July 26, 2024 • 21 mins
Welcome to our brand new podcast, MeatEater Kids! It's a fun, educational, and engaging podcast for all of you outdoor kids. Learn about science and history from Steve's "Why It's the Way It Is" segment and impress your friends with your newfound knowledge, develop your ear for animal vocalizations with our "Guess that Critter" segment brought to you by Katie Rinella, and play along during "Kids Trivia" with host Spencer Neuharth.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Part one Why It's the Way it Is.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Today, we're going to talk about two famous hunters who
were very different people named Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. Now,
the reason why we're going to talk about Daniel Boone
and Davy Crockett together is a couple of reasons for
that I have found in my life as a hunter.
I have found that if you go and ask people
(00:41):
to name famous frontiersman or famous hunters from America's history,
you will often get those two names as answers, Daniel
Boone and Davy Crockett. Another reason they're often associated together
is there is a very successful prominent conservation organization called
the Boone and Crocket Club. And on past episodes of
(01:07):
Why It's the Way It Is, we talked about President
Theodore Roosevelt. Well, President Theodore Roosevelt was a member of
the Boone and Crocket Club. The organization is that old
and it's still around today and still very effective today
in helping to restore and help manage our big game
(01:29):
populations in North America. So the Boone and Crocket Club
draws its name from these two people, and it would
kind of lead you to believe that Boone and Crockett
knew each other, or that they somehow hung out together,
or that they were contemporaries, but in fact they're not.
(01:49):
In fact, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett would not have
ever even met each other, though their lives overlapped. Daniel
Boone was born in seventeen thirty four, so he was
born forty two years before the United States of America
(02:11):
became the United States of America. He was born forty
two years before our country declared its independence from Great Britain,
and he died in eighteen twenty. Daniel Boone was born
in Pennsylvania. He moved from there down to North Carolina.
He moved from North Carolina to Kentucky, and he eventually
moved to the state of Missouri, and that is where
(02:34):
he died in Missouri. Now Davy Crockett was born ten
years after the birth of our country, the United States
of America. He was born in seventeen eighty six, and
he died young. He died when he was fifty years old,
and he died at the Alamo.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And maybe you've heard of the Alamo.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was a fort, a military fort in Texas, and
a bunch of Americans and Texans were occupying that fort
during a war with Mexico, and all of the Americans
and Texans that were in that fort defending that fort
were overrun and killed by members of the Mexican army
under a general.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Name Santa Ana.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So that is how Crockett died. But let's talk a
little bit about how Daniel Boone lived and how Davy
Crockett lived and why we kind of know their hunters,
but we don't really know the detail of what they
hunted and how they hunted. Both Boone and Crockett, even
(03:36):
though they weren't friends and didn't hang out and didn't
meet each other, they were both market hunters. And I'm
going to explain a little bit about what their hunting
looked like. And we're going to start with what Daniel
Boone's hunting looked like. He was a market hunter, so
he hunted for products. Okay, if you imagine a miner,
Let's say.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You're a miner. You're a gold miner, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And you go into the mountains and you dig down
and get a gold pan and go to a creek.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And you know, and you go gold mining.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You're trying to produce gold that you can sell for money,
and that's how you support yourself. If you're a logger,
you might go into you know, timber country, and you're
gonna cut down logs and sell the logs which are
made into products. Okay, they're made into wooden houses and
all the things we buy that are made out of wood.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The market hunter was a person who went out into
the wilds and pursued animals in order to be able
to sell parts of those animals that had a market value.
And Daniel Boone did two main kinds of hunting in
his day. Remember, Daniel Boone was alive on the years
that sat on either side of the creation of the
(04:46):
United States of America. So when he was born, Daniel
Boone would have not have described himself as an American.
He was a British colonial subject. And at that time
there was a thriving market for these skins of whitetail deer,
and that is the primary occupation that Daniel Boone had,
(05:06):
would be hunting whitetail deer at those times during his life.
Most of the market hunters, they were called long hunters.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
In Daniel Boone's time, most of the long hunters or market.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Hunters would live in little farming settlements on the edge
of the wilderness. And when the hunters set out to
do their hunting, they would go into the wilds.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They would go westward.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Into the wilds and they would hunt deer and they
would collect up sometimes hundreds.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Of deer skins.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Now you might have heard the term a buck meaning
a dollar, like if you bought something from someone and
they said it's going to be five bucks, or you
bet someone five bucks.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Bucks means a dollar, and that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Term comes from the fact that a deer skin was
worth about a dollar. So the skin of a buck
was worth about a dollar in Daniel Boone's time, and
he would go and hunt these deer skins, and the
deer skins would all be exported to England, and in
England they would be turned into gloves and pants and
bags and all sorts of leather products. Daniel Boone also
(06:15):
engaged in bear hunting for the commercial market. Now today
people might hunt bears because they want to get bear
meat that they'll put in their freezer and use to
feed their family. And they might want a bear rug,
so a bear rug that they can hang on the
wall or put on the floor, or they might get
a bear mounted so they can display the bear in
(06:35):
their house.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And that's what people are after when they go after
a black bear.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But in Daniel Boone's time as a market hunter, where
he was after was products that could be made from
black bears. And one of the primary products he was
after from black bears is bear grease. Now, if you
ever look at a baking recipe, you talk to someone
who likes to bake different pie crosts and other baked goods,
they might talk about using lard, or someone might fry
(07:03):
potatoes and lard we use nowadays when you go to
the store, you're buying pork lards, you're buying lard made
from pigs. And Daniel Boone's time, a very common source
of lard was bear lard, and so Daniel Boone would
hunt bears. He would render down all the fat on
the bear in the lard and then sell that.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Lard to the commercial markets.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
He would also make ham, so just as our lard
today comes from pork, our ham today mostly comes from pork,
But in Daniel Boone's time, they would make smoked bear hams.
So Daniel Boone would go out, he would hunt bears.
If he got a bear, he would render all the
fat into lard. He would take the meat and he
(07:45):
would brind it, and then he would make a smokehouse
and smoke it. And he could take all that smoked
bear meat and go back to the settlements and sell
it for money. And that's how Daniel Boone made his living. Now,
Davy krock was a professional hunter too, though he was
born again much later than Boone, though their lives did
(08:06):
overlap a little bit, and Crockett had many different occupations
in his life. But let's look at what he did
as a market hunter. He did a lot of hunting
like Boone did for bears. In fact, Davy Crockett became
even more famous than Boone as a bear hunter and
hunting for bear meat that could be smoked in the
hams and bear lard. But Davy Crockett had another very
(08:28):
interesting job as a market hunter in his day because
when the military would be out on expeditions, so when
the military would be out waging its wars, and in
Crockett's time, many of those wars were with Euro American
or Americans fighting against Native American tribes in the southeastern
(08:48):
United States or in Florida, and they would be on
big wilderness journeys as they sought out the tribes that
they were at war with. And you have to wonder, well,
what do all those soldiers eat when they're traveling through
the wilderness. Well, Crockett had a job supplying meat to
feed the army. So armies today you hear about them
(09:10):
eating MREs. They might go to the mess hall, right,
food might be flown on a helicopter. In Crockett's time,
armies ate food that could be stolen from Native Americans
that they were raiding against, or they ate food that
their hunters could kill and bring back to camp. And
that is the kind of market hunting that Davy Crockett
(09:31):
was involved in when he was young. So to wrap up,
Boone and Crockett two famous American hunters and frontiersmen and explorers,
not friends, didn't know each other, but both made their
living hunting America's wild animals and producing products from those
animals they could sell in order to support themselves.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Guess that critter.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
It's time for Guess that critter. Where we play animal
sounds and you've got to guess what animal is making
those sounds. You'll learn some neat facts about these animals
and develop your ear to better identify their sounds in
the wild or in this case, maybe in your attic too.
And don't worry, we'll throw in some clues along the way.
Now listen closely. That's pretty loud, isn't it. It's like
(10:38):
a whole roaring chorus. What you're hearing are hundreds of
these marine mammals gathered together. They've emerged from catching anything
from salmon to cod to small sharks in the ocean
and have now climbed up onto rocks known as a
haul out for some sun and rest. Why are they
(11:06):
making these sounds? Both the males and females vocalize in
the same low, deep tones to communicate with each other,
to find their babies when they return from fishing, and
to defend their territory. As marine mammals, they spend a
lot of time hunting in the water, but have to
(11:28):
come up to breathe air. They have four wing like flippers,
which they use to walk on land and to swim
in the ocean. They're covered with hair and have a
thick layer of blubber or fat on their bodies to
insulate them from the cold water and have whiskers on
their faces, which they use to sense prey. They're also huge.
Males can be ten feet long and weigh up to
(11:49):
twenty four hundred pounds, which is like six African lions
stacked together. Females average seven point five feet in length
and weigh about six hundred pounds. But they're not so
big that nothing can mess with them. Killer whales and
sleeper sharks are known to gobble them up. Here's the
sound of a lone female, so you can hear her
individual call. Okay, it's time for the reveal. It's a
(12:26):
stellar sea lion. Stellar sea lions live across a wide
ocean range from the coast of California all the way
up to the coast of Alaska and west over the
coasts of Russia and Japan. At times, they have served
as a valuable food resource to various Native American and
Native Alaskan groups. Unfortunately, they were listed as threatened in
(12:47):
nineteen ninety under the Endangered Species Act, but recovery efforts
were thankfully successful, and now they're doing great in many
of the places where they live. Make sure to join
us next week for Guess that Critter.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Part three.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Trivia, and now it's time for Meat Eater Kids Trivia,
the other only game show where conservation always wins. This
is a quiz show for kids who love the outdoors.
Take it away, Spencer.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Today, I'm joined by Jimmy, Rosie, matthew Aa, Mabel Hayden,
and Conley. Each player will earn ten dollars for conservation
with every question they get right today. There's a potential
for this room to earn up to two hundred and
ten dollars this week. That donation is going to the
National Wild Turkey Federation, who publishes the kids magazine about
(13:40):
wildlife conservation called Jake's Country. Let's see how much money
our players can raise. Question one, Which type of tree
produces acorns? Is it an oak tree, a cottonwood tree,
or a maple tree? Which type of tree produces acorns?
(14:02):
Or if you like our friend Clay nukeomb he call
them acorns? Is it an oak tree, a cottonwood tree,
or a maple tree. Mabel, do you know this one?
You seem very confident, you know it with certainty? Yeah, okay,
I like that. How about Jimmy, Jimmy, you got this
one right?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Okay, Hayden, do you know this one? Or you just
picking between the three as a guess. I think I
got this one.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Is everybody ready for which type of tree produces acorns? Oak, cottonwood,
or maple. Matthew, you ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers? Rosie, Mabel,
ok Aina, Hayden, oak, conley, cotton, Matthew, Jimmy, Oh, the
(14:49):
correct answer is oak tree. The room did very well.
Oak trees are one of the most important trees to
wildlife in North America. Animals big and small, from caterpillars
to black bears, will eat their acorns. Each acorn contains
one or two seeds inside of it, and only one
in ten thousand of those acorns will ever turn into
(15:12):
a tree. Can you guys name some other animals that
eat acorns?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What do you got?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Squirrels they eat a lot of acorns. What else?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Rabbits?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Rabbits they eat yep birds, anything else you can think of.
Steve had some feedback Steve, what animals eat acorns? On rabbits?
If you google what animals? If you google what animals
eat acorns, it says a rabbit. So we're gonna trust
Steve or Google. You guys think Google Google it is. Yeah, turkeys, deer, squirrels, mice, rabbits, raccoons, kyleds,
(15:45):
fox hogs. They all eat acorns. Question two, Which of
these animals is not nocturnal? Is it a bat, a
blue jay, or a raccoon? Which of these anim animals
is not nocturnal? Bat, blue jay, or raccoon. Matthew was
(16:08):
thinking hard. Jimmy, you know this one.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
If I don't, I'd probably be pretty disappointed.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Okay, So Conley, do you have this one?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'm pretty sure I do.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Now, don't tell us what nocturnal is, but do you
know what nocturnal means? It means just yes or no?
Do you know what nocturnal means? Yes, he's shaking his head. Yes.
Our room looks very confident. They all seem to know
what nocturnal is, and they know which of these is
not nocturnal between a bat, a blue jay, and a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Jimmy, if you don't get this, you're going to be
a disappointment to the family.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Wow, strong words from Rosie. Is everybody have an answer?
Go ahead as your answers Rosie, Mabel, blue Jay, I
know Haydencoon Conley, Bluejay, Matthew, Jimmy. The correct answer is
(17:03):
blue Jay. Well done, kids, a lot of correct answers
in the room. Nocturnal animals are those that are most
active at night, diurnal animals are those that are most
active during the day, and crepuscular animals are those that
are most active at sunrise and sunset. Can you guys
name some other nocturnal animals?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Hamsters are they?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I don't, You're gonna have to. I mean, you're right
until I prove you wrong, and I can't prove you wrong.
It's a hamster nocturnal.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Run all night.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
How about some more traditional nocturnal animals besides the little rodents?
Anything else? What do you got, Rosie? That was in
the question you guys are throwing out? You know I
can't prove you wrong with the Tasmanian devil avenue idea?
Sometimes sure, owls, foxes, coyotes, possums, most types of toads
(17:56):
and frogs. How about you, guys? Are you nocturnal or diurnal? No?
I'm diarnal dial Maybe over Christmas break? Where any of
you nocturnal over Christmas? Filled the engineer. He's nocturnal over
Christmas break as well? Question three, which of these is
not a type of cloud? Is it Stratus esophagus or cumulus?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Apposed to.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Well, I would think at some point in school maybe
they've talked to you about clouds and science class. Now
has that has not happened?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
One teacher we had a big science you know she's
an and I've done the same teacher, What.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Do you do you think you know the answer? Yes, okay?
Which of these is not a type of cloud? Two
of them are clouds, one of them is not Stratus
esophagus or cumulus. Spelling does not matter. You can get
very creative with how you spell your answers. Yeah, that's
what I did, was spelling Mabel. Do you know the answer?
(18:53):
Conservation would be do you think you've hearn about this
in school as well?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Which is not a type of cloud? Stratus, esophagus, cumulus?
Is everybody ready?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Rosie astrophagus, Mabel esophagus, a esophagus, haydeneshagus, Conley, Matthew, Jimmy esophagus.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
The correct answer is esophagus. About half of you got
that one right, Stratus clouds are those that can cover
the sky in a uniformed layer of gray and can
sometimes produce rain over snow. Cumulus clouds have sharp outlines
that often resemble culliflower and Esophagus is the tube in
your throat where food travels down, which also happens to
(19:43):
be where burps travel up. And here's what we're gonna do.
If one of you can burp on command, we're gonna
add an extra ten dollars to this donation. Can anybody
in here do it?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Side?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
None of you can do it. Conley Hayden with a
clutch verp that sounded like a genuine verb. He didn't
have to course it. Oh, okay, we got more of them.
Now we're gonna add That sounded like a growl. I
don't know if we're gonna get that. Hayden adding extra
(20:18):
ten dollars. That's it for today's round of trivia, filled
the engineer. How much money did we raise?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Well, they raised one hundred and sixty dollars, but with
Hayden's burp comes up to one seventy.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
One hundred and seventy dollars going to the National Wild
Turkey Federation. Well done, kids, join us snacks, Time for
more meat Eater Kids Trivia, the only game show we're burping,
pays for conservation.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Thank you so much for listening. We really hope you
enjoyed the episode. If you want to bone up on
your outdoor knowledge before the next episode drops, pick up
a copy of the book Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars.
It's available wherever books are sold, and it's chalk full
of activity that will turn you into a true outdoor expert.
Now get outside. Be sure to tune in next week
(21:06):
for another episode of
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Days
Part one Why It's the Way it Is.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Today, we're going to talk about two famous hunters who
were very different people named Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. Now,
the reason why we're going to talk about Daniel Boone
and Davy Crockett together is a couple of reasons for
that I have found in my life as a hunter.
I have found that if you go and ask people
(00:41):
to name famous frontiersman or famous hunters from America's history,
you will often get those two names as answers, Daniel
Boone and Davy Crockett. Another reason they're often associated together
is there is a very successful prominent conservation organization called
the Boone and Crocket Club. And on past episodes of
(01:07):
Why It's the Way It Is, we talked about President
Theodore Roosevelt. Well, President Theodore Roosevelt was a member of
the Boone and Crocket Club. The organization is that old
and it's still around today and still very effective today
in helping to restore and help manage our big game
(01:29):
populations in North America. So the Boone and Crocket Club
draws its name from these two people, and it would
kind of lead you to believe that Boone and Crockett
knew each other, or that they somehow hung out together,
or that they were contemporaries, but in fact they're not.
(01:49):
In fact, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett would not have
ever even met each other, though their lives overlapped. Daniel
Boone was born in seventeen thirty four, so he was
born forty two years before the United States of America
(02:11):
became the United States of America. He was born forty
two years before our country declared its independence from Great Britain,
and he died in eighteen twenty. Daniel Boone was born
in Pennsylvania. He moved from there down to North Carolina.
He moved from North Carolina to Kentucky, and he eventually
moved to the state of Missouri, and that is where
(02:34):
he died in Missouri. Now Davy Crockett was born ten
years after the birth of our country, the United States
of America. He was born in seventeen eighty six, and
he died young. He died when he was fifty years old,
and he died at the Alamo.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And maybe you've heard of the Alamo.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was a fort, a military fort in Texas, and
a bunch of Americans and Texans were occupying that fort
during a war with Mexico, and all of the Americans
and Texans that were in that fort defending that fort
were overrun and killed by members of the Mexican army
under a general.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Name Santa Ana.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So that is how Crockett died. But let's talk a
little bit about how Daniel Boone lived and how Davy
Crockett lived and why we kind of know their hunters,
but we don't really know the detail of what they
hunted and how they hunted. Both Boone and Crockett, even
(03:36):
though they weren't friends and didn't hang out and didn't
meet each other, they were both market hunters. And I'm
going to explain a little bit about what their hunting
looked like. And we're going to start with what Daniel
Boone's hunting looked like. He was a market hunter, so
he hunted for products. Okay, if you imagine a miner,
Let's say.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You're a miner. You're a gold miner, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And you go into the mountains and you dig down
and get a gold pan and go to a creek.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And you know, and you go gold mining.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You're trying to produce gold that you can sell for money,
and that's how you support yourself. If you're a logger,
you might go into you know, timber country, and you're
gonna cut down logs and sell the logs which are
made into products. Okay, they're made into wooden houses and
all the things we buy that are made out of wood.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The market hunter was a person who went out into
the wilds and pursued animals in order to be able
to sell parts of those animals that had a market value.
And Daniel Boone did two main kinds of hunting in
his day. Remember, Daniel Boone was alive on the years
that sat on either side of the creation of the
(04:46):
United States of America. So when he was born, Daniel
Boone would have not have described himself as an American.
He was a British colonial subject. And at that time
there was a thriving market for these skins of whitetail deer,
and that is the primary occupation that Daniel Boone had,
(05:06):
would be hunting whitetail deer at those times during his life.
Most of the market hunters, they were called long hunters.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
In Daniel Boone's time, most of the long hunters or market.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Hunters would live in little farming settlements on the edge
of the wilderness. And when the hunters set out to
do their hunting, they would go into the wilds.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They would go westward.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Into the wilds and they would hunt deer and they
would collect up sometimes hundreds.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Of deer skins.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Now you might have heard the term a buck meaning
a dollar, like if you bought something from someone and
they said it's going to be five bucks, or you
bet someone five bucks.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Bucks means a dollar, and that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Term comes from the fact that a deer skin was
worth about a dollar. So the skin of a buck
was worth about a dollar in Daniel Boone's time, and
he would go and hunt these deer skins, and the
deer skins would all be exported to England, and in
England they would be turned into gloves and pants and
bags and all sorts of leather products. Daniel Boone also
(06:15):
engaged in bear hunting for the commercial market. Now today
people might hunt bears because they want to get bear
meat that they'll put in their freezer and use to
feed their family. And they might want a bear rug,
so a bear rug that they can hang on the
wall or put on the floor, or they might get
a bear mounted so they can display the bear in
(06:35):
their house.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And that's what people are after when they go after
a black bear.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But in Daniel Boone's time as a market hunter, where
he was after was products that could be made from
black bears. And one of the primary products he was
after from black bears is bear grease. Now, if you
ever look at a baking recipe, you talk to someone
who likes to bake different pie crosts and other baked goods,
they might talk about using lard, or someone might fry
(07:03):
potatoes and lard we use nowadays when you go to
the store, you're buying pork lards, you're buying lard made
from pigs. And Daniel Boone's time, a very common source
of lard was bear lard, and so Daniel Boone would
hunt bears. He would render down all the fat on
the bear in the lard and then sell that.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Lard to the commercial markets.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
He would also make ham, so just as our lard
today comes from pork, our ham today mostly comes from pork,
But in Daniel Boone's time, they would make smoked bear hams.
So Daniel Boone would go out, he would hunt bears.
If he got a bear, he would render all the
fat into lard. He would take the meat and he
(07:45):
would brind it, and then he would make a smokehouse
and smoke it. And he could take all that smoked
bear meat and go back to the settlements and sell
it for money. And that's how Daniel Boone made his living. Now,
Davy krock was a professional hunter too, though he was
born again much later than Boone, though their lives did
(08:06):
overlap a little bit, and Crockett had many different occupations
in his life. But let's look at what he did
as a market hunter. He did a lot of hunting
like Boone did for bears. In fact, Davy Crockett became
even more famous than Boone as a bear hunter and
hunting for bear meat that could be smoked in the
hams and bear lard. But Davy Crockett had another very
(08:28):
interesting job as a market hunter in his day because
when the military would be out on expeditions, so when
the military would be out waging its wars, and in
Crockett's time, many of those wars were with Euro American
or Americans fighting against Native American tribes in the southeastern
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United States or in Florida, and they would be on
big wilderness journeys as they sought out the tribes that
they were at war with. And you have to wonder, well,
what do all those soldiers eat when they're traveling through
the wilderness. Well, Crockett had a job supplying meat to
feed the army. So armies today you hear about them
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eating MREs. They might go to the mess hall, right,
food might be flown on a helicopter. In Crockett's time,
armies ate food that could be stolen from Native Americans
that they were raiding against, or they ate food that
their hunters could kill and bring back to camp. And
that is the kind of market hunting that Davy Crockett
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was involved in when he was young. So to wrap up,
Boone and Crockett two famous American hunters and frontiersmen and explorers,
not friends, didn't know each other, but both made their
living hunting America's wild animals and producing products from those
animals they could sell in order to support themselves.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Guess that critter.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
It's time for Guess that critter. Where we play animal
sounds and you've got to guess what animal is making
those sounds. You'll learn some neat facts about these animals
and develop your ear to better identify their sounds in
the wild or in this case, maybe in your attic too.
And don't worry, we'll throw in some clues along the way.
Now listen closely. That's pretty loud, isn't it. It's like
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a whole roaring chorus. What you're hearing are hundreds of
these marine mammals gathered together. They've emerged from catching anything
from salmon to cod to small sharks in the ocean
and have now climbed up onto rocks known as a
haul out for some sun and rest. Why are they
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making these sounds? Both the males and females vocalize in
the same low, deep tones to communicate with each other,
to find their babies when they return from fishing, and
to defend their territory. As marine mammals, they spend a
lot of time hunting in the water, but have to
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come up to breathe air. They have four wing like flippers,
which they use to walk on land and to swim
in the ocean. They're covered with hair and have a
thick layer of blubber or fat on their bodies to
insulate them from the cold water and have whiskers on
their faces, which they use to sense prey. They're also huge.
Males can be ten feet long and weigh up to
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twenty four hundred pounds, which is like six African lions
stacked together. Females average seven point five feet in length
and weigh about six hundred pounds. But they're not so
big that nothing can mess with them. Killer whales and
sleeper sharks are known to gobble them up. Here's the
sound of a lone female, so you can hear her
individual call. Okay, it's time for the reveal. It's a
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stellar sea lion. Stellar sea lions live across a wide
ocean range from the coast of California all the way
up to the coast of Alaska and west over the
coasts of Russia and Japan. At times, they have served
as a valuable food resource to various Native American and
Native Alaskan groups. Unfortunately, they were listed as threatened in
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nineteen ninety under the Endangered Species Act, but recovery efforts
were thankfully successful, and now they're doing great in many
of the places where they live. Make sure to join
us next week for Guess that Critter.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Part three.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Trivia, and now it's time for Meat Eater Kids Trivia,
the other only game show where conservation always wins. This
is a quiz show for kids who love the outdoors.
Take it away, Spencer.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Today, I'm joined by Jimmy, Rosie, matthew Aa, Mabel Hayden,
and Conley. Each player will earn ten dollars for conservation
with every question they get right today. There's a potential
for this room to earn up to two hundred and
ten dollars this week. That donation is going to the
National Wild Turkey Federation, who publishes the kids magazine about
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wildlife conservation called Jake's Country. Let's see how much money
our players can raise. Question one, Which type of tree
produces acorns? Is it an oak tree, a cottonwood tree,
or a maple tree? Which type of tree produces acorns?
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Or if you like our friend Clay nukeomb he call
them acorns? Is it an oak tree, a cottonwood tree,
or a maple tree. Mabel, do you know this one?
You seem very confident, you know it with certainty? Yeah, okay,
I like that. How about Jimmy, Jimmy, you got this
one right?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Okay, Hayden, do you know this one? Or you just
picking between the three as a guess. I think I
got this one.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Is everybody ready for which type of tree produces acorns? Oak, cottonwood,
or maple. Matthew, you ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers? Rosie, Mabel,
ok Aina, Hayden, oak, conley, cotton, Matthew, Jimmy, Oh, the
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correct answer is oak tree. The room did very well.
Oak trees are one of the most important trees to
wildlife in North America. Animals big and small, from caterpillars
to black bears, will eat their acorns. Each acorn contains
one or two seeds inside of it, and only one
in ten thousand of those acorns will ever turn into
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a tree. Can you guys name some other animals that
eat acorns?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What do you got?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Squirrels they eat a lot of acorns. What else?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Rabbits?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Rabbits they eat yep birds, anything else you can think of.
Steve had some feedback Steve, what animals eat acorns? On rabbits?
If you google what animals? If you google what animals
eat acorns, it says a rabbit. So we're gonna trust
Steve or Google. You guys think Google Google it is. Yeah, turkeys, deer, squirrels, mice, rabbits, raccoons, kyleds,
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fox hogs. They all eat acorns. Question two, Which of
these animals is not nocturnal? Is it a bat, a
blue jay, or a raccoon? Which of these anim animals
is not nocturnal? Bat, blue jay, or raccoon. Matthew was
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thinking hard. Jimmy, you know this one.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
If I don't, I'd probably be pretty disappointed.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Okay, So Conley, do you have this one?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'm pretty sure I do.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Now, don't tell us what nocturnal is, but do you
know what nocturnal means? It means just yes or no?
Do you know what nocturnal means? Yes, he's shaking his head. Yes.
Our room looks very confident. They all seem to know
what nocturnal is, and they know which of these is
not nocturnal between a bat, a blue jay, and a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Jimmy, if you don't get this, you're going to be
a disappointment to the family.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Wow, strong words from Rosie. Is everybody have an answer?
Go ahead as your answers Rosie, Mabel, blue Jay, I
know Haydencoon Conley, Bluejay, Matthew, Jimmy. The correct answer is
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blue Jay. Well done, kids, a lot of correct answers
in the room. Nocturnal animals are those that are most
active at night, diurnal animals are those that are most
active during the day, and crepuscular animals are those that
are most active at sunrise and sunset. Can you guys
name some other nocturnal animals?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Hamsters are they?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I don't, You're gonna have to. I mean, you're right
until I prove you wrong, and I can't prove you wrong.
It's a hamster nocturnal.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Run all night.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
How about some more traditional nocturnal animals besides the little rodents?
Anything else? What do you got, Rosie? That was in
the question you guys are throwing out? You know I
can't prove you wrong with the Tasmanian devil avenue idea?
Sometimes sure, owls, foxes, coyotes, possums, most types of toads
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and frogs. How about you, guys? Are you nocturnal or diurnal? No?
I'm diarnal dial Maybe over Christmas break? Where any of
you nocturnal over Christmas? Filled the engineer. He's nocturnal over
Christmas break as well? Question three, which of these is
not a type of cloud? Is it Stratus esophagus or cumulus?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Apposed to.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Well, I would think at some point in school maybe
they've talked to you about clouds and science class. Now
has that has not happened?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
One teacher we had a big science you know she's
an and I've done the same teacher, What.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Do you do you think you know the answer? Yes, okay?
Which of these is not a type of cloud? Two
of them are clouds, one of them is not Stratus
esophagus or cumulus. Spelling does not matter. You can get
very creative with how you spell your answers. Yeah, that's
what I did, was spelling Mabel. Do you know the answer?
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Conservation would be do you think you've hearn about this
in school as well?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Which is not a type of cloud? Stratus, esophagus, cumulus?
Is everybody ready?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Rosie astrophagus, Mabel esophagus, a esophagus, haydeneshagus, Conley, Matthew, Jimmy esophagus.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
The correct answer is esophagus. About half of you got
that one right, Stratus clouds are those that can cover
the sky in a uniformed layer of gray and can
sometimes produce rain over snow. Cumulus clouds have sharp outlines
that often resemble culliflower and Esophagus is the tube in
your throat where food travels down, which also happens to
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be where burps travel up. And here's what we're gonna do.
If one of you can burp on command, we're gonna
add an extra ten dollars to this donation. Can anybody
in here do it?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Side?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
None of you can do it. Conley Hayden with a
clutch verp that sounded like a genuine verb. He didn't
have to course it. Oh, okay, we got more of them.
Now we're gonna add That sounded like a growl. I
don't know if we're gonna get that. Hayden adding extra
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ten dollars. That's it for today's round of trivia, filled
the engineer. How much money did we raise?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Well, they raised one hundred and sixty dollars, but with
Hayden's burp comes up to one seventy.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
One hundred and seventy dollars going to the National Wild
Turkey Federation. Well done, kids, join us snacks, Time for
more meat Eater Kids Trivia, the only game show we're burping,
pays for conservation.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Thank you so much for listening. We really hope you
enjoyed the episode. If you want to bone up on
your outdoor knowledge before the next episode drops, pick up
a copy of the book Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars.
It's available wherever books are sold, and it's chalk full
of activity that will turn you into a true outdoor expert.
Now get outside. Be sure to tune in next week
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for another episode of
Speaker 5 (21:08):
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