May 16, 2022 • 43 mins
Jon Patch welcomes Wow In The Wild author Mindy Thomas.
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we're gonna be talking with Mindy Thomas on the book
While in the Wild. This is Talking Pets.
Speaker 8 (01:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Hi, I'm Mindy Thomas and I'm Guy Roz.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And together we host an award winning science podcast for
kids and families.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's called Wow in the World, Wow in the Whoo.
Join us as we explore the wonders of the world,
or if we like to call them wows.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
Exactly, the wows of space, the wows of science, the
wows of new technology, new discoveries, and the people changing
the world as we know it.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Oh, Guy Oz, now I kind of want to listen
to the show.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, you're in luck, Mindy. Roll the clips, roll clips, yes,
love clips. Well, rollin'.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
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You're listening to Talking Pets. Pick up the phone and
give us a call at eight four four three oh
five seventy eight hundred. By the way, Mindy Thomas's host
of the hit kids radio show Absolutely Mindy on Sirius XM,
and co host with NPR personality Guy raz of the
number one top rated podcast for kids called Wow in
the Wild, in which they share incredible and surprising facts
(03:02):
about science and technology. Recently, the pair have turned their
attention to the world of animals with a new book,
While in the Wild, The Amazing World of Animals, which
reveals some of the funniest and weirdest facts about the
animal kingdom. In case you were wondering, spiderweb silk, for
its weight, is actually tougher and stronger than steel, and
(03:23):
you're going to find out a lot about this in
the book While in the Wild. I want to welcome
onto the program Mindy Thomas. Hey, Mindy, how you doing.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
Hello, I'm doing great, John, how about.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You doing good? Doing good? I want to introduce you
to Gino Sosani in the studio and our producer Philip Hello,
how are you hi?
Speaker 10 (03:40):
Hikks for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Now, I've got to ask you with your book. By
the way, I did a morning show on Wednesday in Pennsylvania,
and I literally used your book throughout the whole interview.
I hope you don't mind, Oh, not at all.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
What was the interview.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was a morning show. It was an interview in
the morning show in PA in Pennsylvania, and I promoted
the heck out of your book because this is a
book I have to tell you that I will use
constantly on my show because it has a bunch of
facts and interesting stuff about animals and a matter of fact,
the host in Pennsylvania was like, I took it to
(04:16):
the back end and there's a section in your book
that talks about poop, and I thought it was kind
of fascinating. There's a lot of things that I didn't
quite know about poop, and your book tells us all
about it.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
Oh yeah, we love poop. I mean, you know, I'm
bow in the world Guy ROZs and I we are.
We're science communicators. So we take interesting things in the
world of science and we break them down and make
them accessible for kids. And I think a good plate
to get kids interested in science the science is interesting
(04:52):
is sometimes you just kind of start with poop.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
We did this.
Speaker 10 (04:54):
We had another book that came out before this The
how and Wow of the Human Body. And this last
weekend at a book festival in la and so many
kids came up to me after saying, you know what
my favorite part of the book is, And I.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Said, I do.
Speaker 10 (05:07):
Is it the poop pages?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
How do you know?
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Of course it looks always interesting. I mean that poop
and cubes so it doesn't roll away.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's amazing, you know that. That was one of the
more interesting things that I thought, was that I'd never
heard of an animal that would actually like poop and
squares and cubes.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, it keeps it from rolling away. It all
happens in their digestive system, the way their their intestines
expand and contract and form this perfect little cube when
they poop. It's amazing. I mean, yeah, there's so many
things that happen in the animal world that I think
that we don't get to see because we don't have
these animals. We don't know that lobsters can essentially pee
(05:51):
out of their eyeballs. They have these special little nozzles
located under their eyeballs that they you know, they pee
and that's how they they you know, they has messages
back and forth it's like the world full of these things.
So we wanted to break down some of the most
interesting facts that we could find and then put them
(06:11):
in this book, and then display them in really interesting,
unusual ways that maybe kids haven't seen this information presented
to them before. So, for example, we talked about the
monsters of the Deep, and we kind of present that
a fake comic book titles or fake comic book covers.
(06:33):
We have lots of fake magazine spreads in here. We've
had so much fun thinking of new ways to present
the information.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And that's the thing that's fascinating on this for adults actually,
because I love the book, and for kids as well,
because there are a lot of interesting things in here
about animals that a lot of people wouldn't know. I'm
still stuck on the poop though, and the one that
I thought was kind of interesting. Maybe you can shed
some light on this. Why does a sloth not poop
in the tree?
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Well, I think the sloth comes down to poop. I
don't know exactly why it comes down to poop on
the ground, but I think it has something to do
with safety. So poops on the ground, that's where it's
going to attract any predators, So then it goes back
up the tree and escapes from them. So I think,
(07:24):
you know, maybe the flass doesn't want to poop where
it lives. You're right, though, why doesn't it just poop
and let it fall to the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't know that's what I would do. Yeah, I mean,
I'm going to climb. But yeah, so, I don't know
if you can hear this, mindy over the microphones. But
we're having a very severe storm here out of Tampa Bay.
So I'm hoping that I don't lose, are you really?
Speaker 10 (07:52):
I'll try. I grow up. Yeah, I went to the
University of South Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, okay, I've been living here for over thirty years now,
so I'm literally a tampon.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Okay there, No, you sound like my dad.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You know. I want to ask you to you know,
when I was during that interview, we went from poop
to pink and a lot of interesting stuff about pink,
and a lot of people don't necessarily know. With flamingos,
for instance, they're not born pink, correct.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
That's right. They get pink. They turn pink from their diet,
from what they eat in their diet. So yeah, so flamingos.
When they're born, they're actually kind of gray, and then
in the first couple of years of its life that
that pink coat starts to appear. And it's all the
little tiny crustaceans that they eat and the algae and
(08:45):
the insects larva. There's a special pigment down in them
and that eventually turns them pink. So that's how they
get their color.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah. In your book two, on page one's seventeen, you
talk about the pink robin, a plump, pink bellied wonder
from the land down Under. Australia's male pink robin weighs
a little more than a pencil, but is brightly you'd
stand out in the sky. I've seen a red robin.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
Oh cute. Oh no, This little pink belly robin is
so adorable. And it's just interesting to think about the
way colors play in the animal kingdom to help protest
or help to attract mates. And we have fun with
the pink pages because you know, we just were like,
what are all the pink what are all the pink
animals that we can find? And then we did a
few page spread of just pink animals, including my favorite animal,
(09:35):
which is the naked mole rat.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Hold on to that thought, Mindy, hold on to that thought,
because we've got to take a break. When we come back,
we're going to find out what Mindy has to say
about the naked mole rat. But the book is called
While in the World, While in the Wild, The Amazing
World of Animals. I guarantee you want this book because
it's very fascinating and your kids will love it, and
so will you. I already said I will have this
(09:58):
in my library every day, so I will be looking
up facts about animals in this book While in the Wild,
The Amazing World of Animals, compliments of Mindy Thomas. We're
going to actually send you a copy of the book.
If you're the third caller right now and speak with
Kevin at eight four four three oh five seventy eight hundred.
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I'm John Patch, I'm Geno Sosani, and I'm Philip Stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We're speaking with Mindy Thomas. Her book is called Wow
in the Wild. Wow in the Wild, The Amazing World
of Animals. So we're giving away a copy of the book.
We have someone on hold, but we have another book
to give away, so if somebody else wants to call in,
you'll get a copy of the book as well. So, Mindy,
where are you locate it? Now? Where do you live
at now? Because you you used to be here in
(12:00):
Tampa Bay. Correct.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Wow, yeah, that's where I grew up.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So where are you living now? I'm sorry I didn't
catch it.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Oh, I'm in a fair paxt, Virginia outside of the.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh okay, okay, nice area. Nice area. So how long
did it take you to put this book together? Because
it's quite extensive with all the animal facts and everything
that's going on inside the book.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Yeah, I don't know, I would say all in all,
you know, I guess probably a year maybe between when
we kind of started and finally put the final touches
on it. I don't know if if you've done books before,
it's kind of like a hurry up and then wait.
You're working at it, working at it, working on it,
and then you wait when you go through the edits
(12:44):
and the illustration. So yeah, I don't know. It was
just kind of an ongoing process. It works on a
lot of the time, and then we would stop and
then we'd go back and we're on it more. It
was so much fun though, to put together, and our
illustrator I have to give a heads off to our illustrator,
Jack's Eiegel, because if you get this book, it is
(13:04):
such a visual feat It's like a field trip for
your imagination. And the pictures it's in full color. The
pictures are so vibrant, they're so funny, and I'm just
so happy the way our illustrator, Jack's people was able
to take this step out of our brains and that
we put into words and then make it come to
(13:25):
life with the illustrations do amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
In on page one seventy four of your book, you
cover fat snacks and one of them like that, right
off the top, you cover mosquitoes about stinky feet. What's
that all about?
Speaker 11 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:43):
You know, I think we're all still figuring out exactly
what attracts mosquitos. But they love a special bacteria that
grows on our feet. It attracts these to us. So
when you're outside and you're wearing flip flops in the summer,
you might want to cover up your feet because those
mosquitoes are going to be attracted to it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What's some other facts? Yeah? Yeah, what's some other facts
on that page that you can tell the listeners about, because.
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Well, here's one of my favorites. So off the coast
of California. Uh there, you know these red snapper fish
and there is a louse, a parasite that will latch
onto the tongue of the red snappers, eat the tongue,
replace the tongue with its own body, and then when
(14:34):
the red snapper opens its mouth, it's got a louse
for a tongue.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
How about that. You know, it's fascinating. It's fascinating though,
all the animals and what they do and the reasons
why they do it. So, you know, that's the one
thing that I like about the book because it really
does explain a lot of interesting stuff that we would
never actually imagine. Grasshoppers roam the earth before dinosaurs ever
(15:00):
even existed, that's in your book.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Is that amazing?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, I mean I would never think I would never
think of grasshopper lived that long.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
I mean the grasshoppers we see today weren't alive that long.
But yeah, the you know, they they grasshoppers were here long, long,
long before humans were. So we just were scouring everywhere
we could find to find some of the most interesting
and wow worthy facts to share in this book, and
and you know, again just kind of coming up with
(15:33):
new ways of sharing these facts. So, for example, we
do an interview with a vampire. Fact where it's it's, uh,
you know, my character Mindy in our in our podcast
and Mindy in real life, but my character in the
podcast is Mindy and I'm more of an exaggerated version
of myself. So in this book, Mindy has an interview
(15:56):
with a vampire bat. Well, we learn all about vampire backs,
but it's like if you were to talk with one.
And yeah, So we just had lots of fun ways
of making We made quizzes and all sorts of fun
ways for kids to access this information. And the idea
is that you can open it up to any page
and learn something and hopefully every time you go back
(16:17):
to learn something new. And it's not meant to be
read fronts of backs. I don't know about you, but
when you read it like a magazine, we kind of
wanted to lay this out sort of in the style
of a magazine. And I always go to the back
first when I read a magazine or open it up
to the middle, and so that was kind of what
this book is meant to do too. You could open
it up any page and get something fun.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I just did that actually, and I ended up on
Sea Creature Confessional Female Lobster. I pee out of y eyeballs. Yep, yeah,
I mean that's uh yeah, pretty fascinating. Actually, the male
sea horse. I'm a dad and a mom.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
So the male sea horse. I think that's an interesting
thing for kids to know that the male sea horses.
First of all, they're mating. They do a little dance
through the water where the male and female will join tails,
and then while they're dancing, the female sea horse will
jump her eggs into the male's pouch. The male then
fertilizes the eggs and then has ten to twenty five
(17:28):
day pregnancy. So the male's carrying just thousands of baby
sea horses.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And you can learn you can learn all of this
in the book of course, While in the Wild, The
Amazing World of Animals. Mindy, when is your podcast on?
Because your podcast sounds fascinating as well.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
Yes, While in the World is touch I'm so proud
of this podcast. It's a really fun funny science podcast
for kids that covers animals, technologies, space, the human body,
the human brain. You can find it wherever you get podcasts.
It's called Wow in the World, and it's sort of
it's a cartoon for your ear. So we have built
(18:07):
sort of a world in this podcast and crazy characters.
And then all of the science is based on real new,
peer reviewed academic research, and so we write that down
in a way that kids to understand, and we make
it we wrap it in this fictional narrative and it's
really really fun. So you can find that wherever you
(18:28):
get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know, I like this too because we play a
game on the on the show called Liar Game. We
do trivia and everything like that, and I see a
lot of stuff in here that I can use for trivia.
So thank you for making my life here.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
So I thank you so much for having me. This
has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, no, I'm glad you came on because I mean,
books like this I absolutely love because you can spend
hours on hours just reading everything and going back and forth,
and to share this with your kids for one thing
is amazing, but just for yourself as an adult, I mean,
there's so much facts and information, and like what you
said about the illustrator is just amazing what he did
(19:11):
here with the work in the book. So hats off
to him, and hats off to you guys, and give
our best to your partner there guy, and you know,
congrats on your podcast. So again, how can people find
you on the podcast?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
They can find us at at while in the world
on social media, they tell us a little tinkercast dot
com where they can check out all of our podcasts.
There we have a whole plate of them and yeah,
we've got a lot going on. So tinkercast dot com.
You can also find us at will in the world,
you can find me at Absolutely sounds good.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Name of the book Wow in the Wild The Amazing
World of Animals and it's by Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz.
Mindy give our best to Guy and thanks for joining
us here in the segment of the show Talking Pets.
Thanks John, Thanks Mindy, take care. Hope to talk to
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The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported
that animals with rabies have recently been found in the state,
with several pets potentially being exposed. The agency confirmed that
a bat found in Elgin, South Carolina, tested positive for rabies.
No people are known to have been exposed. Four cats
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for reptiles. Yes, Now, the story that I read out
of South Carolina talked about rabies.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Is it possible for no, because they're cold blooded. So
they cold blooded.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They can't get rabies because.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You can't get rabies. It's a rabies needs warm blood
to it's a it's a warm blooded disease. It can't
happen in a cold blooded animal.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I didn't know that. I didn't think. I never thought
about a snake or anything like that being able to
get it. So that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
It's a warm blooded disease.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Cool, cool, so but you got to be careful though.
If you see an animal in one of the signs
if you see animals that are out during the day.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
That are normally not out during the Raccoons, which we
saw recently and I even told my wife, you got
us raccoons in the daytime can be a bad sign.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
But you heard about what happened in Washington, DC right
with the fox and then supposedly a lot of people,
not a lot, but either nine people get scratched or bitten.
So you got to go through that series of shots
no matter what because you don't want to risk it.
But the animal actually, and it's so weird to be killed. Yeah,
after all these years the brain to find out, you
have to cut the head off. Yeah, they have to
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they had brabies. But you would think, though, after all
these years with science and everything like that, that they
would find some other way of detecting, but apparently not
by the animal, so that that's kind of fascinating.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
The alternative is to quarantine the animal, but that might
not be enough time for somebody to get shots though. Well.
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Speaker 2 (28:38):
Like the Yeah, it's just I don't know. It's in
cold Blood.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I have never made that distinction at a concert when
I said, you know, there's.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
An animal show, so I guess, yeah, it comes out
that way. Speaking of animals, though, I'm going to play
an animal sound. If you can guess what animal this is,
We're going to set you up. You can go with
meaty morsels, or you can go with licking lap. Those
are treats for your cats from craft. We'll send you
those out. You could take a CD from Geno Sosani
in cold Blood. You can go with Skoe ten X
(29:07):
the Odor Eliminator, and if you've won those before, you
can also go with a book on cats or on dogs.
And I do have the book While in the Wild,
The Amazing World of Animals, And that's from Mindy Thomas,
who was just with us in this hour. Name this animal?
What makes this sound? So what animal makes that sound?
(29:31):
I think you can kind of figure out, you know,
give them a clue. I think you know where I'm
going with it.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I don't. I don't know the animal.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Know.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You have an idea that it's a feline though, right,
a cat?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, I get an idea that it's a cat, but
I but it doesn't sound like a huge one. Well,
there is only one large cat of the big cats
that purrs. So maybe that's a clue.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That's a good that's a good clue right there.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
I know it is.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yes, there's only one big cat.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That yeah, so very good on that one. I didn't
think about it, but that's true. So what animal is this?
Name that big cat. If you know what big cat
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three oh five seven eight zero zero. What animal makes
that sound? So you know the with snakes, I mean,
(30:43):
it seems like I can't keep up with that, but
it's like at certain times that snakes will lay eggs right.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well generally, yeah, especially in our hemisphere. That's that's most
almost true.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So did you whom was the last time you had
a bunch of new baby Oh, we're close to that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Now we're in breeding season. So you got a bunch
of eggs, Well not yet. We're in breeding season. Now,
this is the season where the snakes are hooking up.
The eggs will start probably within the next month or so,
probably by the end of May, going through the summers
when you'll start to see eggs.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So okay, So in the reptile world, in the snake world,
how do snakes hook up? How do they do they mate?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, just like any animals, really the same way. Yeah,
in fact, they can. You know what's fun is that
snakes can stay together like that for days, So a
mating session can last actually day.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So a male snake has a u genitulia.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Actually two really, it's called the hemipenis. Okay, they have two,
and they can stay hooked up in the act for
several days at a time without stop.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You know, I have never seen one in the wild.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
They try to stay hidden when they're doing that because
they're very vulnerable. Obviously that's true. But yeah, they can't.
I mean, they don't usually stay hooked up for days,
but they can. I just had a couple of king
snakes that were hooked up all week. They didn't stop
all week.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That's nice. So when they do hook up like that
and then all of a sudden they the female becomes fertile.
How long does it take before the eggs actually appear.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
The eggs actually appear usually in about sixty to seventy days,
and then the eggs take about seventy days to hatch.
By the way, if someone wants to see that, on
our website at Lost World Reptiles, we actually have a
photo in our gallery of two snakes hooked up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Oh really.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
My wife labeled it as in case you ever wondered
how snakes and with a dot dot.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
By going there after this so you can see it.
What's sight again.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Lost world Reptiles dot com one, So check that out.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
If you want to see two snakes getting it on,
there you go. But the thing is after those you
brought eggs in one time I did, and not exactly
what I thought.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
The leathery they're not like chicken eggs.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, the very leathery, and they were kind of clumped together.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
They can be, yeah, they do. They it's because when
they're laid, there's a secretion on them that doesn't harden
until it gets hit by air. So the eggs are
softer inside the female when she lays them. That white
stuff hardens when it comes in contact with air.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So when a snake is born a baby snake, is
that what you call it? Baby snake? Like seven the
days after that'send, the egg does it kind of hatch
or does it bite its way eat.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Its way except what's called an egg tooth, and they
they it's like a razor blade if you look at snakes.
And I'll bring in some snake eggs. When they're done,
you'll see like a slash like someone with a razor
blade did, and they crawl out of that slash. They
don't crack the egg like a bird, so.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
They slash it inside special.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Tooth that they're born with in the middle of their mouth.
It's called an egg tooth, and it's really sharp and
it slashes the egg and then it falls and disappears.
It dissolves.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
So like with a chicken egg, if I were to,
like with my chickens that I have, if I were
to take an egg and you know, from three feet high,
drop it, you know it's going to break, right, would
a snake egg break like that?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Because it wouldn't break you still might damage the embryo
depending on how long, how how formed it is. Early
it wouldn't hurt it. But if the embryo is formed,
the concussion might hurt it, but you won't break it.
It won't shatter.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
How many snakes will like a mother snake hat.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I mean like corn snakes generally have anywhere from fifteen
to twenty five twenty six eggs. I mean they can
have more, they can have less. Snakes like the bigger
snakes have less. You know, pine snakes have like six
to eight, so it varies per snake. You know, pythons
they tend to have about twenty to fifty, not thousands
like like certain websites.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
From pythons they can have up to fifty up to fifty.
So again in South Florida where they're having problems with
pythons because people let them go and they procreate, which
isn't as bad as fifty though that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Well, that's fifty eggs, doesn't mean fifty will survive. Okay,
I gotta tell you corn snake it in particular, of
every say, sixteen to eighteen eggs, only two will survive
long enough.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
To me, is that's not the snake that you have
with you today, No, that's.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Scar but but I mean they have six to eight
eggs and only one of those on average will live
long enough to have babies of its own.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
If you're watching us and now listening to us on
Facebook Live, my mistake, sorry for that. But if you're
watching us on Facebook Live, we'll get them. We'll get
scarring here so you'll see them. So check it out
at Talking Pets Radio and Gino will have them. You're
gonna wrap them around our'll Phillip's neck, so you'll you
get to see that. But once again you're listening to
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Speaker 3 (37:00):
My name is Philip.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
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Speaker 2 (37:09):
Gabble doom doom doo. S won'll through this word?
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Nothing can stop you?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Do you are?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
And I can hurt you?
Speaker 8 (37:37):
You know?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yes, come on, let me.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Call you until come.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
I know you know.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
So dad's favorite song, your dad? It was my dad's
favorite song.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Really, see, I knew that. That was my ESPN that
kicked in. Your dad was into sports too, wasn't he?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
No, acutely he was, but he was into it was
into that song.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
All right. Well, we got to guess on what this is.
And you have a better hint for John. John are expert.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
So John and everybody. I have to tell you that
I discovered now what this cat is. It's not the
one that's the only one that purrs. So I'm sorry
about that. Sorry about that clue. I thought this was
a purring sound, but it's not. So it's the fastest
cat in the wild.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So that's a good clue, right now, that's a good clue.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Was a bad clue because it wasn't. It's not that one.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So and the purring John might have been right, but
I think John's going to change his guess right now.
He is right on the purry John, what is the
fastest cat in the wild?
Speaker 8 (39:04):
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I would say that you're.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Is at that.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
John. I thought it was a cougar as well when
I heard it, But.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, I thought it was I thought the cheetah was
actually purring. But you were right. It's a cougar. Yes,
but you were double right because it was the cheetah,
which is the fastest cat in the world. So do
you want to go with the meati morsels or the
licking lap from Vita Craft or we've got Scoey ten
x the odor eliminator. I got a c d F
and Gino Sosanti or a book on cats or a
book on dogs.
Speaker 9 (39:34):
I'd like that second one.
Speaker 10 (39:35):
You said something other.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Lick that's for cats, right, yep, licking lap, So that'd
be great. Cool, Stay on the stay on the line,
and we'll send that out to you. Jan John has
always you are our expert guesser out there. So you've
only been wrong with so far. I think you've only
been wrong like once or twice.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well, and he was correct about the only pert ahead
you've got me.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah, no, once or twice. Once or twice we did,
which I was surprised because you've been like almost one
hundred percent, so you've pretty much been about eighty five
eighty six percent, right, So but John, pretty going, John,
stand on the line. We'll get your address there again
and we'll ship you out the you'll get the licken
lap from the Vita craft. So that's for your cat.
(40:20):
So that name it's like lick and.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Lap, yeah, like a yeah, okay, yeah, I'm sure it's
very good.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
It's it's an interest. Actually, you know what I have
to tell you. My cats, I feed them the moist
food in the mornings and sometimes some of them are
finicky and they won't eat certain times. So I took
the licken lap and I put it on top of
each one of their foods and food they eat all
their food good. So it worked. Well, that's good.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
You know who else is finicky? So Iberian huskies are finicky?
Speaker 2 (40:52):
You have one called Aurora.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yes, and she's very finicky. She sometimes won't eat at all. Yeah,
sometimes she'll go a day and won't eat mile so
she decides I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But he's just not hungry or no, she's hungry.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
She'll tell you she's still starving while you're eating.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
But because food.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yeah, she wants people food, but we don't give her
people food from the table.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Now we only have about a minute and a half left.
I don't know if you want to. I don't know
if you want to take Scar out of his box.
But if you want, I can kick him out because
my question on that though my cat is like all
about Scar right now? Shadow? Does that stress him out?
Scar at all?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Does he look stressed out? Just reached in and got him?
Was I word?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
So phil Philip our producers and Philip? Do you like snakes?
Speaker 6 (41:37):
So yes?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
To know, like I don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:41):
Always from poisonous to none.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
There are no poisonous snakes. They're a venomous from terminology.
But this guy is not venomous. He's he's perfectly harmless.
Even if he did bite, it would hurt, but it
wouldn't hurt you.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Well, I do want to touch the go ahead if
you're watching those on Facebook live right now. He scarred
the snakes.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
They're not slimy. Everybody always thinks snakes are slim. It's
the first thing I get when I take him. The
educational programs. Oh, they're not slimy.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I've held Scar before. I mean, he's really cool.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
You've held scar before? Well, the scars here by popular demand.
I mean, no, Scar is a again, what kind of
snake is a northern pine snake?
Speaker 2 (42:15):
A northern pine? How big will scar get?
Speaker 8 (42:18):
This is?
Speaker 3 (42:19):
He's a he's an old snake. He's about a twelve
thirteen year old snake. So he's up there. I mean
they can get up to about eight feet well a
little bit, a little bit wider.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
How long would corn snake live?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Well, this is the corn snake.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
These guys don't wait, can you say cornsnake? No, this
is a northern northern pine I'm sorry, yeah, northern pine.
How long.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
They're about in the same classes as corn snakes. They
live about sixteen to twenty years.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
That's not bad, no, I mean unless unless they get
attacked flag.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Well, yeah, captivity, this is captivity numbers in the wild
that's significantly lower.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
I mean, do they stand the chance in the wild.
I mean, I know a lot of them live in
the wild, but I mean, well, certainly, is that the
color that a northern pine would.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Yeah, because he's where he finds himself is slack and white. Well,
he blends into very sandy areas, very rocky sandy area.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
He's looking at me. Yike's hundred.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
The Jersey Pine barrens is where you find a lot
of these in the Jersey area, and it blends in
very well with the environment.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
He's got that tongue out like two forty.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
What's not all about, Well, that's a busy tongue. It's
it's checking for heat, it's checking for vibrations. So you
can hear because snakes on of ears. He hears you
through his tong checking from my blood.
Speaker 10 (43:21):
Yeah, they have.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
They have very poor eyesight. The tongue is how they
kind of navigate their world.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Well, we got to say goodbye for this hour of
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Speaker 8 (01:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Hi, I'm Mindy Thomas and I'm Guy Roz.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And together we host an award winning science podcast for
kids and families.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's called Wow in the World, Wow in the Whoo.
Join us as we explore the wonders of the world,
or if we like to call them wows.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
Exactly, the wows of space, the wows of science, the
wows of new technology, new discoveries, and the people changing
the world as we know it.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Oh, Guy Oz, now I kind of want to listen
to the show.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, you're in luck, Mindy. Roll the clips, roll clips, yes,
love clips. Well, rollin'.
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You're listening to Talking Pets. Pick up the phone and
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and co host with NPR personality Guy raz of the
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the Wild, in which they share incredible and surprising facts
(03:02):
about science and technology. Recently, the pair have turned their
attention to the world of animals with a new book,
While in the Wild, The Amazing World of Animals, which
reveals some of the funniest and weirdest facts about the
animal kingdom. In case you were wondering, spiderweb silk, for
its weight, is actually tougher and stronger than steel, and
(03:23):
you're going to find out a lot about this in
the book While in the Wild. I want to welcome
onto the program Mindy Thomas. Hey, Mindy, how you doing.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
Hello, I'm doing great, John, how about.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You doing good? Doing good? I want to introduce you
to Gino Sosani in the studio and our producer Philip Hello,
how are you hi?
Speaker 10 (03:40):
Hikks for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Now, I've got to ask you with your book. By
the way, I did a morning show on Wednesday in Pennsylvania,
and I literally used your book throughout the whole interview.
I hope you don't mind, Oh, not at all.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
What was the interview.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was a morning show. It was an interview in
the morning show in PA in Pennsylvania, and I promoted
the heck out of your book because this is a
book I have to tell you that I will use
constantly on my show because it has a bunch of
facts and interesting stuff about animals and a matter of fact,
the host in Pennsylvania was like, I took it to
(04:16):
the back end and there's a section in your book
that talks about poop, and I thought it was kind
of fascinating. There's a lot of things that I didn't
quite know about poop, and your book tells us all
about it.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
Oh yeah, we love poop. I mean, you know, I'm
bow in the world Guy ROZs and I we are.
We're science communicators. So we take interesting things in the
world of science and we break them down and make
them accessible for kids. And I think a good plate
to get kids interested in science the science is interesting
(04:52):
is sometimes you just kind of start with poop.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
We did this.
Speaker 10 (04:54):
We had another book that came out before this The
how and Wow of the Human Body. And this last
weekend at a book festival in la and so many
kids came up to me after saying, you know what
my favorite part of the book is, And I.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Said, I do.
Speaker 10 (05:07):
Is it the poop pages?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
How do you know?
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Of course it looks always interesting. I mean that poop
and cubes so it doesn't roll away.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's amazing, you know that. That was one of the
more interesting things that I thought, was that I'd never
heard of an animal that would actually like poop and
squares and cubes.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, it keeps it from rolling away. It all
happens in their digestive system, the way their their intestines
expand and contract and form this perfect little cube when
they poop. It's amazing. I mean, yeah, there's so many
things that happen in the animal world that I think
that we don't get to see because we don't have
these animals. We don't know that lobsters can essentially pee
(05:51):
out of their eyeballs. They have these special little nozzles
located under their eyeballs that they you know, they pee
and that's how they they you know, they has messages
back and forth it's like the world full of these things.
So we wanted to break down some of the most
interesting facts that we could find and then put them
(06:11):
in this book, and then display them in really interesting,
unusual ways that maybe kids haven't seen this information presented
to them before. So, for example, we talked about the
monsters of the Deep, and we kind of present that
a fake comic book titles or fake comic book covers.
(06:33):
We have lots of fake magazine spreads in here. We've
had so much fun thinking of new ways to present
the information.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And that's the thing that's fascinating on this for adults actually,
because I love the book, and for kids as well,
because there are a lot of interesting things in here
about animals that a lot of people wouldn't know. I'm
still stuck on the poop though, and the one that
I thought was kind of interesting. Maybe you can shed
some light on this. Why does a sloth not poop
in the tree?
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Well, I think the sloth comes down to poop. I
don't know exactly why it comes down to poop on
the ground, but I think it has something to do
with safety. So poops on the ground, that's where it's
going to attract any predators, So then it goes back
up the tree and escapes from them. So I think,
(07:24):
you know, maybe the flass doesn't want to poop where
it lives. You're right, though, why doesn't it just poop
and let it fall to the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't know that's what I would do. Yeah, I mean,
I'm going to climb. But yeah, so, I don't know
if you can hear this, mindy over the microphones. But
we're having a very severe storm here out of Tampa Bay.
So I'm hoping that I don't lose, are you really?
Speaker 10 (07:52):
I'll try. I grow up. Yeah, I went to the
University of South Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, okay, I've been living here for over thirty years now,
so I'm literally a tampon.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Okay there, No, you sound like my dad.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You know. I want to ask you to you know,
when I was during that interview, we went from poop
to pink and a lot of interesting stuff about pink,
and a lot of people don't necessarily know. With flamingos,
for instance, they're not born pink, correct.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
That's right. They get pink. They turn pink from their diet,
from what they eat in their diet. So yeah, so flamingos.
When they're born, they're actually kind of gray, and then
in the first couple of years of its life that
that pink coat starts to appear. And it's all the
little tiny crustaceans that they eat and the algae and
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the insects larva. There's a special pigment down in them
and that eventually turns them pink. So that's how they
get their color.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah. In your book two, on page one's seventeen, you
talk about the pink robin, a plump, pink bellied wonder
from the land down Under. Australia's male pink robin weighs
a little more than a pencil, but is brightly you'd
stand out in the sky. I've seen a red robin.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
Oh cute. Oh no, This little pink belly robin is
so adorable. And it's just interesting to think about the
way colors play in the animal kingdom to help protest
or help to attract mates. And we have fun with
the pink pages because you know, we just were like,
what are all the pink what are all the pink
animals that we can find? And then we did a
few page spread of just pink animals, including my favorite animal,
(09:35):
which is the naked mole rat.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Hold on to that thought, Mindy, hold on to that thought,
because we've got to take a break. When we come back,
we're going to find out what Mindy has to say
about the naked mole rat. But the book is called
While in the World, While in the Wild, The Amazing
World of Animals. I guarantee you want this book because
it's very fascinating and your kids will love it, and
so will you. I already said I will have this
(09:58):
in my library every day, so I will be looking
up facts about animals in this book While in the Wild,
The Amazing World of Animals, compliments of Mindy Thomas. We're
going to actually send you a copy of the book.
If you're the third caller right now and speak with
Kevin at eight four four three oh five seventy eight hundred.
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I'm John Patch, I'm Geno Sosani, and I'm Philip Stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We're speaking with Mindy Thomas. Her book is called Wow
in the Wild. Wow in the Wild, The Amazing World
of Animals. So we're giving away a copy of the book.
We have someone on hold, but we have another book
to give away, so if somebody else wants to call in,
you'll get a copy of the book as well. So, Mindy,
where are you locate it? Now? Where do you live
at now? Because you you used to be here in
(12:00):
Tampa Bay. Correct.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Wow, yeah, that's where I grew up.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So where are you living now? I'm sorry I didn't
catch it.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Oh, I'm in a fair paxt, Virginia outside of the.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh okay, okay, nice area. Nice area. So how long
did it take you to put this book together? Because
it's quite extensive with all the animal facts and everything
that's going on inside the book.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Yeah, I don't know, I would say all in all,
you know, I guess probably a year maybe between when
we kind of started and finally put the final touches
on it. I don't know if if you've done books before,
it's kind of like a hurry up and then wait.
You're working at it, working at it, working on it,
and then you wait when you go through the edits
(12:44):
and the illustration. So yeah, I don't know. It was
just kind of an ongoing process. It works on a
lot of the time, and then we would stop and
then we'd go back and we're on it more. It
was so much fun though, to put together, and our
illustrator I have to give a heads off to our illustrator,
Jack's Eiegel, because if you get this book, it is
(13:04):
such a visual feat It's like a field trip for
your imagination. And the pictures it's in full color. The
pictures are so vibrant, they're so funny, and I'm just
so happy the way our illustrator, Jack's people was able
to take this step out of our brains and that
we put into words and then make it come to
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life with the illustrations do amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
In on page one seventy four of your book, you
cover fat snacks and one of them like that, right
off the top, you cover mosquitoes about stinky feet. What's
that all about?
Speaker 11 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:43):
You know, I think we're all still figuring out exactly
what attracts mosquitos. But they love a special bacteria that
grows on our feet. It attracts these to us. So
when you're outside and you're wearing flip flops in the summer,
you might want to cover up your feet because those
mosquitoes are going to be attracted to it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What's some other facts? Yeah? Yeah, what's some other facts
on that page that you can tell the listeners about, because.
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Well, here's one of my favorites. So off the coast
of California. Uh there, you know these red snapper fish
and there is a louse, a parasite that will latch
onto the tongue of the red snappers, eat the tongue,
replace the tongue with its own body, and then when
(14:34):
the red snapper opens its mouth, it's got a louse
for a tongue.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
How about that. You know, it's fascinating. It's fascinating though,
all the animals and what they do and the reasons
why they do it. So, you know, that's the one
thing that I like about the book because it really
does explain a lot of interesting stuff that we would
never actually imagine. Grasshoppers roam the earth before dinosaurs ever
(15:00):
even existed, that's in your book.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Is that amazing?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, I mean I would never think I would never
think of grasshopper lived that long.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
I mean the grasshoppers we see today weren't alive that long.
But yeah, the you know, they they grasshoppers were here long, long,
long before humans were. So we just were scouring everywhere
we could find to find some of the most interesting
and wow worthy facts to share in this book, and
and you know, again just kind of coming up with
(15:33):
new ways of sharing these facts. So, for example, we
do an interview with a vampire. Fact where it's it's, uh,
you know, my character Mindy in our in our podcast
and Mindy in real life, but my character in the
podcast is Mindy and I'm more of an exaggerated version
of myself. So in this book, Mindy has an interview
(15:56):
with a vampire bat. Well, we learn all about vampire backs,
but it's like if you were to talk with one.
And yeah, So we just had lots of fun ways
of making We made quizzes and all sorts of fun
ways for kids to access this information. And the idea
is that you can open it up to any page
and learn something and hopefully every time you go back
(16:17):
to learn something new. And it's not meant to be
read fronts of backs. I don't know about you, but
when you read it like a magazine, we kind of
wanted to lay this out sort of in the style
of a magazine. And I always go to the back
first when I read a magazine or open it up
to the middle, and so that was kind of what
this book is meant to do too. You could open
it up any page and get something fun.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I just did that actually, and I ended up on
Sea Creature Confessional Female Lobster. I pee out of y eyeballs. Yep, yeah,
I mean that's uh yeah, pretty fascinating. Actually, the male
sea horse. I'm a dad and a mom.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
So the male sea horse. I think that's an interesting
thing for kids to know that the male sea horses.
First of all, they're mating. They do a little dance
through the water where the male and female will join tails,
and then while they're dancing, the female sea horse will
jump her eggs into the male's pouch. The male then
fertilizes the eggs and then has ten to twenty five
(17:28):
day pregnancy. So the male's carrying just thousands of baby
sea horses.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And you can learn you can learn all of this
in the book of course, While in the Wild, The
Amazing World of Animals. Mindy, when is your podcast on?
Because your podcast sounds fascinating as well.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
Yes, While in the World is touch I'm so proud
of this podcast. It's a really fun funny science podcast
for kids that covers animals, technologies, space, the human body,
the human brain. You can find it wherever you get podcasts.
It's called Wow in the World, and it's sort of
it's a cartoon for your ear. So we have built
(18:07):
sort of a world in this podcast and crazy characters.
And then all of the science is based on real new,
peer reviewed academic research, and so we write that down
in a way that kids to understand, and we make
it we wrap it in this fictional narrative and it's
really really fun. So you can find that wherever you
(18:28):
get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know, I like this too because we play a
game on the on the show called Liar Game. We
do trivia and everything like that, and I see a
lot of stuff in here that I can use for trivia.
So thank you for making my life here.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
So I thank you so much for having me. This
has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, no, I'm glad you came on because I mean,
books like this I absolutely love because you can spend
hours on hours just reading everything and going back and forth,
and to share this with your kids for one thing
is amazing, but just for yourself as an adult, I mean,
there's so much facts and information, and like what you
said about the illustrator is just amazing what he did
(19:11):
here with the work in the book. So hats off
to him, and hats off to you guys, and give
our best to your partner there guy, and you know,
congrats on your podcast. So again, how can people find
you on the podcast?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
They can find us at at while in the world
on social media, they tell us a little tinkercast dot
com where they can check out all of our podcasts.
There we have a whole plate of them and yeah,
we've got a lot going on. So tinkercast dot com.
You can also find us at will in the world,
you can find me at Absolutely sounds good.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Name of the book Wow in the Wild The Amazing
World of Animals and it's by Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz.
Mindy give our best to Guy and thanks for joining
us here in the segment of the show Talking Pets.
Thanks John, Thanks Mindy, take care. Hope to talk to
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that animals with rabies have recently been found in the state,
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WHOA WHOA whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Your mouth
is thowe man, But I don't care. You're looking crazy.
It's still stay put goods. So we get old baby,
(26:16):
don't buy the head o the We'll watch a movie
just us two. It's zombies. They look just like you.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
And then you look at me with your crazy and
once again you're listening to talking pets. I'm John Patch,
I'm Gensani, and I'm Philip. Stop, pick up the phone,
give us a call. Eight four four three oh five
seven eight zero zero. Now you know you're known actually
for reptiles. Yes, Now, the story that I read out
of South Carolina talked about rabies.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Is it possible for no, because they're cold blooded. So
they cold blooded.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They can't get rabies because.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You can't get rabies. It's a rabies needs warm blood
to it's a it's a warm blooded disease. It can't
happen in a cold blooded animal.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I didn't know that. I didn't think. I never thought
about a snake or anything like that being able to
get it. So that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
It's a warm blooded disease.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Cool, cool, so but you got to be careful though.
If you see an animal in one of the signs
if you see animals that are out during the day.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
That are normally not out during the Raccoons, which we
saw recently and I even told my wife, you got
us raccoons in the daytime can be a bad sign.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
But you heard about what happened in Washington, DC right
with the fox and then supposedly a lot of people,
not a lot, but either nine people get scratched or bitten.
So you got to go through that series of shots
no matter what because you don't want to risk it.
But the animal actually, and it's so weird to be killed. Yeah,
after all these years the brain to find out, you
have to cut the head off. Yeah, they have to
(27:46):
go into the brain. That's how you find out if
they had brabies. But you would think, though, after all
these years with science and everything like that, that they
would find some other way of detecting, but apparently not
by the animal, so that that's kind of fascinating.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
The alternative is to quarantine the animal, but that might
not be enough time for somebody to get shots though. Well.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
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We have his CDs here as well. I always say
in cold Blood, in cold Blood, and it's about rep
(28:26):
It's about and it's a music CD. Yeah. So, And
the thing is like whenever I say in code, what
it's like you're killing your grandmother or something.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
But no, no, no one ever came up to me
at a concert and says, you know what that title?
Are you guys murderers or something.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Like the Yeah, it's just I don't know. It's in
cold Blood.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I have never made that distinction at a concert when
I said, you know, there's.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
An animal show, so I guess, yeah, it comes out
that way. Speaking of animals, though, I'm going to play
an animal sound. If you can guess what animal this is,
We're going to set you up. You can go with
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(29:07):
the Odor Eliminator, and if you've won those before, you
can also go with a book on cats or on dogs.
And I do have the book While in the Wild,
The Amazing World of Animals, And that's from Mindy Thomas,
who was just with us in this hour. Name this animal?
What makes this sound? So what animal makes that sound?
(29:31):
I think you can kind of figure out, you know,
give them a clue. I think you know where I'm
going with it.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I don't. I don't know the animal.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Know.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You have an idea that it's a feline though, right,
a cat?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, I get an idea that it's a cat, but
I but it doesn't sound like a huge one. Well,
there is only one large cat of the big cats
that purrs. So maybe that's a clue.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That's a good that's a good clue right there.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
I know it is.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yes, there's only one big cat.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That yeah, so very good on that one. I didn't
think about it, but that's true. So what animal is this?
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on the phone, give us a call. Eight four four
three oh five seven eight zero zero. What animal makes
that sound? So you know the with snakes, I mean,
(30:43):
it seems like I can't keep up with that, but
it's like at certain times that snakes will lay eggs right.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well generally, yeah, especially in our hemisphere. That's that's most
almost true.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So did you whom was the last time you had
a bunch of new baby Oh, we're close to that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Now we're in breeding season. So you got a bunch
of eggs, Well not yet. We're in breeding season. Now,
this is the season where the snakes are hooking up.
The eggs will start probably within the next month or so,
probably by the end of May, going through the summers
when you'll start to see eggs.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So okay, So in the reptile world, in the snake world,
how do snakes hook up? How do they do they mate?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, just like any animals, really the same way. Yeah,
in fact, they can. You know what's fun is that
snakes can stay together like that for days, So a
mating session can last actually day.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So a male snake has a u genitulia.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Actually two really, it's called the hemipenis. Okay, they have two,
and they can stay hooked up in the act for
several days at a time without stop.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You know, I have never seen one in the wild.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
They try to stay hidden when they're doing that because
they're very vulnerable. Obviously that's true. But yeah, they can't.
I mean, they don't usually stay hooked up for days,
but they can. I just had a couple of king
snakes that were hooked up all week. They didn't stop
all week.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That's nice. So when they do hook up like that
and then all of a sudden they the female becomes fertile.
How long does it take before the eggs actually appear.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
The eggs actually appear usually in about sixty to seventy days,
and then the eggs take about seventy days to hatch.
By the way, if someone wants to see that, on
our website at Lost World Reptiles, we actually have a
photo in our gallery of two snakes hooked up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Oh really.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
My wife labeled it as in case you ever wondered
how snakes and with a dot dot.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
By going there after this so you can see it.
What's sight again.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Lost world Reptiles dot com one, So check that out.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
If you want to see two snakes getting it on,
there you go. But the thing is after those you
brought eggs in one time I did, and not exactly
what I thought.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
The leathery they're not like chicken eggs.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, the very leathery, and they were kind of clumped together.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
They can be, yeah, they do. They it's because when
they're laid, there's a secretion on them that doesn't harden
until it gets hit by air. So the eggs are
softer inside the female when she lays them. That white
stuff hardens when it comes in contact with air.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So when a snake is born a baby snake, is
that what you call it? Baby snake? Like seven the
days after that'send, the egg does it kind of hatch
or does it bite its way eat.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Its way except what's called an egg tooth, and they
they it's like a razor blade if you look at snakes.
And I'll bring in some snake eggs. When they're done,
you'll see like a slash like someone with a razor
blade did, and they crawl out of that slash. They
don't crack the egg like a bird, so.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
They slash it inside special.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Tooth that they're born with in the middle of their mouth.
It's called an egg tooth, and it's really sharp and
it slashes the egg and then it falls and disappears.
It dissolves.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
So like with a chicken egg, if I were to,
like with my chickens that I have, if I were
to take an egg and you know, from three feet high,
drop it, you know it's going to break, right, would
a snake egg break like that?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Because it wouldn't break you still might damage the embryo
depending on how long, how how formed it is. Early
it wouldn't hurt it. But if the embryo is formed,
the concussion might hurt it, but you won't break it.
It won't shatter.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
How many snakes will like a mother snake hat.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I mean like corn snakes generally have anywhere from fifteen
to twenty five twenty six eggs. I mean they can
have more, they can have less. Snakes like the bigger
snakes have less. You know, pine snakes have like six
to eight, so it varies per snake. You know, pythons
they tend to have about twenty to fifty, not thousands
like like certain websites.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
From pythons they can have up to fifty up to fifty.
So again in South Florida where they're having problems with
pythons because people let them go and they procreate, which
isn't as bad as fifty though that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Well, that's fifty eggs, doesn't mean fifty will survive. Okay,
I gotta tell you corn snake it in particular, of
every say, sixteen to eighteen eggs, only two will survive
long enough.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
To me, is that's not the snake that you have
with you today, No, that's.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Scar but but I mean they have six to eight
eggs and only one of those on average will live
long enough to have babies of its own.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
If you're watching us and now listening to us on
Facebook Live, my mistake, sorry for that. But if you're
watching us on Facebook Live, we'll get them. We'll get
scarring here so you'll see them. So check it out
at Talking Pets Radio and Gino will have them. You're
gonna wrap them around our'll Phillip's neck, so you'll you
get to see that. But once again you're listening to
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and more and for others.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
My name is Philip.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Stop Dogabbo doom boom do Gobbo doom boom do.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Gabble doom doom doo. S won'll through this word?
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Nothing can stop you?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Do you are?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
And I can hurt you?
Speaker 8 (37:37):
You know?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yes, come on, let me.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Call you until come.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
I know you know.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
So dad's favorite song, your dad? It was my dad's
favorite song.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Really, see, I knew that. That was my ESPN that
kicked in. Your dad was into sports too, wasn't he?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
No, acutely he was, but he was into it was
into that song.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
All right. Well, we got to guess on what this is.
And you have a better hint for John. John are expert.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
So John and everybody. I have to tell you that
I discovered now what this cat is. It's not the
one that's the only one that purrs. So I'm sorry
about that. Sorry about that clue. I thought this was
a purring sound, but it's not. So it's the fastest
cat in the wild.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So that's a good clue, right now, that's a good clue.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Was a bad clue because it wasn't. It's not that one.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So and the purring John might have been right, but
I think John's going to change his guess right now.
He is right on the purry John, what is the
fastest cat in the wild?
Speaker 8 (39:04):
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I would say that you're.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Is at that.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
John. I thought it was a cougar as well when
I heard it, But.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, I thought it was I thought the cheetah was
actually purring. But you were right. It's a cougar. Yes,
but you were double right because it was the cheetah,
which is the fastest cat in the world. So do
you want to go with the meati morsels or the
licking lap from Vita Craft or we've got Scoey ten
x the odor eliminator. I got a c d F
and Gino Sosanti or a book on cats or a
book on dogs.
Speaker 9 (39:34):
I'd like that second one.
Speaker 10 (39:35):
You said something other.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Lick that's for cats, right, yep, licking lap, So that'd
be great. Cool, Stay on the stay on the line,
and we'll send that out to you. Jan John has
always you are our expert guesser out there. So you've
only been wrong with so far. I think you've only
been wrong like once or twice.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well, and he was correct about the only pert ahead
you've got me.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah, no, once or twice. Once or twice we did,
which I was surprised because you've been like almost one
hundred percent, so you've pretty much been about eighty five
eighty six percent, right, So but John, pretty going, John,
stand on the line. We'll get your address there again
and we'll ship you out the you'll get the licken
lap from the Vita craft. So that's for your cat.
(40:20):
So that name it's like lick and.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Lap, yeah, like a yeah, okay, yeah, I'm sure it's
very good.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
It's it's an interest. Actually, you know what I have
to tell you. My cats, I feed them the moist
food in the mornings and sometimes some of them are
finicky and they won't eat certain times. So I took
the licken lap and I put it on top of
each one of their foods and food they eat all
their food good. So it worked. Well, that's good.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
You know who else is finicky? So Iberian huskies are finicky?
Speaker 2 (40:52):
You have one called Aurora.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yes, and she's very finicky. She sometimes won't eat at all. Yeah,
sometimes she'll go a day and won't eat mile so
she decides I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But he's just not hungry or no, she's hungry.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
She'll tell you she's still starving while you're eating.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
But because food.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yeah, she wants people food, but we don't give her
people food from the table.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Now we only have about a minute and a half left.
I don't know if you want to. I don't know
if you want to take Scar out of his box.
But if you want, I can kick him out because
my question on that though my cat is like all
about Scar right now? Shadow? Does that stress him out?
Scar at all?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Does he look stressed out? Just reached in and got him?
Was I word?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
So phil Philip our producers and Philip? Do you like snakes?
Speaker 6 (41:37):
So yes?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
To know, like I don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:41):
Always from poisonous to none.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
There are no poisonous snakes. They're a venomous from terminology.
But this guy is not venomous. He's he's perfectly harmless.
Even if he did bite, it would hurt, but it
wouldn't hurt you.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Well, I do want to touch the go ahead if
you're watching those on Facebook live right now. He scarred
the snakes.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
They're not slimy. Everybody always thinks snakes are slim. It's
the first thing I get when I take him. The
educational programs. Oh, they're not slimy.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I've held Scar before. I mean, he's really cool.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
You've held scar before? Well, the scars here by popular demand.
I mean, no, Scar is a again, what kind of
snake is a northern pine snake?
Speaker 2 (42:15):
A northern pine? How big will scar get?
Speaker 8 (42:18):
This is?
Speaker 3 (42:19):
He's a he's an old snake. He's about a twelve
thirteen year old snake. So he's up there. I mean
they can get up to about eight feet well a
little bit, a little bit wider.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
How long would corn snake live?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Well, this is the corn snake.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
These guys don't wait, can you say cornsnake? No, this
is a northern northern pine I'm sorry, yeah, northern pine.
How long.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
They're about in the same classes as corn snakes. They
live about sixteen to twenty years.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
That's not bad, no, I mean unless unless they get
attacked flag.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Well, yeah, captivity, this is captivity numbers in the wild
that's significantly lower.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
I mean, do they stand the chance in the wild.
I mean, I know a lot of them live in
the wild, but I mean, well, certainly, is that the
color that a northern pine would.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Yeah, because he's where he finds himself is slack and white. Well,
he blends into very sandy areas, very rocky sandy area.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
He's looking at me. Yike's hundred.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
The Jersey Pine barrens is where you find a lot
of these in the Jersey area, and it blends in
very well with the environment.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
He's got that tongue out like two forty.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
What's not all about, Well, that's a busy tongue. It's
it's checking for heat, it's checking for vibrations. So you
can hear because snakes on of ears. He hears you
through his tong checking from my blood.
Speaker 10 (43:21):
Yeah, they have.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
They have very poor eyesight. The tongue is how they
kind of navigate their world.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Well, we got to say goodbye for this hour of
Talking Pets. Thanks to everybody for tuning in. By the way, Spain,
new to your pets. Help control the pet population. If
you are looking to bring a pet home, go to
your local shelter rescue get one there. By the way,
don't forget check out the book and it is called
Wow in the Wild and you could find that in
bookstores and online. This is Talking Pets. Let's Talk Pets
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