[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Freaky Fana Friday, where every Friday we take a little time and explore some of the freaks of nature from around the planet.

[SPEAKER_00]: We cherish so deeply.

[SPEAKER_00]: So please jump aboard and let's explore the wilds together.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's Friday again already and it's just seem to fly by anymore.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember, it has become November?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wait, that's not how the song goes.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we have another Patreon submitted for Hiva on a Friday.

[SPEAKER_02]: We, who's we?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm the great and peaceful mystery.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm Jay.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is from Joe.

[SPEAKER_01]: Joe.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: What Joe?

[SPEAKER_01]: Joe V.

Oh, that Joe.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Joe.

[SPEAKER_01]: I might be trying.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's, it's Joe V is what it is on Patreon.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what I'm going with, but it's the drive with the crazy last name.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Flash drive, Joe.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know, Joe is.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the Honduran white bat.

[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know what this is from.

[SPEAKER_02]: This was in a movie.

[SPEAKER_02]: What's it?

[SPEAKER_01]: Ace Ventura, when nature calls, it was a great light bat.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is a completely different species.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's not this thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was in Africa.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, darn it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Where's where's Honduran?

[SPEAKER_01]: Honduras.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh gosh, it's either, oh gosh, it's either South American like in the islands.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is that it South American?

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Is it island?

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think Honduras, okay, but South America.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well you look at it on either.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was a kid.

[SPEAKER_01]: I always thought Honduras was in like the Alps.

[SPEAKER_01]: This was Alps.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay, because I just was not very good at geography, right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so when they had a there's a there's a Honduran milk snake It's common in the pet trade.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and it made no sense to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, got you okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Honduras is just um by Panama Yeah, Raga Costa Rica.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yeah, all them just have a I just have the little group of countries where this thing's found.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, got you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'll read that again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Unders, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Western parts of Panama are all where the undurant white bat are found.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: The other name for it is also known as the Caribbean white tent making a bat.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is a name.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Korean?

[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, no, no, not Koreans.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, Caribbean.

[SPEAKER_02]: White, tent, tent, making bat.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it makes tents.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, maybe.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a weight for the free fax.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is unique to all bats in its distinctive, completely white fur, which occurs in only six species out of the 1300 species of bat.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: So all white fur and bats are just extremely rare.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have a yellow leaf shaped nose ears and a black member membrane on their wings so their wings are black their face is highlighted with their giant ears and they're hugely shaped nose that's bright yellow and all their white fur.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: It gets the tint making nickname as it builds little tints out of leaves.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is first cuts carefully with its teeth.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like those little don't little like caterpillars or something do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's a there's a bunch of stuff that decorates or you know kind of uses stuff to cut like cut leaves though make like little tint like TPs kind of.

[SPEAKER_01]: These bats roost in these tents during the daylight.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they're making our own little homes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so this is where it gets kind of weird to me, where a lot of biologists kind of start, it's really hard to put where tooling starts and animals.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but we've talked about that in all the shows we do that I believe personally, animals are much more closer to sentient across the board than most humans give them credit for.

[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Fish and sex.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that we've talked about velvet worms where these, you know, invertebrates have prides like lions.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, pecking order.

[SPEAKER_01]: They hunt and packs.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's not a hive mind more like a beehive.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're an incolonial.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, an incolonial.

[SPEAKER_01]: These are separate organisms.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what are you together?

[SPEAKER_02]: What do you feel about cave goats?

[SPEAKER_01]: That was the one animal Satan was allowed to make.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, since you can sense me and shit.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I can probably work.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see their eyes?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's, there's look like people trapped inside of a goat.

[SPEAKER_02]: But like empty, like people like the whole of a person.

[SPEAKER_02]: Not the whole of a person.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, not an actual person.

[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thought.

[SPEAKER_01]: These guys live in rain forest.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I already said, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they can live up to, well, let's see how long do you think a little back could live up to and you know, these guys are pretty small.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're about 0.5 centimeters tall five centimeters.

[SPEAKER_01]: So six in six grams and wait, so they look like little moths, which is about one or zero point two ounces.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, small.

[SPEAKER_01]: four years up to 20 what that's was that's pretty freaky fauna it's it there there i mean all bats are kind of unique and weird in their own ways that's are a huge group of mammals i got he said thirteen hundred species everything from the you know the giant flying foxes uh...

to these guys you know and everything in between that's such a long time though for such a small it is [SPEAKER_01]: It's very six grams and five centimeters tall white fur like I already said, you know, yellow ears in nose.

[SPEAKER_01]: Their primary diet is fruit figs in particular.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're fig specialists.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.

[SPEAKER_01]: Predators everything.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, everything eats them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, but their big ones are snakes, possums, and owls.

[SPEAKER_01]: Possums.

[SPEAKER_01]: So these are, keep my in South American possums are a little different than the American possum.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, when we do a freaky fun on them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Golden possums and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're a little get up underneath in their colonies.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's why they make their tents for rain protection and predator protection that kind of make it hard for predators to like get into the underneath the leaves.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: How fast do you think they can fly?

[SPEAKER_02]: Should I have no idea up?

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, 10 miles an hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea.

[SPEAKER_01]: About 20.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, they're pretty fast.

[SPEAKER_01]: The undurin white bat is one of only two small species of bat that are basically Fruit of various.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can never say that word right just their fruit specialist.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's more, you know, to large bats that are fruit eaters [SPEAKER_01]: It's very rare for little bats.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, gotcha.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's only two known species of little bats.

[SPEAKER_02]: And this is one of them?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of neat.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, that's in a main part of their diet.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they're not, oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: They don't exclusively fruit.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, these guys pretty much do.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're not hunters.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not saying they're, I mean, there's, there's plenty of herbivores.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like horses, we maybe chickens and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: if the opportunity to arrive, but they're not going out of their way to find anything, right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, these guys prefer only one single variety of fig.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they seek this fig, and they roost very closely to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So when you're in the rainforest, you can find this fig tree.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's almost always a colony of these guys nearby.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's neat.

[SPEAKER_01]: The average home range of these little bats is less than a quarter of a square mile.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty small.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's [SPEAKER_01]: Scientists are struggle to see how a back cancer vibe on such limited food sources in this tiny space.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we're not really sure because they live in pretty decent sized groups.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if they're living for almost 20 years, there's something going on that they're doing that we don't understand.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like what, like what are you getting?

[SPEAKER_01]: The amount of food that is available in their home range is not substantial for their colonies.

[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's something else that they either have an ability to maybe go into like a stasis or slow down their metabolism.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe when they're sleeping, they don't metabolize.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's something.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this most scientists believe this suggests that they are supplementally food sources involved that we don't know about yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: So whether they're maybe eating worms, whether they're whatever, we don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're eating some kind of [SPEAKER_02]: So the Switch continues.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have a tone range of these bats, like I just already said, less than that, you know, quarter mile.

[SPEAKER_01]: The reproduction of these bats of the Honduran white bat is mostly unknown.

[SPEAKER_01]: Speculation puts birth occurring in April, two September, pregnant females have been noted in Costa Rica in February, March, June, July and August.

[SPEAKER_01]: The litter size is usually just a single pup, with mothers returning to the tent roost, of the six times in an evening to feed their pups, which can fly at three to four weeks of age.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's also just in that female hunter and white bats can become pregnant twice in a calendar year, although this has yet to been completely proven.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're not sitting there tracking them.

[SPEAKER_01]: there there are some colonies that are being watched pretty hard.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Over 60 years of past between their discovery, the first on door and light bat in 1898 and the second discovery in 1963.

[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a relatively new.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's first discovered in 1898.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then it wasn't seen again until 1963.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, that's still relatively new in the grand scale of time, for discovering the sandal.

[SPEAKER_01]: But that is currently listed as a near-threatened, and is meaning the criteria, capabilities of becoming a population of flying creatures that is significant to climb.

[SPEAKER_01]: However, this being said, the Hunter and Whitebath is also a verge of qualifying as vulnerable, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Habitat loss for the Honduran white bat is a form of in forms of conservation to farm land and expanding human population is the main threat to these species of bats.

[SPEAKER_01]: As they feed primarily only on a single species of fig, habitat loss will impact the population numbers greatly where we can see overnight, you know, huge swath of population dying off.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, because I can't leave.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're already some facts.

[SPEAKER_02]: Freaky fauna facts.

[SPEAKER_01]: The nest, in their leaves, they build like upside-down V-shaped tents, and they'll be whole colonies living there.

[SPEAKER_01]: They cut along the veins of the leaf with their teeth and forced them to collapse into a V-shaped, which is enough anywhere between one to 15 bats to shelter and in sleep, and they often huddled up together.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so they they multiple bat share one leaf shelter structure they often look like a big clump of fungus And it looks so cool people mistake them for like fungus on leaves and stuff like that because it will keep mine a very small.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's one of them mice.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy [SPEAKER_01]: The leaf tents help protect them from rain, the hot sun, and predators.

[SPEAKER_01]: It cleans the roof of the tent, then the leaves are generally six feet off the rain forest floor, which keeps them hidden from most dangers.

[SPEAKER_01]: It takes, and then the leaves are pretty flexible, but heavier predators like possums have trouble climbing out and the leaf to get up under them.

[SPEAKER_01]: The white fur, the next fact, the white fur of the hunter and white bat, makes them invisible.

[SPEAKER_02]: Two.

[SPEAKER_01]: As some link filters through the green lives, the white bat roost, the whiteish fur coat appears green from underneath.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, making them looking up at them, making them virtually indistinguishable from the leaves.

[SPEAKER_02]: And this dissipate camouflage.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the sudden filtering through the leaves when you're looking up, they pretty much just look like a big green blob.

[SPEAKER_01]: Huh.

[SPEAKER_01]: So a leaf.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty wild.

[SPEAKER_01]: Number four, the hunter and light bat will remain modestly and remain motionless in their tents.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're so confident that their protection and their roots that these tiny bats will not fly away or even try to escape from a threat unless the stem of the leaf of the roots has broken.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, people, you can walk up to kind of pick them up and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Go right up on them, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mm.

[SPEAKER_01]: If they sense the stand break, and then it's when they'll take off.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Undern white bats rely on echolocation and navigate at night, but also more traditional means for communication rather than relying on sonar.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's many bats do undern white bats interact with each other who touch individual means as well, more than most other bats.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they still use their eyes more than other bats.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, and feeling in touch and all that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they know's all in all that stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: Eat.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Hadir and white bat has built in UV ray protection in its coat.

[SPEAKER_01]: The black membrane is a thick and covered or it covers the skull of the bat as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's believed to shield them from the effects of the such ultraviolet waves, ultraviolet light waves that are coming into the leafs.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they're kind of laying in an area that is getting bleached even though there's a leaf for separating them from the sun.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: but they're still being in the most, you know, full sunlight all day.

[SPEAKER_01]: Seven, they do have the appetite for pigs in particular species is big chia, color, brinya.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh gosh, the Latin name.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, other species of fig occasionally are consumed under on white bat prefers this species of fig tree because it has an extremely high quality or produces many fruit all at once because it's so focused on eating figs, it's let's adapt it foraging and eating other fruits as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it struggles to even eat other fruit.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's highly specialized for the fig.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Honduran white bat leads a polygamous lifestyle.

[SPEAKER_01]: Each tent will be home to a single male and up to six females.

[SPEAKER_01]: During the mating season, the male bat will mate with the group of females.

[SPEAKER_01]: Dang.

[SPEAKER_01]: The wingspan of these pygmy bats is no more than four inches aka 10 centimeters.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's wild.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are really, really tiny.

[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of want one.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if they're in captivity just because they're highly specialized diet.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that'd be rough.

[SPEAKER_01]: One species of fig.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can't even feed them really other species of fig.

[SPEAKER_02]: We probably have this fig trees around here, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have figs.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just not that one.

[SPEAKER_02]: A Honduras fig tree.

[SPEAKER_01]: That would last year, fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is one of the only few species of bat that does not have a tail.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_01]: Bats typically use their tail to help take off, giving them extra lift in thrust.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the Honduran bats do not have one.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's what's receded.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, here's your next fact.

[SPEAKER_01]: I forgot this is in here.

[SPEAKER_01]: They don't make good pets.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, really?

[SPEAKER_02]: That's early in there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: 11.

[SPEAKER_01]: Aside from their tiny size and space required to keep them, replicas of their exact environment of these bats to survive in captivity would be close to impossible to mimic.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you had access to the endless supply of one specific fig date, bailing to match the ruseical requirements as well as humidity, heat, and light will cause health problems in the bats and the die extremely quick in captivity.

[SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense.

[SPEAKER_02]: So especially being as tiny as they are.

[SPEAKER_01]: Rainforest species are notoriously hard to bring into captivity.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, water is a huge one.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's just because of there.

[SPEAKER_01]: The how much moisture is in the air and the highly developed developed to it, but to recreate that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you do recreate it, they also have dry spots in the canopy where they know to go to dry out.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's really hard to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of people that suffer.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there's [SPEAKER_01]: Couple like suction cup salamanders that live in the canopies and rain forest where these guys are from okay They're extremely rare on the US because of this Because they are if you keep them too moist.

[SPEAKER_01]: They'll get fungus infections if they're too dry.

[SPEAKER_01]: They'll die.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's it.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're just hard rain forest species urnitorious The hunter and white bat Is a competition to the back stereotype [SPEAKER_01]: Not only do they not live in caves, it's not dark colored, it's just what them help shielding from the discovery of putters.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're also very small with brightly colored faces and noses.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they're fruity.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're breaking them all.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are being researched to combat molecular, degradation in humans.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's that?

[SPEAKER_01]: Its yellow nose leaf, ears, air, and lips are producing a carton in the noise, and are only known mammal to have a high enough concentration of this pigment to change the skin color to bright orange or yellow.

[SPEAKER_01]: which in the result of the Honduran white bat, being able to convert free look to, oh, sorry, esterfied lookton, lookton is a key character to do a character in a doid, pigment to prevent damage to retina in vision.

[SPEAKER_01]: Where researchers hoping to study the bat will perform treatments on humans with blurred or no vision in centers of their visual field.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this pigment that makes our faces orange.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're the only mammal that can produce enough to actually change a skin color.

[SPEAKER_01]: This pigment, it's the stuff that you just tell you to get from carrots and make your eye sight and proved.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, baby, care team?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But that's one version of this carrot to know it's the group.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: That they're producing that and they're putting them in usable concentrations, are usable chemical formula.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there's studies.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to work on using that for people the cure vision loss Yeah, blurred vision problems.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what just eat the carrots people the problem is the usable Yeah, because that's what they're they're taking in the compound.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, which most mammals can't use right and Transforming it into an usable compound So if you I wonder how they do that though that's they're still working on that yeah, and because there's done it You can't take them into the lab to study of me either right kill them [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can't take care of them.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so yeah, sadly though, always, and generally with a freaky fauna, they're on the verge of be classified as vulnerable.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_01]: The size of your population is completely unknown.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the classification is decreasing due to urbanization and Costa Rica, the species is so much to climb to the growth of the human population and the habitat loss that goes with that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's a good thing about this show is [SPEAKER_02]: Not only bringing awareness to the freaky fauna that's out there, but also bringing new awareness that they need protected as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so it's just good to have that in your conscious.

[SPEAKER_02]: The know that these animals do exist.

[SPEAKER_02]: The world is freaky and wonderful and awesome.

[SPEAKER_02]: Unless Honduran white bat is another little example.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can't protect something you don't know about.

[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: So now we all know, at least I know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that's, [SPEAKER_01]: There's so many, I mean, I'm fascinated with extinct fauna as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, um, when it's still here, you can look at it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're on the verge of it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, your kids is that's always the big thing for me is I talk about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want my kids to be able to if to go see a blue whale.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: They want to see a blue whale.

[SPEAKER_01]: You want to see a hunter and white bat.

[SPEAKER_02]: Everything you had access to seeing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because there's animals that we don't like the die during our lifetime.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we're ready.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those are several species of rhinos that they're gone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Or they're on their way out because there's no more males.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's the western black right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm always wrong because I can ever remember there's [SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to keep up with the rhinos, but one like the last one died.

[SPEAKER_01]: The last male.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there's like a couple females in captivity.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing you can do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're done.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's functionally extinct species.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like we've talked about with Buffalo fish.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're in a lot of their habitat because they lived to be a hundred.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you still see them there.

[SPEAKER_01]: But there's no babies.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's no, you know, the youngest one you're finding is 25, 30 years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's just nuts to think about.

[SPEAKER_01]: for the, you know, the big 100 year old adults.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But they, that means they haven't produced off spring in 30 years.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's not good.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's in our backyard.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's in me and your backyard, what we're sitting like literally 20 miles down the road is where I'm talking about those problems occurring.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, got you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, a hog Creek right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's no buffalo in there.

[SPEAKER_02]: There might be a small swaroom the other week.

[SPEAKER_02]: Those are a common car.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Nevermind.

[SPEAKER_01]: How Creek does have some pretty stuff in it, but no buffalo.

[SPEAKER_01]: No buffalo.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so, you know, take some time looking to something.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you guys have a freaky fauna, you want us to just please send it to us.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it makes it a lot easier on me, uh, because I always trouble remembering what we've done.

[SPEAKER_02]: What we've done, yeah, what we've done, because there's a lot of freaky fauna out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so we don't want to repeat.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I've been the great and peaceful mystery.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I've been Jay.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll catch you next week, guys.

[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.

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