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gentlemen thank you for listening the meat eaters world news headquarters in bozeman montana this is called we can review with ryan cow gel and now here's cal this week we're talking about
other things copper light a compromise
as a classy name role boot
fossilized feces if you
the issuer
the layer downer of a compromise
you are its author by all
is an anthropologist
are interested in top relates because they are evidence of the animals behaviour rather than morphology as in you can t
what it's been eating which is telling
in addition to old dried up dumb to damage
touch on fish birds poachers snakes tex getting drowned
and general outdoors goings ons
for we get into the news from big wide world first i'm going tell you about my
as it turns out
no recovering from my turkey on spring green hills outside in nashville ten
the other morning with the tennessee tech
hitchhiker if you will embedded in my armpit miss was travelling for a number of reasons one is being
mid thirties it just doesn't feel great to question your ability to clean yourself and then there's the simple creepy feeling of discovering parasites on yourself on my way home from tennessee to nashville airport this is where it gets real exciting
hacking away at my emails in the delta lounge feel any action find tick embedded on the back my arm but man that's acts that i felt another
drop out of my rapidly receding airline
on my shoulder this was enough tick activity to get me fully grow
stout bottoms
in the action so there have completely strip nay given
answering the delta lounge performing a full on dick check where i ve
tear embedded in my skirt and only bring this because i am big on honesty in quite sincerely
when a man finds a disease carrying parasite and what the old timers would call your soft parts it's a real sinking feeling ticks attach themselves to hosts by questing which is climbing to a vantage point now allow them to either grab or drop onto an animal as they pass by ticks can carry a number of diseases most notable being lyme disease and rocky mountain spotted fever which are both bacterial infections that are introduced to humans through contact with the offending tick ticks need to be attached
twenty four hours or longer in order to transmit so catch merlin brevity
subject born illnesses is steadily increasing in the u s for instance there's been an over three
increase and confirmed limes cases since
team ninety seven now to fish
for those of you waiting on the minnesota whitefish record to be broken
it's been a long time ago a quick facts about the lake white fish is
it is the most commercially valuable freshwater fish and canned here
states sometimes regarded as a trash page but europeans are met
about the row commercial
white fishermen who harvest the fish trip with trap net
and make as much or more from exporting caviar as they do so
delays anyhow
it's a whitefish record from ninety ninety nine has been busted by
first time eyes angler his third
in pound nine point one ounce whitefish came
and almost thirty inches in length and twenty two
winches ungirt lie in montana we got a big whitey
while the angler was new to vision he's
hey i'm new doing for flathead cabotage needling or tickling is winning
flathead by inserting a hand into their mouth and allow them
right down on your aunt when the cat bites you how it from the war
fish newly record is eighty five pounds two ounces there
all time flathead record for reg
fishing would you say
not all drowned unreal set up is over
twenty three pounds that fish
from kansas if you think pulling fish through the ice or grabbing them by the mile sounds cruel or if you think who cares it's just a fish
take a look at the case of michael re handsome not to be confused with the wonderful taxes musician make a p hansen
or a was charged with one count of abandonment of an animal and three
mr meaner cruelty to animals anson was
did from his home in new hanover county north carolina and left behind and neglected six inch oscar fish
authorities found the oscar in deplorable conditions with parasitic hole in the head disease yes
who in the head disease apparent
a common problem encountered by aquarium enthusiasts good thing for handsome
new hanover county district attorney ben david determine that animal cruelty statutes don't apply to fish
de stated we take a very
in view of anyone who would abuse any creature great or small think about
the next time you see a bunch goldfish plastic bags at the fair or heaven forbid
in the bottom of your fish bucket speaking protections for fish check this wanna it brown
it goes without saying that fish in the desert are rare but would you guess that death valley is home to the rarest known fish on earth the devil's hole located not all that
far from las vegas command is part of the ash meadows complex which is in turn part of the death valley national park complex is comprised of seeps springs that bring fossil water which is water that seeped into the ark for millennia go to the service or could be more tempting the water in the desert right right
devils hole is seriously protected place ten foot fancy
highly controlled highly monarch
two thousand sixteen small group of or drunk and arm desert dwellers decided for reasons unknown to go for a swamp the boys
through the fence and in short order we've gotten the illegal skinny dipper in devils hole the skinny dipper is a convicted felon in possession of a shotgun during swim he manages to step onto the small shelf of rock that is the epicenter of life at devil's hole when the national
large service crews made aware of this violation they should
to investigate as it turns out it looks as though
the disturbance of the pool and devils whole resulted in the death of a rare pup fish when i say rare i mean the devil's hole
a finnish you wanna be rearrest fish on the plan is tiny shimmering blue fish is only found back in the waters of devils home the devil's hold up fish has been
the endangered species list since the list was created while we don't know for absolute certain that this fellow killed the pop fish circumstantial evidence is pointing very decidedly in that direction so what's the punishment fewer in anything here let it be this don't go drinking
amazing with the endangered species act are skinny dipper was finally sentenced recently and got nine months in the clink for the essay violation four months for the trespassing and destruction of property and has to pay fourteen thousand in restitution to the national park service and to top it all off the queen
mother of all punishments pound release the devil's whole skinny dipper we'll be forbidden to enter fed
public lands for the rest of his life and this is where i start feel bad for a deeper this guy is
he's made a really bad decisions deplorable when you think about wiping species off the face of the earth for the sake of drunken dumb ass three things are likely regret for the rest of their lives and should mind you but imagine you live in nevada and you ve been
for life from eighty four point
percent of your home state eighty four point nine is the percentage of federally managed land in the bad you ve based great and sends to live in las vegas and that sounds cruel and unusual to me and the spirit
reform i'd rather see
deeper sense cleaning up the desert as opposed to being banned from let's go from lille
blue fish to the big
to the alligator guard a couple of years
and brazos river landed a seven foot seven inch alligator gar weighing in at one hundred and ninety eight pounds the head alone weighed twenty five now this sounds like a beast but the world record came out of texas and went two hundred and seventy nine pounds these creatures date back to the
patients barium mean
alligator garabin swimming for at least sixty six million years if you watch
movie jurassic world the diner
the jumps out of the water needs that
wretch hybrid a damn
moses or the moses or and the garter swam at the same time obviously
garnish though around and moses organism
we get the term living thousand some of our favour
living fossils horseshoe crabs snapping turtles
sums and the days diaz devolve the american brown hair and analyse here's a few more fun facts about the guard scales stretch
old allows more scales scales that don't ghana
scales gar have ganoids or scales making had serious bite without effect one reason gar may have stood the test of time is it
dish and regular old fish gills the guy has a specialised swim bladder that acts like along this specialised swim bladder allows the guard
sip air from the surface because of this
darkening habit low oxygen water other fish can i just for it
few flies another guy species the spot a guard down in texas few weeks ago on the lionel river really need fish he should devil
fuck em up like public life
as i was saying nevada matter how good junk of them but soon the sheep range mountain
that is what you can see from
airplane window when you're landing in vegas may soon
it closed after the public ouch right now the u s military is asking for an additional two hundred and twenty five thousand acres of the mountain range for bombing practice that's the size of two thousand two hundred and fifty disneyland's if you include the new star wars expansion there are a few problems with this one being that these mountains happened to be some of the best desert bighorn sheep habitat in the world once
time and time it's estimated that we have around two million bighorn sheep as both rocky
am desert big aren't thanks to unregulated market hunting
but our laws and disease the latter of which remains the primary threat to sheep that number was whittled down to roughly fifteen thousand by nineteen hundred now we're back up around seventy thousand sure not perfect
we're out of the big worn dark ages and getting there any
keep that still on the mountain is there because we fought for it that certain
through the sheep range big horned for decades
inspiration organizations such as while chief foundation have work
ass is off to conserving
range and it's six hundred desert bighorn habitat
movements water improvements in peace
about their heart sweaty work
jargon hundreds of regular folks dawning time and money on behalf of wildlife let's not
is that away get off your but and act now call your electorate officials if you care about desert big horns and public access of wild places i understand the needs of national defence but let's
the long game here what's wild should stay wild or
i going to run out of degraded landscapes so don't worry about that and the war on wild cheap now we're gonna talk about things that should be
things that shouldn't be
nearer northern border with canada
superior is i'll royal national park
i'll royal his remit
island chain in the northwest corner of the lake a car
free michigan wilderness where at least nowadays moose
jerome somewhat
seriously first showed up on the island in the early
nineteen hundred either they watch cross the eyes to get there or someone brought them out there and cut them loose wolves showed up and nineteen forty eight having crossed
an ice bridge between mainland ontario and the island things have been up and down since then the wolf population got as high as fifty reason
we drop to just two inbred
or all get out meanwhile moose kickin acts at occur
estimated population of around fifteen hundred the national
our service recently released for grey wolves to help the wolf population now and we are preparing to do
we're twenty or thirty more over the next five years at a cost of two million dollars you might
wonder why we'd be flying animals back and forth to a national park parks are supposed to be places where nature is allowed to run of course unimpeded by man granted it sounds a little bit like zoo keeping well
this case it s be with ice in cold weather ice bridges
between the mainland neo royal we're more
when in past decades which
some sporadic coming and going of craters but times have changed now it
seldom freezes good enough for
nineteen ninety eight until two thousand and eleven a solid ice
formed only once in two thousand eight from two thousand third
in two thousand seventeen
i our royal was connected to the mainland only twice in those instances only for a few days somewhat ironically one of the wolves that was flown out to save the wolves that can't get replenished due to a lack of ice promptly left the island on you guessed it an ice bridge it's re
complicated out there on oil
you want know something that's also pretty interesting up until the twin
he's in the thirties violence
was home the wings in cariboo all
its banished without any restocking efforts from us humans are we
are now we're just different on the floor
to a two thousand and study twenty six per
all mammals birds reptiles amphibians in fish in southern florida or non native we'll talk
iguanas snake adds to lapierre parakeet
four hundred and fifty other species florida even has feral monkeys climate around at the non
digital species capital of the united states allowed that florida means land flowers in spanish so that's nice
returning to now natives they ve got the burmese people
living down there the biggest is better
over twenty three feet in length and two hundred pounds in their native range of southeast asia they didn't think they can get that big in florida at least
until now in big cyprus national preserve researchers captured a seventeen foot female python that weight over a hundred and forty pounds
seventy three eggs they caught at using the judas method in the bible judas betrays jesus in florida judas was a male python with tracking device that they release so he could go out and do a male pie sounds want to do which is fine females
some time tracking back down see who he's hang him once in this case it was the hundred and forty pound girlfriend confirming beyond doubt that florida
can grow big snake big snakes can only get big by eating well
according to studies by the u s geological survey in everglades national park there has been a ninety nine point three percent decrease in raccoon observation and ninety eight point nine percent decrease in a possum operations observations
eighty seven and a half percent decrease in
can't observations the most recent surveys have shown that marsh rabbits cottontail rabbits and foxes have quote effectively disappear
of course not natives caused as more than just native wildlife
according to the nature conservancy invasive
species caused the united states about one hundred
billion dollars per year over west
forward a few states me got texas send their
proud and beautiful rattlesnakes oil rigs
shit load of daggers if you don't
what i'm talkin about dimension daggers you
listen to last week's episode of this year also poachers
doing it for the grams instagram that is deeds
for the gram my leader poacher to time behind bars
recently the texas
operation game thief wildlife crime stoppers hotline started
worrying about illegally taken wild turkey perpetrators spotted the bird rolled the wind
down squeezed out for shale vouch and ended the life of the spring turk apparently this
sort of multitasking caught at all on video and loaded for his eye
followers common sense what did
that you first off shore
roll down the window of your honey reg to blast turkey or any
i am all for that matter in most states
waiting for the roadway in
if action is illegal secondly don't
you're illegal activity that instagram and share with the world i appreciate
easy job you are making for the game morton's bud
i want to be associated with you as part of the hunting communal
more from taxes remember that
opening bit about compromise here's why
that is in the lead
eighteen sixties archaeologists collection
four thousand samples of human produced copper light
can my whole sheltered himself was taxes just recently these
apples were re examined by an archaeological team from texas ain't now in one of the samples they found a small rodent apparently hole which for the people
around can enhance shelter was not abnormal waves in the desert
as it's challenges in another sample the team did get a as a surprise in
what appeared to be a whole rattlesnake including snakes hide head
one centimeter long fact according to the authors of the report quote
propose that a likely explanation for the engine
jim huntington
snake is that the individual
did so for ages
please ceremonial or ritualistic purpose end quote you know there's a joke in the archaeological
community is something he dug up doesn't make sense caught rich
where's that were or ceremonial and move on thing is i think
the few things i've ingested there were certainly not ceremonial or ritualistic though they still make
tat for anyone to propose a likely
explanation for my behaviour from our attack
ology desk engineers coronel airborne lab you ornithology have created at the request of
professor in the department of evolution and ecology at the university of california davis a sage grouse femme ba
as for these lovely robotic ladys of the sage was inspired
and the desire to understand sage grouse breeding habits specifically
how manmade disturbances effect breeding efforts on and around lex which are communal breeding areas where male sage grouse compete for females through elaborate sexual displays science
it's remotely drive these robotic bird renditions which sport an external frame that's wrapped with female sage grouse skin and feathers and further fitted with all train wheels the mechanized lovebirds are fitted with the camera to capture male behaviour up close and personal sometimes too close
strutting males have repeatedly mounted and attempted to breathe
he's female robots then again they have also been reported to mount an old dried up calvin
tough times for sage grouse love making and lastly a word
wonderful texas musician i mentioned earlier might be handsome again don't confuse ham
michael re handsome the guy
if neglected his pet fish grandpa was born on a cold summer's day the tanks and tune in next week find out more about all this fascinating information of meat eater dot com
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