Cicada Rain - you don't wanna know. PLUS Dolphins getting high on Puffer Fish!

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with five good news stories.

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Hey, good news if you're a
dolphin that likes to get high. What

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Yeah. According to the BBC one
documentary Dolphins Spy in the Pod, young

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dolphins were seen manipulating a puffer fish, which, if provoked, releases a

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nerve toxin. Although large doses of
the toxin can be deadly, in small

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amounts, it's known to producing a
narcotic effect, and the dolphins period of

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worked out how to make the fish
release just the right amount, carefully chewing

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on the puffer fish and passing it
between one another. Again, they're passing

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around the puffer think about it.
The dolphins then enter what seems to be

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a trance like state. Now,
this is another one of those stories that

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I was writing this script on April
first, and I had to make sure

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this was not an April fool's joke. This is real. Rob is a

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zoologist. He worked as a producer
on the series, and he said this

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was a case of young dolphins purposely
experimenting with something we know to be intoxicating.

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After chewing the puffer gently and passing
it around, that began acting most

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peculiarly hanging around with their noses at
the surface as it fascinated by their own

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reflection. Man, it reminded us
of that crazy a few years ago when

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people started licking toads to get a
buzz, Especially the way they hung there

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in a daze afterwards. It was
the most extraordinary thing to see. It

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is unclear if the dolphins had the
munchies. Nice job by school bus driver

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Larry. He noticed a little boy
having a rough morning. Larry told today,

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Normally, when I pull out,
you're standing there waiting for me with

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a big smile. But on this
day he was sitting on the ground with

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a jacket over his head. I
asked him, Hey, buddy, what's

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going on. What's wrong? The
little boy explained he didn't have pajamas.

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For a pajama day. Bus driver
said, I thought, I gotta fix

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this. After finishing up the morning
route, he had it to a family

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dollar store and purchased two pairs of
pajamas for the boy. He had it

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over the school and said, you
know you were hurting this morning. You

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were crying, so I got these
pajamas. He was so excited. You

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should have seen how his face lit
up. In a news Really, the

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boy said, I can tell mister
Larry is nice and his heart is filled

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with joy. When he got me
the pajamas, I did a happy cry.

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Larry said, I've been driving buses
for seven years. It's my passion

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because I get to build bonds with
the children. I truly love every minute

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of it. Good news. Your
dog can understand certain words that refer to

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specific objects. Now, if you
have a dog, you know this already.

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He could say the W word meaning
let's go for using her feet outside.

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They know that word. My old
golden retriever understood what the word jail

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meant, which meant you're in trouble, go put yourself in. We didn't

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have a creep back then, and
she would put herself in the bathtub.

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That was jail. Anyway, scientists
have researched this. I could have told

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you guys this thirty years ago.
It is long but known that dogs can

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learn commands like sit and stay or
fetch. Oh yeah, those are pretty

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obvious examples to John and corresponded these
words with learned behaviors. Anyway, they

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did some sort of electro and senphilography. I'm sure I pronounce that right,

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and they noticed that the brain activity
in fourteen of eighteen dogs surveyed were different

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when they were shown an object that
matched with the word compared to one that

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mismatched. Scientists said the resulting brain
activity was the same as those produced by

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humans in similar experiments. Meanwhile,
can you stop bothering your cat with cucumbers?

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Apparently placing a cucumber behind a cat
when it's eating appears to startle them.

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Don't do that. Jill is a
certified animal behavior as she told National

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Geographic the cucumbers were triggering the cat's
natural startle reflexes. She says, with

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a startle response, a cat will
often try to get out of their as

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quickly as possible and then reassess from
a distance. Now, why a cucumber?

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She suspects cats may associate the cucumber
with snakes. Sure, whatever,

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cicada is her back baby. It's
supposed to be a big year for cicadas.

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Scientists tell us. Cicadas are the
strongest urinators in the animal kingdom.

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You didn't think I was going to
say that, did you know? You

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didn't? The strongest urinators in the
animal kingdom, with flows that put humans

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and elephants to shame. They have
pumps in their heads that pull moisture from

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the roots of trees that allows them
to feed for more than a decade underground.

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They and nearly their entire lives drinking
a year after year, scientists studied

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the urination flow have animals across the
world. Cicadas are two to three times

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stronger and faster than elephants in humans. Obviously, cicadas don't have kidney stones.

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If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about.

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Cicada urination rates ten feet per second. That sounds like a lot.

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They have a muscle that pushes the
waist through a tiny hole like a jet.

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University of Connecticut entomologist John Cooley will
horrify you when I read you this

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next sentence. He says, you
walk around in a forest where they're actively

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coursing on a hot, sunny day, it feels like it's raining. It's

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called cicada rain. Thanks entomologist John
Cooley for that mental picture and good news

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if you're a caterpillar that likes to
eat cicadas. Scientists tell us cicadas are

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lazy, fat, and slow.
They're extraordinarily easy to capture for us and

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for their predators. Woo. That's
your fucking good news stories for today.

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Watch out for Cicada Rain. Tell
a friend about the show they might like.

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Get to bring an umbrella, See
you next time. Wow.