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, 275 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
161: Rufous Hummingbird w/ Alexander Vidal
00:48:47 | Episode: 161 | September 21st, 2022
Join Ellen & special guest, illustrator and author Alexander Vidal, for a review of a tiny bird with an ambitious itinerary: the rufous hummingbird. We discuss cottagecore nests, how wildlife moves all over our continent, birds that look like bugs and bugs that look like birds, and a lesson in confidence from the world’s littlest dinosaurs.
160: Marine Iguana & Colugo
01:05:07 | Episode: 160 | September 14th, 2022
Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! This week, Christian gets salty over the marine iguana & Ellen glides along with the literally treehugging colugo. We discuss archipelagos, snot rockets, Darwin’s garbage takes, Godzilla, skin parachutes and baby hammocks.
159: Moon Jellyfish w/ Sophie Wolvin!
01:03:53 | Episode: 159 | September 7th, 2022
Join Ellen & special guest, marine biologist Sophie Wolvin, for a review of the ocean’s little jello casseroles full of live bees: moon jellyfish! We’re gonna talk about what to do if you get stung by a jellyfish, what it’s like to care for the delicate jellies, their vortex of death, jellybeans and blooms, and I confess to some heinous jellyfish crimes.
158: Pallas's Cat & Kiwi
01:02:12 | Episode: 158 | September 1st, 2022
Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week’s episode, 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.
157: Fleas w/ Tom Sharpe!
00:59:50 | Episode: 157 | August 24th, 2022
Join Ellen & special guest, podcaster and invertebrate enthusiast Tom Sharpe, as we leap into the world of the tiny menace: fleas! We discuss the intersection of entomology and Pokemon, blind leaps of faith, tiny little cowboys riding their trusty steeds up cave walls, the history of fleas on leashes, and more.
156: California Sea Lion & Giant Isopod
00:59:02 | Episode: 156 | August 17th, 2022
Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week’s episode, Christian barks about the loud wet dog of the Pacific coast, the California sea lion, and Ellen gets to know her bottomfeeding best friend, the giant isopod. In this episode, we discuss our recent trip to Monterey Bay, pinniped evolution, whale falls, and Hello Kitty Darth Vader.
155: Dolphins w/ Drew Smith!
01:06:42 | Episode: 155 | August 10th, 2022
Join Ellen & special guest, anthropologist & cetologist Drew Smith, for a review of the adorable little apex predators zipping through the waves: dolphins! We talked about animal charisma, dolphin culture and society and play, a West Side Story-style rivalry, a whale’s favorite ice cream flavor, and how these animals so different from us have flipped and whistled their way into our human hearts.
154: Hognose Snake & Cone Snail
00:56:15 | Episode: 154 | July 27th, 2022
Join the Weatherfords for a weekly animal review! In this week’s episode, Ellen brings a flair for drama with the hognose snake & Christian shatters expectations with the lightning-fast strike of the cone snail. We discuss feigning death, longleaf pine forests, and stealthy assassins of the reef.
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Created by: Christian & Ellen Weatherford
Started:
May 14th, 2019
Status: Active, 275 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
