116: Painted Bat & Dracula Parrot

10/27/21 • 47 min

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Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week's festively spooky episode, Christian kicks off the celebration with the painted bat & Ellen counts up points for the iconic Dracula parrot.

Photos: Merlin Tuttle (painted bat), Ondrej Prosicky (Dracula parrot)

Photos: Merlin Tuttle (painted bat), Ondrej Prosicky (Dracula parrot)

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115: Myriapods (Millipedes, Centipedes & Pauropods) w/ Dr. Derek Hennen!

Join Ellen & special guest, entomologist Derek Hennen, for a review of our many-legged friends, the myriapods! We’re talking millipedes, centipedes, and pauropods: what the difference is between these long guys, how they manage to scurry around without tripping over all of those feet, and what they’re up to down there underneath the leaf litter.

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Cover photo by Derek Hennen, of "one of the prettiest cherry millipedes (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae) I've come across!"

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117: Flatfish w/ Dr. Kory Evans!

Join Ellen & special guest evolutionary biologist Dr. Kory Evans for a review of the dimensionally innovative flatfish! Learn the story of why these quirky fishes developed such peculiar body plans and how their bizarre adaptations help them live their best life beneath the sand. We discuss migrating eyes, transient feet, and which cartoons got flounders right and wrong.

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Cover photo: Jodi Jacobson via Getty Images