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, 310 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
296: Leach's Storm Petrel w/ Melina Watson!
01:14:17 | Episode: 296 | July 17th, 2025
Join Ellen & special guest, marine biologist and seabird wrangler Melina Watson, for a review of the ocean’s bravest little walkerwalkers: Leach’s storm petrel. We swap whalewatching stories, discuss snot gutters and lost feet and baby chicks that look like soot sprites, and get firsthand insight into life among the seabirds, from falling asleep to a lullaby of screams to a surprising assessment of the smell situation.
295: Giant Anteater
00:57:01 | Episode: 295 | July 11th, 2025
Ellen pokes her nose into the giant anteater’s business. We discuss Fun Dip, sleeper builds, optical illusions, blankies, the shirshu, and so much more.
294: Speculative Evolution w/ Roxy Valdez!
01:30:32 | Episode: 294 | July 2nd, 2025
Join Ellen & special guest, digital artist and character designer Roxy Valdez, for a multimedia exploration of the intersection where real-world biology and ecology meets the imagination: speculative evolution! We discuss the world of the Amphiterra Project, the academic research and creative process that goes into designing creatures for science fiction and fantasy, and even team up to roll dice and make our very own creatures. Our guest provides illustrations and an interactive spec evo prompt generator that will be posted on our socials to accompany this episode!
293: Rhinoceros & Bird-eating Tarantula
01:09:36 | Episode: 293 | June 25th, 2025
Christian takes charge of rhinoceroses & Ellen gives bird-eating tarantulas a hair-raising review. We discuss unicorns, mmwonk, dragon calls, Ace Ventura, becoming the Thumbtacks Guy, recipes for a bag of spiders, and more.
292: Ivan Phillipsen's 3 Weirdest Birds!
00:57:24 | Episode: 292 | June 18th, 2025
Join Ellen and acclaimed naturalist Ivan Phillipsen to round up his top 3 weirdest birds. We discuss what makes a bird truly “weird,” the distinct silhouette of a style icon, never letting a perfectly good placenta go to waste, birds getting tipsy on fermented berries, and so much more.
291: Kid Questions with Isaac!
01:17:23 | Episode: 291 | June 11th, 2025
Ellen & special guest Isaac answer questions from young listeners! We discuss albinism, whales and dinosaurs, what makes an organism an animal, raccoon stripes, the puppification of foxes, and so much more.
290: Rabbits w/ Zoe Feigen!
01:16:02 | Episode: 290 | June 6th, 2025
Join Ellen & special guest, veterinarian and rabbit parent Zoe Feigen, for an exposé on rabbits and the secret horrors they’re hiding underneath all that adorable fluff. We discuss biological warfare on an ecological menace, self-sharpening glass crunchers, eating poop, outie butts, flirting with pee, tearaway hair, haunting screams, and so much more. This truly eye-opening episode will forever change how you see those sweet little faces and cotton ball tails.
289: Parrotfish
00:58:25 | Episode: 289 | May 28th, 2025
Ellen bites off more than she can chew with parrotfish. We discuss the Mohs scale, Korn corn, throat teeth, crystal chainmail, sleeping bags made of snot, being terminally male, and so much more.
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started:
May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 310 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
