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Hummingbirds are the world’s smallest bird species, with a heart rate of 500 beats-per-minute on average and a breathing rate of 250/minute. Hummingbirds are nearly always on the edge of starvation, so they need to eat their body weight in nectar each day. Which might explain why some female white-necked Jacobin hummingbirds have evolved to look like male hummingbirds. Because, guess what? Male hummingbirds can be jerks.
In The Good The Bad The New
The Bad:
The EU has removed US travelers from Covid safe list. This is because of all the idiots out there that will take horse medication but not the actual vaccine.
The Good:
Thank you to the San Francisco Airport (SFO) for protecting the San Francisco garter snakes and red-legged frogs. We at Better Than Human are friends of Snakes and Frogs.
Hummingbirds are tiny acrobats with the fastest wingbeat of all birds, (70 strokes per second or more than 4,000 per minute). Unlike other birds, they can hover, fly backwards, and even fly upside down! Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of all animals. They had an amazing amount of energy and live a relatively long time for their size.
Hummingbirds are native only to the Americas and thrive from Alaska to the tip of South America and are specialized to the flowers they eat from.
Listen now to learn about these tiny marvels of the bird world.
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This week in Better Than Human the Podcast we tackle the controversial topic of asshole animals. Guess what people? There are some animals that are straight up jerks! So much so that we had to add the following Trigger warning: This episode talks about forced copulation of animals by other animals, it isn’t recommended for all listeners.
In The Good The Bad The News
In the Bad, there are actual idiots out there paying for fake covid vaccine cards when they can just go and get the vaccine for free. What is wrong with people? And men’s right groups are mad because South Korean Olympic Archer An San has short hair. Really ... that’s how fragile their egos are that short hair offends them.
In the Good, a plant that’s been right in front of us for years is found to be carnivorous and Olympic medalists share the gold.
So what animals do Amber and Jennifer think are assholes? Jennifer 100 percent believes that Otters are not cute and adorable and are straight up necrophilic rapists. Amber hates wasps, but seriously, who doesn’t hate parasites that eat their way out of caterpillars or have way too painful venom. Don’t be fooled by bottlenose dolphins or orcas either. Flipper was a fantasy.
Want to learn more (cause you really should), listen now wherever podcasts are found.
Listener Note: Even at their worst, animals are just animals being themselves, and unlike humans, they do not have the ability to be “evil”. ALL animals deserve respect, and the right to exist in this world. For more information on how you can help wildlife visit https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/wildlife-conservation
Except for mosquitoes, fuck mosquitoes
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This week is all about the Allosaurus, a large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Jurassic period. Think what the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park look like, but bigger, and spoiler: probably no pack hunting.

In the Good The Bad the News

In the Bad, Syphilis in on the rise in the U.S., a sign that our public health services are failing. (A few years ago we almost eliminated syphilis in America...)

In the Good, Amber talks about the ‘penis plant' that just bloomed in the Netherlands that smells like rotting flesh. Yum. And Jen talks about loggerhead sea turtle nests in the West African nation of Cape Verde making a rebound.

Allosaurus means "different lizard" referring to its unique (at the time of its discovery) hollow vertebrae. Allosaurus had sharp saw-like teeth, which it used to slash the flesh of its prey, tearing at it without splintering bones.

We know a lot about Allosaurus because of the many fossils we found of the species, from eggs to fully grown. Allosaurus was one of the earliest dinosaur discoveries, and they are the most commonly found dinosaur in the United States. The Bone Wars of the late 1800’s, however, botched their discovery, and it was years before the dinosaur was even officially even called Allosaurus.

Listen now to learn about Allosaurus, a commonly found dinosaur throughout the U.S.'s Midwest.
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Like in the Hitchhikers Guild to the Galaxy, Garter Snakes are what one would call “Mostly Harmless”. Do they have venom? Sometimes. Will it hurt you? Probably not. Compared to how humans treat this planet, Garter Snakes are most definitely harmless. Also, host Jennifer thinks they are very cute. The common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is a group of snakes, which are indigenous to North America and found throughout the continent. On average, they grow a little less than 2 feet long (44cm) and can have patterns of different color stripes.

First in The Good and The Bad News , Jennifer talks about the first US Capitol rioter conviction, which is both good and bad news. Then Amber talks democratic socialism which 100% of republicans do not understand and/or are rich assholes who do not want to be taxed more.

This week Amber picked the topic, because, you know, cute snake videos, but Jennifer picked the species, because, you know, random weird behaviors. What weird behavior you ask? Well, when mating, populations have way more males than females, (we don’t know why), so during mating season, they form "mating balls”. (Yep, a giant snake orgy). And that is not the weirdest thing they do while mating, just read the Nature, 1985, article titled "Female Mimicry in Garter Snakes".... If you can.

Listen now to learn about the Common Garter Snake, the animal Jennifer almost did her theses on.
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Sloths are a group of mammals native to South America that are actually quite a bizarre animal that seems like it shouldn't exist. How is it normal for a species to have a weekly poo with a poo dance? And that isn’t even the weirdest thing about them.
First thing first, this episode is coming out on the last day of Pride 2021, so let’s talk about some good things that happened this Pride Month.
Then we get into sloths, which are a weird animal that while can’t walk on the ground, and move slower than any other animal on the planet. Surprisingly, though, they are good swimmers.
Two-toed sloths and three-toed sloths aren’t that closely related to each other and are only so similar due to Convergent evolution. Their ancestor, and the largest known sloth to ever exist, is the extinct ground sloth, which was as big as modern elephants. (Picture that).
Listen now to learn about the curious Sloths, one of the strangest animasl of South America, and probably the world, too.
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