Is a Tool?

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Is a Tool?

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Mar 24, 2021

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The Tongue-Eating Louse, Super Dense Neutron Stars, and Bees!

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Mar 24, 2021

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Life is strange, naturally you want to hear about it. Strange by Nature is your guide to the strange, weird and unbelievable side of nature. Professional naturalists present weekly curated stories about just how strange nature can get.

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A Pigeon Would Have Noticed the Microwave: Legless Lizards, Amazing Pigeon Skills, and Darwin’s Tubercle. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Wet Spot on the Savanna: Kirk tries to convince us that humans are actually a chimera of two species, Rachel brings the aquatic nightmare fuel and Victoria shares more than you probably wanted to know about Hyenas. Yikes. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Is a Tool?: The Tongue-Eating Louse, Super Dense Neutron Stars, and Bees! by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Exploding Napalm Bat Bombs: This one gets heavy. Victoria talks about the impact of snakes on an island ecosystem, Kirk tells the story of bats as bombs and Rachel dives into the deep to talk about Butterfly snails. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Things Go Off the Rails and Victoria’s Head Explodes: Things Older than Dinosaurs, Koalas, and Giant Leaf Insects. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Mammaries, Sloths and Manatees: Victoria tackles the mysteries of lactation in mammals, Kirk connects Avacados to extinct sloths and Rachel tries really hard to convince us that Mermaids are Manatees. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Surf, Turf and Outer Space: Naked Mole Rats, Coelacanths and Space fairing lichens. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Micro-Epilons & Assorted Nightmare Fuel: Being eaten alive while paralyzed, mites living (and loving) on your face, and being turned into a zombie by a worm. This one has it all. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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The Banana Slasher, Intra-uterine Cannibals and Other Sweet Stories: Not just Cannibals, this one also has a sugar cartel robbed in the largest heist in Canadian history and Kirk denies he is "The Banana Slasher." by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Rachel shows us the Hell Mouth: We're gob-smacked by the horrific mouth of the Gob-faced Squid, then transported deep undersea to study hydrothermal vents and finally we stop to ponder why everything keeps falling unconscious. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Loudest Penis in the World & Other Aquatic Stories: The Singing Penis of the Water Boatman, Freshwater Bryozoans and Weird Octopus Facts. An aquatic all-stars episode. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Urine Trouble for that Pun: Female only fish, Urine, and Lightening. Three completely random and fascinating topics. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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The Cat Made Me Do It: The Platypus, Toxoplasmosis and Maple Syrup. Do not combine these three things anywhere else but here. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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More Butts Than You Would Expect in One Episode: Victoria takes on a listener question about Brood X Cicadas, Kirk introduces us to the Many Assed Hydra Worm and Rachel explores (the history of) the anus. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Nightmare Fish, Contagious Cancer and Farting Comets: What can we say. This one has it ALL. If you need proof the universe is a strange place we got it right here. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Spiders can fly?: Rachel talks ghost flowers, Victoria chats about spiders flying with electricity and Kirk brings weather extremes on Earth. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Bleeding Crabs for Science: Rachel predictably brings us a story from the ocean and we learn about the bizarre Oar Fish. Victoria relives childhood beach trauma and tells us about the Horseshoe Crab and Kirk blows everyone's minds with amazing facts about the most numerous bird on ... by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Let’s all use the Pig Toilet: Rachel introduces us to the oldest shark in the world, Victoria discusses using human waste as fertilizer and Kirk blows our minds with an alternative evolutionary possibility. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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The Halloween Show: Brain Eating Amoebas, Rabid Werewolves and Snake eating Spiders. Come get some. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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All Hail the Trash Panda: This week, Rachel tells us about the bizarrely miniature Java Mouse Deer, Victoria talks about Staghorn Ferns and how they may actually form amazing social colonies with division of labor and Kirk delves into the important question, just how smart are Tr... by Strange by Nature Podcast
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He with the Biggest Mouth is Dominant: Kirk shares some ingenious research on bird migration, Rachel horrifies us with the Sarcastic Fringehead (and learns a geography lesson in the process) and Victoria brings on a plague of locusts. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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The Tree of Death, Hot Flowers and Sun Stones: Kirk tells us about the Tree of Death, Rachel shares about the thermogenic Skunk Cabbage and Victoria discusses how Vikings navigated using sun stones. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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The Extreme Slime of the Hagfish: Victoria brings us a slimy story of hagfish gone amok, Kirk takes his extremes off planet and Rachel impales our ears on a story of the Loggerhead Shrike. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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The WWII Carrot Propaganda We Still Believe: Rachel unravels the history of the Unicorn, Victoria explains albinism and related weirdness and Kirk debunks a myth about carrots that goes back to WWII propaganda. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Who threw up in my hat case?: Kirk brings us a malodorous mystery, Rachel gets into the Halloween spirit with Vampire Bats and Victoria talks about a possible real world candidate for the mythical Minhocão. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Special Guest Vikram Baliga from Plantropology!: In this very special episode we hang out with Vikram Baliga from the Planthropology Podcast. We ponder whether or not plants can see, learn about insects that look like plants and delve into the bizarre world of carnivorous plants. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Your Flamingo Seems to be on Fire: This this episode, Victoria introduces the concept of cryptically extinct animals, Kirks looks are the relationship between mosquitoes and blood type and Rachel talks about the possible real-world historical roots of the mythical Phoenix. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Scrotal sack snack pouch?: Rachel shares the story of the first ever broad-leafed tree (that is still with us today), Victoria digs on the Tasmanian Tiger and Kirk does a deep dive on these strange molecules called Carotenoids. by Strange by Nature Podcast
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Is a Tool?

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