Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. Since no one knew who the people were, they were buried in separate churchyards, and the dog’s spirit travels ceaselessly between the two graves. The crab uses the noises it makes to intimidate potential predators, including raccoons, and making a sound with its digestive system leaves its claws free to pinch if it needs to. Vampire moths mostly feed on fruit, piercing the fruit with their mouthparts to suck out the juice. I also think John had already seen Bill’s drawing when he made his own drawing, which is why they look so much alike. The leafy seadragon, which is related to seahorses and pipefish, has protrusions all over its body that look just like seaweed leaves. The teats near her legs act as little handholds for her baby to help it keep a good grip on her, especially when it’s very young. It’s either a hoax, a known animal that wasn’t identified at the time, an unknown animal, or something supernatural. A number of moths are toxic to bats, but it’s no use evolving bright colors to advertise their toxicity to predators who use echolocation to hunt. Beebe was an early conservationist who urged other scientists to stop shooting so many animals. From his open hostility towards the investigation into his campaign’s involvement with a foreign adversary, to his policy prescriptions by way of executive order, to the way Donald Trump runs his own White House, this President has challenged the rule of law like no other recent President. The dog lived for almost twenty years, and when it died, the young man was very sad to see his good friend go. But we’ll also learn about some canid mysteries we haven’t covered before, especially some mysteries associated with wolves. So if it wasn’t a hoax, and it wasn’t a known or unknown animal, and it probably wasn’t something outside of the realm of science, what’s left? Some dogs even have different colored eyes, so that one eye shines yellow but the other shines green, or some other combination. To support our podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/believe, To be featured on the podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/feature-your-la-startup/, Want to be featured in the WeAreLATech Community? The largest species only grows to about 6 inches long, or 15 cm. It also has a relatively short tail. It eats butterflies and moths, bees, and other insects that visit the flowers. The two most unusual things were first, the color, which, in the light, was an unpleasant pale olivedrab, the hue of water-soaked flesh, an unhealthy buff. From what we know of Bill’s character, this wasn’t something he would do. But they were huge! And the best one was when I was walking out to the barn one night in the dark and saw the ghost of a horse run left to right between me and the barn door. There’s also a contact information page that contains a link to my book wishlist if you’re feeling generous and want to send me a book I’ve been looking for. We’ve talked about frogfish before in episode 165. Details are on the website, but basically if you want to enter, just contact me any way you like and let me know. This means that when light reflects off the skin, only the blue wavelengths of light bounce off. Not only do the capuchin monkeys in Brazil use different sized rocks to break open nuts, they select the rocks carefully and prefer ones that are rounded and easy to handle. The Jamaican monkey had a long tail but short legs compared to most other monkeys. That’s blueberry without any E’s. It contains high levels of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all of which are good for plants, so it’s used as a fertilizer. Dominant male orangutans develop large cheek pads and throat pouches that can make their heads look quite large, and most orangs have orange fur that might look like tan textured skin in the dark. The whole fish was monochrome, and I could not see even an eye or a fin. Reports of the sightings didn’t make it to the newspapers until the following month, so it’s not like there were people out hunting for the creature and the hoaxer was afraid they’d be caught. The chameleon has a layer of skin that contains pigments with a layer beneath that contains crystals of guanine, a reflective molecule that’s used in cosmetics to make things look shimmery, like nail polish. An Animal Planet show called “Extinct or Alive” was filming in Borneo in spring of 2019, unless it was 2018, it’s not clear from the article, searching for the Dracula monkey. While it doesn’t have a tail, it does have sharp teeth and a strong jaw to help it eat even the bones of small animals. That brings us to the spotted hyena female’s extraordinary differences from other hyenas, and to our content warning. He disagreed with people who claimed to have scientific proof that women were inferior to men or that some races were inferior to others. One parent will stay with the chick while the other flies out to fish. Around 3 or 4 million years ago the first wolf-like canids moved into Europe and almost immediately hyaenids started becoming rarer and rarer in the fossil record as their distant relatives outcompeted them. The witnesses all went to the same high school and lived in the same small town, although Abby was actually from another small town adjacent to Dover. That’s the trouble, we don’t have enough information to know for sure.

Modern hyenas all live in Africa. The hyena has a distinctive body shape, with a back that slopes downward to a rounded rump with shorter hind legs. I’m your host, … [Read more…]. If you’ve ever seen a caterpillar moving its head back and forth, you’d recognize the chicks’ movements.

But that’s not all. But surgeonfish are mostly found in shallow, tropical waters around coral reefs. It was able to move around on land rapidly, apparently could walk on its hind legs alone if necessary since John Baxter mistook it for a person on the road, but it also seemed more comfortable when its front legs were braced against something, such as a rock or a tree. Or he might have been illustrating Gollum, the creature from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Our topics include: Why it’s kind of b.s. When they’re ready to hatch, she releases them into the surf, where the larvae live until they metamorphose into little bitty young crabs that then live on land. The dead pig thinks it’s funny to run out and scare the horses.’”. BUT we’ve got a PARENT WARNING WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP *klaxon sounds, red lights flash*.

Don’t forget to give me your mailing address. The dipluran Haplocampa: Oilbirds and their big black eyes: A swiftlet: The angel cave fish that can walk on its fins like a salamander walks on its feet: Leptodirus, carrying around some air in its abdomen in case it needs some air: The cave … [Read more…], If you’re a subscriber on Patreon, you may recognize some of the information in this episode, but I’ve updated it and added a whole bunch. He swam out, rescued the dog, and took it home with him. He might have filled in the gaps in his memory by looking at Bill’s drawing. …[T]o his surprise it just turned, and vanished into thin air. I will call him Mr. B. magna cum laude from Brown University and with a J.D. He hurried to Farm Street and found someone to give him a ride home instead of walking the rest of the way. It also happened to be her birthday on the day this was recorded, and yes, that came up. The harmless milksnake has similar coloring to the deadly coral snake.

It’s incredibly sensitive to temperature changes, water quality, and even the type of salt used in saltwater aquariums, and most importantly, he reported that in captivity, it doesn’t do any imitating. Fleming also said that the dog left burnt claw marks on the door into St. Mary’s church when it was actually the Holy Trinity church that was damaged.

When he examined his clothing, however, there were the marks of a dog’s teeth on his coat, and clinging to the coat some dog hair—the same color as his old dog’s.”. That’s, like, twice the Halloween fun in one animal! Story produced, Edited and Mastered by Adam Carroll. None of them went to the newspapers or tried to make a big deal of their sightings. Please enter. A podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. Think about sparrows as an example. And, of course, they have thick black fur.

Produced by Melody Rowell. I wonder if Abby actually saw a tan or light brown goat by the side of the road but didn’t recognize it consciously. It stood 4.5 feet tall at the shoulder, or 1.4 meters. The female lays one egg. That’s because it is actually considered a hyena, although it’s not very closely related to other hyenas, and it has evolved to eat mostly insects. It’s almost Halloween and I’m really excited, because we’re going to talk about a spooky encounter with a mystery creature called the Dover Demon.

Whatever it was, it appeared and vanished so unexpectedly and showed so dimly that it was quite unidentifiable except as a large, living creature.”. with Chris Hayes - … The Dracula monkey orchid is found in southeastern Ecuador in South America, and only grows in moist high-altitude forests. And naturally, some non-toxic moths also generate the same sounds to mimic the toxic moths. He put his hand down to [touch] the animal, but it went clean through the dog…there was nothing there. I could see nothing below its knees, and it ran about 2 feet off the ground. Once it was discovered, people immediately wanted to own them. 13 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Kate Shaw. That means it fits the general body scheme of a tetrapod and a vertebrate. But grey wolves also have genetic markers from another canid, one that can’t be identified. But it’s also really big, almost the size of a pelican.

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The biggest species of plotopterid known could grow six and a half feet long, or 2 meters. Our Halloween episode this year is all about some of the legends of ghostly black dogs in the UK and some other parts of the world, as well as some canid mysteries we haven’t covered before. Bonus and ad-free content available with Stitcher Premium. If you like the podcast and want to help us out, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or just tell a friend. The female, however, grows up to about two feet long, or 61 cm. With the help of engineer Otis Barton, the world’s first bathysphere was invented and Barton and Beebe conducted dozens of descents in Bermuda, especially off the coast of Nonsuch Island. Not very many. Ungulates, like sheep, goats, and deer, evolved in dryer conditions, so as much water is removed from the feces as possible and the animal excretes dry pellets. There are two other blackdragon species known, both of them a little smaller than the Pacific blackdragon. It didn’t appear to have fur, and its skin had a textured appearance, which might suggest that it was some kind of reptile instead of a mammal. Researchers aren’t sure if the diet change came from changes in the foods that were available or if the monkeys became better at breaking open hard nuts so were able to eat more of them. The research facilities I looked up didn’t seem to keep apes, just monkeys of various kinds. I was a guest cohost on the Varmints! We know because we have a fossil skull of a small cat-like mammal that has puncture wounds that exactly match up to Hyaenodon’s tooth pattern. Miller Hill Road intersects Farm Street, the road where Bill saw the creature, and John was about a quarter mile, or .4 km, away from where the two roads met when he noticed another person on the road ahead. A female ghost crab will usually join a male she likes in his burrow to mate. And that brings us to the octopus. It’s also sometimes called the stoplight loosejaw because it has two photophores on its head, one of which shines green, the other which shines red. Basically what I’m trying to say is the best word to describe a lumpsucker is ROUND. Researchers think ancient humans bred for the trait, and those dogs mated often enough with local wolves that melanism became much more common in the wolves too. But I’ve always wondered why Abby said the creature she saw was the size of a goat. An account recorded in 1983 says that a girl was murdered on a road and after that a phantom hound had started to be seen there, while other stories say that the dog is waiting for its master, a fisherman who was lost at sea.