Today we’ll be talking about tools! Tools of the trade, tools of torture, and tools of, well, hehe, you know. Bow-chika-wa-wah! What’s a butcher, a tailor, and a bendy-stick maker got in common? They’re all birds! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: what’s the most humiliating thing to happen to an eel? With special guest Carmen Angelica.

FOOTNOTES:  

1. Bottlenose dolphins wielding sponges

2. Video of a tailor bird sewing leaves together

3. New Caledonian crows create their own hooks

4. The Brazen Bull torture device

5. Butcher bird impaling its prey

6. Macaques using human hair to floss

7. Palm cockatoos drumming to get the ladies

8. Elephant's big D energy

9. The weird world of dragonfly wieners

10. The woman who has trained herself how to run like a horse

Correction: Living root bridges are found in Meghalaya, Northeast India. 

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Today we’ll be talking about tools! Tools of the trade, tools of torture, and tools of, well, hehe, you know. Bow-chika-wa-wah! What’s a butcher, a tailor, and a bendy-stick maker got in common? They’re all birds! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: what’s the most humiliating thing to happen to an eel? With special guest Carmen Angelica.FOOTNOTES:  1. <a href="https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/marine-mammals/sponge-wielding-bottlenose-dolphin">Bottlenose dolphins wielding sponges</a>2. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQMYpzbQIDA">Video of a tailor bird sewing leaves together</a>3.<a href="https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000161-1f56-d972-a3ff-dfde7b1d0000"> New Caledonian crows create their own hooks</a>4. <a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/brazen-bull">The Brazen Bull torture device</a>5. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQYO10MT3c">Butcher bird impaling its prey</a>6. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfiB88WmaII">Macaques using human hair to floss</a>7. <a href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/cockatoos-drumming-music-birds-australia/">Palm cockatoos drumming to get the ladies</a>8. <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/11/07/south-african-wildlife-wait-thats-not-a-trunk/">Elephant's big D energy</a>9. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/science/18dragonfly.html">The weird world of dragonfly wieners</a>10. <a href="https://www.insider.com/norwegian-woman-runs-and-jumps-like-horse-2019-5">The woman who has trained herself how to run like a horse</a>Correction: Living root bridges are found in Meghalaya, Northeast India.  Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>

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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What A Tool!

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