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Ep 44: LSDscapades and Debleated Goats Sep 26, 2021

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As there is talk of suicide and class one narcotics, listener discretion is advised.
How magicians, debleated goats, LSD, a maybe murder, and a CIA holiday party are tied into the misinformation effect.
Resources:
Jon Ronson: "The Men Who Stared at Goats"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
http://www.jonronson.com/goats.html

Every Little Thing https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vZXZlcnlsaXR0bGV0aGluZw/episode/ZGQ2NDRlZjQtMTIzZi0xMWViLTlkNTctMzczNWI2NGUxMWU3?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiAjpOjreHxAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg

Spycast https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzQ2MzQzMjAucnNz/episode/dGFnOmF1ZGlvYm9vLmZtLDIwMTYtMDctMTk6L2Jvb3MvNDgzNzU5NQ?sa=X&ved=0CAIQuIEEahgKEwiAjpOjreHxAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQrwE

Bullseye
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDMwOS9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA/episode/MmVlYjNiYmUtZjI4My00ZmVkLTg3Y2MtMTczZGQ2ODEwYWJm?sa=X&ved=0CAIQuIEEahgKEwiAjpOjreHxAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQrwE
https://www.military.com/kitup/2012/02/goat-lab-an-inside-look.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/psychic-spies-truth-men-stare-goats/story?id=9032019

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-01-ca-bridges1-story.html

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

https://neweartharmy.com/Welcome.html

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2017/09/16/hawaii-news/jim-channon-corporate-shaman-and-basis-for-hollywood-character-dies-at-77/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120227954
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#MKULTRA_and_Olson.27s_death

https://www.wired.com/2009/01/mkultra-lawsuit/

https://www.wired.com/2009/11/inside-the-armys-far-out-acid-tests/

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/03/archives/cia-hired-magician-in-behavior-project-paid-him-to-write-a-manual-a.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/

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Interstitial Music: MK2
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Your host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)

Ep 43: Mouthful of Mike Sep 20, 2021

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This week is all about Michael Packard, a man who went out to catch lobster but instead got an inside view of a humpback whale.

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Resources and references on Michael Packard and the whale

The Cape Cod Times article by Doug Frasier dated June 11, 2021, “I was completely inside”
Fisheries.noaa.gov
Dumb People Town - episode dated July 23, 2021, "I've Got A Tracheal Occlusion"
Pinocchio by Walt Disney Studios
The Decemberists Mariners Revenge Song - go listen and picture a 4-year-old bopping to it. WITH A GRIN.
The Bible (Jonah and the Whale) /Wikipedia on The Book of Jonah
Moby Dick

Intro Music is “Tiptoe out the back” by Dan Lebowicz and Interstitial music is by MK2
More about Melissa can be found at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com
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Ep 42: What the Pluck? Sep 12, 2021

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A truck of hens heading to a slaughterhouse turns over on a California Highway, leading to the funniest trilogy in chicken-cinema.
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Resources: on the California Freeway Chickens:
Terry Pratchett's book of short stories, "A Blink of the Screen"
LA Times
Wikipedia
Snopes
Jessica Tandy
Deseret News
Intro Music is “Tiptoe out the back” by Dan Lebowicz and Interstitial music is by MK2
More about Melissa can be found at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com
All episodes of BewilderBeasts can be found at BewilderBeastsPod.com

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Ep 41: Diamond Smuggling Pigeons Sep 05, 2021

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There is a place called the Diamond Coast where humanity clings to a thread, and pigeons are angels and lifelines. Let's go.
Resources:
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers by Matthew Gavin Frank

Just the Zoo of Us - Pigeons / Varmints - Pigeons / Strange Animals Podcast - Pigeons
Adam Ruins Everything (Diamonds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kWu1ifBGU

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/a-tale-of-three-superdoves-the-dodo-the-rock-pigeon-and-the-passenger-pigeon/

https://www.pigeoncontrolresourcecentre.org/html/about-pigeons.html

https://weightofthing.com/items-that-weigh-about-40-pounds/
https://www.thespruce.com/pictures-of-pigeons-and-doves-4121967
Melissa McCue-McGrath is a dog trainer. She is the author of Considerations for the City Dog, the co-Training Director of the New England Dog Training Club (the oldest AKC obedience club in the United States). More at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com
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Episode 40: Update & Curses Jul 28, 2021

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Today, a quick update and a revisit of episode 8: the naughty bird who got evicted from a President's funeral for swearing, some birds who were separated for turning the zoo into an R rated experience for school kids, and some birds who use fire to catch prey, much to the dismay of firefighters.
This episode is also playing this week over at Melissa's other project, Totally Pawsome Pod with Dr. Sip Siperstein, a podcast that is SO not for children.
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Bonus: Edgar Allan, Oh NO! Jul 04, 2021

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Updates on the wanderlust walrus who is now sinking boats in Spain, a bomb sniffing rat retires, and a revisit of the raven who inspired two old-timey authors, Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe.
Resources:
Magawa the land mine sniffing rat (original resources found on Episode 10)
NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003258540/after-years-of-detecting-land-mines-a-heroic-rat-is-hanging-up-his-sniffer
Update on Wally the Wayward Walrus (Episode 31)
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-57572045

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Ep 39: Intersections of Animals at Humanity May 30, 2021

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A father's devotion to his daughter is saving the monarch butterfly; condors go all Spinal Tap on a woman's home; Melissa gets real with how local and state government officials in Massachusetts can get inspiration from wildlife overpasses before another Somerville resident is killed in a crosswalk in her city.
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Resources:
Butterfly Connection
Monarch Watch
Rooted Mag
Good News Network
Boston Globe
Firestone Complete Autocare
Save Our Monarchs.org

Air Bird and B (Condors)
NYTimes
Mashable
The Guardian
Condor Comeback - Sy Montgomery
Tia Strombeck -

Intersection
Boston.com
All That's Interesting (Bridges)
Wild Animal Sanctuary
National Geographic
Rest in peace: Cheryl Richards, Kevin Dumont, and Marshall Mac. We will fix this.

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Ep 38: Sniffin' With What His Mama Gave Him May 23, 2021

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Melissa presents three happy stories about animals and humans - Yoriko the fish makes an unusual friend at an underwater shrine; a service dog flunk out becomes the first arson detection dog in Saginaw, TX; how scientists are using googley eyes to save birds.
Resources:
Love is Blind:
Yoriko and Hiroyuki Arakawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfwdm5W2lWs

Wikipedia Asian Sheepshead Wrasse and Yoriko
Bored Panda
Wikipedia Shinto Shrine
Trip Advisor
Mental Floss
BBC
BBCEarth

Sheldon, the Firedog of Saginaw and the State Farm Arson Dog School
People Magazine
Firehouse Careers
Portland Oregon Gov
https://arsondog.org/ Arson Dog
https://notesfromadogwalker.com/2013/06/14/state-farm-arson-dog-program/ (Jessica Dolce)

Looming Eyes Buoy Buddies
Good News Network
MSN
Guardian

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Ep 37: Little In the Middle May 16, 2021

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This week all about dogs and sight! We have a greyhound who gets corrective lenses, the first seeing eye dogs, and a guardian livestock dog gets an unusual flock to tend.
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Dr. Pip Boydel and the Blind Greyound
https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/gremlin-pit-bull-contacts
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/prescription-glasses-dogs/story?id=205640
https://phys.org/news/2009-07-contact-lenses-animals.html
http://www.archer2000.com/buddyhound/buddynews68.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/1606722.stm

Dorothy Harrison Eustis & Morris Frank (Seeing Eye Dogs)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/morris-frank-and-buddy-statue
https://thebark.com/content/history-seeing-eye-dogs
https://www.seeingeye.org/about-us/history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeing_Eye
https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/dorothy-harrison-eustis/
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2016/04/post-article-launched-seeing-eye-program/
https://timeline.com/seeing-eye-dogs-history-e4eababa8e07
https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/america-s-hidden-history-the-eugenics-movement-123919444
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Harrison_Eustis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67393087/dorothy-leib-eustis
https://www.nytimes.com/1946/09/10/archives/mrs-eustis-is-dead-helped-the-blind-founder-of-seeing-eye-inc-group.html

Swampy Marsh and the Penguin Protection Program
ABC.au
ABC.net
The Bark
Map of Middle Island
The Standard

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BONUS: Got Vaccines? May 13, 2021

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On this shortie, Melissa got vaccinated and wanted to revisit the horseshoe crabs who made our vaccines --- and nearly every medical instrument and medication --- possible. Thanks, horseshoe crabs!
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Big thanks to Freesound.org and Joshua Empyre for additional music for this week's episode.
For all other information regarding this shortie, including the original resources of information, including the Sawbones episode (thanks Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy!) and RadioLab episode referenced, please visit Bewilderbeastspod.com, episode 19: Armadillo Justice.

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