21 min
303: The Birds! Brain Junk
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- Sciences
Trace found some delightful random facts about birds! Today we're talking "anting", talons locked to the death, and musical cockatoos.
Show Notes:
Journal of Ornithology: Anting behavior in birds
Video of crow anting: aka the spicy spa
Bird Note: anting
Facebook video of bald eagles cartwheeling
Bird Note: Eagles cartwheeling
Palm Cockatoos playing their instruments
Research paper on Palm Cockatoos
Funny vid with Conan O'Brien and a palm cockatoo guest
Transcript:
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to Brain Junk. I'm Amy Barton.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Trace Kerr. And I just saw a spider and I'm terrified. But we're going to do this episode because I'm an adult.
Today we're going to, today we're going to talk about everything you never knew you wanted to know about birds.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Just everything about birds.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: Everything.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: People grab a hot beverage.
[00:00:24] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: This episode, it's going to be like 12 hours. It's an eight part episode. No, it's like three things that I really thought were cool. And that's everything. So there you go.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Excellent.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: We're winning at information, but I saw the spider. You mentioned ants, and the first thing we're going to talk about is this thing called anting. A-N-T-I-N-G. So it's perfect. It's just synergy. We're just coming together.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Love it.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: If you don't like ants, just, you have to skip through this beginning little part.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: If you see a whole nest of them, do your feet tingle? If I see a whole pile of them, my feet are like having accidentally.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Stood with my foot in a red ant nest in Georgia.
They're so spicy.
[00:01:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: I feel like the warmer it gets, the spicier the ants get.
That far south. Those are some very exciting ants.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: Well, and here's the thing.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: So there's at least 250 species of birds like crows and robins and jays that love that acidic spa treatment.
Trace found some delightful random facts about birds! Today we're talking "anting", talons locked to the death, and musical cockatoos.
Show Notes:
Journal of Ornithology: Anting behavior in birds
Video of crow anting: aka the spicy spa
Bird Note: anting
Facebook video of bald eagles cartwheeling
Bird Note: Eagles cartwheeling
Palm Cockatoos playing their instruments
Research paper on Palm Cockatoos
Funny vid with Conan O'Brien and a palm cockatoo guest
Transcript:
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to Brain Junk. I'm Amy Barton.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Trace Kerr. And I just saw a spider and I'm terrified. But we're going to do this episode because I'm an adult.
Today we're going to, today we're going to talk about everything you never knew you wanted to know about birds.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Just everything about birds.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: Everything.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: People grab a hot beverage.
[00:00:24] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: This episode, it's going to be like 12 hours. It's an eight part episode. No, it's like three things that I really thought were cool. And that's everything. So there you go.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Excellent.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: We're winning at information, but I saw the spider. You mentioned ants, and the first thing we're going to talk about is this thing called anting. A-N-T-I-N-G. So it's perfect. It's just synergy. We're just coming together.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Love it.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: If you don't like ants, just, you have to skip through this beginning little part.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: If you see a whole nest of them, do your feet tingle? If I see a whole pile of them, my feet are like having accidentally.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Stood with my foot in a red ant nest in Georgia.
They're so spicy.
[00:01:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: I feel like the warmer it gets, the spicier the ants get.
That far south. Those are some very exciting ants.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: Well, and here's the thing.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: So there's at least 250 species of birds like crows and robins and jays that love that acidic spa treatment.
21 min