast in the show notes. It’s a family-friendly, cheerful show about comics, movies, video games, and lots of other fun pop culture stuff. If you ever hear me state something in the podcast that you know isn’t true, definitely let me know. I’ll look into it and issue a correction when appropriate. As they say on the Varmints Podcast, I am not an animal expert. I do my best, but sometimes I get things wrong. For instance, in episode 60, I said sirenians like dugongs and manatees have tails in place of hind legs like seals do, but sirenian tails actually developed from tails, not hind legs. Pinniped tails developed from hind legs and have flipper-like feet. Anyway, here are some updates to topics we’ve covered in past episodes. It isn’t all-inclusive, mostly just stuff I’ve stumbled across while researching other animals. In episode 47 about strange horses, I talked a lot about Przewalski’s horse. I was really hoping never to have to attempt that pronunciation again, but here we are. A new phylogenetic study published in February of 2018 determined that Przewalski’s horse isn’t a truly wild horse. Its ancestors were wild, but Przewalski’s horse is essentially a feral domestic horse. Its ancestors were probably domesticated around 5,500 years ago by the Botai people who lived in what is now northern Kazakhstan. The Przewalski’s horse we have now is a descendant of those domestic horses that escaped back into the wild long after its ancestors had died out. That doesn’t mean it’s not an important animal anymore, though. It’s been wild much longer than mustangs and other feral horses and tells us a lot about how truly wild horse ancestors looked and acted. Not only that, its wild ancestor is probably a different species or subspecies of the European wild horse, which was the ancestor of most other domestic horses. The next step for the team of researchers that conducted this study is figuring out more about the ancestors of domestic horses. The mystery cattle episode also has an update.

In this episode, I speak to Kate Shaw, the host of the very popular Strange Animals Podcast. We discuss some of cryptozoology's most famous animals including Big Foot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Chupacabra. We then cover extinct animals including the Tasmanian Tiger, the Passenger Pigeon, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the Dodo, the Wooly Mammoth, and the Irish Elk. Check out the Strange Animals Podcast: http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/Follow Corbin MaxeyYouTube: https://goo.gl/ZbuBnRInstagram: https://goo.gl/NDYWFF Twitter: https://goo.gl/F4zVfNFacebook: https://goo.gl/ZsE1SP

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It’s October, MONSTER MONTH! We’re starting it off right with an episode about the Yeti! I literally could have made this episode an hour long without even touching on half the information out there, but no one wants to listen to me talk for that long. If you're intrigued and want to hear more about our big furry friend from the Himalayas, check out the fine podcasts listed below. The Himalayas, in map form: A Himalayan brown bear (tongue blep alert!): A bear standing up (this is a brown bear from Alaska but I like the picture. Bears stand up a lot): Recommended listening: Museum of Natural Mystery - episode 14: "Backtracking with Bigfoot" - highly recommended for information about North American bigfoot/Sasquatch lore and history. It's family friendly and not very long. I heart it. MonsterTalk - episode 116 "Yetipalooza" - lots of Yeti information and some terrible, terrible puns Strange Matters Podcast - "Legendary Humanoid Creatures" - a good overview of a lot of different bigfoot type monsters, including the Yeti Hidden Creatures Podcast - Episode Six A "Yearning for the Yeti's Discovery" and Episode Six B "The Yeti...Again" - lots of info on the Yeti All of the above should be family friendly, with possible mild language. Resources/further reading: The Historical Bigfoot by Chad Arment Abominable Science! by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. It’s October and that means monsters. Let’s jump right in with one of the biggest stars of cryptozoology, bigfoot! As part of my research for this episode, I listened to other podcasts that have covered bigfoot and his kin. One of those was the Museum of Natural Mystery’s episode 14, Backtracking with Bigfoot. I was more than a little dismayed when I listened to that one, because it’s exactly what I had hoped to do with this episode. In fact, while Museum of Natural Mystery covers other topics than just animals, when they do focus on animals they scratch the same itch I created Strange Animals podcast to scratch. If I’d discovered them earlier, the podcast you’re listening to now would probably be about music or something, not animals. There’s a link to Backtracking with Bigfoot in the show notes and I highly recommend you go listen to it. It focuses mainly on the Bigfoot phenomenon in North America, from Sasquatch to skunk apes. Rather than cover the same ground, my focus here is going to be on bigfoot legends from other parts of the world. There’s so much fascinating information out there that I had to break the episode into two parts. This week we’re looking at the yeti. But first, some background. There are a couple of starting places for the modern concept of bigfoot. In 1921, the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition found tracks in the snow resembling a bare human foot. They realized the tracks were probably made by wolves, the front and rear tracks overlapping and the snow melted enough to obscure the paw pads. Expedition leader Charles Howard-Bury wrote that the expedition’s Sherpa guides claimed the tracks were made by a wild hairy man. At about the same time, the 1920s, British Columbian schoolteacher John W. Burns was collecting reports of Native encounters with giant wild people. He coined the term Sasquatch by anglicizing a couple of different words from several different Native dialects. Burns published his stories in magazines. Howard-Bury talked to reporters about his Everest expedition. The idea of bigfoot took shape and took off in the public imagination. It merged with giant apes and ape-men in popular culture, like King Kong in 1933 and the movie Tarzan the Ape Man in 1932, both of which were huge hits. Before this, from the early 19th century to around the 1940s, newspaper reports that would today be called bigfoot sightings were attributed to wild men or occasionally to esc...

The year 1897 was a hotbed of news reports of encounters with bizarre and unexpected animals and other wild creatures, in random places in Ohio.     HISTORICAL REFERENCES:   Akron Beacon and Republican, April 28, 1897.   Akron Times-Democrat, May 26, 1897.   Bluffton News, May 6, 1897.   Cadiz Sentinel, May 9, 1897.   Cincinnati Enquirer, April 27 & May 9, 1897.   Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 26, April 29, May 16 & 27, June 10.    Logan County-Index. April 8, 1897.   Marietta Register, June 7, 1897.   Portsmouth Blade, April 28, 1897.   For examples of fish and other random creatures and objects falling from the sky:   Its Raining Fish And Frogs: Mysterious Falls from the Sky   Corliss, William R, Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena (1986).       GUEST VOICES:   Newspaper Reporter:  Nick Alexander from the BroOhio podcast   Foraker Village [Ohio] Mother: Kate Shaw from the Strange Animals podcast   Adams County [Ohio] teen-age girl: Emily Peck Prokop from The Story Behind podcast   Emanuel Hendrick, Jr: Dennis Serra from the Evil podcast.   Host Intro, “Listener Non-Warning” & Extro Aphorism: Anabelle D-C of AnabelleAudios     EPISODE MUSIC:   Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/3.0   The following pieces of music by Kevin MacLeod were used - in whole, or in part - within this episode:   At Rest   Comfortable Mystery   Dark Walk   Gaslamp Funworks   I Knew a Guy   Montauk Point   The Curtain Rises   EXTRO APHORISM – Source: Black and White, by G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, April 18, 1903, reprinted in reprinted in The Man Who Was Orthodox, by A.L. Maycock (1963). See also: Lecture 83 by Dale Ahlquist,(about Mayock and his book).   CONTACT US:   E-Mail:  ForgottenNewsPodcast@gmail.com   Facebook page:   https://www.facebook.com/Forgotten-News-Podcast   Facebook discussion group (discontinued - sorry). Twitter: @NewsForgotten   HEY! CAN YOU HELP US?!   PLEASE HELP THE FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST TO COVER THE COSTS OF RESEARCH, INVESTIGATION, AUDIO EQUIPMENT. AND PODCAST HOSTING FEES.   Any donation - even a dollar - would really help us out!     Just click on this PayPal link, to contribute.    Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

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