Ep 22: The Skydiving Beavers of 1948

Melissa talks about a monkey who killed the King of Greece, skydiving beavers, and one lizard earns the number one slot for the largest number 2. Let’s go!

We discuss white colonization and urban sprawl by way of parachuting beavers.

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I got today’s information from

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Geronimo

https://time.com/4084997/parachuting-beavers-history/#:~:text=At%20last%2C%20the%20world,become%20the%20Internet's%20latest%20favorite

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/skydiving-beavers/

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/parachuting-beavers-idahos-wilderness-yes-it-really-happened#stream/0

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/10/23/9604608/parachuting-beavers-video-idaho-fish-game

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/idaho-parachuting-beavers-mccall-fish-and-game/277-f3ee3ca0-f029-4744-9461-f256a84fbe6a

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-king-of-Greece

https://historycollection.com/40-animals-that-changed-history/3/

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201026.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a18832/royalty-and-their-strange-deaths/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece

https://www.inverse.com/science/deceptively-chubby-lizard-breaks-poop-record

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