Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Just the Zoo of Us
Join us, Ellen and Christian Weatherford, while we review your favorite species of animals and rate them out of ten in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity and aesthetics.
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Episode One: 1: American Alligator & Florida Manatee
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started: May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 318 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
303: American Dipper w/ Jason Hall!
00:56:23 | Episode: 303 | September 11th, 2025
Join Ellen & birder and science communicator Jason Hall for a review of a little bird full of big surprises: the American dipper. We discuss birding pre-smartphone, Philadelphia’s role in ornithological history, the wild physiological adaptations that let this tiny songbird brave mountain rapids, smooth dance moves, aura farming, and so much more.
302: Bigfin Squid
00:59:05 | Episode: 302 | September 4th, 2025
Ellen demystifies the deep sea-dwelling bigfin squid. We discuss hunting for shipwrecks, life in the trenches, spaghetti noodle fingers, unintentional cinematography, and so much more.
301: Lyrebirds w/ Dr. César Puechmarin!
01:13:43 | Episode: 301 | August 27th, 2025
Join Ellen & special guest, wildlife veterinarian, filmmaker and science communicator Dr César Puechmarin, for a review of Australia’s masters of song: the lyrebird. We discuss birdwatching drama, the ancient origins of songbirds, vocal anatomy, secret passwords, oral history and cultural memory passed down through generations and the ghosts remembered in birdsong, and so much more.
300: A Badger + Coyote Adventure!
01:03:42 | Episode: 300 | August 21st, 2025
Ellen & Christian team up as a coyote and badger in a cozy duet TTRPG adventure. When a family of skunks accuse a reclusive bobcat of disturbing their peaceful home, the woodland’s finest pair of peacekeepers are on the case. We use the Badger + Coyote game system by Pandion Games to improvise a collaborative story of mystery, fire, a waterfall cave, legend of stalking predators in the night, devious traps, and even romance.
299: Nightjars
00:57:04 | Episode: 299 | August 14th, 2025
Ellen gives the mysterious wing-clapping nightjars a round of applause. We discuss Pliny the Elder, bird whiskers, what it really means to “raise one’s standards,” ecologically accurate sound effects in The Legend of Zelda, an acoustic mystery, El Chupacabra, and so much more.
298: Katie Goldin's 3 Weirdest Shark Facts!
00:58:45 | Episode: 298 | August 7th, 2025
Join Ellen & returning guest, science communicator and comedy writer Katie Goldin, for a roundup of her 3 weirdest facts about sharks. We discuss cage-free uranium, possible mermaid configurations, why sometimes people poop themselves when they’re scared, how fomo can conquer phobia, eye teeth, and so much more.
158: Pallas's Cat & Kiwi (REPLAY)
01:02:50 | July 30th, 2025
In this week’s re-broadcast of an episode from September of 2022, Ellen lets Pallas’s cat out of the bag & Christian probes into the world of the sensitive kiwi. We discuss grumpy cats, spawncamping, chilly beans, buff legs and giant eggs.
297: Red Fox
01:03:33 | Episode: 297 | July 24th, 2025
Ellen explains what the red fox REALLY says. We discuss a chicken shakedown, the Siberian fox domestication experiment, aim assist, quantum entanglement, genetic surprises, and so much more.
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started:
May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 318 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
