1 00:00:03,403 --> 00:00:06,406 And now for an animal joke. 2 00:00:06,873 --> 00:00:09,876 Who grants fishes wishes? 3 00:00:09,876 --> 00:00:12,879 Who grants fishes wishes? 4 00:00:14,514 --> 00:00:19,586 The answer is going to be revealed at the end of the episode. 5 00:00:19,753 --> 00:00:21,388 But first, get your ears ready. 6 00:00:21,388 --> 00:00:27,527 Because it's the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 7 00:00:27,527 --> 00:00:28,628 The Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 8 00:00:28,628 --> 00:00:30,930 You want to be sad? No1 Do you want to glad? 9 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:32,866 No. Wait. Yes. 10 00:00:32,866 --> 00:00:35,869 Well, it's the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 11 00:00:42,142 --> 00:00:44,477 Hello and welcome to the Happiest Animal 12 00:00:44,477 --> 00:00:48,948 Show on Planet Earth, the podcast that asks the very important question. 13 00:00:49,282 --> 00:00:52,285 What animal is making you happy today? 14 00:00:52,652 --> 00:00:56,589 Not yesterday, not even last night, but today. 15 00:00:56,790 --> 00:00:59,125 I'm Rob and I'm Laura. 16 00:00:59,125 --> 00:01:04,297 And we are a sister brother pair of zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters. 17 00:01:04,330 --> 00:01:08,168 We are here to explore the wonderful world of wildlife and discover 18 00:01:08,168 --> 00:01:10,203 why animals make us happy. 19 00:01:10,203 --> 00:01:13,473 Today we have a song about an animal that poops out San. 20 00:01:14,007 --> 00:01:15,775 Yes, you heard that right. 21 00:01:15,775 --> 00:01:19,546 And we'll be speaking with shark scientist Doctor Tricia Meredith, 22 00:01:19,712 --> 00:01:23,049 who has a surprising thing to say about shark noses. 23 00:01:23,583 --> 00:01:24,951 Here we go. 24 00:01:24,951 --> 00:01:29,656 What animal is making you happy today? 25 00:01:29,956 --> 00:01:31,624 I want to know. 26 00:01:31,624 --> 00:01:34,627 The theme we gave ourselves today is Weird Fish. 27 00:01:34,894 --> 00:01:38,164 Laura, what weird fish is making you happy today? 28 00:01:38,731 --> 00:01:40,467 Okay, you're totally going to get it. 29 00:01:40,467 --> 00:01:43,203 But it's very colorful. 30 00:01:43,203 --> 00:01:45,505 Maybe even different kinds of rainbow colors. 31 00:01:45,505 --> 00:01:48,241 Nice. It lives on coral reefs. 32 00:01:48,241 --> 00:01:52,412 It has some of the strongest teeth in the world. 33 00:01:53,046 --> 00:01:56,516 Yeah, apparently a scientist figured out that 34 00:01:56,516 --> 00:02:02,922 if you had a one inch cube of its teeth, a little cube like that, that 80 elephants 35 00:02:02,922 --> 00:02:07,360 could stand on top of that cube and it would not break. 36 00:02:07,794 --> 00:02:09,295 Oh, wow. Yeah. 37 00:02:09,295 --> 00:02:13,666 I am going to venture a guess that you are talking about fish. 38 00:02:13,967 --> 00:02:17,070 Yay, parrot fish! 39 00:02:18,605 --> 00:02:20,640 Hey! Which fish? 40 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,408 Yes, I'm talking about the parrot fish. 41 00:02:22,408 --> 00:02:24,244 It's a kind of fish that lives on the coral reef. 42 00:02:24,244 --> 00:02:25,145 They swim around. 43 00:02:25,145 --> 00:02:26,446 They're awesome looking. 44 00:02:26,446 --> 00:02:27,113 They have beaks 45 00:02:27,113 --> 00:02:30,216 that kind of look like parrot beaks, but they're really colorful fish. 46 00:02:30,250 --> 00:02:32,218 And why are they making you happy? 47 00:02:32,218 --> 00:02:35,822 The reason they make me happy is because parrotfish do an amazing thing. 48 00:02:36,122 --> 00:02:39,225 They're eating algae on a coral all the time, and they crunch. 49 00:02:39,225 --> 00:02:42,228 You can actually hear them crunching when you're scuba diving underwater. 50 00:02:42,228 --> 00:02:43,363 It's crunch, crunch, crunch. 51 00:02:43,363 --> 00:02:46,232 And then they eat the coral, 52 00:02:46,232 --> 00:02:48,635 and then they poop it out. 53 00:02:48,635 --> 00:02:52,238 And when it comes out of their bodies, it comes out as sand. 54 00:02:52,839 --> 00:02:56,176 So a lot of the white sand on the sandy 55 00:02:56,176 --> 00:02:59,379 beaches that you sit on is actually parrotfish poop. 56 00:03:00,146 --> 00:03:02,882 And that I think is hilarious. 57 00:03:02,882 --> 00:03:06,486 Yeah, it really is funny that we love to vacation in parrotfish poop. 58 00:03:06,753 --> 00:03:08,288 So that was just thinking about that. 59 00:03:08,288 --> 00:03:10,423 And Rob and I spent a long time 60 00:03:10,423 --> 00:03:13,593 also filming parrotfish underwater trying to film them pooping, 61 00:03:14,494 --> 00:03:16,829 and it was harder than we thought it was going to be. 62 00:03:16,829 --> 00:03:17,463 Yeah. 63 00:03:17,463 --> 00:03:18,331 Do you remember Rob? 64 00:03:18,331 --> 00:03:21,067 What you Rob finally figured out to tell? 65 00:03:21,067 --> 00:03:21,534 Yeah. 66 00:03:21,534 --> 00:03:25,438 We seemed like if you watched through their back fins 67 00:03:25,772 --> 00:03:28,441 that they would kind of shimmy their fins a little bit. 68 00:03:28,441 --> 00:03:31,477 And if you looked for their little wiggle, then 69 00:03:31,477 --> 00:03:34,681 it seemed like they were about to poop sand. 70 00:03:35,114 --> 00:03:38,551 So we spent a lot of time just following parrotfish around 71 00:03:39,986 --> 00:03:40,486 looking for 72 00:03:40,486 --> 00:03:43,790 their little thin wiggle, and we waiting for them to poop. 73 00:03:44,357 --> 00:03:44,557 Yeah. 74 00:03:44,557 --> 00:03:48,261 So, parrotfish, they poop out sand, and that sand ends up on the beach 75 00:03:48,995 --> 00:03:50,463 and we sit on it. 76 00:03:50,463 --> 00:03:53,466 Okay, so a parrotfish is making Laura happy. 77 00:03:53,633 --> 00:03:56,636 We'll find out what I picked right after this. 78 00:03:58,104 --> 00:04:02,709 And now enjoy ten relaxing seconds of nature 79 00:04:03,243 --> 00:04:06,212 before your uncle sneezes way too loudly. 80 00:04:16,222 --> 00:04:18,558 Oh, you, 81 00:04:18,558 --> 00:04:21,561 wasn't that relaxing? 82 00:04:22,795 --> 00:04:25,832 Hey, come check out this parrotfish poop castle. 83 00:04:25,832 --> 00:04:28,701 I just made. 84 00:04:28,701 --> 00:04:30,303 And we are back. 85 00:04:30,303 --> 00:04:33,506 So, Rob, what weird fish is making you happy today? 86 00:04:33,873 --> 00:04:34,741 Well, I'm worried 87 00:04:34,741 --> 00:04:37,744 that you're going to get it right away because you know me really well. 88 00:04:37,744 --> 00:04:38,311 It's okay. 89 00:04:38,311 --> 00:04:41,981 But, this is an animal that has always been 90 00:04:41,981 --> 00:04:45,084 on my bucket list for life of animals that I want to see. 91 00:04:45,385 --> 00:04:48,521 Okay, this is an animal 92 00:04:48,521 --> 00:04:51,524 that can grow much bigger than me. 93 00:04:51,991 --> 00:04:53,926 Is it flat? 94 00:04:53,926 --> 00:04:56,496 Pretty flat. In the scheme of things. 95 00:04:56,496 --> 00:04:59,499 Yeah, yeah, it's pretty flat in the scheme of things. 96 00:04:59,732 --> 00:05:03,536 Does this animal look like it's just sort of a swimming head? 97 00:05:03,670 --> 00:05:05,705 Yeah, yeah. 98 00:05:05,705 --> 00:05:08,808 This is an animal that looks like a giant, flattened swimming 99 00:05:08,808 --> 00:05:11,144 head with weirdo fins. 100 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:13,046 Is it a Mola Mola? 101 00:05:13,046 --> 00:05:18,284 Yes, it's the Mola Mola, also known as the ocean sunfish. 102 00:05:19,952 --> 00:05:22,689 Look on the lab. 103 00:05:22,689 --> 00:05:25,892 There are several different types of Mola species out there, 104 00:05:25,892 --> 00:05:27,727 but they are all weird looking. 105 00:05:27,727 --> 00:05:30,029 But what is it? Why does it make you happy? 106 00:05:30,029 --> 00:05:33,333 Well, I think it makes me happy. 107 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:36,302 Because it makes you think about just 108 00:05:36,402 --> 00:05:39,839 how wacko the planet is, that things like that exist. 109 00:05:40,273 --> 00:05:44,944 Okay, so it's the mola mola, but it's also called the ocean sunfish. 110 00:05:44,977 --> 00:05:46,713 Is that right? Yeah. 111 00:05:46,713 --> 00:05:49,282 And that's because 112 00:05:49,282 --> 00:05:52,251 these fish will sometimes be found 113 00:05:52,251 --> 00:05:56,456 swimming up right at the surface, and they kind of flatten their bodies out. 114 00:05:56,656 --> 00:06:00,760 And so it looks like they're sunning themselves up on the ocean surface. 115 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,763 I've actually talked to other wildlife filmmakers who have seen them 116 00:06:03,796 --> 00:06:08,634 right up at the surface of the water, and then a seagull has landed on them, 117 00:06:09,268 --> 00:06:12,905 and it's just eating parasites off of them. Oh, 118 00:06:14,407 --> 00:06:15,274 wouldn't that be? 119 00:06:15,274 --> 00:06:16,242 Wouldn't that be awesome? 120 00:06:16,242 --> 00:06:19,812 These are fish that can weigh up to 5,000 pounds. 121 00:06:19,846 --> 00:06:22,515 I mean, they weigh as much as a car. Okay, wait. 122 00:06:22,515 --> 00:06:24,751 Have you seen them all a model before? 123 00:06:24,751 --> 00:06:27,620 I have, yeah, I saw one once when I was filming 124 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:31,491 down in Monterey Bay, California, and it was a baby. 125 00:06:31,491 --> 00:06:35,461 It was really small and it was adorable, and I was so excited to see it, 126 00:06:35,461 --> 00:06:37,830 because it's the only one I'd ever seen in my life. 127 00:06:37,830 --> 00:06:41,801 But I think the idea of just being in the water with a true 128 00:06:41,801 --> 00:06:45,071 behemoth, a huge mola that is bigger than I 129 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:48,074 am, that is something that I really want to see someday. 130 00:06:48,241 --> 00:06:49,809 It's fun to see big things. 131 00:06:49,809 --> 00:06:52,044 Yeah, a parrot fish. 132 00:06:52,044 --> 00:06:53,312 A mola mola. 133 00:06:53,312 --> 00:06:55,047 I feel happier already. 134 00:06:55,047 --> 00:06:58,184 In just a moment, we'll be talking with today's special guest, Tricia. 135 00:06:58,484 --> 00:07:01,387 But first, a song about parrotfish. 136 00:07:01,387 --> 00:07:04,323 I wrote this song on a train while I was thinking about 137 00:07:04,323 --> 00:07:08,294 how funny it is that parrotfish poop out sand and joy. 138 00:07:10,163 --> 00:07:12,899 I got a little song about parrotfish. 139 00:07:12,899 --> 00:07:14,033 Here it goes. 140 00:07:14,033 --> 00:07:18,938 What parrotfish eat, they also excrete in a curtain of limestone sand. 141 00:07:19,338 --> 00:07:24,210 They eat some coral and they poop it out and it washes up on land. 142 00:07:24,744 --> 00:07:29,749 It covers the floor and they eat some more, almost countless times each day. 143 00:07:29,916 --> 00:07:35,121 So thank you parrotfish friends for making the sand in which we play. 144 00:07:36,355 --> 00:07:38,424 Delightful. 145 00:07:38,424 --> 00:07:40,693 Let's sing it again. 146 00:07:40,693 --> 00:07:45,064 What parrotfish eat, they also excrete in a curtain of limestone sand, 147 00:07:45,064 --> 00:07:50,870 They eat some coral and they poop it out and it washes up on land. 148 00:07:51,437 --> 00:07:55,775 It covers the floor and they eat some more, almost countless times each day. 149 00:07:55,775 --> 00:07:56,642 So thank you parrotfish friends for making the sand in which we play. 150 00:07:56,642 --> 00:08:04,750 So thank your parrotfish friends 151 00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:08,688 for making the sand in which we play. 152 00:08:10,590 --> 00:08:10,923 Thank 153 00:08:10,923 --> 00:08:13,960 you, parrotfish for pooping out sandy beaches. 154 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,362 Before we get on with the show. 155 00:08:16,362 --> 00:08:19,365 Here's a quick message for the grownups 156 00:08:19,732 --> 00:08:22,401 And we are back. 157 00:08:22,401 --> 00:08:26,072 It's that time in the show for the Happiest Fanimal, 158 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:30,409 where a fan like you gives us clues for what animals. 159 00:08:30,443 --> 00:08:31,644 Making them happy. 160 00:08:31,644 --> 00:08:36,482 Today's submission is from seven year old Finley from Portland, Oregon. 161 00:08:36,616 --> 00:08:38,084 Clue number one. 162 00:08:38,084 --> 00:08:40,953 This animal climbs trees. 163 00:08:40,953 --> 00:08:42,421 Clue number two. 164 00:08:42,421 --> 00:08:45,424 This animal is black and white. 165 00:08:45,992 --> 00:08:47,693 Clue number three. 166 00:08:47,693 --> 00:08:50,763 This animal has a long tail. 167 00:08:51,931 --> 00:08:53,232 Clue number four. 168 00:08:53,232 --> 00:08:57,236 This animal rubs fruit on itself to keep mosquitoes away. 169 00:08:57,870 --> 00:08:59,405 Oh! Tough one. 170 00:08:59,405 --> 00:09:02,508 And the answer is the capuchin monkey. 171 00:09:03,075 --> 00:09:06,245 Capuchin monkeys make Finley happy because they are good at climbing 172 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:08,714 trees, just like Finley is. 173 00:09:08,714 --> 00:09:11,050 Thank you for your submission, Finley and Grown-Ups. 174 00:09:11,050 --> 00:09:14,820 If you or your family would like to submit a happiest animal, visit our website at 175 00:09:14,820 --> 00:09:16,389 Happiest Animal show.com. 176 00:09:17,890 --> 00:09:19,258 Now it's time 177 00:09:19,258 --> 00:09:22,261 for our special guest, doctor Tricia Meredith. 178 00:09:22,261 --> 00:09:26,198 She is a shark scientist who studies shark noses. 179 00:09:26,566 --> 00:09:29,068 Well, welcome to the Happiest Animal show. Thank you. 180 00:09:29,068 --> 00:09:31,671 We're so excited that you're chatting with us. 181 00:09:31,671 --> 00:09:33,472 This is. Yeah. Me too. 182 00:09:33,472 --> 00:09:36,976 So for you, what's your favorite thing that you've learned 183 00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:39,979 during your research about shark noses? 184 00:09:40,146 --> 00:09:43,516 I think it's that sharks aren't these 185 00:09:43,549 --> 00:09:47,186 super smelling swimming noses that we once thought. 186 00:09:47,987 --> 00:09:50,189 So, like, I grew up in Ohio. 187 00:09:50,189 --> 00:09:53,259 I learned a lot about sharks through watching Shark Week, and I was like, 188 00:09:53,259 --> 00:09:54,160 that's the truth. 189 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,163 And I was memorizing these facts like it was a textbook. 190 00:09:57,463 --> 00:10:00,266 And then come to find later, we actually don't know that 191 00:10:00,266 --> 00:10:03,736 much about their basic biology because they're hard to study. 192 00:10:04,036 --> 00:10:08,341 And then through our studies and like the work I got to be a part of, 193 00:10:08,341 --> 00:10:12,178 I got to be one of the people to discover like oh this is how sensitive 194 00:10:12,178 --> 00:10:12,979 they are to odors. 195 00:10:12,979 --> 00:10:13,879 Now we know. 196 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:16,315 Let's compare it to other fish in the ocean. 197 00:10:16,315 --> 00:10:18,184 Are they super similar? 198 00:10:18,184 --> 00:10:21,020 Turns out they're not. They're about as sensitive as other fish. 199 00:10:21,020 --> 00:10:24,256 So kind of like that myth busting thing was really cool. 200 00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:26,459 That's awesome. That's so cool. 201 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:29,795 People are obsessed with sharks being, like, 202 00:10:30,363 --> 00:10:33,366 sniffing out blood to find humans and eat them. 203 00:10:33,366 --> 00:10:37,203 And, like, there's just so many flaws to even consider that as 204 00:10:37,203 --> 00:10:38,704 a thing to investigate. But 205 00:10:39,839 --> 00:10:42,241 sometimes when we would, you know, when I was a baby 206 00:10:42,241 --> 00:10:45,544 grad student, we would have documentary film crews come in for, 207 00:10:46,212 --> 00:10:47,580 you know, shark documentaries. 208 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:51,550 And we would try to show them the science of, like, let's deliver prey 209 00:10:51,550 --> 00:10:55,554 related odors, odors that actually make sense and test that 210 00:10:55,554 --> 00:10:56,822 and see how sensitive they are. 211 00:10:56,822 --> 00:10:58,557 And they're like, but what about human blood? 212 00:10:58,557 --> 00:11:04,296 And we're like, but that's not relevant to the animal like, but should we try it? 213 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:06,966 Like, what if I don't know? 214 00:11:06,966 --> 00:11:08,634 I guess you go in there like let's try it. 215 00:11:08,634 --> 00:11:11,637 So we did. 216 00:11:11,804 --> 00:11:13,239 And did anything happen? 217 00:11:13,239 --> 00:11:15,107 Now what? 218 00:11:15,107 --> 00:11:16,008 Well, it makes sense. 219 00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:20,246 I mean, humans are not in a shark's food chain, right? 220 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:22,515 Like, we wouldn't smell like food to them. 221 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:25,451 So sharks are not attracted to human blood. 222 00:11:25,451 --> 00:11:26,886 Boom. Science. 223 00:11:29,221 --> 00:11:31,791 My blood even. 224 00:11:31,791 --> 00:11:33,092 Oh, okay. 225 00:11:33,092 --> 00:11:36,429 Wow. You put your own blood in the water to see if a shark 226 00:11:36,429 --> 00:11:38,097 would be attracted to it. And it was not. 227 00:11:38,097 --> 00:11:41,000 Yeah, I know, so sharks are not attracted to human blood. 228 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,270 And we have this verified by a shark scientist today. 229 00:11:44,904 --> 00:11:47,740 If you learn nothing else, that's pretty cool. 230 00:11:47,740 --> 00:11:48,607 It's good to know. 231 00:11:48,607 --> 00:11:49,308 Totally. 232 00:11:49,308 --> 00:11:52,611 Oh, well, next time I have a gaping wound, 233 00:11:52,611 --> 00:11:55,614 I'll feel more comfortable when I go for a swim in the ocean. 234 00:11:56,148 --> 00:11:57,116 Good. 235 00:11:57,116 --> 00:12:00,820 Okay, now it's time to find out what animal is making Tricia happy. 236 00:12:00,820 --> 00:12:02,888 But first this. 237 00:12:02,888 --> 00:12:06,258 It's time to play everybody's favorite game show. 238 00:12:06,659 --> 00:12:09,662 What did Tricia just say? 239 00:12:11,363 --> 00:12:14,366 We've got a yes or no question for you. 240 00:12:14,366 --> 00:12:17,403 Are sharks attracted to human blood? 241 00:12:17,937 --> 00:12:20,372 Yes or no? 242 00:12:23,476 --> 00:12:26,045 The answer is 243 00:12:26,045 --> 00:12:29,048 no. They're not attracted to human blood. 244 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:32,718 Thanks for playing everybody's favorite game show. 245 00:12:33,052 --> 00:12:36,055 What did Tricia just say? 246 00:12:37,022 --> 00:12:38,224 And we're back. 247 00:12:38,224 --> 00:12:40,659 Tricia, here is the important question. 248 00:12:40,659 --> 00:12:43,562 What animal is making you happy today? 249 00:12:43,562 --> 00:12:44,997 I love this question. 250 00:12:44,997 --> 00:12:49,602 And I have to say, it's chickens. Yes. 251 00:12:50,402 --> 00:12:52,872 The shark scientist fixed chickens for today. 252 00:12:52,872 --> 00:12:55,174 I love it. 253 00:12:55,174 --> 00:12:57,243 Chicken. 254 00:12:57,243 --> 00:13:00,212 I have chickens as pets. 255 00:13:00,246 --> 00:13:02,248 And I think. 256 00:13:02,248 --> 00:13:07,186 I think I've never been able to really watch, like, group behavior of an animal. 257 00:13:07,419 --> 00:13:10,856 Over time, the way I have with my flock of chickens. 258 00:13:11,157 --> 00:13:13,492 Like, I know some people have a bunch of dogs 259 00:13:13,492 --> 00:13:15,528 or cats in their house, but you, like you don't often have a whole 260 00:13:15,528 --> 00:13:19,064 group of animals that has their own like hierarchy and group behavior. 261 00:13:19,832 --> 00:13:22,434 And it is hilarious and bonkers. 262 00:13:22,434 --> 00:13:25,437 They're, they, like, are free ranging in my backyard. 263 00:13:25,471 --> 00:13:28,574 So it's like these little mini feathered dinosaurs. 264 00:13:28,574 --> 00:13:32,111 Like, they look like little velociraptors running around the yard, 265 00:13:32,111 --> 00:13:36,282 being fierce and fighting over food and, like, doing really silly stuff. 266 00:13:36,282 --> 00:13:40,019 Like, they like, jump really high to try to reach flowers 267 00:13:40,019 --> 00:13:42,388 that they want to eat and look goofy doing that. 268 00:13:42,388 --> 00:13:45,357 And then like, you can see their pecking order. 269 00:13:45,357 --> 00:13:48,127 So literally ooh, 270 00:13:48,127 --> 00:13:51,030 like the order of importance in the chicken community. 271 00:13:51,030 --> 00:13:52,665 Yeah. Who's the top chicken? 272 00:13:52,665 --> 00:13:54,767 My chicken named. Hey, hey. 273 00:13:54,767 --> 00:13:57,102 Yeah, I'm top one. 274 00:13:57,102 --> 00:13:58,204 Hey, hey. 275 00:13:58,204 --> 00:14:00,539 And Groot's is at the very bottom. 276 00:14:00,539 --> 00:14:04,643 It's so sad for her, but Groot just watching, like, 277 00:14:04,643 --> 00:14:08,214 when I put treats down and watching the pecking order play out 278 00:14:08,214 --> 00:14:13,152 is fascinating because, like, Groot's tactic, being at the bottom of the pecking 279 00:14:13,152 --> 00:14:16,622 order is she comes in as fast as possible before anybody even knows her 280 00:14:16,622 --> 00:14:20,025 streets grab something takes off, or she's not getting anything 281 00:14:20,626 --> 00:14:24,396 because they'll kind of block her with their body movements. 282 00:14:24,396 --> 00:14:27,666 They don't even have to peck her to, like, keep her out of the, like, circle 283 00:14:27,666 --> 00:14:28,534 where the food is. 284 00:14:28,534 --> 00:14:31,537 They decide who goes into the coop first at night. 285 00:14:31,670 --> 00:14:35,241 They, like, line up at a certain time, you know, I have to teach them. 286 00:14:35,241 --> 00:14:39,511 They're just like preprogramed to go inside at night and just. 287 00:14:39,511 --> 00:14:41,580 Hey, hey, go in first. 288 00:14:41,580 --> 00:14:43,249 She goes, unless she goes, actually. 289 00:14:43,249 --> 00:14:46,252 So the top chicken goes in last. 290 00:14:46,285 --> 00:14:47,653 Interesting. 291 00:14:47,653 --> 00:14:50,723 Yes, but the way they play, like, it's almost like they look at their watches 292 00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:52,291 and they're like, okay, everybody line up. 293 00:14:52,291 --> 00:14:55,060 And then you like, you look outside and you're like, what are they doing? 294 00:14:55,060 --> 00:14:58,197 And they're like, standing like one foot apart waiting to go in. 295 00:14:58,197 --> 00:14:59,365 And they like take turns. 296 00:14:59,365 --> 00:15:02,534 Did you raise them as chicks or hatch them from an egg? 297 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:05,004 Would you? No. We got day old chicks. Yeah. 298 00:15:05,004 --> 00:15:08,007 Okay. Yeah. You have chickens, too? We did. 299 00:15:08,274 --> 00:15:11,644 And we had to to say goodbye to our chickens. 300 00:15:11,644 --> 00:15:15,581 We took them to a farm that, this is just down the street from our house, 301 00:15:15,581 --> 00:15:16,815 but we can still visit them. 302 00:15:16,815 --> 00:15:19,919 And one time, Rob saw a coyote in the yard trying to go after the chickens. 303 00:15:19,952 --> 00:15:22,922 Yeah, I was, so I was in the house one time, 304 00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:25,925 and I heard a fast Eddie was her name. 305 00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:29,929 Fast Eddie was out making a lot of noise, and I looked out the window 306 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:31,597 and she was doing. 307 00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:34,767 She was pulling football moves on a coyote, just like. 308 00:15:35,834 --> 00:15:37,836 And, like, zigzagging. 309 00:15:37,836 --> 00:15:40,572 And. Yeah, she was darting back and forth in the coyote. 310 00:15:40,572 --> 00:15:41,340 It was amazing. 311 00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:44,043 Kylie was having trouble keeping up, and I banged on the window. 312 00:15:44,043 --> 00:15:47,246 And then I ran outside and I watched that coyote run 313 00:15:47,246 --> 00:15:50,582 and jump over a six foot fence to get out of the well, 314 00:15:50,983 --> 00:15:55,688 and it made me realize how incredibly athletic a coyote is. 315 00:15:56,422 --> 00:15:59,258 We've had a couple of predator situations, too, 316 00:15:59,258 --> 00:16:02,995 and it's funny because the chickens will, like, call to you. 317 00:16:03,329 --> 00:16:06,031 Like, we had a situation at two in the morning 318 00:16:06,031 --> 00:16:09,802 with a raccoon, and they woke us up and I came out and she was like, 319 00:16:09,802 --> 00:16:13,605 standing outside, like, squawking at me like, hello, let's go. 320 00:16:13,605 --> 00:16:17,109 And then like, I followed her over to where the situation was unfolding. 321 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:22,047 But they like very clearly communicated to me to like come deal with this. 322 00:16:22,047 --> 00:16:22,681 Yeah. 323 00:16:22,681 --> 00:16:25,017 Which chicken was yelling at you. 324 00:16:25,017 --> 00:16:26,618 Hey hey hey hey hey. Yeah. 325 00:16:26,618 --> 00:16:28,821 Protecting her flock into the top. 326 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:30,689 Chicken came and got you to be. 327 00:16:30,689 --> 00:16:31,056 Yeah. 328 00:16:31,056 --> 00:16:33,826 To say hey come out just screaming like you said. 329 00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:34,727 They like their. 330 00:16:34,727 --> 00:16:37,429 The pitch changes when they're having a situation. 331 00:16:37,429 --> 00:16:38,597 Yeah. 332 00:16:38,597 --> 00:16:41,467 So it's like hey he's kind of like classy in that way. 333 00:16:41,467 --> 00:16:43,202 Just like coming to get help. 334 00:16:43,202 --> 00:16:45,637 Timmy's down the well. Yeah. 335 00:16:45,637 --> 00:16:48,440 And they make you breakfast like. Yeah. 336 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,876 Well can you say that for most pets. 337 00:16:50,876 --> 00:16:52,478 No you definitely can't. 338 00:16:52,478 --> 00:16:54,913 It's quite the opposite for my other pets. Right. 339 00:16:56,715 --> 00:16:59,318 These ones are productive members of the family. 340 00:16:59,318 --> 00:17:02,588 And we have, like, bluish green eggs and some brown eggs. 341 00:17:02,588 --> 00:17:03,889 Ooh, awesome. 342 00:17:03,889 --> 00:17:07,159 I think it's really cool that chickens have different colored eggs. 343 00:17:07,393 --> 00:17:09,128 Yeah, it's really fun. 344 00:17:09,128 --> 00:17:10,662 I like 345 00:17:10,662 --> 00:17:13,866 so because we had different size chickens, we used to get different sized eggs 346 00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:15,801 and we had like a big a medium and a small. 347 00:17:15,801 --> 00:17:19,638 And every now and then you'd get like a chicken would lay just a weird egg. 348 00:17:19,972 --> 00:17:21,907 And I was like those when you get just weird. 349 00:17:21,907 --> 00:17:24,076 Oh yeah. Crazy small crazy huge. 350 00:17:24,076 --> 00:17:26,645 Yeah. You got like a super small one one time. 351 00:17:26,645 --> 00:17:27,880 It was tiny. 352 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:29,882 It was so tiny and it was funny. 353 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:32,084 And then we had one that was huge. 354 00:17:32,084 --> 00:17:35,120 Then, you know, we frequently got double yoked eggs, too. 355 00:17:35,254 --> 00:17:37,122 Oh, cool. Yeah. 356 00:17:37,122 --> 00:17:41,360 So it's fun whatever's going on inside those chickens to make that happen. 357 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:42,961 But it's fun. Yeah. 358 00:17:42,961 --> 00:17:48,000 Well, Tricia, thank you so much for joining us on the Happiest Animal Show. 359 00:17:48,434 --> 00:17:50,836 It has been a pleasure. 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