👃 Japan Museum Lets You Sniff 'Animal Butts'

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation overseas. Do you like to
explore museums?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I do?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Do you? I can't imagine.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have the patient very easily accessible life.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Would like it.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
My wife, I don't know. She spends ages looking at
stuff in Greece. And she's looking at the arrowhead, this
arrowhead from five hundred BC. Then there's another arrowhead, yeah, radio,
and she's I go, I get it, and she goes, right,
let's go into the arrowhead room. Now, oh no, they're
all pretty much the same.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I must say. I don't have much patience for the
classical museum, but I do like a quirky museum. I
have been in Japan in Tokyo to the parasite Museum. Yeah,
I even had a gift shop. I'm only in it
for the gift shop.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
You sent me a bowler that's right.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I brought your stuff to bowler toy. I also in
the States went to a medical oddity museum, lots of
unusual medical equipment and stuff like that. I like the
quirk but I haven't been to this one. This is
on my next travel list. This is in Kobe in Japan.
It's an exhibit where you smell various animals bums. There

(01:08):
are glass frames containing diverse fauna portraits, pictures of animals,
and they have small open holes and you engage your
sense of smell by rubbing and then sniffing the animal
bottoms because the whole point is that animals glean a
lot of information from each other about identity, health status,

(01:30):
reproductive cycle, their mood, their diet. So these images are
infused with carefully crafted artificial fragrances replicating the distinct set
associated with the bottoms of penguins, cats, rabbits, a tiger,
And the footage here is quite interesting. So people that

(01:50):
is lining up and rubbing the whole and sniffing, I'd
be fascinated. Well, you tried this out with management and
negotiation time. Your nose is right up there. What kind
of information are you gaining from that?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's a museum right up there.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Where the money.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Just want to bet with myselves of money? I want
to bet with myself and congratulations I want. I knew
you would say that