44: Katie Goldin & Alex Schmidt, Space Birds, and the Bison Emoji 🦬

Special guests Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin from Secretly Incredibly Fascinating and Creature Feature answer: Have birds ever been to space? Why does Katie love birds so much? And how did Alex bring about the bison emoji to everyone's phones?

Things we Talk About:

The Quails in Space video we watched over and over

The Club Winged Manakin's "Call"

Katie's Snoopy Comics

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Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:07:13) Space Birds (00:38:46) Birds & Bison Emoji (00:54:59) Outro

We also learn about:

Birds have home field advantage here, DIY animal behavior major, baby elephant soccer coach, a big podcast stew, why can’t birds just fly to space, we all share one brain cell, the Karman line, Ruppell's griffon vulture once flew into a jet engine, or rather the engine ate the bird, vultures are actually clean birds, high altitude vultures have blood adaptations, don’t dope vulture blood, USA lost the birds in space race, space farming, cloacal docking with the ISS, the quails in space video breaks us, who will teach the first generation of space quails? Chernobyl birds, stop doing unjustified wars and send chernobyl birds to space, Chix in Space, Katie wants to put a hummingbird in space, Canadian goose alien, Katie’s childhood Wile E Cayoe trap, birds relatable alien adorably arrogant dinosaurs, club winged manakin stridulation calls, Alex’s 18 page bison proposal, bird aliens return to the feet of a bison emoji statue, how Katie met Alex, Katie’s Peanuts comics, all great friendships start with an amazing bit.

Sources: Audubon: The Amazing Story of the Cold War Space-Egg Race Audubon's Initially Mistaken Blog on Space Birds Smithsonian on Bird Flight Height Smithsonian Zoo on Ruppell's Griffon Vulture Nasa on the Edge of Space Cornell Bird Lab on Japanese Quail

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Ljudbok: 3 augusti 2023