Quick & Dirty Ep: 6

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Quick & Dirty Ep: 6

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26 minutes

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Sep 17, 2018

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A QND about Current Events. But uploaded a week after the events were current. Okay, so sue me.
We talk extinction, poaching, and murder-for-hire. It's a wild one.

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Sep 17, 2018

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Two zookeepers talk weird animals. Informative, irreverent, and sometimes funny. Learn about animals in a way you never have before, with all the dirty details from two people who aren't afraid to call animals out on their junk.

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Quick & Dirty Ep: 3: We answer listener submitted questions. How do Flora & Fauna like being zookeepers? Is it a good job? Is it what you thought it would be when you first started looking into zookeeping? What degrees do you both have? More importantly, would you rather be ... by Keeper Chat
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