BewilderBeasts!

A look at all the animals who make Google maps Google-possible, including a camel named Raffia and a whole lot of sheep in the Faroe Islands.
Resources for today's episode
https://www.google.com/earth/education/tools/street-view/#:~:text=Google%20collects%20Street%20View%20imagery,a%20single%20360%2Ddegree%20image.

https://www.boredpanda.com/google-street-view-animals/

History of the Google View Camera, including a giant camera strapped to a car.
https://www.trekview.org/blog/2019/history-of-google-street-view-cameras/

Article quoted by Yvette Tan: https://mashable.com/article/google-street-trekker-sg

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/12-years-of-google-street-view-mapping-by-car-boat-and-goat-1.4117014

Youtube video of trike in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr-4Aln1Il8

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Support the Show and get stuff! Patreon.com/BewilderbeastsPodYour host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)

Today, there is a sign that says no pets allowed on the fence surrounding Elysian Heights Elementary - but the very foundation of this school's culture is built on the spirit of a cat named Room 8 who went to school every single day for 16 years. Let's learn about the most famous cat in the US that you likely never heard of because the Internet didn't exist in the 50s.
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Resources for today's episode:
https://www.thegreatcat.org/room-8/

https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-room-8-mascot-at-elysian-heights-elementary-school-20181127-htmlstory.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/room-8-the-cat-mural

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2008/04/02/classy-cat/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7374255/room-eight

https://www.imdb.com/

Erik Friedl, Los Angeles-based photographer who took the photos described in the episode. You can see some of Erik's work on YouTube.

And on the humble potato:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-peel-away-potatos-dna-secrets-bmc09hd5hqb

https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine

https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/chromosome-number-not-correlated-complexity
Melissa McCue-McGrath

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How fish farts nearly caused a war between Russia and Sweden, how severed octopus arms continue to try to feed the octopus, and why we use a rodent to predict the future.
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Resources:
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/for-15-years-sweden-thought-enemy-submarines-were-invading-its-territory-it-turned-out-to-be-herring-farts/
How herring farts almost lead to a diplomatic crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ1Jr6QqSlE

No Such Thing As A Fish https://audioboom.com/posts/7771797-no-such-thing-as-potter-the-great

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severed-octopus-arms-have-a-mind-of-their-own-2403303/
Severed Arm Resisting Stranger Octopus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP6Usm5bi_U

https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2016/10/07/5-reasons-the-octopus-is-the-coolest-animal-in-the-sea

Scientific American: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/even-severed-octopus-arms-have-smart-moves/

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/how-octopus-arms-regenerate-with-ease/
Science Alert:

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Let's dive into this episode pulled from the Patreon feed about a grindcore goat named Biquette. Rock on!
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Support the Show and get stuff! Patreon.com/BewilderbeastsPodYour host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)

The National Dog Show is a staple in many homes for the pre-Thanksgiving event - so Melissa (and special guest Paul Csomo from Avast) discuss all the terrible things we've done to purebred dogs in the name of beauty.
I'm so sorry :)
Happy Thanksgiving!

Intro/Outtro music: Tiptoe Out The Back - Dan Liebowicz
Interstitial Music: MK2
Additional music: Freesound.com, Pixabay.org and HappySoulMusic.com
Twitter: @BewilderedPod
Website: BewilderBeastsPod.com
Support the Show and get stuff! Patreon.com/BewilderbeastsPodYour host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)