[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to freaky fauna Friday, where every Friday we take a little time, explore some of the freaks of nature from around the planet.

[SPEAKER_02]: We cherish so deeply.

[SPEAKER_02]: So please, jump aboard and let's explore the wilds together.

[SPEAKER_04]: Still winter.

[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to freaky fauna Friday.

[SPEAKER_03]: And with it being so cold, we're gonna talk about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I say to survivor.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, nice.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, before we talk about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Who are you?

[SPEAKER_03]: Great and peaceful, Mr.

Dwayne, I'm Jay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think you could catch one of these guys?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I already know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I already know these guys.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think one of these guys.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can't say I can't say that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Burgers are bad.

[SPEAKER_03]: The stakes are good.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, wonder why that is?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because they have no fat on them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, we're going to talk about prawn horns.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: AKA prawn horn and a lobe, which is not correct.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, they're not antelopes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not, not technically, they're not true antelope.

[SPEAKER_04]: Are they deer?

[SPEAKER_04]: Huh?

[SPEAKER_04]: Are they deer?

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so most of us do not, you know, naturally make the connection between the US and Mexico border.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and animal migrations.

[SPEAKER_03]: But this is one of the animals that's being heavily impacted.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we've never really talked about the border wall, but there's a lot of species that are being like populations cut off because of the wall.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because of the wall.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because it's, you know, it's imbaggerable for people.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's imbaggerable for animals and prong hordes when they're affected by that.

[SPEAKER_03]: But there's been studies using motion activated cameras on the scenario in Mexico border.

[SPEAKER_03]: that capture thousands of pronghorn trying to go back and forth in three years.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, so pronghorn is native.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's native even towed, hoofed, aerodactyl.

[SPEAKER_04]: Aerodactyl?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like one of those words for ungulate.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's a pokeyman.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is kind of archery of the actyl.

[SPEAKER_03]: I archery of the actyl, sorry.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, that makes more sense.

[SPEAKER_03]: uh...

North America is only home for the pronghorn although they once lived all over southern Canada in northern Mexico pronghorn are most common in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, northeastern California, south eastern Oregon in the great plains of Utah and Wyoming so they're the southwest [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but they used to be all over the U.S.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Candidate in Mexico.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow.

[SPEAKER_03]: But they pretty much been restricted out to that reduced down to there.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's came with the same great calling of a lot of North American species from White Tales, the Turkey's to Bison.

[SPEAKER_04]: To Woodland, Bison.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Where they just got pushed back, and it's just where they, they held on.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, red.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Wyoming's red desert is one of their strongest populations.

[SPEAKER_03]: Any Yellowstone, too.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they're all the way up in there.

[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, they're not scared of the cold.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not that they're desert animals.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: They just, that's where they've left.

[SPEAKER_03]: Pung over for planes, fields, grasslands, brush deserts are basins.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, which is one of their freaky fun facts of why they prefer these things.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: But they can't be found in some woodlands mountain ranges and that kind of stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: Prong went travel during the summer and winter months, searching for places to graze during the fall of the spring as when they're mostly stationary.

[SPEAKER_03]: These horned mammals have a yellowish brown and reddish brown fur, with stripes on their neck and mouth, males have a black throat and face, making them eagulately distinguishable from a distance.

[SPEAKER_03]: So let's talk about some weird things about them.

[SPEAKER_03]: There are sometimes confused with antelope, but they are not true antelope.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Some other ungulate.

[SPEAKER_03]: They can outrun a cheetah and they can run a longer distance.

[SPEAKER_03]: So either top speed may not match a cheetah.

[SPEAKER_03]: They can outrun a cheetah based on the distance they can run.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they're not quite as fast, but yeah, but can run faster longer.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so we'll talk about the antelope thing first, although they're not actually antelope.

[SPEAKER_03]: The American prognor is commonly referred to as the prognor and antelope, it's just most of their common names.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like old-world antelope, they do serve a similar ecological niche in North America.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So this is what is that called?

[SPEAKER_03]: Would two animals do the same niche?

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, co, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, come on.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why isn't it coming to my brain?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's coal, it's not in co-inhabitants, co-vergent.

[SPEAKER_04]: Co-vergent.

[SPEAKER_04]: Dang it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Despite their common misidentification, or prawn horns, you know, are not really closely related to the animal of what's so ever, you want to guess what family that they're most closely related to?

[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm, well, I guess deer earlier, and that wasn't right.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, check that one off of this, and you already said, it's not in a lope.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, like maybe some goats.

[SPEAKER_03]: There you got it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was goats.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they belong to the Bova Day family.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love that was cows.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that's the whole family is cows.

[SPEAKER_03]: But goats and pronghorn fall under that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: But their bodies are shaped very similar to deer with long legs and a long nose but a short tail.

[SPEAKER_04]: Goat deers.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is what they're all right.

[SPEAKER_03]: That kind of is when you really look at them, look at them.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can see the goat.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So keep my dears.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't have horns.

[SPEAKER_03]: They have antlers.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_03]: What's the big difference between horns and antlers antlers fall off?

[SPEAKER_03]: Antlers have velvet too, which is vascularized skin.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is that what the people like ingest for at basic like steroids?

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I know where that deer eat it when it starts dot so what the velvet is is and was a really soft when they're growing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so the velvet protects them and applies a lot of blood keep growing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, and all of the dear family like reindeer and everything they do that have the velvet.

[SPEAKER_03]: yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: So like Luke killed a deer, a big buck, that they called lopside because his antler went and antlers pushed over on top of the other.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: They think he was hit by a car when it was soft.

[SPEAKER_03]: Holy cow.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he survived and it's just that's what that's what it did to his antlers because they when he got him.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, that's gotta be a cool man out.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's in as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so the difference with animals like pronghorn cows and goats is they have a bone core to their horn and then a character a carrot a carrot and sheath on top.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So the actual horn you feel is the sheath.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So like a fingernail or hair, but it has a bone core to it and there's flesh in between.

[SPEAKER_04]: So when people find those and they're like hollow, it's just the bone part is falling out.

[SPEAKER_03]: The bone part is still attached to the skull.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, for example, dinosaurs, we have a lot of dinosaurs they have this, but you have everything from, like, pronghorns that have a more, like, they have a bone core, but pretty small horns, and then you have, like, things that have big horn sheep.

[SPEAKER_03]: have these massive, you know, massive head gear, but still have the same like size core.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So when people are reconstructing like dinosaurs, for example, we don't know what the characters seeds look like.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, they might have had big.

[SPEAKER_03]: They could be, you know, extremely dramatic.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: They could be reduced, males, sexual dimorphism.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like all goats, all pronghorn, have antlers, or, you know, it's, oh, horns.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And males are a little different than females, so they are sexually dimorphic, same with like big orange sheep and even even male goats domestic goats have different horns, if they let them grow long enough, they'll start to develop different if you don't even keep like people ban goat horns when they're little to keep them from growing okay, because they can hurt each other or poking eye out when they're eating.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Captivity it just what if you let them grow they do get different.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, pronghorns are among the fastest land animal in the world, and they are the fastest land animal in America.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: The only two pronghorns have the longest land migration in the United States, but they also set the record for the overall speed of a land animal in North America.

[SPEAKER_03]: They've been recorded up to about 61 miles per hour, but it's pretty fast.

[SPEAKER_03]: which is comparable to the cheetah speed I thought so cheetah's can get I think seventy two is the fastest we have a recorded cheetah I think that she did what is it ran so fast it just disintegrated you know no there hearts can explode okay so cheetahs are designed to go with that like very very fast for like less than seven seconds okay but that's what that's it yeah they're like suma wrestlers mm-hmm [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so while they can't outrun a cheetah route right, they can definitely beat it in the distance.

[SPEAKER_03]: Gotcha.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're just going to keep going.

[SPEAKER_03]: They are often ranked as the second fastest lane in both the world, but only behind me African Cheetah, but it can get up to rapid speed, but for much longer periods in Cheetahs.

[SPEAKER_03]: Having evolved to run quickly from dangers over a long distances, on horns are capable of speeds that would put them ahead of Cheetahs.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, because of this fact.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is at risk of being losing their very lives if they don't add quickly enough.

[SPEAKER_03]: Next, tricky fun of fact is even the female prong horns have horns.

[SPEAKER_03]: While they are very different than male prawn horns, true horn features are single points, rather than the forked points of the males.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, so that's the time more fizz of there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: More like a goat, like a normal goat horn was just one kind of horn going up.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: On each side, you know, a pair of horns, but one on each side of its head.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the adult male prawn horns have like the fork.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Gotcha.

[SPEAKER_04]: On each side.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mails can't have forward facing points that can get up to 10 inches long.

[SPEAKER_03]: This leads to pronghorn's names.

[SPEAKER_03]: Female prong horns, much like their male counterparts have the long horn, but they don't have the smaller point that comes off it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: Prong horns are the only creature that regularly shed their forked horns.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they'll actually shed their the carrots and sheets.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it's really only one that does it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty unique.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is different than like rhinos, for example, like rhinos don't have anything in there.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's just one.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's what is there.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's no bone care, just all care to care for a hair, your fingernails.

[SPEAKER_03]: Even though it's considered a horn, it's a different type of horn.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, if that's all you got, you can't call it something else.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that's a horn.

[SPEAKER_03]: uh...

number five is pronghorns are extremely social pronghorns are hurt animals and they tend to travel in extremely large groups on the other hand during the spring though bucks frequently venture out alone form small mating groups mating season spong are uh...

pronghorns is september and october protection from other males plagamous bucks build herums of up to ten does during the winter herds are pronghorns can reach up to a thousand members [SPEAKER_03]: That's a lot of individuals of both genders and age in the spring the flocks of females just spurs into smaller groups by the males form bachelor groups of one to five years of age the older males tend to just wander alone.

[SPEAKER_03]: Max fact is these guys were almost extinct.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So like you already mentioned some of their their friends that are gone like the woodland bison these guys got up right there with them.

[SPEAKER_04]: as far as numbers myth.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, status.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, there's a point in time in North America's status where the bison were thought to be extinct.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Or like people in New York and stuff like that were talking like, well, the bison are gone.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's no more bison.

[SPEAKER_03]: The yellow stone herd, I think, is a big part of why they're still our bison.

[SPEAKER_04]: Still around.

[SPEAKER_03]: Due to extensive preservation efforts, Pronghorn have recovered from near extinction in the late 19th century.

[SPEAKER_03]: Numerous predators on prey on pronghorn, including wolfs, coogers, bobcats, coyotes, wild dogs, and golden eagles.

[SPEAKER_03]: What?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Due to their restoration, our restrictions on shooting in preservation of stable habitat, pung or numbers increased around a million individuals now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Good.

[SPEAKER_03]: So like where they're abundant, where they are, they generally are abundant now.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Good.

[SPEAKER_03]: But there are hunting seasons on them and stuff like that where you can.

[SPEAKER_03]: And their numbers are stable, but they may have been down just a few thousand individuals.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, at least we did a good job there recovering.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like the white tail deer.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't, yeah, the white tail here in Ohio was extinct.

[SPEAKER_04]: But now, yeah, now I can't go home from work without hitting one.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you have to look out every night.

[SPEAKER_03]: Number seven, their horns are extremely unique.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: They are like horns, or sorry, they're like horns and antlers put together.

[SPEAKER_03]: While actually antlers are composed of bone in our shed and annually, true horns are constructed of a character in sheath.

[SPEAKER_03]: They develop over a bony core and never are shed.

[SPEAKER_03]: The prong horns horns are not antlers, but false horns.

[SPEAKER_03]: The horns sheaths are made up of character and fall off annually, exposing the bone cores.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they're hybrids.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're very unique among everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's pretty interesting.

[SPEAKER_03]: So people actually go out and walk and collect them every year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, why wouldn't you?

[SPEAKER_04]: You're a problem with horn territory.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, they number eight.

[SPEAKER_03]: They mark their territories and communicate through scent.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because they are diurnal or because of its diurnal and nocturnal nature is the problem horn can be seen both day and night.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: The manals travel up to 10 kilometers, which is about 6.5 miles, to spray their scent glands and mark their territories daily.

[SPEAKER_03]: Geez, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: They use a scent to communicate along and then identify the territories, one off others, potential threats, and let note like food and water availability and all kinds of stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: So these, the pronghorn buck has a 9-o-factory glands.

[SPEAKER_03]: What's happening?

[SPEAKER_03]: scent glands.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I knew all factory, but you said they have [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay, so the male has more glands, actual olfactory glands in the female.

[SPEAKER_03]: The glands behind the ears are employed to scent mark during mating season.

[SPEAKER_03]: The glands located on the rump serve as important purpose when threatened.

[SPEAKER_03]: Huh, they have these glands all over their bodies.

[SPEAKER_03]: Males have three more than females.

[SPEAKER_04]: and then just leave basically messages for each other kinds of it's just heavily they're not not nearly as local as other bovids but they communicate dramatically what is that they're sent a fair amount yeah that's how they speak and [SPEAKER_03]: uh...

prongorons number nine prongorons birth our babies are very very mobile very quickly after birth uh...

like anilope you know another animal that they're not close related to they got to get up and move quick and that's most migrating species right a lot of them have to yeah some bigger animals take more time horses are my walking within the hour [SPEAKER_03]: drafts to drafts have to get up and move pretty quick.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's to have a baby like humans are, you know, the extreme on the other end.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Or it's, you know, years, years.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, before you can let a baby be alone.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yes, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, in humans, you know, we don't move around.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're not migrating.

[SPEAKER_03]: But we also, even when we were doing that, we developed the ability to carry our offspring.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, true.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: So you see this in the house.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, well, even like monkeys and slots, where they, you know, can carry their babies.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they, their babies are less mobile, uh, you know, even possums are another great example.

[SPEAKER_03]: Kangaroos takes months for their babies to be mobile.

[SPEAKER_03]: Baby prawn horns make their first fling-billing steps up to 30 minutes after birth, and by the time that they are just four days old, they can outrun, you say, and bolt.

[SPEAKER_03]: Dang, just four days.

[SPEAKER_03]: By the time they're a week old, they can outrun a horse.

[SPEAKER_03]: Dang, prongong calves are milk fed exclusively by their mothers until they reach about four or five months old, and then they start switching on to grasses.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that's, that's funny that within 30 minutes, they can, they're a good run.

[SPEAKER_03]: But they got to stay on the other days, they can outrun you saying, bull, yeah, and a week to get outrun a horse, but that whole time they got staying on mom's milk.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, last one is pronghorns have big eyes and they have great eyesight pronghorns have long black eyelashes that function as a sun vis of visor and the pronghorns wide field of vision up to 320 degrees, make it an excellent detector of predators the pronghorns and ellipse eyesight and depth perception are both exceptional in development at ranges of three miles is just capable of noticing the tiniest glint of movement.

[UNKNOWN]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: Pronghorns possess the largest eyes of any North American ungulates in relation to their body size.

[SPEAKER_03]: Each eye is around an inch and a half in diameter.

[SPEAKER_04]: Big eyes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Bigger in our eyes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh really?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it makes sense.

[SPEAKER_03]: An inch and a half in diameter, ours are less than an inch, I think.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've never seen how the human eyeball.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know they're bigger in your head than what they look.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know how you do the body lab?

[SPEAKER_04]: Nope.

[SPEAKER_04]: Must before my time I think before your time after your time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you know what I mean, I was before that time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, yeah, so that's probably more than an allo.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think we seem one of these up in Toledo.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is that the zoo or?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they got a Columbus.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, they got it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think they got a man.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I might have been Columbus.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think was Columbus.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think Columbus has rained here, not.

[SPEAKER_04]: One of the zoos to lead our Columbus has strong horns, yeah, because they're not that big.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, they're like, they're like tall goats.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, basically.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like size wise.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was, I mean, they're tall, they're a lot tall and good.

[SPEAKER_03]: They have a long legs.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're not deer size.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they're not deer.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not, no we're near that, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, they're tasty.

[SPEAKER_04]: Manageable, like I could fight one.

[SPEAKER_03]: running the six miles an hour just runs into you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think you'd just explode.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do like a a full-fighting ole.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just imagine that like with her horns.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, gosh.

[SPEAKER_03]: It'd be terrible.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then you just like turn around and see it running at your 60 mile an hour.

[SPEAKER_04]: From far away.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that'd be scary.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like what are you going to do?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like it's coming that you head down lightning bolt coming at you.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, my last little thing for you is nobody knows why [SPEAKER_03]: So there was an American cheetah, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: The link stink during the last ice age.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's only, it's American cheetah by name.

[SPEAKER_03]: They were not nearly as fast as the African cheetah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of like the American cave lions or American lion was extremely different than an African lion.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a lion by name.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Much more clothes like behavior wise to a tiger than a lion.

[SPEAKER_03]: But nobody knows why pro-angloins are that fast.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're predators.

[SPEAKER_04]: don't get near these speeds.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's why they got that's why they're so fast.

[SPEAKER_03]: But they still get predated on, but it's by surprise, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: So there are theories that it is like one of the theories is it may have been early human predation.

[SPEAKER_03]: Push them to be this quick.

[SPEAKER_03]: It could be Ice Age animals that we just don't know about yet.

[SPEAKER_03]: and they out survived their predator and so they're just there now.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, so there could have been a really, really fast North American predator that we just don't know of that was pretty rare.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we're probably talking medium medium size predators because you you can only get so fast being so big.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's a there's a cut off.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's a reason elephants don't run 100 miles an hour.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's a ratio.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: What do you think?

[SPEAKER_03]: Why do you think they're so fast?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I like a human idea.

[SPEAKER_04]: Human predation.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because they do, uh, they're one of a few animals like reindeer.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've made a like visitor, compared to the during your last week that do extremely long migrations and go for long periods of time.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, Vema, now early humans were paste predators.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Where we would just kind of chase something until it was exhausted.

[SPEAKER_03]: And when the time it turned to fight, it was, you know, exhausted.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we're not.

[SPEAKER_03]: uh there's a lot of clips with that like you can find cartoons about that with mammoths or the you know they ran for five or six miles and that they'd finally when they were friendly they'd run in they'd turn around there's still people there with pointy sticks which orcas hunt that way today hmm have anybody to know orcas hunt fin whales the tiger them out yeah so those stick though let's hope [SPEAKER_03]: Fin whales, think of fin whales, like big big whales, uh, so fin monkeys, side whales, and even blue whales are long distance runners.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're not fast, but they go forever.

[SPEAKER_03]: So what whales, killer whales, do is they set up relays up a coast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So before they start to hunt, they'll position everybody and they'll get behind a fin whale by its tail, get it running, and then tag out.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay, because they just can't they can't do the distance right with it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So the swap out So when it's passing you you tag out with the whale keep it going and they exhaust it Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_03]: And they just lay on it to drowns it and then they eat its liver and tongue That's it brutal animals kill them else.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, only second to humans to be in brutal.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay brutality only second to humans.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm There's nothing else in between us in them [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get to know.

[SPEAKER_03]: When elbows are up there, but I don't think quite.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It depends on the day.

[SPEAKER_03]: Huh.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen twins with that for life.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen killer whales eat penguins like pop cycles, and not even eat them.

[SPEAKER_03]: They just like to squeeze the stuff out of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: Gosh.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that sounds terrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: Good visual.

[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, I have been the Great and Peaceful Mystery, and I've been Jay.

[SPEAKER_05]: We'll catch you next week, guys.

[SPEAKER_05]: Bye!