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Buzzed Biology Holiday Break!

Join Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey as they discuss mountain lions, what the word “nimrod” actually means, our fake Game of Thrones house, our plans for Pleistocene Park, coexisting with nature, and how “fallow deer” sound like they hold dire prophecy. Cosmopolitan recipe, shoutouts and sources can be found here. 

Episode 13 with Becca Audrey: Mountain Lions

Join Stevie Foxette and her friend Andrew as they discuss mixed culture fermentation, the brewing process, the true origin of the name of Indian Pale Ales, and Jeffery Dahmer (again). Beers from Institution Ale Co., Russian River Brewing Company, and Jester King Brewing. Shoutout and Sources can be found here: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-11-with-andrew-mixed-culture-fermentation

Episode 12 with Andrew: Mixed Culture Fermentation

Join Stevie Foxette and Tyler Beltran as they chat locusts, serotonin, campfire cooking, bear training, mosquitos, and the reasoning behind kosher. Visit our ko-fi page to donate! ko-fi.com/steviefoxette Shoutouts: Enegren Nighthawk: http://www.enegrenbrewing.com/ Christopher Ryan (who’s appearance on JRE inspired this episode): https://chrisryanphd.com/vanthropology/ Weta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta Anti-Locust Research Centre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Locust_Research_Centre 2019 Las Vegas grasshopper swarm: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/us/grasshoppers-vegas.html Sources: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-11-with-tyler-beltran-locusts

Episode 11 with Tyler Beltran: Locusts

Join Stevie Foxette, Richard Doom from @holdnoheroes, and Jake Kilroy from @jakeisavegan this week as we discuss giraffes, Jake’s excessive amount of blood, shrieking about correcting people about Frankenstein’s monster, trying to figure out African geography from memory, and compare various animal smells.  Shoutouts:  Green Cheek’s West Coast IPA is Dead: http://www.greencheekbeer.com/  Potterless: https://www.potterlesspodcast.com/  Sources: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-10-with-richard-doom-and-jake-kilroy-giraffes

Episode 10 with Richard Doom & Jake Kilroy: Giraffes

Join Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey as they discuss leopards, fashionable safari jackets, how time is hard to comprehend, whether they’d rather fight a chimpanzee or a baboon, and as always, lots of mountain lion references. We now have a ko-fi page for donations! https://ko-fi.com/steviefoxette Today's cocktail: Stevie’s “Strawberry Leopard” 2 oz gin or vodka (I used Ventura Spirits Haymaker, but I recommend gin) 2 oz St. Germain 1 oz creme de cassis 1 oz lime juice Club soda Add all ingredients but the club soda to a shaker. Wet shake, then strain into a highball glass over ice, top with club soda, garnish with a lime wedge. Makes two cocktails. Shoutouts: Institution Ale Co. Freight Train Coming: https://www.institutionales.com/freight-train-coming The Magical Liopleurodon Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLRH9pAVXU Man-Eating Leopards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_attack#Notable_man-eaters The English Bus (Stonehenge tour): https://theenglishbus.com/ Raven at C.A.R.E. Rescue Texas: https://www.carerescuetexas.com/meet-the-animals/leopards/raven.html Thug Notes: https://www.wisecrack.co/thug-notes Sources: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-9-with-becca-audrey-leopards

Episode 9 with Becca Audrey: Leopards

This week Stevie Foxette is joined by Richard Doom, host of Hold No Heroes (@holdnoheroes). Join them as they discuss bats, vampire hockey players, and the Vines that still haunt them. Shoutouts: Institution’s Restraint Maple Brown Ale, 2019 Fall Seasonal Red IPA, and Ratched Rye Porter. http://www.institutionales.com/ Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks: https://www.nps.gov/seki/index.htm Brock Berrigan: http://www.brockberrigan.com/ Ben Lovejoy & Evgeni Malkin (warning: some medical gore): https://youtu.be/R7FwPwwDFuY?t=99 Coffee Talk: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/coffee-talk/3506020 Wursthaus: https://www.wirtshausla.com/ Jake Kilroy’s “Gulls”: https://medium.com/@jakekilroy/gulls-503e41beb147 Internet Shaquille’s I’m like a bird vine: https://vine.co/v/eamLqjYLnYt Jamie1974 Falcon’s vine: https://vine.co/v/OMuK010W1ii Kinkshaming is my kink vine: https://vine.co/v/OMuK010W1ii What to do if you find a bat, via Bat World Sanctuary. (https://batworld.org/what-to-do-if-you-found_a_bat/) Sources: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-8-with-richard-doom-bats

Episode 8 with Richard Doom: Bats!

Join Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey (@aiel_runner) as they discuss jaguars, annoying trivia groups, how to pronounce things, and the coyote mob. Shoutouts: Institution Ale Co.’s  White Walls: http://www.institutionales.com/white-walls Stone Brewing’s Delicious: https://www.stonebrewing.com/beer/year-round-releases/stone-delicious-ipa#ageGatePassed Ghostfish Brewing Company: https://ghostfishbrewing.com/ Last Podcast on the Left: https://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com/ Wild dogs chasing an antelope into a mudpit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gdTOHWYVLM La Brea Tarpits: https://tarpits.org/ Apocalypto: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472043/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Large mountain lion in Washington: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/massive-cougar-captured-by-washington-state-biologists/ Survivorman & the jaguar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICV7F5fWnh0 C.A.R.E. Rescue Texas: https://www.carerescuetexas.com/ Jonestown Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown Sources: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-7-with-becca-audrey-jaguars

Episode 7 with Becca Audrey: Jaguars

This week I’m joined by Richard Doom (@richarddoomed) host of the podcast Hold No Heroes (@holdnoheroes). We discuss giant pandas, the ethics of conservation, millennials, and how Jake never texts us back.   Shoutouts:   Dogfish Head Punkin Ale (https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/punkin-ale)   Coelocanth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth)   North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout (https://northcoastbrewing.com/beers/year-round-beers/old-rasputin-russian-imperial-stout/)   Domestic fox experiment (http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-created-the-only-tame-foxes-in-the-world)   The Panda’s Thumb (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004CRSN5Q/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_PJoQDbDDZTH1X)   Sources: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-6-with-richard-doom-giant-panda

Episode 6 with Richard Doom: Giant Panda

This week Stevie Foxette visits Jake Kilroy (@jakekilroy & @jakeisavegan) in Orange County to discuss pinnipeds of southern California, blackout drunk habits, and if Ewoks are cute or not. This episode was inspired by Jake’s docent work at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center (@pacificmmc).  Shoutouts:  Pacific Marine Mammal Center: https://www.pacificmmc.org/  Green Cheek Beer Co.: http://www.greencheekbeer.com/  Vegan Rob’s Probiotic Dragon Puffs: https://veganrobs.com/products/probiotic-dragon-puffs  Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CFAWES/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1  Paul Nicklen & the Leopard Seal: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/3/140311-paul-nicklen-leopard-seal-photographer-viral/  Radiolab: Animal Minds: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91701-animal-minds  Sources:  https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-5-with-jake-kilroy-pinnipeds-of-southern-california

Episode 5 with Jake Kilroy: Pinnipeds of Southern California

Stevie Foxette explains her recent absence from recording, and when you can hope to hear new episodes. Thanks for the patience, folks!

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On this week’s episode, Stevie Foxette discusses Lake Baikal and Baikal seals, the only species of seal that only lives in freshwater. Inspiring post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/cigvh8/baikal_seals_also_known_as_nerpa_are_the_worlds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app Hampton, S.E., L.R. Izmest’eva, M.V. Moore, S.L. Katz, B. Dennis, E.A. Silow. (2008). Sixty years of environmental change in the world’s largest freshwater lake - Lake Baikal, Siberia. Global Change Biology, 14: 1947-1958. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01616.x Miyazaki, N. (2018). Baikal seal: Pusa sibirica. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd ed: 57-58. Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 16). Lake Baikal. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:08, July 29, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Baikal&oldid=906561459 Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 5). Oligocene. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:08, July 29, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oligocene&oldid=904898732

Episode 4: Lake Baikal & Baikal seal

This week your host Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey (@aeil_runner) to discuss tigers, Siberian tigers in detail, and the origins of white tigers. There’s also some The Big Lebowski quotes and yelling at lazy birders, and discussion on whether Stevie is actually Jeffery Dahmer. Chai White Russian recipe from Half Baked Harvest: https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/vanilla-chai-tea-white-russian/ Can, O.E., N. D’Cruze, M. Balaskas, D.W. Macdonald. (2017) Scientific crowdsourcing in wildlife research and conservation: Tigers (Panthera tigris) as a case study. PLoS Biol 15(3): e2001001. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001001 Retrieved July 15, 2019 from https://www.theprustenproject.org/think-for-tigers-initiative.html Chestin, I.E., M.Y. Paltsyn, O.B. Pereladova, L.V. Iegorova, J.P. Gibbs. (2017). Tiger re-establishment potential to former Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) range in Central Asia. Biological Conservation 205: 42-51. Gray, T.N.E., R. Crouthers, K. Ramesh, J. Vattakaven, J. Borah, M.K.S. Pasha, T. Lim, C. Phan, R. Singh, B. Long, S. Chapman, O. Keo, M. Baltzer. (2017). A framework for assessing readiness for tiger Panthera tigris reintroduction: a case study from eastern Cambodia. Biodiversity and Conservation 26(10): 2383-2399. The Prusten Project. (2015). Think for Tigers Initiative. https://www.theprustenproject.org/think-for-tigers-initiative.html Wertheimer, L. (2010, September 14). The true story of a man-eating tiger’s “vengeance.” NP: Morning Edition. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459 Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 15). Siberian tiger. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:42, July 15, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siberian_tiger&oldid=906384418 Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 15). Tiger. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:43, July 15, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiger&oldid=906374561

Episode 3 with Becca Audrey: Siberian Tigers

This week your host visits Richard Doom (@richarddoomed) to discuss how biologists organize life and how coral fits into these definitions. Sources: Aldhebiani, A.Y. (2018) Species concept and speciation. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 25 (3): 437-440. Attenborough, D. (Writer) & Scoones, P. (Director). (2001) Coral seas [Television series episode]. In Fothergill, A. (Producer), Blue Planet. London, UK: BBC. Hickman, C.P., L.S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. l’Anson, D.J. Eisenhour. (2006) Integrated principles of zoology, 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. Mayr, E. (1942) Systematics and the Origin of Species (Columbia Univ. Press, New York) Simpson, G.G. (1951) The species concept. Evolution 5 (4): 285-298. Wiley, E.O. (1978) The evolutionary species concept reconsidered. Systematic Biology 27 (1): 17-26. Wikipedia contributors. (2019, June 5). Kingdom (biology). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:37, July 11, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingdom_(biology)&oldid=900381901

Episode 2 with Richard Doom: How is life organized and are coral plants or animals?

In this first episode, your host and Becca Audrey (@aeil_runner) discuss what Gondwana is (and how many ways to mispronounce it), island biogeography, and why Australia has so many damn marsupials. Sources: Hickman, C.P., L.S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. l’Anson, D.J. Eisenhour. (2006) Integrated principles of zoology, 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. Vaugh, T.A., J.M. Ryan, N.J. Czaplewski. (2000) Mammology. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1863). "On the Physical Geography of the Malay Archipelago". Royal Geographical Society. 7: 205–212. Whitfield, P. (1993). From so simple a beginning: The book of evolution. New York: Macmillan. Wikipedia contributors. (2019, May 26). Natural history of Australia. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:39, July 3, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural_history_of_Australia&oldid=898809809 Wikipedia contributors. (2019, June 26). Fauna of Australia. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:40, July 3, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fauna_of_Australia&oldid=903491707

Episode 1 with Becca Audrey: What is up with all these marsupials in Australia?

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