1 00:00:05,338 --> 00:00:08,108 And now for an animal joke. 2 00:00:08,108 --> 00:00:11,611 How do you tell the difference between a walrus and an orange? 3 00:00:12,445 --> 00:00:15,915 How do you tell the difference between a walrus and an orange? 4 00:00:16,616 --> 00:00:22,222 The answer is going to be revealed at the end of the episode. 5 00:00:22,222 --> 00:00:24,791 But first, get your ears ready because It's The Happiest Animal 6 00:00:24,791 --> 00:00:28,094 Show on Planet Earth, the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 7 00:00:28,128 --> 00:00:31,898 Do yo uwant to be sad? No! 8 00:00:31,898 --> 00:00:34,934 Do you want to be glad? NO! Wait. Yes. 9 00:00:35,168 --> 00:00:38,171 Well, it's the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 10 00:00:44,477 --> 00:00:46,780 Hello and welcome to the happiest animal 11 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:51,284 Show on Planet Earth, the podcast that asks the very important question. 12 00:00:51,618 --> 00:00:54,621 What animal is making you happy today? 13 00:00:55,021 --> 00:00:58,925 Not yesterday, not even last night, but today. 14 00:00:59,125 --> 00:01:02,929 I'm Rob and I'm Laura, and we are a sister brother 15 00:01:02,929 --> 00:01:06,633 pair of zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters. 16 00:01:06,666 --> 00:01:10,503 We are here to explore the wonderful world of wildlife and discover 17 00:01:10,503 --> 00:01:12,338 why animals make us happy. 18 00:01:12,338 --> 00:01:15,442 Today we are celebrating cold weather critters. 19 00:01:15,442 --> 00:01:17,644 We have a song sung by a squirrel 20 00:01:17,644 --> 00:01:20,814 and we chat with eight year old Raven from Montana. 21 00:01:21,014 --> 00:01:24,984 And apologies to international soccer superstar Lionel Messi, 22 00:01:25,018 --> 00:01:26,453 who is going to be on the show. 23 00:01:26,453 --> 00:01:30,490 But Raven was available after school, so we had to make that change. 24 00:01:30,990 --> 00:01:32,358 Here we go. 25 00:01:32,358 --> 00:01:36,963 What animal is making you happy today? 26 00:01:37,397 --> 00:01:40,934 I want to know today we're chatting about cold weather 27 00:01:40,934 --> 00:01:45,638 critters, animals who can totally be in cold weather and be fine with it. 28 00:01:45,772 --> 00:01:50,043 Yeah, but before we talk about that, Rob is on vacation 29 00:01:50,043 --> 00:01:53,379 this week in Michigan at our parents cottage. 30 00:01:53,379 --> 00:01:55,315 I was there last week and just got home. 31 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:57,750 Rob, what animals have you seen? Just today. 32 00:01:57,750 --> 00:02:02,222 Ooh, today I've seen a pair of loons 33 00:02:02,622 --> 00:02:05,625 in the middle of the lake out doing this 34 00:02:05,859 --> 00:02:08,628 elaborate choreographed dance. 35 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:11,631 Oh, almost like a synchronized swimming routine. 36 00:02:11,664 --> 00:02:12,732 That's really cool. 37 00:02:12,732 --> 00:02:13,066 Yeah. 38 00:02:13,066 --> 00:02:15,902 Our parents have a cottage on a lake in Michigan. 39 00:02:15,902 --> 00:02:18,905 Not a huge lake, but a decent sized lake. 40 00:02:19,172 --> 00:02:21,941 And there's a pair of loons that lives on it, and they. 41 00:02:21,941 --> 00:02:23,143 They have a nest every year. 42 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:25,111 That's pretty cool. Yeah. 43 00:02:25,111 --> 00:02:26,279 It is not cold here. 44 00:02:26,279 --> 00:02:29,282 No, it was like 90, 92 degrees here. 45 00:02:29,282 --> 00:02:33,253 It's almost 100 degrees here today, which is why I want to think about 46 00:02:33,753 --> 00:02:38,458 cold weather things, including cold weather critters. Yes. 47 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:42,962 Well, Laura, why don't you go first? 48 00:02:42,962 --> 00:02:46,266 What cold weather critter is making you happy today? 49 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:51,004 The animal I'm thinking of that's making me happy has fur. 50 00:02:51,871 --> 00:02:53,773 The fur can be. 51 00:02:53,773 --> 00:02:56,176 Well, there's a lot of different kinds of this animal. 52 00:02:56,176 --> 00:02:59,145 It could be gray or red or brown. 53 00:02:59,145 --> 00:03:01,614 A lot of them have white as well. Fur. 54 00:03:01,614 --> 00:03:05,451 It has a very, very bushy tail, 55 00:03:06,219 --> 00:03:08,454 a fluffy, bushy tail. 56 00:03:08,454 --> 00:03:09,055 Okay. 57 00:03:09,055 --> 00:03:15,061 And it's an animal that is often seen in people's backyards. 58 00:03:15,662 --> 00:03:18,064 I saw one today in my own backyard. 59 00:03:18,064 --> 00:03:23,102 I know that they are around the cottage where you are at, Rob okay. 60 00:03:23,369 --> 00:03:27,273 And they eat nuts and seeds and flowers 61 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,810 and this might give it away. 62 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:36,416 They can bury up to 3000 nuts before the winter season, do you? 63 00:03:36,449 --> 00:03:38,251 Holy cow! No. Right. 64 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,723 Do you have a guess? 65 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:46,559 Could it be. 66 00:03:46,559 --> 00:03:48,795 What could it be? 67 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:51,030 Yeah. 68 00:03:51,030 --> 00:03:52,699 It sounds like you're talking about a squirrel. 69 00:03:52,699 --> 00:03:55,702 I am a squirrel. 70 00:03:57,070 --> 00:03:59,038 Squirrel. 71 00:03:59,038 --> 00:04:03,376 All right, so is there, like, a specific kind of squirrel you're talking about? 72 00:04:03,476 --> 00:04:07,981 Specifically, I am thinking about the eastern gray squirrel, but okay, 73 00:04:08,014 --> 00:04:11,684 there are over 200 kinds of squirrels, and I think squirrels are great. 74 00:04:11,684 --> 00:04:15,488 But what I'm talking today, it's really about the eastern gray squirrel, 75 00:04:15,521 --> 00:04:19,592 kind of gray one with white tummy that you often see 76 00:04:20,226 --> 00:04:23,229 in the mid and eastern part of the United States, at least. 77 00:04:23,630 --> 00:04:24,230 Okay. 78 00:04:24,230 --> 00:04:28,234 Yeah, because I've seen squirrels in like Southeast Asia 79 00:04:28,234 --> 00:04:31,237 and I've seen squirrels like down even as far as Costa Rica. 80 00:04:31,471 --> 00:04:33,673 So squirrels are all over the place. 81 00:04:33,673 --> 00:04:37,443 I'm no squirrel expert, I just yeah, I like squirrels. 82 00:04:38,311 --> 00:04:42,515 I am not a squirrel expert either, but that's incredible. 83 00:04:42,649 --> 00:04:45,885 Your fact about 3000 nuts they bury all season. 84 00:04:46,019 --> 00:04:49,689 I was reading an article about some scientists who studied them, 85 00:04:49,689 --> 00:04:52,692 and they can bury up to 3000 nuts a year. 86 00:04:52,825 --> 00:04:56,229 And they are good at finding a lot 87 00:04:56,229 --> 00:05:00,600 of the same nuts or seeds or whatever that they buried. 88 00:05:00,733 --> 00:05:02,435 I think of them burying acorns. 89 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:03,069 Acorns? 90 00:05:03,069 --> 00:05:07,073 Yeah, like walnuts or acorns or big things like that. 91 00:05:07,106 --> 00:05:12,011 So why are eastern gray squirrels making you happy today? 92 00:05:12,045 --> 00:05:16,382 Well, the very first movie Rob and I ever made together professionally 93 00:05:17,717 --> 00:05:19,786 was based on a children's book 94 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:22,822 called stranger in the woods, and it was about animals in the winter. 95 00:05:23,056 --> 00:05:28,094 And so we spent a couple of winters filming animals in the Snow in Michigan. 96 00:05:28,561 --> 00:05:32,598 And I had such a happy time watching the squirrels in the snow. 97 00:05:32,799 --> 00:05:35,301 And they're even fluffier in the wintertime. 98 00:05:35,301 --> 00:05:38,137 You know, a lot of animals kind of fluff up to stay warm, 99 00:05:38,137 --> 00:05:41,874 and so they get even cuter, and then they get snow 100 00:05:41,874 --> 00:05:45,345 stuck on their noses and a little bit on their whiskers, 101 00:05:45,345 --> 00:05:48,715 and then it gets stuck on their tail and they just look so cute. 102 00:05:49,215 --> 00:05:51,451 Yeah, it's easy to take squirrels for granted. 103 00:05:51,451 --> 00:05:53,686 And I know a lot of people see them in their backyards, 104 00:05:53,686 --> 00:05:55,488 and a lot of people get annoyed by squirrels 105 00:05:55,488 --> 00:05:58,624 because they're so good at stealing food out of the bird feeders. 106 00:05:58,725 --> 00:06:00,193 Yeah. 107 00:06:00,193 --> 00:06:03,062 But they are an incredible animal. 108 00:06:03,062 --> 00:06:04,364 They're incredible acrobats. 109 00:06:04,364 --> 00:06:06,032 They're incredible survivors. 110 00:06:06,032 --> 00:06:07,333 Rob I don't know if you remember this, 111 00:06:07,333 --> 00:06:10,570 but one time we were at a school doing a school presentation. 112 00:06:10,703 --> 00:06:13,740 And for those of you listening we wrote a song that shows 113 00:06:13,740 --> 00:06:16,743 it was the very first song we ever wrote for an animal movie. 114 00:06:16,776 --> 00:06:17,377 Yeah. 115 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:20,313 About squirrels looking for nuts that they buried beneath the snow. 116 00:06:20,313 --> 00:06:22,949 And Rob did the voice of the squirrel. Yeah. 117 00:06:22,949 --> 00:06:26,886 Where are those nuts buried beneath the snow. 118 00:06:27,353 --> 00:06:28,521 It's my squirrel voice. 119 00:06:30,056 --> 00:06:32,558 And yeah, yeah, I remember that. 120 00:06:32,558 --> 00:06:36,362 I was singing the song in the library with the window 121 00:06:36,362 --> 00:06:40,566 to the courtyard behind me, and then all the kids stopped 122 00:06:40,566 --> 00:06:43,569 paying attention to me and were using their minds 123 00:06:44,103 --> 00:06:46,672 and pointing at something out the window behind me. 124 00:06:46,672 --> 00:06:50,743 And so while Rob was singing the song to all these elementary school kids 125 00:06:50,910 --> 00:06:53,746 playing the guitar, saying in a squirrel voice 126 00:06:53,746 --> 00:06:57,250 a squirrel had climbed up a tree behind him 127 00:06:57,417 --> 00:07:00,820 and was staring at him like he was listening to the song. 128 00:07:01,220 --> 00:07:03,022 It was so funny. 129 00:07:03,022 --> 00:07:06,025 It's like I heard you singing came bounding in, was like, oh well, what? 130 00:07:06,592 --> 00:07:08,461 And then it was, boy, it was funny. 131 00:07:08,461 --> 00:07:12,131 Yeah, I was like, I was the Pied Piper of squirrels. 132 00:07:12,231 --> 00:07:14,667 So that's why I picked squirrels. It's a great pick. 133 00:07:14,667 --> 00:07:15,168 Thank you. 134 00:07:15,168 --> 00:07:19,705 So Laura picks squirrels and we'll find out what I picked right after this. 135 00:07:20,706 --> 00:07:21,741 It's time for 136 00:07:21,741 --> 00:07:24,744 everybody's favorite game show. 137 00:07:25,077 --> 00:07:28,080 That sound. 138 00:07:30,383 --> 00:07:33,486 What is making this sound like? 139 00:07:36,289 --> 00:07:40,860 An. Eye. 140 00:07:42,528 --> 00:07:45,898 Is it a a red headed woodpecker? 141 00:07:46,265 --> 00:07:49,268 Be an eastern gray squirrel. 142 00:07:49,502 --> 00:07:52,972 Or see your uncle desperately 143 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:55,975 trying to suck out the last drops of his energy drink. 144 00:07:57,276 --> 00:08:00,379 And the answer is B, 145 00:08:00,513 --> 00:08:04,550 it's an eastern gray squirrel chattering in the treetops. 146 00:08:05,218 --> 00:08:08,354 Thanks for playing everybody's favorite game show. 147 00:08:08,754 --> 00:08:09,355 Great. 148 00:08:09,355 --> 00:08:12,358 That sound. 149 00:08:12,692 --> 00:08:14,460 And we are back. 150 00:08:14,460 --> 00:08:17,330 What cold weather critter is making 151 00:08:17,330 --> 00:08:20,500 you happy today, Rob yeah, this is one that, 152 00:08:20,833 --> 00:08:23,836 this is actually an animal that I've never seen. 153 00:08:24,003 --> 00:08:26,372 Okay. And I want to see. 154 00:08:26,372 --> 00:08:32,144 So this animal, there are well over a thousand different kinds of this animal. 155 00:08:32,144 --> 00:08:35,248 Oh, and they are really hard 156 00:08:35,248 --> 00:08:39,919 to find, even though they live all over the world. 157 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:43,256 Anywhere there's liquid water. What if 158 00:08:44,423 --> 00:08:46,392 you can find them way up at 159 00:08:46,392 --> 00:08:49,762 the top of the Himalayan mountains, the top tallest mountains in the world. 160 00:08:49,762 --> 00:08:53,065 You can find them way deep, thousands of feet. 161 00:08:53,065 --> 00:08:54,834 Deep down in the ocean. 162 00:08:54,834 --> 00:08:57,703 You can find them in your backyard, 163 00:08:57,703 --> 00:09:01,173 on the moss, in the lichen growing, on the rocks, in the trees. 164 00:09:01,807 --> 00:09:04,610 Okay, it's got to be something small. 165 00:09:04,610 --> 00:09:05,711 Is it small? 166 00:09:05,711 --> 00:09:08,080 It is very, very small. It's so small. 167 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,150 It's probably only about the size of a period 168 00:09:11,150 --> 00:09:14,153 on a page. 169 00:09:14,987 --> 00:09:16,422 Now that's a tiny animal. 170 00:09:16,422 --> 00:09:18,491 Makes me think of something like a dust mite or, 171 00:09:18,491 --> 00:09:22,461 But it's not that because I don't think they're at the bottom of the ocean, so. 172 00:09:22,461 --> 00:09:25,698 But this animal, I guess you're not far off this animal. 173 00:09:25,698 --> 00:09:31,203 It eats plants and algae Mane, like most of them eat plants and algae. 174 00:09:31,203 --> 00:09:33,105 Some other ones eat other things as well. 175 00:09:33,105 --> 00:09:37,543 But wait, is this the animal that if you zoom in, look at it really close? 176 00:09:37,543 --> 00:09:38,911 It actually kind of looks cute? 177 00:09:40,012 --> 00:09:41,914 Yeah, it kind of looks, like 178 00:09:41,914 --> 00:09:45,585 a teeny tiny, plump little caterpillar with eight legs. 179 00:09:46,485 --> 00:09:48,821 Are you thinking about a tardigrade? 180 00:09:48,821 --> 00:09:51,824 Yes. The tardigrade. 181 00:09:52,391 --> 00:09:54,493 Tardigrade? 182 00:09:54,493 --> 00:09:58,164 That sounds like you got a grade for being tardy at school. 183 00:09:59,498 --> 00:09:59,799 Yeah. 184 00:09:59,799 --> 00:10:03,970 Tardigrades are also called water bears because they do kind of 185 00:10:03,970 --> 00:10:06,973 look like a microscopic little bear. 186 00:10:07,173 --> 00:10:10,476 And they live in the water anywhere there's liquid water. 187 00:10:10,509 --> 00:10:11,177 Cute little water. 188 00:10:11,177 --> 00:10:11,944 Bear. 189 00:10:11,944 --> 00:10:14,947 Yeah, as big as a period on a page. 190 00:10:15,181 --> 00:10:19,652 You do need a microscope to to really fully take in this teeny 191 00:10:19,652 --> 00:10:20,853 tiny little animal. 192 00:10:20,853 --> 00:10:23,489 So why are tardigrades making you happy today? 193 00:10:23,489 --> 00:10:27,326 Well, I love the idea that there are animals out there 194 00:10:27,326 --> 00:10:30,329 that are so small they live almost in 195 00:10:30,329 --> 00:10:33,332 a completely different universe than we do. 196 00:10:34,166 --> 00:10:37,169 I mean, when you're when you're that teeny tiny, 197 00:10:37,269 --> 00:10:40,773 I mean, the world is a completely different place, and it's fun to think 198 00:10:40,973 --> 00:10:44,810 that there are animals out there that that live on Earth with us. 199 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:48,414 But their version of Earth looks completely different 200 00:10:48,414 --> 00:10:52,018 than our version of Earth because they're so small, right? 201 00:10:52,018 --> 00:10:55,054 Because if you're the size of a tardigrade, a blade of grass 202 00:10:55,054 --> 00:11:00,092 would be like taller than a skyscraper, but even bigger than that to us. 203 00:11:00,092 --> 00:11:01,360 Yeah, right. 204 00:11:02,428 --> 00:11:04,830 And what's so cool about 205 00:11:04,830 --> 00:11:08,801 tardigrades is they are probably the toughest animal on the planet. 206 00:11:09,335 --> 00:11:14,340 They can live in scalding hot conditions and survive, 207 00:11:14,807 --> 00:11:18,778 and they can live in crazy cold conditions and survive. 208 00:11:19,345 --> 00:11:21,781 They are found in Antarctica, you know. 209 00:11:21,781 --> 00:11:24,083 Well, they can live there and be totally happy. 210 00:11:24,083 --> 00:11:27,353 They there were scientists in 2007, 211 00:11:28,387 --> 00:11:31,090 in Europe, who wanted to know 212 00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:35,027 if tardigrades could survive in outer space and they sent a whole bunch 213 00:11:35,027 --> 00:11:38,864 of tardigrades up into outer space to see if they would survive. 214 00:11:38,864 --> 00:11:39,498 And they did. 215 00:11:39,498 --> 00:11:42,902 They lived in outer space was, it was probably like 216 00:11:43,069 --> 00:11:46,672 -250°F, you know, 217 00:11:46,839 --> 00:11:51,210 in the cold vacuum of space where nothing is supposed to be able to survive. 218 00:11:51,477 --> 00:11:56,115 And these little tardigrades, after ten days, they were still alive. 219 00:11:57,016 --> 00:11:59,652 That's amazing. Yeah. 220 00:11:59,652 --> 00:12:00,786 How crazy is that? 221 00:12:00,786 --> 00:12:03,789 That's just acting like a science fiction animal. 222 00:12:03,923 --> 00:12:06,158 Yeah. I can't even wrap my head around that. 223 00:12:06,158 --> 00:12:08,227 Yeah, tardigrades don't live very long. 224 00:12:08,227 --> 00:12:09,995 You know, their life span. 225 00:12:09,995 --> 00:12:11,997 When everything's normal and happy for them. 226 00:12:11,997 --> 00:12:14,800 It can be just a few months or maybe up to a few years. 227 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,305 But when the conditions are wrong and like, if everything dries out 228 00:12:19,305 --> 00:12:21,907 and they don't have that water they need to survive, 229 00:12:21,907 --> 00:12:24,610 they will just kind of dry up into this little ball 230 00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:28,047 and they can stay like that for like 100 years. 231 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,990 Tardigrades are making me happy because I think it's amazing 232 00:12:37,990 --> 00:12:41,293 that we have an animal that lives on earth with us. 233 00:12:41,293 --> 00:12:45,131 They can survive in the cold depths of outer space. 234 00:12:45,131 --> 00:12:48,134 So cool. Yeah. Great pick, Rob. 235 00:12:48,367 --> 00:12:50,336 And now for a song. 236 00:12:50,336 --> 00:12:53,873 This is the very first song about animals that Laura and I 237 00:12:53,873 --> 00:12:57,676 wrote and sang together way back in 2000, when I was still in college. 238 00:12:57,843 --> 00:12:59,345 It's called Mixed Nuts 239 00:12:59,345 --> 00:13:02,915 from the movie stranger in the woods, based on a children's picture book. 240 00:13:03,149 --> 00:13:06,652 We spent an entire winter filming animals in the Michigan Woods 241 00:13:06,652 --> 00:13:10,489 and wrote this song, featuring a duet between a squirrel and a deer. 242 00:13:10,656 --> 00:13:13,492 This moment in the movie was introduced by Pierre, 243 00:13:13,492 --> 00:13:16,762 a snowdrift with a very bad French accent, as you'll find out. 244 00:13:16,996 --> 00:13:17,797 Enjoy. 245 00:13:20,533 --> 00:13:23,536 Wait, do you hear something? 246 00:13:23,636 --> 00:13:25,938 Look over there. 247 00:13:25,938 --> 00:13:28,941 It is a square. 248 00:13:34,079 --> 00:13:36,949 Where are those nuts? 249 00:13:36,949 --> 00:13:38,551 Buried beneath the snow. 250 00:13:38,551 --> 00:13:42,721 Where are those nuts that are buried so long ago? 251 00:13:42,922 --> 00:13:46,725 I need those nuts now that winter. 252 00:13:46,725 --> 00:13:49,728 Easy. 253 00:13:50,095 --> 00:13:53,098 Cause I buried walnuts. 254 00:13:54,533 --> 00:13:57,536 And I buried peanuts too. 255 00:13:59,271 --> 00:14:02,474 I buried sunflower seeds by the dozen. 256 00:14:03,175 --> 00:14:06,178 And maybe an acorn or two. 257 00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:09,148 I should have warned you. 258 00:14:09,148 --> 00:14:11,884 These animals are a very musical bunch. 259 00:14:11,884 --> 00:14:14,220 They are forever singing. 260 00:14:14,220 --> 00:14:16,889 I have no idea what. 261 00:14:16,889 --> 00:14:18,691 When. Look over there. 262 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:21,694 I believe it is the young doe. 263 00:14:21,927 --> 00:14:24,930 Winter is here.. 264 00:14:25,731 --> 00:14:29,668 And the snow flakes are falling down. 265 00:14:30,102 --> 00:14:33,472 I know that winter is here, 266 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:38,177 because the snow is fall over the ground. 267 00:14:38,177 --> 00:14:45,751 And my nose is frozen 268 00:14:45,751 --> 00:14:50,456 from sniffin around and my ears is frozen from 269 00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:53,492 what’s blowin around and by toes is frozen from diggin around in the snow. 270 00:14:55,127 --> 00:14:57,129 And look over there. 271 00:14:57,129 --> 00:14:59,064 The muskrat. 272 00:14:59,064 --> 00:15:02,067 How are you doing today? 273 00:15:02,167 --> 00:15:07,473 Well, my home is nearly frozen, 274 00:15:08,007 --> 00:15:11,010 so please don’t consider me rude. 275 00:15:12,111 --> 00:15:16,115 But when I finish grooming, 276 00:15:16,882 --> 00:15:21,053 I really must continue searching for my food. 277 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:36,168 (Duet) 278 00:16:00,726 --> 00:16:02,161 Before we get on with the show, 279 00:16:02,161 --> 00:16:05,164 here's a quick message for the grown ups. 280 00:16:05,431 --> 00:16:07,700 And now we're back to the show. 281 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:11,103 It's that time in the show for the happiest fan of all. 282 00:16:11,737 --> 00:16:12,972 We're a fan like you. 283 00:16:12,972 --> 00:16:15,975 Gives us clues to an animal that is making them happy. 284 00:16:16,442 --> 00:16:20,612 Today's submission comes from ten year old Daisy from Portland, Oregon. 285 00:16:21,180 --> 00:16:23,649 Here are Daisy's clues. 286 00:16:23,649 --> 00:16:27,753 Clue number one this animal can live up to 15 years. 287 00:16:28,354 --> 00:16:32,291 Clue number two this animal eats clams and snails. 288 00:16:33,325 --> 00:16:35,327 Crunchy. Clue number three. 289 00:16:35,327 --> 00:16:39,631 This animal's tongue acts like a drill for eating its prey. 290 00:16:40,165 --> 00:16:42,368 And an extra clue from me. 291 00:16:42,368 --> 00:16:45,371 This animal has a distinctive rounded shell. 292 00:16:46,005 --> 00:16:47,306 Do you have a guess? 293 00:16:47,306 --> 00:16:50,409 The answer is a moon snail. 294 00:16:50,743 --> 00:16:55,047 Moon snails make Daisy happy because they are some of the biggest marine snails. 295 00:16:55,247 --> 00:16:57,516 And who doesn't love a big snail? 296 00:16:57,516 --> 00:16:59,918 Thanks for your submission Daisy. Grown ups. 297 00:16:59,918 --> 00:17:01,653 If you know someone who would like to submit 298 00:17:01,653 --> 00:17:05,491 a happiest animal, visit our website at Happiest Animal Show. Com 299 00:17:07,092 --> 00:17:08,293 today's special guest 300 00:17:08,293 --> 00:17:11,830 is eight year old Raven from Missoula, Montana. 301 00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:15,000 Raven takes dance classes, swim classes, 302 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,003 and she does horseback riding twice a week. 303 00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:22,441 She told us that she chooses from three different horses when she rides. 304 00:17:22,908 --> 00:17:27,746 The horses are named time, Ace, and Valentino. 305 00:17:28,013 --> 00:17:31,517 Let's find out what animal is making Raven happy today, 306 00:17:31,517 --> 00:17:35,487 and you'll also hear a little from her mom in this interview. 307 00:17:35,854 --> 00:17:39,391 Raven, thanks so much for joining us for so excited that you're here. 308 00:17:39,391 --> 00:17:42,728 I have been really excited for this call. 309 00:17:43,028 --> 00:17:45,364 Yeah. Raven, 310 00:17:45,364 --> 00:17:47,433 we have an important question for you. 311 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:50,702 And that question is what animal is making 312 00:17:50,702 --> 00:17:54,306 you happy today and do you have clues for us? 313 00:17:54,573 --> 00:17:56,175 Any hints? 314 00:17:56,175 --> 00:17:58,610 I do have colors for you. 315 00:17:58,610 --> 00:17:59,411 Okay. 316 00:17:59,411 --> 00:18:02,347 The first clue is 317 00:18:02,347 --> 00:18:06,652 my mom's a biologist and she's studied them. 318 00:18:06,652 --> 00:18:09,721 And that's how she met my dad. Oh, 319 00:18:11,457 --> 00:18:12,091 okay. 320 00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:13,659 That's a good call, I like it. 321 00:18:13,659 --> 00:18:15,661 Yeah, your mom's a biologist. 322 00:18:15,661 --> 00:18:16,962 She studied this animal. 323 00:18:16,962 --> 00:18:18,797 And this is how she met your dad. 324 00:18:18,797 --> 00:18:20,899 Okay, okay. It's an important animal. 325 00:18:20,899 --> 00:18:23,001 If you know Raven, you're going to know the animal. 326 00:18:23,001 --> 00:18:26,672 But I don't know Raven's mom very well yet, so give me more clues. 327 00:18:26,772 --> 00:18:29,842 The fur is kind of hollow, so 328 00:18:30,709 --> 00:18:33,812 they can be warm when they swim. 329 00:18:34,713 --> 00:18:37,716 Oh, the last clue 330 00:18:38,050 --> 00:18:41,854 is that when my mom had tranquilized them. 331 00:18:41,987 --> 00:18:45,257 Oh, they got too hot easily, 332 00:18:45,324 --> 00:18:48,427 so they had the bucket of water on them. 333 00:18:48,494 --> 00:18:49,895 Okay, 334 00:18:49,895 --> 00:18:53,565 so your mom, when she started this animal, would sometimes tranquilize them. 335 00:18:53,565 --> 00:18:54,900 They sometimes would get too hot 336 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:57,569 and she would pour buckets of water on them to cool them down. 337 00:18:57,569 --> 00:18:58,370 Yeah. Wow. 338 00:18:58,370 --> 00:19:00,339 These are good clues. These are very specific clues. 339 00:19:00,339 --> 00:19:02,708 And I love it. Rob, do you have any follow up questions? 340 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:03,509 Because I do. 341 00:19:03,509 --> 00:19:03,842 You go first. 342 00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:06,745 Yeah, I do have some follow up questions. 343 00:19:06,745 --> 00:19:09,515 Can this animal grow bigger than a person? 344 00:19:09,515 --> 00:19:12,184 I think so okay. All right. 345 00:19:12,184 --> 00:19:15,187 Does this animal live in cold places. 346 00:19:15,254 --> 00:19:16,922 Yes okay. 347 00:19:18,323 --> 00:19:18,824 Yeah. 348 00:19:18,824 --> 00:19:24,630 And does this animal have big claws. Yes. 349 00:19:24,997 --> 00:19:27,933 And does this animal look like 350 00:19:27,933 --> 00:19:30,903 it's got a white fur. 351 00:19:32,104 --> 00:19:35,574 Yes. Oh I have a guess. 352 00:19:35,774 --> 00:19:38,210 Is it a polar bear. 353 00:19:38,210 --> 00:19:39,978 Correct. 354 00:19:39,978 --> 00:19:41,713 Yeah. Ding ding ding. 355 00:19:41,713 --> 00:19:45,017 Oh polar bear. 356 00:19:46,051 --> 00:19:48,153 Such a good animal. 357 00:19:48,153 --> 00:19:49,421 Your mom. 358 00:19:49,421 --> 00:19:51,390 Where bears. That's awesome. Yeah. 359 00:19:51,390 --> 00:19:55,227 And also we have a dog named after polar bears. 360 00:19:55,227 --> 00:19:56,895 What's the dog? The polar bear. 361 00:19:56,895 --> 00:19:58,964 Oh, your your dog's name is polar bear. 362 00:19:58,964 --> 00:20:01,500 Polar bears. Great polar bear. What are you doing? 363 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:05,370 I used to have a book with the Inuit name of a polar bear. 364 00:20:05,671 --> 00:20:07,306 And I'm trying to remember what it is. 365 00:20:07,306 --> 00:20:07,739 Then. Yeah. 366 00:20:07,739 --> 00:20:10,209 What name of a polar bear is Nanook? 367 00:20:10,209 --> 00:20:11,410 Not Nanook? 368 00:20:11,410 --> 00:20:13,078 That's right. That was the name of the book. 369 00:20:13,078 --> 00:20:13,812 Now, Raven. 370 00:20:13,812 --> 00:20:14,846 Well, we met you before. 371 00:20:14,846 --> 00:20:17,783 I think you told us that you are Inuit. Is that right? 372 00:20:17,783 --> 00:20:19,484 Correct. Awesome. 373 00:20:19,484 --> 00:20:20,919 Have you seen a polar bear yourself? 374 00:20:20,919 --> 00:20:23,121 Well, like a videos. 375 00:20:23,121 --> 00:20:25,891 Yeah, I've only ever seen them in the zoo. 376 00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:27,826 I've never actually gotten to see a wild polar bear. 377 00:20:27,826 --> 00:20:31,163 Yeah, well, they came to my dad's village. One. 378 00:20:31,263 --> 00:20:34,032 He used to live in the Arctic. That's cool. 379 00:20:34,032 --> 00:20:35,968 So your dad got to see them up close? 380 00:20:35,968 --> 00:20:38,804 Yeah. Wow. That's amazing. 381 00:20:38,804 --> 00:20:40,839 He was born in the Arctic. 382 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:42,808 Oh, that's so cool. 383 00:20:42,808 --> 00:20:46,078 So you have, like, a cool family connection to polar bears? 384 00:20:46,378 --> 00:20:48,413 Yeah, I guess. 385 00:20:50,649 --> 00:20:51,850 Raven, do 386 00:20:51,850 --> 00:20:55,254 you know any cool facts about polar bears? 387 00:20:55,621 --> 00:20:58,724 That the fur is kind of hollow inside. 388 00:20:59,191 --> 00:21:01,860 If you look through a telescope, it's hollow. 389 00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:04,062 If you look through the microscope, it's really hollow. 390 00:21:04,062 --> 00:21:05,030 That's so cool. 391 00:21:05,030 --> 00:21:07,933 And then it sounds like it's hollow. 392 00:21:07,933 --> 00:21:10,369 Because it helps act like insulation. 393 00:21:10,369 --> 00:21:11,403 And it helps keep them. 394 00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:13,872 Yeah, helps keep them warm. 395 00:21:13,872 --> 00:21:16,308 And it also helps them when they're swimming, too. 396 00:21:16,308 --> 00:21:19,544 It sounds like it might, might help them 397 00:21:19,544 --> 00:21:22,748 stay afloat a little bit easier if there's air trapped in the fur. 398 00:21:22,948 --> 00:21:24,216 Yeah, almost like a life jacket. 399 00:21:24,216 --> 00:21:27,185 Yeah, yeah, it's kind of like a life jacket. 400 00:21:27,185 --> 00:21:32,424 One of my favorite polar bear facts is the color of their skin. 401 00:21:32,658 --> 00:21:34,993 Do you know the color of their skin, Raven? 402 00:21:34,993 --> 00:21:37,562 Is it like, pink? That's a good guess. 403 00:21:37,562 --> 00:21:39,398 Do you know what color are polar bears noses? 404 00:21:40,632 --> 00:21:41,333 Black. 405 00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:43,835 It is black. Yeah. 406 00:21:43,835 --> 00:21:45,203 And their skin is black. 407 00:21:45,203 --> 00:21:49,274 And that also helps them stay warm because it can help 408 00:21:49,274 --> 00:21:52,377 absorb the the energy from the sun and keep them warm. 409 00:21:52,377 --> 00:21:53,312 Yeah. 410 00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:57,049 I did not know that when I was in the fifth grade, 411 00:21:57,182 --> 00:22:00,886 I did a school project about polar bears, and I wrote a song about polar bears. 412 00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:04,790 And I think that's probably the very first song about animals I ever wrote. 413 00:22:04,956 --> 00:22:06,692 It was about polar bears on the piano. 414 00:22:06,692 --> 00:22:08,760 Oh, you know, how do piano? 415 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,829 I do play the piano. 416 00:22:10,829 --> 00:22:13,231 And I thought polar bears would kind of have a heavy walk. 417 00:22:13,231 --> 00:22:18,503 So I had the notes go bom bom bom bom bom bom bom about the polar bear. 418 00:22:18,570 --> 00:22:24,276 Someday I hope that I get a chance to go up to the Arctic and see them. 419 00:22:25,377 --> 00:22:25,644 In the 420 00:22:25,644 --> 00:22:28,714 meantime, maybe I'll just have to settle for meeting your dog. 421 00:22:28,714 --> 00:22:29,548 Polar bear. 422 00:22:29,548 --> 00:22:30,349 Yeah. 423 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:32,951 Hey, I forget, have you seen a polar bear in person? 424 00:22:32,951 --> 00:22:33,985 Raven? 425 00:22:33,985 --> 00:22:36,355 No, no, but were you in the Arctic? 426 00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:39,358 Did I say a polar bear? Well, 427 00:22:39,624 --> 00:22:41,793 there might have been one that. 428 00:22:41,793 --> 00:22:45,964 Yeah, it was extending by the shed and only chased away with snowmobiles. 429 00:22:46,264 --> 00:22:47,232 Oh, yeah. 430 00:22:47,232 --> 00:22:50,235 I had seen a polar bear when I was like, 2 or 3. 431 00:22:50,402 --> 00:22:52,237 Okay. They come right in the town. 432 00:22:52,237 --> 00:22:56,475 What was the polar bear doing standing by the shed in the Arctic? 433 00:22:56,942 --> 00:22:59,911 Just a casual shed. Polar bear. Wow. 434 00:22:59,911 --> 00:23:02,914 And and then. 435 00:23:02,914 --> 00:23:06,051 And then they drove it away with snowmobiles. 436 00:23:06,318 --> 00:23:09,121 They wanted to get it out of the out of the village 437 00:23:09,121 --> 00:23:10,322 and get it away from people. 438 00:23:10,322 --> 00:23:13,325 The camp where they keep the sled dogs out. 439 00:23:13,325 --> 00:23:16,862 Then the end of the village, they keep sled dogs 440 00:23:16,862 --> 00:23:19,898 at the end of the village to scare away the polar bears, I think so. 441 00:23:20,665 --> 00:23:25,137 Do you know the name of the village that you visited, or that your dad was from? 442 00:23:25,137 --> 00:23:28,206 Igloo like igloo like a glue. Like. Yeah. 443 00:23:28,707 --> 00:23:33,779 You definitely been more north than I've ever been, Raven, I bet. 444 00:23:34,346 --> 00:23:34,746 Yeah. 445 00:23:37,149 --> 00:23:40,285 You're really lucky that your mom is a biologist. 446 00:23:40,285 --> 00:23:43,321 And you get to learn about and get really close to animals. 447 00:23:44,022 --> 00:23:44,523 Yeah. 448 00:23:44,523 --> 00:23:47,192 Would tell me some of the other animals that your mom has studied. 449 00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:50,362 Well, polar bears. 450 00:23:50,962 --> 00:23:55,033 Was it black bears or it was a grizzly bears, mate. 451 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:56,468 Yeah. Both. 452 00:23:56,468 --> 00:23:59,471 Both, black bears and polar bears. 453 00:23:59,504 --> 00:24:02,507 Receivers and elephants. 454 00:24:02,507 --> 00:24:03,842 How? And elephants. 455 00:24:03,842 --> 00:24:05,343 I forgot about elephants. 456 00:24:05,343 --> 00:24:05,677 So. Yeah. 457 00:24:05,677 --> 00:24:08,680 So stupid elephants. Yeah. 458 00:24:09,114 --> 00:24:12,751 I'm sure you've never seen a bear in your life like a grizzly bear. 459 00:24:13,418 --> 00:24:14,553 We've seen. 460 00:24:14,553 --> 00:24:16,154 We have seen brown bears. 461 00:24:16,154 --> 00:24:18,223 And we have seen black bears as well. 462 00:24:18,223 --> 00:24:21,560 Yeah, we went to Alaska once with our cameras to film them. 463 00:24:21,927 --> 00:24:25,230 Have you ever studied any animals? 464 00:24:25,964 --> 00:24:27,065 Good question. 465 00:24:27,065 --> 00:24:28,834 I studied hyenas. 466 00:24:28,834 --> 00:24:30,602 Oh. When I was in college. 467 00:24:31,636 --> 00:24:35,273 I love hyenas, they are really good hunters. 468 00:24:35,974 --> 00:24:37,576 Even better than lions. 469 00:24:37,576 --> 00:24:39,644 And they're pretty cute, especially when they're little. 470 00:24:39,644 --> 00:24:40,812 Yeah. 471 00:24:40,812 --> 00:24:45,217 So yeah, I studied zoology in college, 472 00:24:45,217 --> 00:24:49,154 but I never actually studied an individual type of animal. 473 00:24:49,921 --> 00:24:54,526 Do you think you'd like to learn how to study animals as you grow up? 474 00:24:55,260 --> 00:24:55,560 Yeah. 475 00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:00,499 I was planning to, like, maybe study 476 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:04,569 a buffalo or a muskox. 477 00:25:04,569 --> 00:25:05,971 Yeah. Muskox. 478 00:25:05,971 --> 00:25:07,172 Muskox? Yeah. 479 00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:07,672 Those are. 480 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:10,108 Yeah. I really want to study those. 481 00:25:10,108 --> 00:25:13,678 So you want to be a biologist and you want to study Arctic animals? 482 00:25:14,613 --> 00:25:16,014 Up where the polar bear lives. 483 00:25:16,014 --> 00:25:17,315 That's amazing. Yeah. 484 00:25:17,315 --> 00:25:17,849 So it. 485 00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:20,852 And I also want a pet raven. 486 00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:22,621 And do you want a pet raven? 487 00:25:22,621 --> 00:25:24,523 What is your. Yeah. Name is Raven. 488 00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:25,757 Another one of myself. 489 00:25:28,293 --> 00:25:29,661 You want another one of yourself? 490 00:25:29,661 --> 00:25:32,664 Yeah. 491 00:25:33,932 --> 00:25:36,234 Not many people are named after an animal. 492 00:25:36,234 --> 00:25:38,136 And I think that's really cool that your name is Raven. 493 00:25:38,136 --> 00:25:39,170 Yeah. Raven. 494 00:25:39,170 --> 00:25:43,241 Thank you so much for being here with us on the Happiest Animal Show. 495 00:25:43,441 --> 00:25:44,943 Thanks for having me. 496 00:25:44,943 --> 00:25:48,780 The polar bear is such a good animal, and I'm so glad you picked it, Raven. 497 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:51,483 It's just been so much fun to have you on the show. 498 00:25:51,483 --> 00:25:52,484 Thanks. 499 00:25:52,484 --> 00:25:53,552 And now the time. 500 00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:59,157 We've all been waiting for the answer to the joke of the day. 501 00:25:59,491 --> 00:26:02,494 How do you tell the difference between a walrus and an orange? 502 00:26:03,361 --> 00:26:05,430 Do you have a guess? 503 00:26:05,430 --> 00:26:08,433 And the answer is 504 00:26:08,667 --> 00:26:10,569 put your arms around it and squeeze it. 505 00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:13,104 If you don't get orange juice, it's a walrus. 506 00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:17,842 And before we go, 507 00:26:17,842 --> 00:26:20,845 remember, we live on a beautiful planet. 508 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:24,082 So go out and find what makes you happy today. 509 00:26:26,651 --> 00:26:29,287 Hey, grown ups, we know you're busy, but if you like 510 00:26:29,287 --> 00:26:32,524 our show, we'd love for you to tell your friends and family about it. 511 00:26:32,924 --> 00:26:36,394 It's the best way for our podcast to grow and Grown-Ups. 512 00:26:36,494 --> 00:26:40,298 You can also follow us on social media at Happiest Animal Show, 513 00:26:40,832 --> 00:26:43,134 or check out other fun things on our website, 514 00:26:43,134 --> 00:26:46,137 like how to submit an animal and how to get merch. 515 00:26:46,304 --> 00:26:46,738 Visit Happiestanimalshow.com. 516 00:26:46,738 --> 00:26:49,641 The Happiest Animal 517 00:26:49,641 --> 00:26:52,944 Show is created by Laura Sams, Robert Sams, and Dave Cain. 518 00:26:53,078 --> 00:26:57,916 Produced by Sisbro Studios, hosted and directed by Laura Sams and Robert 519 00:26:57,916 --> 00:27:02,554 Sams, and written by Laura Sams, Robert Sams with story editor 520 00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:06,925 Dave Cain, and with only a little help from our cat walking across the keyboard. 521 00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:10,261 Now let's talk music. 522 00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:13,231 Original music is written and performed by zero time 523 00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:16,534 Grammy Award winning songwriters Laura Sams and Robert Sams. 524 00:27:16,534 --> 00:27:19,704 Except for the end credits, music which was written by Laura and Robert's 525 00:27:19,704 --> 00:27:24,109 Grandma Max and the joke answer suspense music written by David Schultz. 526 00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:26,077 The theme song was written and performed 527 00:27:26,077 --> 00:27:29,648 by Laura and Rob and mixed by Jason Wells of Audio Wells. 528 00:27:30,115 --> 00:27:32,183 Thanks for listening. 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