Today on the show, HAPPY NEW FEAR! Let’s discover fears you didn’t even know you had with some horrifying creatures! Take a one way trip to decapitation station, check out some very creepy babies, and endure the existential crisis after finding out when a butt is NOT a butt. Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question, is 80 worms too many worms to have inside of you? With special guests Tess Lynch, Molly Lambert, and Emily Yoshida of the Night Call Podcast. 

CONTENT WARNING: the trypophobia section starts at 00:42:55 and ends at 00:55:47

Footnotes:
The ant-head bursting fly, Euryplatea nanaknihali
Another fly that decapitates ants
Ants who decorate their homes with the heads of their enemies
Ant who pretends to be a butt
Study on Antman & Spiderman helping phobias
Margays imitate baby tamarins
Cats mimic the cry of babies
WARNING: CATERPILLAR BODY HORROR. Glyptapanteles wasp larvae bursting from a parasitized caterpillar.
Audubon Society's "When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide"
Creature FEET pod twitter
Margay used in episode image
Pied tamarin used in episode image

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Today on the show, HAPPY NEW FEAR! Let’s discover fears you didn’t even know you had with some horrifying creatures! Take a one way trip to decapitation station, check out some very creepy babies, and endure the existential crisis after finding out when a butt is NOT a butt. Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question, is 80 worms too many worms to have inside of you? With special guests Tess Lynch, Molly Lambert, and Emily Yoshida of the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-call/id1342254154">Night Call Podcast. </a>CONTENT WARNING: the trypophobia section starts at 00:42:55 and ends at 00:55:47Footnotes:<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.livescience.com/21326-smallest-fly-decapitates-ants.html">The ant-head bursting fly, Euryplatea nanaknihali</a></li>
<li><a href="https://eol.org/pages/807934">Another fly that decapitates ants</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/ants-head-hunters-attack-trap-jaw-enemies-nests/">Ants who decorate their homes with the heads of their enemies</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/the-beetle-that-pretends-to-be-an-army-ants-butt/516522/">Ant who pretends to be a butt</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262298/">Study on Antman &amp; Spiderman helping phobias</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/7/100712-cats-mimics-monkeys-prey-science/">Margays imitate baby tamarins</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/the-manipulative-meow-cats-learn-to-2009-07-13/">Cats mimic the cry of babies</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs">WARNING: CATERPILLAR BODY HORROR. Glyptapanteles wasp larvae bursting from a parasitized caterpillar.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide#%20">Audubon Society's "When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide"</a></li>
<li><a href=":%20https://twitter.com/creaturefeetpod">Creature FEET pod twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Margay.jpg">Margay used in episode image</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginout/4437790943/">Pied tamarin used in episode image</a></li>
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We take a critter’s eye view to explore how animal behavior parallels humans. Join comedians and science-lovers as we get inside the minds of animals

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