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    BewilderBeasts!

    Host Melissa McCue-McGrath dives deep into the weirdest, funniest, sciency-est ways in which animals intersect at humanity. How is a horse responsible for the FDA? How did fish farts nearly cause bombs to fly between Russia and Sweden? Which pigeon saved 194 soldiers in WW1? Why are honey bees trained to find unexploded landmines in Croatia? Let’s go!

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    BONUS: Luck o' the Irish Setter Mar 10, 2024
    Show notes

    Patreon exclusive number 9: Originally aired March 16, 2022
    Let's learn about the only place in Ireland where citizens could get a pint on St. Patrick's Day ----the Royal National Dog Show! And, an Irishman steps up to help injured wildlife by converting his pub to Ireland's FIRST wildlife hospital during the 2020 pandemic.
    "There's no bad press except an Obituary" - Brendan Behan, Irish Poet
    Resources:
    https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/all-pubs-ireland-closed-st-patricks-day

    https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/irish-pubs-will-finally-have-beer-on-good-friday

    https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/desperate-for-a-drink-on-dry-good-friday-in-ireland-146406725-237584801

    https://www.history.com/news/st-patricks-day-origins-america

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

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

    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210221-locked-down-pub-becomes-ireland-s-first-wildlife-hospital

    https://www.wbur.org/news/2010/03/12/evacuation-day-holiday

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/17/the-irish-american-population-is-seven-times-larger-than-ireland/

    http://traleetoday.ie/greyhound-stadium-to-receive-boost-with-good-friday-drinking/

    https://news.sky.com/video/irelands-wildlife-hospital-under-threat-12503946

    https://www.independent.ie/life/the-curious-history-of-our-disappearing-dogs-35519917.html

    And for fans of Ted Lasso - Trent Crimm, the Independent would support this:

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/alcohol-on-good-fridaywhat-you-need-to-know-from-off-licences-and-supermarkets-to-takeaway-pints-40266929.html#:~:text=While%20buying%20alcohol%20on%20Good,the%20first%20time%20since%201927.

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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 100: The Center Mar 03, 2024
    Show notes

    We close out the series by discussing the humans who dedicate their lives as the bridge between wildlife and education, and a left-hand turn into the vultures who perform sky burials.
    Thank you for everything. Peace out, yo. <3
    -M3
    I got today's information from:

    https://www.thecenterforwildlife.org/ambassadors

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

    https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon reported by Avir Mitra via RadioLab podcast. GO LISTEN to this RIGHT now.

    Maine.gov on rehabilitation


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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 99: Rises and Falls Feb 25, 2024
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    'We can never have luck without a cat on board' he said. If this were true, the crew would have been better off with a different cat. "
    The story, about what goes up, must eventually come down, perfectly weaves the tale of the rise and fall of nearly every subject in the story.


    I got today's information from:
    https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/kiddo-the-cat.htm

    https://www.airships.net/first-attempt-fly-atlantic-wellman-vaniman-airship-america/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen

    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/paul-von-hindenburg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(airship)

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hindenburg-adorned-swastika/

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

    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/paul-von-hindenburg

    Look up Melvin Vaniman - his artwork and what he did before getting on these ships is a whole other story that someone else can tell. He climbed skyscraper poles to take photos, he was like, a stunt cameraman before getting into dirigible business! And there is a famous photo of him with Kiddo the “lucky” cat - he didn’t look unhappy given how upset he was with the cat at the beginning of their journey. I’d like to think they made up before parting ways.


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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 98: Buzzzzzzz Feb 18, 2024
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    Bees make one last appearance on the show, this time getting hammered on college campuses to help scientists understand the neural pathways of human addiction.
    Resources for today's episode:
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmjgxj/bees-australia-get-drunk-on-fermented-nectar-and-refused-re-entry-to-hive
    https://savannahbee.com/blogs/the-latest-buzz/yes-bees-can-get-drunk#:~:text=Bees%20act%20a%20lot%20like,was%20going%20and%20getting%20lost.

    https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/natural-sciences/animals/animal-facts/animals-drunk-feature/

    Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) Show a Preference for the Consumption of Ethanol

    Julie A. Mustard, Ramiro Oquita, Paulina Garza, Alexander Stoker found via https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PgBd-F0AAAAJ&hl=en

    Cocaine bees:
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/dec/23/cocaine-bees-australia-drug-research

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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 97: Shockoe Feb 04, 2024
    Show notes

    Some dogs work to close decades-old cold cases. Others are tasked with finding long-lost burial grounds, shining a light on America's racist foundation while uncovering the truth that some today wish would stay buried.
    **********
    Cat Warren author of "What the Dog Knows" (thank you!)
    Thanks to Kimberly Chen for sharing the public reports of what HRDs found at Shockoe African Burial Ground II.
    Peabody Essex Museum Talk
    National Geographic
    Discover Magazine
    NY Times
    The Guardian
    Canine Forensics Foundation
    Indigenous Science
    ICFK9
    WTHR.com Baumeister
    Martin Archeology
    APTN News McGill
    Historical Richmond
    Saving Places PODCAST
    RVA
    Body Snatching
    Richmond Cemeteries Ryan Smith
    Palm Beach Florida Weekly
    Scripps News
    LA Times
    US News
    TCIF.orgSapiens.org
    CBS

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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 96: The Maine 6 Jan 28, 2024
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    This week we look at Maine's 6 dogs who might just end up on the front lines to save nearly every industry that gives Maine the name, "Vacationland. "
    Resources:
    Leeroy Jenkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4
    https://bewilderbeastspod.podcastpage.io/episode/ep-67-doom-bloom

    https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-honors-young-scientist-who-was-subject-of-police-complaint/

    https://twitter.com/YaleSPH/status/1617630181166047232

    https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/resources/pests-diseases/hungry-pests/the-threat/spotted-lanternfly/spotted-lanternfly#:~:text=Spotted%20lanternfly%20populations%20are%20currently,%2C%20Virginia%2C%20and%20West%20Virginia.

    https://www.wlvt.org/blogs/northampton/how-dogs-are-being-trained-to-help-fight-off-spotted-lanternfly/

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/inside-the-race-to-kill-the-spotted-lanternfly?loggedin=true&rnd=1705186972691

    https://www.newthinking.com/sustainability/stomping-the-unstoppable-combatting-the-spotted-lanternfly

    https://centraljersey.com/2021/09/01/bordentown-city-residents-take-part-in-lanternfly-murder-pub-crawl/

    https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/whats-so-bad-about-the-spotted-lanternfly.html

    https://centraljersey.com/2021/09/01/bordentown-city-residents-take-part-in-lanternfly-murder-pub-crawl/

    https://6abc.com/bobbi-wilson-lanternflies-yale-invasive-species/12773431/

    Project Citizen Lantern Fly: The video Melissa and her teams watched that introduced them to the SLF project.


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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 95: Zombieland Jan 21, 2024
    Show notes

    Starting season 6 off with mind control parasites often found in kitty litter boxes around the world - so how is this parasite endangering monk seals in the Pacific Ocean?
    Ready? Let's go!
    ***SIDENOTE: Melissa's presentation on animal distress, how to lessen stress in our pets and ourselves, and living in cities with pets (as well as amazing speakers all about reactive dogs) can be found here, for FREE this weekend (January 26-28, 2024).
    PUPFEST BY NIKI FRENCH!****
    I got today’s information from :

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/toxoplasmosis-risk-wolves-cats-mice
    (“You can store them in 10 percent bleach for years, take them out, wash them off, and the parasites can still develop.” yuck.

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/220113-sneaky-cat-parasite-takes-over-human-brains-science

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/zombies-parasites-animals-science-behavior
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/seals-endangered-species-health-disease-oceans

    https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/gen_info/faqs.html#:~:text=infection%20to%20me%3F-,What%20is%20toxoplasmosis%3F,infected%20with%20the%20Toxoplasma%20parasite.

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

    https://www.livescience.com/surprising-toxoplasma-gondii-facts

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224422000141
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Flegr


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    Ep 94: Rock Baby and Baby Jail Apr 23, 2023
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    In this season finale, we'll catch up with the world's best dad - a 31-year-old bald eagle who wanted to be a dad.
    I got information from:
    World Bird Sanctuary Twitter (the comic I first saw, completely out of context) by Jules Behrens: https://twitter.com/WBSSTL/status/1647965975034183684
    https://www.instagram.com/worldbirdsanctuary/

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/murphy-eagle-rock-chick-eaglet_n_642daa6be4b0859acb91e120
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/murphy-bald-eagle-rock.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/murphy-bald-eagle-rock.html

    https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/1170987666/murphy-a-bald-eagle-at-at-a-wild-bird-sanctuary-in-missouri-tried-to-hatch-a-roc

    https://www.chincoteague.com/pony_swim_guide.html

    https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/st-louis-was-surrounded-by-12-tornadoes-last-weekend-39894615
    https://cbop.audubon.org/conservation/bald-eagle-nest#:~:text=A%20typical%20nest%2C%20however%2C%20is,often%20confused%20with%20Osprey%20nests.

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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 93: Tiger Things Apr 16, 2023
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    The history of Mike the LSU tiger, the dark reality of meeting tiger cubs, and a new law puts dumb criminals and America's worst behind bars.
    I got today's information from: LSU Tiger https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mike-the-tiger

    Undercover Cop https://www.newsweek.com/man-tries-sell-tiger-cub-undercover-cops-20k-gets-arrested-1776558

    1 eyed hero tiger: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/machli-bengal-tiger-india-queen-ranthambore?loggedin=true&rnd=1679959419852

    https://www.livescience.com/why-are-tigers-orange

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

    https://www.livescience.com/rare-white-tiger-born-in-zoo-to-orange-parents.html

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tragedy-of-the-white-tiger1/

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-ethical-problems-with-breeding-the-white-tiger

    https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-truth-about-white-tigers#:~:text=Common%20issues%20include%20spinal%20deformities,instead%20of%20in%20the%20wild.

    https://greekreporter.com/2023/03/09/tiger-cub-athens/

    https://www.wbir.com/article/life/animals/911-calls-reveal-tiger-tracks-in-east-knoxville/51-1abb1e49-e554-4888-b4b3-f35b78853795

    https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/sports/ncaafootball/lsu-mascot-mike-the-tiger-chooses-to-stay-home-on-game-days.html

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/263

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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 92: A Wink to the Sky Apr 10, 2023
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    A farewell to a good friend, and a revisit to the Dolphin who gave up pod life for the people of a small Irish fishing village in Ireland.
    All show notes, links and resources for this episode can be found at episode 32: The Dolphin of Dingle Bay (https://bewilderbeastspod.podcastpage.io/episode/ep-32-the-dolphin-of-dingle-bay)

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