Tooth & Claw Ranks the Wildlife of All 7 Continents

Hello everyone, welcome to Tooth & Claw podcast. We have our bear biologist, Wes Larson with us, and he's not going to talk much because this episode's not exclusively for subscribers, so he doesn't care. But me and my got to try out all you other people, so I got a trouble last week.

“I'm Wes's brother Jeff, and then we have Mike. Wes, what'd you get in trouble for?”

Well, so I was doing this story of the wellship Essex, and when I first thought of it,

I thought, oh, this would be a two-parter, and I kind of thought, I just want to end when they get rescued, and then as I was reading the book, I was like, oh, they're still like some interesting stuff after they get rescued, kind of felt like an epilogue to me, and so I was like, you know what, I'm just going to do like an epilogue episode for our subscribers and call it part three, and you know, I think rightfully so, a lot of our non-paid listeners got a little upset about that,

and thought that I was cheating them out of a part three, and I think part of that was my fault

for not explaining it well enough, and kind of saying like, hey, this is how I always had this

designed, was a two-parter, the ended at this point, and this was just extra content for subscribers to kind of give them a special treat, but I did a bad job explaining it, and I don't blame them for being a little upset, because I didn't want to do like a rug poll on anyone. I love our, I love our non-paid listeners a lot. It's like, you know, he does, he can't stop. Caller Daddy had Jesse on to talk about her divorce, and then made you subscribe to listen

to her talk about Taylor Frankie Paul's Bachelor Getting Suspended. Sure. Yeah, I think that's exactly

what it's like. Actually, let's say how to get it, I don't really, yeah. Jesse, that really

three out there for us, that feels like, wait, I did feel bad though, when I saw some of the comments, I thought, you know, I didn't think this through well enough, and did I do ribbers go up? They did. Yeah, we got a lot of subscribe all this. Nothing to apologize for. And we do, I mean, we want to give our subscribers like special, really good content, but I don't want it to feel like

“it's a trick, you know, and I do think that's what some people felt like, and I hope you guys”

understand my explanation that it wasn't ever intended to be that, so I'm sorry that it felt that way. True. Yeah, I don't understand. Yeah. Okay. Well, are you not a subscriber? Subscribe, you'll figure it out. It was a great episode. No, that was well said, Wes. Okay. Yeah, anyway, we won't do that again, but there will be a smiley nice. Okay. There will be some really nice bonuses for subscribers. But what I mean, when I say we won't do it again is we'll be more

clear in the, in the, like, the start about how it's going to be laid out. Yeah. I mean, everything's going to be crypto soon, anyways, maybe, you know. So, my, well, dollars don't matter. My, I should be buying Chinese, you want, or whatever their money is called. But that's

“what we should be buying. That's what we make people's subscribers. Yeah. I agree. We're gas.”

Yeah, petro dollars. Yeah, I'm trying to short the market on gas. I'm buying all of it and storing it in little canisters and my garage. You know, I've heard some people have been doing that, too. Oh, really? I didn't know that was a thing. I'm a high-end person, kind of. So, what that's, I mean, like politicians, like the top, top men, as they say in Indiana Jones, top men. Well, let's get moving then. We're going to be talking about the seven continents because we recently just

got back from Antarctica, which was all of our seventh continent. And we've been together for most all of it. Yeah. The only one I've been to without US was Europe. And me and Mike got all seven in like two years, which we've been together. Yeah. Yeah. Arm and arms started with Australia and just kept going, you know. You're trying to start it with North America, I would say. That's true. I would say that was Europe. But I don't remember. I don't remember. Oh, with Pangea. Friendship. That's true.

We need to go way back. Do you think all those animals back then were like all one continents, baby? We did it. Yeah. We did it. They're holding like a little flag and taking a photo. Yeah, and then a comet hit the earth and killed everyone. That's how Pangea. And that's how the

our personal experiences with each of the seven continents as well as just like some general knowledge

we know about them. We're right. I want a bit of stuff. Huh? We're ranking quite a bit of stuff in the past seven continents. Yeah. Before we do that, I want to use one of the things I had you guys prep for right now and just kind of talk about some of our biggest blind spots that we have as far as like the continents go. Yeah, sure. I wrote a whole list. Yeah, blind spot. Let's just

“have you go for it because I think you're going to have a better wildlife blind spot. Sure.”

Great. Are then let me do a couple that you guys have for blind spots and then I'll do some that are for all of us. The Arctic for you both is a big blind spot. Have been to the Arctic yet. That's the same as the Arctic. It's definitely not. It's very different. The cloud forest of South America are a pretty big one for you guys. And then have either of you been to the Everglades, spent much time in the Everglades. Not a ton, but I've been there. Yeah. Okay. That's a big one in

North America that is just like a very unique ecosystem for us. For all of us, like mountainous east Africa is some a place that's really high on all of our lists. So like Uganda, Rwanda, that area. We haven't seen gorillas. We haven't seen chimpanzees. So those are some pretty iconic animals that we're missing. Some snakes in there. My favorite. My number one bird probably

right now is there, the shoe bill stalk. Yeah. Some amazing snakes. There's that one hotel in Rwanda.

Have you seen that? Hotel Rwanda. Yeah. That's not necessarily a place we need to visit. But maybe

“I mean, it would probably be good at least. I think we should visit it. Sure. Yeah. That's like the”

long thing I know about that place. Western Australia is a big one. Some really cool animals out there and just cool wildlife and and marine wildlife out there. The Asian step. So we've talked about going to like Mongolia or one of the stands. That big high central part of Asia has really cool unique wildlife. That's a big one. There's a bunch, but those are some of the biggest that I thought of. Pretty much all the Middle East for me. Yeah. China. Like, yeah.

South Asia. Yeah. We are. But China's like, there's so much cool wildlife in China and we're just going to get a little dark. Yeah. So, uh, have it. What are you talking about? What's that? The blue guys? Yeah. That's not not the place though. Pandora. What's a place is real with the floating islands? Yeah. Yeah. It's so much about all the time. It was based off of a real place. Sure. Yeah. I agree. I mean, if you want to get logistical. I do. Yeah. Yeah. So those are same hotspots. There's others too. But those are

just some I thought off the top. We didn't really do a Europe one. Let's throw a Europe one in there. Romania. We haven't been in Romania. Yeah. It's a good spot for bears. Vampires are there and

“Scandinavia too. Allow that and not advertise. Uh, yeah. I believe in vampires. I don't believe in Pandora.”

All right. Well, Mike, choose a continent. Europe. Europe. All right. We'll start with Europe. I've been thinking a lot about Vienna sausages. Okay. I'd kind of split up the way that we're all going to talk about it and uh, I assigned West to talk about bears, snakes, and birds, the two beads. Yeah. Maybe yes. We're not to be. Sounds like a beads. A beads. And then I'm going to be talking about, I forget what I'm talking about. Something.

Cat, cats, dogs, cats, dogs and bugs and not too much about bugs. Just, you guys know. That's all right. And then Mike's going to be talking about mythological prehistoric and oceans, which I didn't give them too specific of a thing. I told them if you find anything interesting

in there, just go have you on that. You know? So, we never did. We ever clap. We did clap. Yeah,

we clap. You want to restart? You want to clap? Just to make sure. No. Yeah, let's do it. Count us down, Jeff. On one, three, two, one. All right. We're good. We good last. Yeah, but I didn't think we'd clap. That's my bad. All right. All right. So, I can kind of just start us off to give you guys kind of an idea of how to follow. All right. Okay. So, Europe was, yeah, it seems like

So, um, I just have the Liberian links, the Eurasian links and the European Wildcat for cats.

Yeah. Liberian, Liberian links. It's not Liberian. Yeah. Liberian. But it says Liberian in my note. Yep, you're on the server. It's Liberian. And then, um, the Liberian Peninsula. We've seen a Eurasian, we've seen a Eurasian links. It's cool. It is far away. We saw it in Asia. Yeah. Pretty fluffy. Yeah. I mean, they don't really have anything to, you know, European Wildcats, maybe. Yeah. No, no, no, no. They are low on cats. Their cat, their cat, um, population is

very small. Small cats and, and not that many of them either. And they're pretty low on dogs, too.

Yeah. Hot spots for Eurasian links would be in Europe would be like in Scandinavia, Estonia,

and then Liberian links you're going to see in like Spain, sometimes Portugal, that's on the Liberian Peninsula. So yeah. And as far as canines go, how do you say it? Candids? Candids. Candids. Candidates. Candidates. Sorry. Candidates. Yeah. Just threw me off. Candidates. Candidates. They do have gray wolf in like Scandinavia and a little bit in like Spain and Italy. Italy has them. Yeah. And then they have red flags. Well, they're pretty wide spread throughout Europe, actually.

“Yeah. But honestly, from my part, not too excited. They get a low rating from that and bugs.”

I don't know any European budget. You've got it. You've got to have one bug.

Are you serious? I just spent 16 hours reef, whatever. I don't even care. It doesn't. I'm over it. I'm just going to have a brief moment there. I think we're going to be okay though. Okay. Oh, boy. Okay. Not a single bug in Europe. That actually sounds very pleasant if they don't have a single insect in the entire continent. Do you mean? There's bugs over there, but I would agree with you, Jeff. Yeah, bug that you can remember. I can't state a specific moment where, and I saw a bug.

Cockroaches. Remember when I lived in fancy apartment was overrun. Say cockroach. I'm doing bugs. I saw and I can say cockroach. I didn't see a cockroach. You don't have to have seen them to save for this.

“That's what I'm doing for bugs. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you did awesome work. I will say like I do think”

Europe overall is one of the kind of least impressive wildlife continents. So I do agree that it is going to be a cockroach. That's a fact. Yeah. Save it for Asia. So when we say your Asian, are we talking, does that broadly cover just all of Europe and Asia? Is that what I mean? It depends on from that portmanteau. It depends on the species. So like your Asian links, yeah, I mean they they're found from Scandinavia all the way to I think like China.

This is kind of like an interesting conversation to have. That's not going to be part of this episode, but just like how Asia and Europe are like the only two continents that are completely connected and just kind of made up line through it. You know? Yeah. I mean that was North and South America too. It's just the Panama Canal. Sports them now. But there is kind of like an intuitive

“look. Yeah, but they work. I mean like that's how pumas and Jaguar spread. Yeah, but you know what we're saying.”

When it gets all skinny and they're connected, it's like okay, that looks like yeah, what you're saying. Like two natural, there's a natural stuff. Like when you look on them, yeah, but these two are unique. Sure. Right. I think the tricky thing with North and South America is where central America fits in because like some people say it's North America, but then some people say it's kind of its own thing. I don't know. It's kind of true. Yeah. No, I want to kind of bring that up. It is part of North

America, though. It is. Yeah. Like it's not its own continent. So we count that. But I kind of feel like we could easily have like nine continents. If we made like the middle used to continent and then made central America continent would make sense. But we don't sure. And we haven't. Right. Okay. So we all doing Europe then for our categories. Yeah. Who might you want to go next? Yeah. I'll go. And it just makes sense to me to do it right now. Just a caveat on all of my categories really,

but specifically for water or marine sea life. Because like it ties really in. It ties really well into my bugs that I am. Yes. Like hand in hand. But I just want to say that with like ocean life,

to one specific continent. So I just tried to pick the places where you have the best opportunity

“to see them. And some of this is like anecdotal. Some of this I tried to do as much research as I could.”

I did so much Jeff. But with Europe, let's start with the water critters. So

the first one that popped in my mind was the Portuguese manor. You've got to go with the manor.

That's good. Portuguese manor Portugal though. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's good. We're going. So the best place to see blue sharks. And this is actually an exciting thing to me when we talked to Dan from all the sharks. He said it's best off the Azora silence or even off just the coast of the UK. There's some really good opportunity to get blue sharks. Weaver fish and incredibly dangerous and venomous. They got spines off and down their back. A well is catfish. This is featured on the first season

of River Monsters. And Jeremy, he was just like, "These probably couldn't kill an adult human, but they could easily swallow a child." So these are all on Europe. Yeah. These are all,

“we're doing a huge story. We're doing a huge story. That was in the hills of the Himalayas in India,”

not Gucci. Not the good clothes. Yeah. Can I throw one in there, Mike? Please. As many as you can

and want, basking sharks, the second biggest shark in the world, also filter feeding sharks.

The best place in the world right now to find them is off the coast of Ireland, Ireland. Don't you think? I do. And that was the one I wanted to throw in there, basking sharks. Yes. No snakes in Ireland. Nope. They got rid of that chased off. All same Patrick. I'm going to move on to prehistoric now. That was another one of my categories. This is an interesting thing that I found. When I looked at the fossil map of recovered megalodon teeth,

the spot spot there, either. Did the same Patrick get rid of those two? Well, once they got all the snakes there, I will. These kind of look like snakes and they can't get them into the ocean.

That's where eels came from. That's because they got chased into the ocean. They just turned into

eels. Right? That's not true. Also, what were you saying about megalodon, Mike? Yeah. So most of the fossil records, I just saw like the hot spots on the map. It was Europe was kind of like the biggest concentration of recovered megalodon fossils and teeth and stuff. Oh, which I thought was interesting. So the mag, part 3, you probably just got to happen over there. Yeah. And Paris, that river. The largest species of woolly mammoths, they existed while they were still

life here dead. Oh, the comet. The comet got them to us, right? It wasn't the comet. It was the comet. It wasn't a comet that killed the dinosaurs either as an asteroid. I'm going to try to be more scientific from here on out. I'm joshing. They're struck by a lot of human technology. We think like a lot of the megafauna, like it was like human blood extinction. So like spiders and yeah, anyway, you know. Well, you're a die hard mammoth fan. I love mammoths. Yeah. The hockey team.

The critter. Not the hockey team. I don't really care about the hockey team. What if a human threw a meteor right at one of the mammoths? Uh, they threw it hard enough and it was really sharp

“and attached to us like a long pole. There you go. Then yes, I think it could kill it. Anyway,”

like I was saying, the largest species of woolly mammoth existed in Western Europe, which I thought was kind of interesting. I was just kind of assumed that was maybe more of a North American thing or even an Asian side of things, but Europe. You guys had big stuff. Yeah, that's where that's where they think Jaguars came from, too. His Europe, like their pristoric remnants. Gonna rattle off a few more here. The cave bear, the spear deer, had these super long,

awesome antlers. A really cool coastal hyenas, a beefa, pygmy vipers, and marsh hawks. And marsh hawks. Yeah. You got it. I like how you say that in the marsh hog. Okay. And now let's delve into the mythological. This one. So I'm going to be talking about the Loch Ness Monster. This is by just the thing that popped out when I was doing my research. And it was a pretty cool little creation story or an origin story. So legend tells us that Loch Ness, the lake itself,

not the monster yet, was created and angered by the Celtic winter queen, the goddess Dark Bayera. When it made Nessa was late to attend her duties, Bayera raged and transformed Nessa and do a river. It just got us just be a river that would suck. Exactly. Nice. Isn't that like what Nirvana is supposed to be like. So Nessa, she, this made it turn into a river. The same woman as a river, like she has like thoughts. She's still conscious. Yeah. Because she Amanda, she eventually manages

to escape the confines of just being a river. She's like, I'm going to also be a lake. So she became the lake Ness Ness of Loch Ness. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And this is where the Loch Ness Monster comes into

Kelpies and water horses. Voking some of the more famous imagery, we know of the Loch Ness,

“kind of like what it looks like a plezius or like that's what most of the like most of the Loch”

Ness imagery is is like a plezius or. And so these Kelpies, their shapeshifters, they can change into whatever form they want. And basically what they do is they patrol the forests of the Loch Ness in hopes of luring, unwitting men and women to their demise deep in the lake. So like they kind of go them in almost like a siren in Greek mythology and they pull them down into the depths of the

Loch Ness. And that's, this is maybe I always just thought it was like a big monster. So it's

dinosaur herbs and Loch Ness. It's still a her. Well, the lake is, I don't know about any guys damn. That's one way to say it. But that's just like one version of the story. Like all of these myths I'm going to be covering. There's going to be a million different versions, but that was just the one I found to be most beautiful in fantasy. Yeah. All right. Well, as far as bears snakes and birds are considered, I had, I ranked each of the, the continents for, for bears snakes and birds, for bears,

I had them at number three, which is the highest Europe ever gets in any of my rankings. So they have two of the world's bear species. They have brown bears and they have polar bears in Europe. But those are two of the more iconic of the bear species too. So I do think they get some good points for that. You can find brown bears throughout Scandinavia, down through Italy, in some of the mountains, in France. You can find them throughout Eastern Europe. Some hot spots

“are like Slovenia. There's a lot in Croatia. I believe up into like Latvia and stuff to”

Romania as a big hotspot for brown bears. So their brown bears are doing fairly well in Europe. Polar bears in Europe are really only found in the Norwegian archipelago of Spalbard, which is where we're going to try and see them next summer. That's really the only European.

Well, I guess never mind. I should rewind that greenland is owned by Denmark and you can find them

there too. So there are some other places owned by European countries where you can find polar bears. Those are the two bears. So I ranked them third and you'll hear who they're behind later for bears. Snake's Europe is second to last, right before Antarctica. They really don't have a ton of good snakes in Europe. There's like Asps. There's some other venomous snakes. There's a they don't even have eels. Yeah. They do have eels. Pretty famous for eels, even I think. But as far as snakes go,

“there's not a lot of snake diversity in Europe. You're not going to see a lot of her bears”

like taking trips to Europe to look for snakes. I'm not going to really go through all the different species, but it's not really a snake hotspot. And then birds, I had Europe ranked again second to last. There's a fair amount of migrations and whatnot that go through Europe. A lot of there's some really cool birds that you'll see in other parts of the world that do show up in Europe from time to time. There's good bird life in Europe. I don't think there's a

single continent with it. It's like really bad for birds. But it's not for me where I like really

beautiful, colorful, amazing looking birds, these subjective rankings. Europe doesn't have as many

as other places for me. So I have them second to last for birds. Some highlights for their birds, though, are like those who boosts that we really liked in Indian Africa. Those show up in Europe. I really like they have a lot of golden eagles in Europe, which I love. And yeah, they don't have too many birds because they don't have too many bugs. Yeah, sure. They have a fair amount. I got a stop sing sure to your stuff. They have a fair amount of birds and a fair amount of insects. But

it's not. Again, like we've talked about, Europe in a large way was tamed, you know, in like in the Renaissance and onward, it just kind of, a lot of the wildlife was kind of pushed away. And not that there aren't wild places in Europe. They're for sure arts, a huge continent. But a lot of the places we think of in Europe don't have a ton of wildlife diversity. Well, you can even see that from the European influence once it migrated to the Americas. Like

they did tame a lot of the wildlife here as well. Like that was part of the culture for them at that time. Yeah. And when I say tamed, I don't mean like they're taming the wildlife. I mean more they're taming the land. Like they're making it agriculture. They're pushing out the native floor in fauna. But there are still really great places in Europe for wildlife. I still think it's an amazing place to go see wildlife. I can rank mine too real quick for decades. I have

them fifth for dogs. I have them fifth and for bugs. I have them sixth. And then I may have done a

our five favorite animals each for each continent. Did you guys get that ready? Nope. I can do it. It's kind of supposed to be like representative of the continent too a bit. So like don't like overlap and Moses how I had it. Okay. But if we want we can just use my five and you guys can say like what you would keep and sub out or whatever. Sure. Okay. Now I can do five. But if my

“quans to do that, I totally, I think it's had to do the most work. So it's fine. That's fair.”

It was self. It was shot myself in the foot. No, I know that because I'm laying up on a lot of these. So you can, you can give them the meat. Great. So my taught five for Europe was a badger was the easiest pick for me. I also had a badger. I think that's something I'd be looking for. If I'm looking for European wildlife. Yeah. And then I had a squirrel because that's the only one I saw that I got most excited about in Europe. And they came from Europe. Our squirrel. Yeah. A lot of them.

I have, I put polar bear to Europe. I know that Asia and North America have more, but I kind of think the European polar bear is just like a cool spot. And I want to give it to them. And then yeah. I put red fox and I put walrus walrus. Okay. Huh. Okay. Yeah. I have basking shark

because I think they're really just amazing looking and just cool sharks.

I have Eurasian links because I would, I would put them in Europe. And I think they're the coolest of the small cats. Badger. I think the European Badger has such a distinctive look. So I totally agree with Jeff on that one. I have reindeer because, you know, you mostly find them in Scandinavian whatnot. And then the last one, I picked a bird. I picked the white tailed eagle. So longest wingspan of any eagle in the world. They kind of look like a cross between a bald eagle and

a golden eagle. And you find them out in like central and northern and eastern Europe. So they're really cool looking eagle that I think should be represented by Europe. Okay. Okay. So I'm going to do it this way. I'm going to vote for west on this round, west winds this round. Okay. And whoever has the most votes by the end of this episode because they're seven continents. Someone's gonna win. Yeah. They get, I'll give you all out. Well, west is waiting. So that's great.

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“South America. I'm going to go for my heart can't take this. I'm on the verge of dying. You need to know”

that. I forgot about that. All right. All right. Well, I'm going to go first. All right. So for bears, I have South America ranked fourth. They have one bear species, but it's a very iconic

bears that I've ever seen in a wild, just really unique habitat, unique bear. Probably like up there with pandas being the least dangerous bear in the world. There's no really recorded attacks on people.

“I think there was a guy that cornered one once and it attacked his dogs and maybe attacked him,”

but not really a dangerous bear in any sense of the world. They're the only bear in South America.

So that is why they're ranked fourth for bears. For snakes, I have them third for snakes.

So there are a lot of really cool snakes in South America. It's hard for me. Asia, Africa, and South America are like, like, leaps and bounds above everyone else when it comes to snakes. So it's hard to rank those those ones, but I did put them third. They have the heaviest snake in the world, the green and the conda. They have the longest viper in the world, the bushmaster. And then they just have lots of really iconic cool snakes. We're talking like Emerald Treboas. We have different types of

rattlesnakes down there, like the Neotropical rattlesnake, lots of cool vipers, just really cool snakes in South America. It's definitely a herper kind of hotspot. So they're ranked third for snakes. And then for birds, I also have them ranked third after African Asia. It's hard to be

African Asia on a lot of these, but they're really amazing birds. And again, really iconic birds

in South America. Toko 2 can is my favorite personal South American bird. But man, if you ever get the chance to go to Ecuador or Colombia to go birding, you are going to be just be blown away by

“the amount of, you know what, I think I got to put them second. I'm actually going to South”

America second. So just because I was thinking of Ecuador and how, I mean, when we went there, we saw over 350 species of birds in a single week. Or even try and, yeah, amazing birds. I was trying, I was trying really hard actually. But yeah, so I'm going to put them second for birds. Cool. Penguins. Penguins. Yeah, but penguins, you find in a lot of other places too, tortoises. Those are kind of like snakes. They're not, well, there's reptiles, I guess.

But we're not bringing them up anywhere else. So that's good callouts still. I've had to say, yeah, I guess I would probably give South America tortoises because they got those galopical spots. We got tortoises too, though. And you know, there's some really similar sized tortoises in like the Seychelles and stuff too to the galopigos ones. So anyway, okay,

“that's South America for me, for my three critters species. What are your great, great continent?”

I love South America. Yeah, I go for an amazing continent. So actually, I kind of want to ask West.

So do you know the types of cats in South America that don't live in North America? Can you name there's I think there's four? Yeah, I would say the Jaguarundi, the Marge, there are some Jaguarundi in Central America. Oh, yeah, forget that Central America counts as North America. There's probably Marge in Central America too, right? I didn't, when I looked up North American cats, it didn't, it had Jaguarundi's and didn't have my case. Okay. Fishing cat, yeah. And Pantanol cat,

I didn't see it. You don't have that one. I have Andy and Cat, Codcat, did you know there's a Jeff Royce cat? Oh, yeah, yeah, I do. Down in Patagonia, right? Yeah, do fishing cats ever catch catfish? That'd be fun, probably. Yeah. And Pantanol cat. Nature's crazy. The Pantanol cat's another one. Marge, I do think you can find in Central America, but I'm not sure. And then for dogs, the main note where the one is, the main wolf,

is their unique to South America. There's a South American fox, but they kind of just look like your typical fox, just not. Bush dogs are only in South America. Bush dogs are really cool. That's a white whale and not many people have seen them. Oh, really? Yeah. Do they have, they're not really to bush masters? Nope, nope, not at all. Or George Bush? Uh, oh, so not in the bush family. Yeah. Or I'm pretty sure crab eating foxes are only in South America, right? I didn't see them.

Didn't see him what when you're doing your exhaustive research. I did. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I can look. That's why you're real quick, Jeff. Do do insects. Yeah, just in South America. Do

This South American gray fox, the pompous fox, the coupeo or Andy in fox. Those are also dogs

that are only in South America. Those are good dogs. I said, but they all aren't they? Does all dogs go to heaven is that like for even wild dogs? I would think so. Like all canads, canadians, yeah, for bugs. Yeah, go bugs. I'm going to do the Brazilian wandering spider. Okay. Pretty cool insect. Yeah. All right. They're not, definitely not an insect. An erected. Yeah, bugs

“is kind of a, you know what we mean, right? Listener. Yeah. That's why I said bugs instead of”

Arthur. So I could do spiders. That's a great, a great bug. Um, we did an episode on that. And that was an interesting one where we learned that their venom can produce a three-day boner. Right. And for what's four days, you tell your physician, right? So you're good, bugs. I saw I don't know if scorpions count as a bug, but I did, seeing that. It's for if Brazilian wandering spiders do than scorpions do, too. They're same family. Uh, yeah, we saw the, um, South

Americans yellow scorpion in Brazil, which is one of the most potent venom of any scorpion on the planet. Um, and it happened to be right next to one of our guests head in her bed. So oh, yeah. Yeah. Do you guys have any bugs that come to mind when you think of South America or trips? There's a lot of good bugs down there, um, specifically. There's lots of really cool cryptic moths in South America that look like leaves. Um, I saw this Katie did in, uh, in Ecuador that

had like, it looked perfectly like a leaf. And then if you kind of got close to it, it popped its wings

“out that had big eyes on them. And I think it's called a peacock Katie did. And it looked like a”

predator. And it was just like really cool example of anemicry. We could do a whole podcast on bugs in South America. Just so you guys know there are so many bugs down there. Uh, bullet ants are in South

America. Ooh, that's a good one about them. You know, there's some incredible like army ants,

uh, and and leafcutter ants are responsible for a huge aspect of the rainforest. So yeah, anyway, leafcutters. Yeah, spoiled my North American bug. Okay, leafcutters. Uh, man. Uh, my turn right for water in South America. Yeah. This South America has some really cool unique water creatures. We've talked about a couple of already, but I'll shout out a few real quick. So the Amazon River Dint Dolphins, the pink ones, um, West had them pretty get episode about those.

They just look kind of like, uh, sausages that aren't quite done being grilled up. Um, piranha, I think are, um, only South American or are there other, find them in Central America as well. But okay, but that's like South America's there. They're very, very, very uniquely, yes, South American. Electric yields also only found in South America, not actually yields technically they're fit. Night fish, most closely related to fish. So that's kind

of a confusing little. Next time you're at a party and you, someone's like, hey, what are those yields? They better watch out if it's a Saint Patrick's day party. Right. Yeah, that's Jacobian, chastanda. Um, Jeff talked a little bit about these. The, I think you say congeru, the ones that are purportedly folklorically said to swim up your urine stream and get you in the urethra.

“Yeah. The Lord Lerena Bobby episode. Yeah. That's why the women are so lucky. They don't have to”

deal with that. Um, sea lions, conger. So this is more anecdotal, but like seals and sea lions,

when we went to the Galapagos, I'd never quite experienced anything quite like that. I think seals

probably more appropriately would maybe even go to Antarctica, but I'm going to put them here, I think, just because it's insane how like every beach we went to, there's just like a billion of them rolling around. God, it gives seals to Antarctica. Like, Antarctica does happen. Anything. Yeah, it's like seals. I see. Yeah. Sure. Okay. All right. Anyway, uh, and then hammerheads, I gave hammerheads because Ecuador is probably the prime spot in the world to see hammerheads. And that's

great. It is interesting. I've been looking at diving spots lately and like every list about the best diving spots in the world. Almost every single one Galapagos is number one on their dating spots. All right. Let's rattle through prehistoric real quick, the Titanabola. You heard about that guy. Huge snake. It's like feathers of eat long. A movie coming out about it this year. No, it looks exciting. Yeah. It's going to be good. Jeff ground slots. Yeah. I like this.

They're how they were there like Brazilian caves that they after a while figured out was like a

They're supposed to be, I guess, they were the size of elephants, which is just kind of a crazy,

“basically everything prehistoricly like the signature feature of them is that they're animals,”

but huge. Yeah. Huge ones. There's the Titanus, a terabird. It was like a six and a half

foot tall bird and for like 40 million years, it was the apex predator on the continent. That's so cool.

It was crazy. Just like this huge bird and it was super fast. It could run like 40 miles an hour and just had this crazy beak and would go to town on whatever alone. And humans, there was overlap between humans and them too, right? Yeah. They didn't go extinct until maybe like pretty early humans were definitely around at the same time. And then so this is maybe a controversial one, but I'm giving because otherwise I would just say like the coolest dinosaur for every continent,

but the oldest living fossil records of dinosaurs actually come from South America. So I'm just giving South America dinosaurs, just like a blanket, just so I'm not just like saying T-Rex for,

you know, the rest of these continents. But 230 million year old fossils from Argentina and Brazil,

the Eorector and the HereroSaurus. So there you go. Okay. I'm going to do the mythological creature I found to be most compelling in South America. It's called the Boy Tata. So I also want to shout out the, what's it called? The incontato. We talked about it in the pink river. I was going to say if it's not the like the dolphins that dresses like a guy in a white suit and go and like knock out the Henry woman. Yeah, where dolphins, it's so awesome. And they have to wear a hat to cover up their

blowhole because that doesn't go. It's the only part that doesn't go. I love that like when people got pregnant, they just said, no, it was the dolphins. The dolphins came in. Yeah. But the one I went with,

it's actually a huge snake called the Boy Tata. So in the Rio Grande do Sul region in Brazil,

did I say that right West? No, but it's okay. Rio Grande do Sul region in Brazil, a legend tells of a period of endless rainy nights in the forest. In anaconda that lived in a dark cave was awakened by the floods and being able to see in the dark, just fine decided to feast solely on its favorite delicacy. The eyeballs of all of the other animals. After gorging on the bright eyes of the other animals, the anaconda lit up from the inside and briefly turned fiery bright

before dying. And then it was reincarnated into a great protector snake called the Boy Tata, who would attack those who mean to harm the trees and animals of the Amazon, causing any and any to cross its path to go blind, mad, or even just outright die on the spot. With eyes like two beacons in transparent and sparkling skin, it slithers in the night through

“the fields and along river banks protecting the forests. The best way to avoid its wrath was”

to remain still without breathing and keeping your eyes tightly closed. Running from it is a risk best not taken since the snake might suspect you of being an arson who has set fire to the woods, which I think is really funny. It's like a snake is sitting there just pondering, you know, like I don't think it knows the word arson would sound fire. Yeah, there you go. Firely, big ol fiery serpent that's like don't mess with it. It's like a will of the West, but you know,

don't mess with the forests. Yeah, or else it'll get you. Yeah, get you for South America. I have Jaguar. Tokotu can, giant anator, main wolf, and green anaconda. That's the one my hardest one I left off. I have and we tough to be Jaguar, spectacle bear, anator, main wolf, came in. I'm glad you did spectacle bear. That definitely

“should have been in my list. I think the spectacle bear is going to give the vote get my vote”

to go to Jeff. So you're tied up. Okay. All right, what continents next? You know, let's keep the Americas together. So let's go North America. So, you know, I think Mike's part of this episode is the most fun and I want it to be too long. So intentionally, I didn't prepare very much. No, you're not. Good job. For cats, the main ones are Canada, links, mountain lion, Jaguar, which belong more to South America. Bobcats, Osloats, and Jaguarundies, which more South America

for sure. Then dogs, we have gray wolf, red fox, Arctic fox, coyotes, and red wolfs. And lots of coyotes, which, you know, put them ahead of South America for me for dogs, but then I probably put South America above North America for cats. If you had to pick a quintessentially American cancunate, it would be the coyote. And then for bugs, probably the zombie ants we saw in Costa

like the bullet and that bit west. A lot of Central American bugs for me though, North America, like I'd go classic grasshopper, ladybug type of bugs. Firefly? That's a pretty good bug. I love that bug. Beetle, more accurately. Mike, you want to go? I'll do it. Water. We got

“manides. You got to go to Florida, CM, no other place in the world. Orcas, I think it's the best place”

in the world is just off the coast of Washington State in the San Juan's. You can see him and you can fit correct me if I'm wrong last. No, no, I think that's probably the best place to see him from like a boat. The best place to see him right now is in this Norwegian fjord where you can

like die with them and there's tons of pods in there. But yeah, basically all of the like,

not all of them, but a lot of the big whales, like blue gray and humpback whales are a north, here's another thing. The whole ocean, you know, part of the world is hard to like, ascribe to a continent because that's like an awesome spot to see all of the sea life. And I don't really know like how to divvy that up. But I'm just going to give it to North America because the Baja in Mexico is like, that's a rare spot to see whale sharks, uh, narwholes in the Canadian

“Arctic. That's you got to count those. Those are, yeah, they're real. It turns out that a few people”

out there learning that right now tie your sharks in the Bahamas. That is probably the best that in the Maldives best place to see those. Yeah. Cool. It's tempted to include dolphins off the coast of California, but I don't, it just seems like they're everywhere. So I don't know. Yeah. I don't really know how to do that one. My best dolphin experience was in the Bahamas. So dolphins. Yeah. Cool. That is Mexico. Prehistoric. Giant short-faced bear. That is dudes. It's a great bear.

Yeah, 14 feet tall. Saber II Tiger. This is their stomping grounds. This is North America. The dire wolf, the American lion, and the arcolan is skieros. There's a ruler turtle,

basically twice the size of a leather back. So that's a huge. That's a big animal. Yeah.

T-Ras North American. No, my gave all dinosaurs. No, it's all, it's not there. I kind of have to say it though. Like, that's, that's the most famous dinosaur in it. Right. It's found like in Montana. I was a heart-take and I'm gonna die on that. Okay. My mythological creature from North America, every bone in my body screamed out just to go with big foot. Right. That's like part certainly entrenched in North American lore. But I am actually going with the First Nations People's Mythology of the Thunderbird

“in Horned Serpent. No. Because this is more of like a creation myth. And I think that's a little”

more like just like fundamental to the land itself. So I thought it was a little more fun to do. So I pulled this primarily from the Algonquin Mythology, but again, a lot of different tribes,

share similar stories. The Thunderbird in many First Nations People's Mythology,

it's a brightly feathered bird who helped create the universe and who represents order, light and life. It's big and strong enough to swoop down and pick up whales in its talents. And from its perch on the upper world, he surveys the lands below. Controls the weather and protects humanity from the great horn serpent, who embodies chaos, darkness, and death. And whenever the serpent starts acting up a little bit, the Thunderbird just like casts Thunderbolt

stat at it, which is pretty, it's kind of a fun little like, it's probably fun for both of them. You know, they're having fun. But in some traditions, the Thunderbird will just show up in like a dream or a vision. And basically that marks that person to receive like bountiful gifts, or maybe even go on to become the war chieftain. But yeah, it's just kind of like a cool little in the again that like it varies vastly from a tribe to tribe. Like I'm not pretending this is like

the one soul creation that exists. But I just thought this version of it was kind of kind of cool to think that there's a protector bird just sending rain and Thunderbolts down to help us common folk out. Everyone's in love. You know, I like that. Yeah. Good cool. All right, my turn. Yeah. Okay, so for bears, I have North America ranked third. So we have three bear species. We've got polar bears, brown bears, and American black bears. So great, great bears all around.

I love that American black bears are quintessentially North American bear. So I do really like them. So we're number three. Go us. Uh, guess second. You would guess wrong. You would guess right. Sorry. It is second. You're a wizard. Yeah. We are second. I put a second. My bad. North America's second for bears. Snakes. We are, let's see. What is that fifth? I put us fifth for snakes. We got some great snakes. I think rattlesnakes are mostly North American and they're kind of

We have some other really cool snakes, though, too. We got coral snakes, indigo snakes. Lots of really great snakes in North America that'd be honest, but I put a still fifth because

some other continents with a really amazing snake life. And then for birds, I have North America ranked

“once again fifth. Great birds here, but again, I think kind of similar to Europe. Maybe a little”

bit more drab, a little bit less impressive than some of these other continents. I'm just going to throw out bald eagles and turkeys as two of our coolest birds. So we have in North America. Hmm, Mike Tyson would not agree. Pigeons, he loves pigeons. A lot of the coolest pigeons are in other places. All right, should we do our favorite animals from North America? Yes, do it. You go first. Okay. I have, I have grizzly bear, black bear, moose, sloth, and coyote.

It gives lost in North America. Oh, interesting. Because it's Central America's part of North America. That's a fact. Sure. That's where I think if I want to see a sloth, I think it's Central America first. Okay. Right. I did Puma or Mount Lyon, I guess, we'll do the North American name, grizzly bear, coyote, American black bear, and helom monster. We'll go with Wes. Yes.

“The helom monster. Are you kidding me, Jeff? Yeah. One of two venomous lizards. Yeah, if you ever”

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“For wildlife. I think it's number one for me right now. I can start off the so for whatever”

reason I didn't put all that. Oh, yeah, I just kind of have it mixed up here. All right. So the big most famous cats there lie in cheetah leopard survival or those are the four that I've seen

survival. Yes. Yeah. And then the other ones there. Yeah. Yeah. There's caricles that we didn't see

then they kind of look similar. They aren't spotted. They look like kind of a link. So they have a really long whisp on the end of their ears. Really cool looking cats. The main one I'd want to see

“but it's also marked in the middle east is a Sam cat. I think they're really cool. The”

huge ears. African wild cats. Blackfooted cat. African golden cat. Jungle cat. So I've seen the wild cat. I think I saw the blackfooted cat. Our hyenas would they count as a dog because when I looked up, it wasn't. No. There are few of forms. So they're their own thing. Yeah. They're main dogs or jackals and painted dogs. They have a lot of foxes to like fennec foxes and different different types of foxes. For

whatever. I mean, you search not gloss over them. Not gloss over a fennec foxes. You know,

foxes when you search like wild dogs in Africa, they for whatever reason never list foxes. It's

probably because wild dogs is like the main of a species of animals. So I had to like search fox separately

“and I think I thought you can't do that. Yeah, I can't do that. You live and you learn. Next time”

we do this, you'll have that. But fennec foxes don't really kill. Yeah, they're great. We love foxes around you. For bugs. Dung beetles are so cool. We saw a few dog beetles and they are just so good for the ecosystem too, which makes them like extra cool. So they have some really big beetles out there too. Like some of the best beetles are out in African jungles, but I'm given like my most note where the bug goes to Dung beetles for Africa. Okay, the best. And then

I'll rate cats. I'm going to rate them number one. And for dogs, I'm going to rate them probably like fourth or fifth. I'll say fourth because payment posts are just so cool. I'm going to take

quick second to poke some holes in your cat ranking if I might. Yeah. All three of the big

cats that you like in Africa can also be found in Asia. Plus, she's pretty much not, but they can be. They're still there in India. No, like in Iran and the Middle East. There's a there's a cheetah. What I'm saying is that if like you're ranking continents based on what they have for those species, there are better cats. Like there are more species of cats in Asia than there are in Africa. I see. Like you have all of the African ones plus tigers, plus snow leopards plus. I think if you're

just looking at a list, you're right. I think if you're looking at a list of what each continent has you're right, but I think if you're considering like accessibility to the animals, if you're considering like the amount that each continent has and like, that's to like, if you're going to the continent, what you're going to be able to see, I think Africa's number one for cats. I'd still pick Asia. I think are humans fair? I don't disagree with your disagreement,

but you didn't change my mind either. It makes sense as a big lion enthusiast too. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Africa for bears, not very good. I put them. No, I put them above Antarctica. So they're number six for bears and the only reason I did that is because they used to have bears in northern Africa. They used to have brown bears. Honestly, Australia should probably lower than Africa, but because of koalas, even though they're not bears, I'm going to get it yet.

Draw bears. Yeah. I put them at six for bears. No bears currently in Africa. They used to have a brown bear in northern Africa. Snakes. I put them number one. I think there's a good argument for Asia. There's probably more species in Asia, so I don't think it argues the same thing. Yeah, but some

“of my personal favorite snakes are only found in Africa. And that's why I had the argument”

for the cats, is they're found in both places, but Asia has more species. Africa, some of my favorite all-time snakes you can only find on the African continent, a boon vipers, rhinoceros vipers, black mamba's, a lot of the bush vipers. You can only find in Africa. I think they're incredibly

number one for snakes for those reasons. And then birds, this was really hard. I ended up switching

this around, right? I gave South America number one. No, number two. South America was number two. So Africa is number three. Really cool birds in Africa. The one that comes to the top of my mind is secretary birds. It's a raptor that walks around on huge long legs and eats snakes. Just such an

“amazing bird, lilac-breasted rollers are incredible, beautiful birds. I think Africa's always an”

incredible surprise for birding. Shoobill store ostriches, ostriches. Yeah. I mean, there's incredible bird life in Africa. For me, it was really hard to pick between Asia, Africa and South America for birds. But Asia took top spot for me and almost everything. And I'll go into that when we rank

art continents for everything. But yeah, so I'm ranking them third, but they have incredible bird

life. If you are a birder, it's hard to beat Africa. No, I love Africa. I think I get why it's for a lot of people. They're number one wildlife destination. But you got to check out Asia too. Well, let's talk about some water animals then, huh? We got hippos. Yeah, come on. Yeah. What more is there to be said? But I do have some more. So the Sardine Run, that's like the famous Sardine Run down off the coast of South Africa. It's pretty iconic. If you've never seen like pictures or videos of it,

it's kind of bewildering how many just billions and billions of sardines go on crazy. And then like all the predators swim through and catch them all. We have Goliath tiger fish in the rivers of

“I think Congo's where they're most known for, but they're huge. Like kind of the gnarly”

is looking fish I've ever seen. I'm surprised I hadn't heard about that until last night. Just like what they look like. Let's move on to prehistoric. Oh, the otter bear. You guys heard of the otter bear. 200 kilo terrestrial relative of sea otters can't beat that. That's combining like the otter bears like the two famous gay communities, right? Otters and bears bears. All combined in one animal. That's right. That's kind of you can be whichever one you want to be on any given day.

What hog did they have down there over there? Giant Ethiopian hog. Jeff's seen a few of those and his win research. He used to have a long-laked hippo which is fun in African dire bear. Ooh, that's cool. Dire bears. That is sounds sweet.

Rob Stark would have won the wolf. He had a dire bear and said a dire wolf. Just what I've never

shown up like his dire wolves. I get no those more John Rob's that actually helped him. Rob's wolf was yeah. That was got killed. I got I got some a myth for you all. Sit down while I spin you a story. This little spider named an antsy. So forgive me if this rings more true to like western retelling. This is like very much an oral tradition. A lot of these stories that were passed down. And the telling of the story that I read most from was out of Ghana from the Acon religion. But it goes like this.

Lived in a small village nestled deep within the verdant forest of West Africa. He was a clever little spider named an antsy. And when he wasn't engaged in some sort of trickery or other, he could be spotted beside his elders as the spun tails around glowing fires and fusing their embroidered words with all manners of ghosts and spirits. But an antsy grew frustrated that there were only so many stories to be told. And so to claim all of the world's stories is common

property for all people to share. He began to spin a long thread that reached all the way to the heavens where he confronted the sky god, asking that he'd be given dominion over all the stories of the world. The sky god gave them three challenges, including defeating a giant snake, braving a flaming forest for precious timber and overcoming the mermaid queen who resided deep down in the sea. Overcoming each challenge with wit and bravery, the sky god, proclaimed well-done little

an antsy, no earthly creature has ever bested me so, nor shone such talent for bending reality itself. Let all the stories of this world and others be now yours to share as you please. So I just like it's a real David and Goliath kind of thing where it's a little spider-win out confronted the world for the sake of telling stories to everyone. It's pretty sweet. That is sweet. All right. This was my hardest top five just because there's so many I've

wanted in here. But I did elephant giraffe, cheetah, lion, hippo. Hippo giraffe and cheetah as well because I do think even though you can find cheetahs in Asia, you write like Africa is the best spot for them. Both hippos and giraffes you can only find in Africa. So I do think they're very

“uniquely African. I pick the secretary bird. I think it's one of my all-time favorite birds.”

Both of our African trips that was like a highlight for me was seeing those birds.

Has the longest fangs of any viper and extremely high venom load. So yeah, I wanted to make sure

we had some reptiles represented as well. A favorite snake. Yeah. And I even pick it on purpose.

“Yeah, I think that's an easy win for me. What? Personally. Yeah, but I'm going to let Mike say what you”

think. African elephants you don't think of no secretary birds. You don't even have them in there. Oh, I've got elephants. We've got elephants in Asia too. Yeah. I'm going with Jeff actually. That's tough. Secretary birds are my favorite bird, but like you also don't like to be told which way you're going to go. And I said that you're going to go. That's true. You said I knew I'd see

your face soon as I said that. Yeah. All right. Let's do Australia. Let's do it. So there's no

types of like native cats in Australia. They're in like the late 1700s, early 1800s. People were starting to like colonize it more and they really loved having pet cats back then. More than now, even I think because rodents were such disease spreaders that like having a pet cat actually kept you safe more than having a pet dog even sometimes, you know, because they would kill rodents. So lots of people had pet cats. They went to Australia with pet cats. Tons of cats got loose. It's like

one of the biggest issues in all of Australia, like 22 types of marsupials or something. Yeah. That sounds like the right word. Marsupials have gone extinct from the cats in Australia and like just a bunch of bunch of animals that are having trouble because invasive cats are like worms that were. Yeah, they are the worst. They are the worst invasive animal in the world. And we're not just talking Australia everywhere that there are wild feral cats or even just house cats that are loops killed

a ton of wildlife. It says here, it's estimated each year domestic and feral cats in Australia

kill nearly 1.1 billion mammals, 399 million birds, 69 million reptiles, 93 million frogs.

Mike, you love frogs. I love those guys. And 1.1 billion invertebrates. Yeah, it's pretty wild and like worldwide, it's just, it's incalculable how many animals cats kill. They're perfect little predators. May she kind of mad at cat. It doesn't. It makes me mad at, um, at irresponsible cat owners. But I will say this. We've talked about this a bit on the show before and I haven't really thought of the right way to put it to people because I don't want people who have let their

cats outside to feel guilty about it. What I do think is that if you do feel like, oh, that's

“a change you should make. I don't think it's fair to take a cat that's been living outside”

it's whole life and change it. But I do think on your next cat, you should keep it indoors. That's I think that's a good compromise. It's like next time you get a cat, you've learned your lesson. Keep it inside. Let me sense. Yeah, I'm okay with that. I'll agree with that. Messageing. Co-sign. I'd like to hear wild birds in your house. Uh, yeah, that's true. Invertebrates all over the place. Yeah, you probably do have invertebrates all over the place. Oh my gosh. For

dogs, it's just dingos, but then is it just dingos? It isn't. There's foxes there, too. Yeah, foxes. Oh, yeah, for the fox. Yeah. What type of fox do they have? I'm not sure. I was an on dogs. They definitely have red fox. Really? But yeah, that's interesting. Star Fox. It is interesting.

“Let's see. Fox. So I think it's just dingos and red foxes. That. Okay. And red foxes would be the only”

native. Like they're not native. Oh, they're not native either. No, they were introduced. Yeah, ends up happening. Like they want to hunt them or whatever else, and they release them. So yeah, I see. Yeah. So yeah, no native dogs, but there are. I think dingos, I think there's a very good argument for dingos now being considered native wildlife to Australia. Because they were introduced so long ago, and they are part of the ecosystem there now that feels like say, like if you

see a dingo, I think it's like, it's a pretty wild animal. There's protections for them in Australia. I think they, I think there's a good argument for them being considered part of Australia's wildlife now. Okay. And then for bugs, I like our funnel lab one that we did our story on and that you're

I had Australia ranked fifth for bears. They definitely don't have any bears, but you know, koalas, colloquially people called in bear. I probably should put them last because of that, but I do think it's kind of funny and drop bears the, you know, famous kind of cryptid in Australia.

But there are no bears in Australia. There never have been bears in Australia. So they probably

should be below Africa because Africa used to have bears at least. So I am going to switch those. Australia is sixth Africa is five for bears. And then for bears right now that, you know, but they used to at least. And Australia doesn't have any. Australia is fourth for snakes

“in on my list. And I think people might kind of bulk it that a little bit because it is famous”

for having really cool snakes. I think the thing that separates Australia from the other continents. And this is important to mention is there is so much cool and demic wildlife in Australia, where you only find it in Oceania in Australia. And that's true for their snakes. And so it's hard to rank them because I think if you're ranking unique wildlife, Australia might be number one.

But I just don't get as into their snakes as I do Asia or Africa. But they do have incredible

snakes. They have the inland type N, which most people consider to be the most potent venom of any snake. They have really cool, they have green tree pythons. They have lots of amazing snakes, tiger snakes, eastern brown snakes. It's a great place for snakes. But I just don't think it's quite, you don't see the diversity and the number of species that you see in places like Asia or Africa. Contents like Asia or Africa. Birds, again, incredible endemics in Australia. It's really amazing.

I still put it at fourth behind Asia, Africa and South America or Asia, South America and Africa. Yes, very clearly ahead of North America. I do. Again, because like so many cool endemics,

so many amazing birds. You got categories. You got e-moo's. You got cockatoo's. You got a lot of

really amazing birds in Asia. It is hard to say, Jeff, because Central America has a ton of bird life. But I still am going to pick Australia. Kiwis. Kiwi. Those mountain kids in New Zealand. Yeah. Kiwis. Yeah. You like Kia cars? I'm pretty neutral on Kia cars. I think they're pretty affordable. That's Korean. Nice. That's for Asia. Yeah. Is it my turn? Yeah. Yeah. Gosh. For Australia, are you kidding me right now? So they've got due gongs. Just like we hear in the north of America

have manatees, due gongs do exist in other places. But I read that Western Australia is considered widely to be the best place to see them. And those are cool. Stonefish. I feel like one, like maybe the most venomous fish. You got to shout that out. And I think Australia is like a real hot spot for them. Giant cuttlefish. We're all pretty big newly converted fans a couple of us to cuttlefish. I know. They got some really cool camouflage mating type stuff going on. Fear into the fish. Do

“in that kind of stuff. I'm not. Why do you need to wear camo to mate? So it's like some people get”

off on exhibitionism. They want to be seen. Some people want to keep it private. And if you're wearing camo, you can do that anywhere you go. Okay. This is controversial West. Great white sharks. Is that, are you going to give me that one? I like it. I like it for Australia. Okay. They are everywhere. But there, there used to be like hot spots where you could go cage dive with great white sharks. And a number of them had been closed. Like the one in Mexico is closed because of your

responsible operators. The one in South Africa has like ceased to exist because of movement patterns for great white sharks. So really at this point, there are others like there's one now in Canada in New Zealand. But I think New Zealand and Australia are the kind of premier spots to see great

“whites these days. So I think that's a good pick. Cool. Let's go over some quick prehistoric animals.”

We have the pallor festies. Those are the huge marsupials dwelling in trees. They're like the size of a horse is what I kept reading. Huge claws. Basically, just like a, um, yeah, Koala, but huge. Just think about that. Maybe Tasmanian tiger, maybe not quite prehistoric, but extinct now, sadly. The Megalania, massive monitor lizard. I think the most exciting one to me there, though, is a horse-sized Koala. Right? Yeah. That is exciting. Their climatey and must be so big. There's huge ones.

Should we just spell the myth? So they're said to be vicious marsupials that inhabit the tops of trees. And they attack unsuspecting people. They'll drop out of a tree and attack. So the joke is the way to avoid these attacks. Cause some people genuinely believe, like, oh, wow, I've heard drop air. It's crazy. It sounds violent, dangerous. So like the prank is you put forks in your hair and vegem, you like smear, vegemite all over your body. And there's other different, like, little

tack. You can like, douse yourself in urine is another one. Some people are like, just do that.

“And you'll be safe, you know? And some people fall for it. And I think that's really great.”

So there has been like very serious, documented scientific research on this phenomenon, even though it's like pretty clearly these don't really exist. But I just like that it's so much of a cultural icon that people in those spheres of science, you're just like, yeah, let's have some fun with this. Let's let's let's do some write ups. That that was one of the biggest shocks for me is learning that cryptosuology is like something you can get your PhD in. Like you can go out and become a serious

cryptosuologist researcher, which is very strange to me, but whatever. There's weirder things in the world. Like bear biologists. I don't get that. Yeah, I know you don't. Pal. All right. Is that it for us? Oh, we got to do our five favorites, right? Me and Jeff. Okay. I'll go

first this time, I guess. I'm going to go with Koala because they are incredibly cute and very

“unique to Australia, Wombats. I think Wombats are amazing animals. They, you know, poop cubes,”

really cool looking cassowaries. One of my all-time favorite birds. New Zealand is included in Australia as a continent. Yeah. Yeah. Oceania. Yeah. Frild lizards that that lizard that like has this huge frill that comes out that they've based a lot for Soroson. I just think they're one of the coolest lizards in the world. And then I also picked the platypus because platypus are the one of the two eggling mammals. They have a venomous spur behind their leg. They are like they seem like they're

half bird, half mammal, half fish. They're just incredible and animal that only Australia could produce.

So those are my five. I got Koala kangaroo, cloacas, which smiling all the time. Cute, cuties. Yeah. Platypus and crocodile, which species of crocodile, saltwater crocodile, salties. I have my biggest like I wish is on there's cassoway. I was going to put salties and I picked the frill lizard instead because salties you can find in a lot of Asia too. This is by far the hardest one I've had to choose because I love cassoway. But saltwater crocodiles have me come on. Let's go Jeff. Jeff's up to you

to two. All right. All right. Let's save Asia for last. So let's go Antarctica where we actually let's do Asia. We'll save Antarctica for last time. Okay. Antarctica was our last continent we went together.

So Asia, I'll get us started real quick. Cats obviously tigers like what you think of first for Asia,

right? Yeah. They have leopards all throughout Indian, um, a couple of other spots probably.

“All right. So no leopards probably on the street. How many of them is clouded leopards throughout Asia?”

Palace cat is a really good, like, Asian, specific cat that a lot of people love. Like I said, they're sand cats in the Middle East. There's, like, West said there are lions. There are, I guess, is it's tiny population achieved us? There is. Yes. And, um, that's pretty cool. There's a rusty spotted cat. West? Yeah. Fishing cat. Yep. There's jungle cat. Borneo bake at flat-headed cats have you seen those? I haven't. Fly ahead of cat. Look that up.

Okay. I'll look at up. I'm not going to do it right now. I will to say, Asia has, by a good margin, the most species of wild felines. Look up. There's 17 species in Asia and 10 in Africa. The Americas actually have more wild cat species than Africa does. There's 12 in the Americas, but Asia does have, by a good margin, the most wild cats. Yeah, the Americas are two continents. Yeah. That's true. That's a good point. Yeah. They're a cool looking cat. Fly ahead. Um, and then

don't see, I would think or not, it was just because they're only in Asia. Yeah. You know what one is really cool is the type batten fox. To batten fox are really cool. Yeah. So sweet. And then yeah, gray wolf, the raccoon dogs in Japan, or the Tanuki. Yeah. We saw one for a sack. It's cool. Yeah, it's just great. We saw gray wolves and you guys saw dolls. I didn't get to see dolls. Yeah. Cool. How about bugs? Bugs. My favorite bug I ever made.

“It was in Borneo. It was a cicada and we shook hands. Yeah. I remember that. That was a good bug.”

You got your first rhinoceros beetles in Asia, too. The ones I remember were in Costa Rica.

Indonesia, the one that you saw in Costa Rica? Oh wait, no, you're right. I'm thinking of Indonesia. Yeah. It was in Commodore. Yeah. Commodore. Yeah. Great rhinoceros beetles. Okay. So for my, or do you want to go first? Mike, you go first. I'm going to share. Where would you rank them for dogs? Uh, or what would you put first for dogs? I would honestly, probably put Asia first. Yeah. For dogs? Uh-huh. I think I'd have them third. I think I'd have

North America first just because I think coyotes have taken over so well. I originally have gray wolves. Yeah. And then we have fox, but the in like Arctic fox. But then like painted dogs just bring Africa up so high for me because I just think they're so like they are really cool. I think of all wild dogs. Dogs are hard. And then main wolves are so cool, too. And then like Australia. It's like you're not going to give us dogs. What do we get even then? Yeah. Right. Nothing's like one of the

main ones we have. Our soup heels. All right, Mike. Why don't you do Asia? Yeah. So for water, this one, a bit of an abstract listing, but so spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, like all over that kind of Micronesia, all over the place. It's the global epicenter of marine life, a host 70% of all known

“coral species and over 2,000 reef fish. And you know me, that's what I'm all about and we're diving”

a coral coral triangle, right? It's what the coral triangle. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. So they got a little

bit of everything down there. We'll not quite everything, but like a huge amount of everything there is to see you can see it in Asia in that little stretch, best place to see blue whales. Manta rays giving them octopi and jellyfish. Millions, billions, maybe even trillions. Probably not. Right. Yeah. Harmless jellyfish. There's a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Palau, where you're just like surrounded by really cool, beautiful jellyfish kind of thing. So yeah.

Any other water? I'm forgetting some. I'm sure there's so many. I agree with you. It's really hard to quantify, but I do talk about it. It comes to reef ecosystems like Asia is pretty hard

to beat. You have like the coral triangle there and it's really cool, like big stuff too.

Yeah. I talked about the turtles and Vietnam a little bit just like that. The soft shell, the soft shell turtles. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. I'm glad you brought that up. Let's go prehistoric. So woolly rhinos. They're like rhinos, but shaggy. They got that big. It's kind of like a yak fur almost, but their horns are huge. They're like four and a half feet. I think is what I saw listed. Like it's big as a big trumpet. Yeah. It's big as a big trumpet.

“That's how I would describe that. Speaking of big, we got the giant ape.”

The outtighten hippopotamopus. It's not a hippopotamus. It's a hippopotamopus. Get that wrong. Found in Kazakhstan. A Kazakhstan. Pretty cool animal. Columbia has hippos west. Yeah, but not native. So yeah. And that's a very recent introduction. So I wouldn't even come close to saying their native there. All right. And from mythological I'm going to go with the Yeti. I think the Yeti is kind of like the one everyone probably knows and would think about just off

the top their head. There are many Chinese dragons or even the Japanese, the Kappa, etc. They kind of get dragons. But I wanted to do the Yeti because I learned a couple of interesting things about them. So the belief in these sightings are so old and storied that even by the time Alexander the Great was storming through that Indian subcontinent part of the world, he reportedly he demanded to see one. He was so excited to see Yeti when he was just like raising the land. And the locals

like no. Well, that it was kind of funny because their retort was like, well, they actually

well, I'll shoot. I guess he just left disappointed but just rest there. But throughout the centuries, the accounts continued until pretty distinct variations of the Yeti story started permeating through Buddhist mythology. And they were just like, they look a little different depending on where

you're from. They could either be huge and white or small and strong and red. But always

skewing more malevolent in the western perception of what they are. But actually for people that live in those lands, they see them as like a benevolent force of nature, like a protector spirit of the mountains. So I just thought that that was kind of a cool. I just had never heard that. I always thought that like the abominable snowman is going to rip your arm off and eat it kind of thing. That's what they did in dea love past. They killed those guys. Yeah, that's right. We got it. When you

“cover in that story, we'll do it at some point. All right. So Asia for me, pretty squarely, I think”

the best continent when it comes to wildlife. And I would argue that to my dying day. I think it's really hard to beat because you have essentially every ecosystem in Asia. You have, you know, these massive deserts. You have steps. You have mountains. You have Arctic. You have rain forest.

You have savanna. Everything is there. It has incredible wildlife. When it comes to bears,

it is hands down the best. Six of the of the world's eight bears species are all found in Asia. So and there's a few that are only found there, including giant pandas, sun bears, aziotic black bears and slot bears. So half of the world's bear species you can only find in Asia. Which is pretty good. Yeah. It's a good step. It's going to be really hard for me to pick a top five

“for Asia. For snakes, I'm going to give it to Asia. Or no, sorry. I give it to Africa. I'm going”

to give second to Asia. Some of my favorite snakes are there. You got King Cobras. You got Indian Cobras or Spectacle of Cobras. You've got the blue and salaris fiber that we saw in Komodo.

Tons of variation of snakes. Really cool crates there. Just like incredible snake life throughout

Asia. Especially some hotspots are like Indonesia. India, China has like mentioned vipers, which are really cool looking. So yeah. Birds. It's number one for me. Got to be Asia. There are an incredible number of birds in Asia. Again, because there are so many ecosystems there. So I could just talk about birds in Asia all day, but they have like pitas. They have the Himmelian monal. They have bearded vultures. There's just like my head's exploding. Just thinking

about all the birds in Asia. You know? Oh, no. It's crazy. Yeah. Put it back together. Like that one egg. Take a break. I just think I think just because of the vast size of the continent, the fact that it includes the Indian subcontinent, which has incredible wildlife, that includes Indonesia and like all these different islands. Like it's impossible to beat Asia for wildlife. It just has the coolest wildlife. It just does. So that's where I'm coming from with

my argument for Asia. And yeah, those are my three categories. Should we do our top five? So wait. You got to right first for birds. First for birds. Second for snake. Second for snakes. And that's a personal preference for African snakes. But I think if you were looking at

“like number of species in diversity, you'd probably have to give a tell you should too. Yeah. Yeah.”

There's one that I'm kind of like, I think I could maybe choose something else, but I'll save it for that. So I have tiger easily, right? Okay. Yeah. Then we have a ring of tan, snow leopard, giant panda. So there's four. And then my fifth one I put red pandas. And I think I could be talked out of red pandas, but I like having them in there because I think of them when I think of age. Yeah. We have very similar lists. So I also had tiger, giant pandas, snow leopard,

and red panda. Those are all the same. I dropped a ring of tan for King cobra because it is the longest venomous snake on the planet. I think they're incredible snakes. And I wanted reptiles to be included in a top five of Asia. West gets it. The cobra is just, I mean, you got to have a cobra in there. Yeah. The birds, they don't really have like any sandwich birds, right? A huge birds. Like, I mean, they have like, they don't have Australia. I mean, Africa has ostrich, and then like

Australia. The bird family you're talking about are the rat tights. So Asia does have casuaries

casuary and you can find them in like raja on pot. Some of the Indonesian islands have casuaries.

Are they cool? Are they just as cool? They're really cool. Yeah. They're even more brightly colored than this other in casuary. So, well, dude, what in the world? Yeah. Are you talking about Australia, Casuary? This is what I'm saying, guys. Asia, like almost every animal that we're talking about when it comes to like African Australian stuff, there's a variant of it in Asia. It's just really hard to beat Asia unless you're like a huge fan of South American wildlife. Because even a lot of

our North American wildlife, like our most iconic North American wildlife, most of those animals you can also find in Asia. What country would you say has the best primates? There's three mainland countries in America, or South America, or South America, Africa Asia. I'd say Asia.

Gorillas and chimpanzees in Africa. I know, it'd be Africa would be my next pick, but with the

“rangetans, give-ins, those Chinese snub-nose monkeys, all the different, like, yeah, I think I have to”

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the only part of the world you can find them. Colossal squid. The most massive, meaning heaviest cephalopod, that's down in Antarctica. They're longer ones, but they're no, they're none they get heavier.

“These things are just like a chunk, a thousand pounds plus. And that's really cool. And I think”

you're probably right. We give seals to Antarctica. I'm going to do a little bit of a tie thing. I'm going to cheat here. They're just a huge variety of different species of seals down there,

and they're all amazing and beautiful in their own way. It's cephalopod seals. You didn't

like elephant seals. I don't think I did. It may be really uncomfortable to be close to them. They smell really bad and they don't look comfortable. They slept like they all had sleep

crawling on top of each other. It's like a weird scene. So I had to move on pretty quick.

Anyway, any other sea life do you think we should attribute to, I mean, like it's a huge place for whales. You know, it's like course, like if you're a whale fan and are because definitely a destination. It's a cage account. Yeah. There's a humpback whales, blue whales, Mickey whales, sail whales. There's a lot of really cool whales species there, and just the quantity orca's dolphins. Not really dolphins. I mean, there are, but like I thought the dolphins that are there

are really cool. Like I thought those are our last dolphins. But like they don't go to Antarctica. Like they don't go that, like, you know, they kind of stop halfway through the Drake acid. But what we learned was like halfway through the Drake is when you're actually considered to be

“in like a territory of Antarctica. So I do think that considered Antarctica. I think it's no kind of”

stop. And that's the most southern dolphin. Well, orca's a dolphins. Yeah. Prehistoric animals, I think are really fun to shout out. So there's something kind of recently identified called in the Lazarus or, and just think of the Pokemon Lapras, just like a cute, kind of the Loch Ness Monster type of thing. Long neck, please yes or. I guess is the more scientific comp we can make. The Colossus Penguin, just penguins, but huge. I like twice as big as

Emperor penguins. This is so freaking sweet to me. An ancient duck. Okay. You got that.

69 million-year-old fossil a duck skull. So they you got that. And the mythological creature I want to

shout out. So this is kind of an interesting one because there's not there's no people haven't really traditionally ever lived on Antarctica. So there aren't like, you know, myths per se and it's much more heavily skewed towards the cryptid side of things. And there are a couple of genuine cryptid stories that have been developing over the recent the faint hundred or so years. The thing, that kind of

“I mean, honestly, that's about as famous a cryptid as you can get from Antarctica. These are”

all the stories we're all telling anyway. So I think the thing kind of counts, but I want to shout out Antarctic Godzilla. So in 1958 there was a crew, a Japanese ship called the Soyah and they were all relaxing on the bridge when a huge black object appeared on the surface of the sea 300 meters away.

At first, some thought it might be an oil drum abandoned by a vessel ahead of them, but they

soon realized that an oil drum couldn't possibly stand perpendicular to the sea surface in a wind speed of seven to eight meters. As everyone looked on, the now more visibly hairy object turned towards the Soyah. And as they approached, what they now realized was some sort of creature with a long neck and large head that resembled a monkey's had dorsal spikes lining its back in a body roughly shaped like a cow. So an engineer you took off your hand to grab his camera,

but by the time he got back, of course, it had disappeared. But the story has been perpetuated with more recent sightings and other, just like not confirmation, but people seeing similar things around Antarctica as they have the voyage to down there. And they just think it's kind of fun that like, you know, a continent that's more recently been discovered and explored is now developing a mythology of its own. And I just think that's a fun idea. I like that. We're kind of seeing it

happen in real time because there was no like indigenous people there. Exactly. It was fun being there and like having them show us places that were named by explorers and not having to kind of feel

“a sense of guilt when they were talking about it. All right. You want me to go Jeff?”

I can go next. Okay. So for dogs, I want to talk a little bit about the race to the South Pole. Okay. How to do it. So there's a Norwegian team led by rolled Amerson. Amerson. Amerson. Amerson. Amerson. And then there was at the same time a British expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, right? Right. So he was very opposed to using dogs to like transport all of their materials and stuff. He thought that that was cheating and that it wasn't like a

noble English endeavor to get to the South Pole using dogs. The Norwegian led by the Norwegian party led by Amerson. They were using dogs. And it is interesting because Scott brought dogs with him and he brought electric sleds. So it's not like I don't know. It's not like he was going just like the show alone or something. You know, he still had stuff. But it's like we have to push the sleds ourselves to like say we really made it there. And lo and behold, the dogs got the Norwegian party

already like seen the Norwegian flag and seen that it already been described like the draught.

“When saw that. So that's what I got for Antarctic dogs. Okay. And then for cats with Paul Walker.”

A below. That's not for San Antarctica. Yeah. Cats. There's like British research teams that

were set up in Antarctica and they'd always have a pet cat. And one cat like fell off of the

equipment that like there's big tower used to perch on and then something fell on any guide. And then they got another cat. And for like 20 years, there's a cat at their research station. And it was just killing so many baby birds. Like all the time. They're just hungry. Yeah. So one of the researchers eventually is like we're researching birds as part of our research. Like we can't just have a cat gilling all of these birds. It's crazy that took

eventually for that. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what. Tubby the cat shout out. Shout out, Tubby.

“And then for bugs, there's no bugs. Not really. Okay. The Antarctic Nat. So the Nat is too. Huh?”

The Midge too. The Midge was the one Peter really wanted. Oh, yeah. The Midge. I always

mix Midge with Nat. So there's the Antarctic Nat too. Midge, which is the only land animal considered to be a land animal in Antarctica. Because it just stays there. It doesn't go to the ocean. So it's actually the only Antarctic terrestrial terrestrial animal is the Antarctic Midge. Sorry. I said Nat. And we didn't see any. So we got to go back. Yeah. Go back. Uh, this. But yeah. Very exciting stuff. These Peter really wanted to see one. And we had to give

him his money back. We gave him his money back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See any images. Yep.

All right. Uh, for bears. There are no bears in Antarctica. And as far as I know, they have never

existed in Antarctica. Uh, there are no snakes in Antarctica. And they're probably used to be back when it was like gunned on a land back before Pangea split up. But now there are no snakes.

“And then birds, there are birds in Antarctica. But I did still rank it seventh. I think there are”

people that really want to go birding in Antarctica. And it's a big draw for birders. But it's because you're only going to see certain birds there. Um, but there's really not a height of diversity of bird life. I remember looking at the list when I was down there. And it was like less than a hundred species total that you can see down there. I less than 50, I believe. There are some cool notable standouts, though, penguins being like the biggest of those. Like, if you

want to see good penguins, it's hard to be Dan Arrica and like South Georgia. And they are disappoint. I did a just had such a joyful time watching them. I, I never was that into penguins in Antarctica converted me. I think they're so cool. And watching them there's so fun land, be all like dopey and goofy. And then in the water being incredibly streamlined and beautiful, they're just amazing animals. They're kind of like the primates of birds. Just like an animal,

you could watch all day because they're the silly and then like, but then when they want to be, they can be really graceful. Yeah. There's also like the wandering albatross is found in Antarctica. It has the largest wingspan of any bird on the planet. And when you see them next to people, you get a real feel for just how big they are. Lots of other great birds, sheathbills, which are kind of this weird mix between like a vulture and a seabird. So there are some really

cool birds in Antarctica, but I still rank them seventh overall. All right. Okay. Should we do our top fives? Yeah. Oh, it all comes down to this. So I have the mage. I have Emperor penguins. I have elephant seals. I have leopard seals. And I have albatrosses. Okay. I stand the albatrossing. What's the ones we saw? We saw royal southern royal and blackbrowd. Blackbrowd, albatrossed, my. Okay. I picked King penguins over Emperor penguins because they're about the same size,

but I think their orange coloring is like a lot prettier. Wow. I picked leopard seals. I think they're amazing. I picked the B2 orcas. They're found in Antarctica and they're the ones that have learned to do the waves to push seals off of ice flows, which I think is really neat.

I picked the wandering albatross specifically because it does have the largest wingspan of any bird on the planet. And then I also picked humpback whales because there's one named after me.

“And because it's just such a cool place to see them down there. I mean, I think they're like an”

amazing incredible whale. So I picked humpbacks for Antarctica. So actually that is that's five. That's five. King penguins, leopard seals, orcas wandering albatross in humpback whales. Yeah, Westwinds that one pretty handily. Good try Jeff. But there's something about

King penguins that's always done it for me. And I'd probably what West is saying.

I did there's something. They're kind of overlooked. And I always like that the underdog, you know, and you don't like elephant seals. So I get some candy. Some candy. Some, yeah. All right. And so real quick, before we get to categories, let's just say as far as wildlife goes and just our travels, let's each rank all seven continents. Okay. I've got them ranked here. For me, I'll I'll go top to bottom. Asia's number one. It's pretty easy win for me. Then Africa,

then South America, then Australia, North America, Europe, and Antarctica. Okay. Hmm. I'm going to go. Actually, you know, you're I'm going to swip. I'm going to switch Antarctica and Europe. I'm going to go Antarctica. Yeah. Europe's last for me. And then it's really hard for me to put Antarctica. It's only six because it's so cool and crowded. Every way you look

“there's wildlife. But there's just not enough diversity, you're right. So I think like it's just”

hard. I want to be this. It's incredible. But the diversity, it's not. Go with your heart, man.

I'm going to put Antarctica six, Australia fifth, then North America fourth, South America third, Asia second, Africa first. Hmm. I might come curious about yours. I'm pretty biased. You guys know where my heart really lies. It's in the water. So I think I'm actually going to go. I mean, my favorite scuba diving is still in Mexico. But I'm not putting north. I'm going to go Asia, South America, North America, Australia, Africa and Antarctica Europe. Okay. All right. So

I think Asia on average wins, right? Yeah. Let's and Europe on average is completely this. Yeah. All right. So let's go to our categories. So what's like your most memorable food from each continent? I'll start. So I did or favorite. I did like personal experience and I didn't want to do like where I live. So I chose corn tortillas in Guatemala in South America. I liked my

galopagos lobster that I had a lot. Where it's like the first day of lobster season at that one restaurant.

And then and it felt like sustainable, which made it nice to eat a lobster. Asia, I'm going to go that soup dumpling thing we had in Singapore recently. Yeah. But close second for Kobe beef and Japan. Australia was my hardest one. I just put ice cream because I remember eating some ice cream. Europe, a sandwich we had in Rome that was just so good. And then Africa, I had some lamb chops in Kenya that were just delicious. And Antarctica, I learned with the bananas movies that I bought

made. Yeah. Okay. North America, I picked Buria tacos or tacos al pastore. Definitely Mexican food for me in North America as my favorite. South America, I picked Faisuata, which is like a Brazilian

“black bean soup that you put on rice that I think is incredibly delicious. Europe, I picked Nyoki.”

Usually with like a vodka sauce or like a red sauce is probably my favorite thing to eat in Europe. But I love Italian food especially so that's a hard one to pick. In Africa, I South Africa does like a bri, which is a type of barbecue. It's just really a fun like good barbecue system and they often do them like at sundown, which is really fun. So an African bri, a South African bri. In Asia, I picked the miso ramen that I had in Tokyo in Australia. I picked Tim Tams.

The little chocolate. Oh, they're so good. That's such a good pick. Oh, man. And Antarctica, I picked Krill for all the animals that I did that to. I did that as well. Okay, so we'll double up on that one.

It's a good pick. It's hard to beat a good place. South America, I just put

“Brazilian barbecue. Yeah, sure. I mean, that's like a million different things kind of”

musco. Shuhasco is like, yeah. Europe raclette. It's like a really melty cheese kind of dish. You do your little dishes and you pour out your cheese over potatoes and meats and stuff is really great. Asia, I'm going pad tie, which is a real upset, but it was all I could think about when I thought about food for Asia. Australia, I put violet crumble. Oh, yeah. So freaking good. Yeah. And then Antarctica, I'll go with the that one potato we ate. Oh, that made me sick for like three days. Oh,

yeah, like eating a big old taunts all stone. It's the worst. I can finally talk about it. All right.

Favorite movie in each continent, I did it like some of my North American movies that were just filmed in different continents, but I'm excited to I hope you guys I let it open ended. So yeah, I did not do that. But cool. Yeah. Okay. Um, I really want to pick a Pocka Lippdo for North America, but I just didn't know for sure where is even set. So I end up just thinking in New York, which I feel like it's not a little what accounted, but yeah. Okay. I'll do a Pocka Lippdo then.

And then South America, I kind of cheated too, because I said narcos, which is a show, but I just love that show so much about Colombia. And it made me want to go there, like more than any movie or show. And then next, I have the raid from Indonesia, like one of my top five movies of all time. Um, then I have Mad Max, Fury Road for Australia. I have glorious bastards for Europe. I have Ghost in the Darkness for Australia. I mean for Africa and the thing for Antarctica.

I picked Jurassic Park for North America. I picked City of God for South America. Ooh, uh, Brazilian production. Paddington 2 for Europe. Um, nice. That's the battle. The battle about years for Africa. I watched it a long time ago, but I haven't watched it since, and I actually really want to, because I know it was a big inspiration for one battle after another,

and they talk about it a lot. But I will admit, when I first watched it, a lot of it went over my

head, but I do, like, want to try and rewatch it. I had a hard time with Africa, picking one. Um, and then lightning would be a good one. Asia, yeah. I, I, I, I'm gonna go with the hand maiden.

“There's between that or parasite, but I think the hand maiden is one that I kind of like going”

back to more, and not in a horny way, and just like, it's a really good movie. So, um, Australia, I picked Lord of the Rings. It was made in New Zealand, uh, New Zealand production company. So, I think it counts. And Antarctica, I also picked the thing, because there really isn't like, there isn't movies that are not American movies inside. Frank and Stein, I don't think, yeah. Yeah, that's it. Although it was in the Arctic. It was in, it wasn't in Antarctica. It was the Arctic.

Uh, yeah. Uh, Antarctica, I'm gonna give it to you at the mountain of madness, um, the long, storied production hell fiasco that Guillermo was close to maybe sort of almost getting into producing, um, just so I don't have to pick the thing like everyone else, but it would be the thing. For Australia, I'm going razor back. Jaws on Trotters. I'm going to be kicks. Oh my gosh. You guys didn't like it. And that breaks my heart. I was like, I was mediocre on it. Yeah. Asia,

I'm gonna go in the mood for love or yee. I can't pick, but Tony Long and Maggie Changin in the mood for love are like the two most attractive people that maybe have ever lived. So, let's just go

“with that one. Africa District 9. I think it was a New Zealand production technically, but it”

took place in Johannesburg. I think it was filmed in South Africa. So, I'll go with that one.

Europe, the conformist, uh, it's incredible, beautiful, terrifying,

very prescient movie. Still relevant to this day. Four days in September for South America, it would be city of God, but I knew us was going to go with that one and anything with Alan Arkin and it's going to do it for me. In the North America, I'm going the matrix. My favorite movie. All right. Let's get some listener questions and then close this thing out. So, Jeremy already? Ravanaal says, "If aliens had you talked the most

by fire, I was quick." You know, said the most a sign. If you made this so long, like, if aliens

One of the seven continents, which I would pick first, I'd pick Australia. I think, I think Australians

are like of everyone that I've met, like the biggest, the highest battering, batting average for just being, like, really friendly and happy people, and I want them to meet someone that's friendly and happy. I think they independence daily instead of the right way. They just showed up everywhere, all at once and just blasted everybody. Just took care of all the monuments and buildings and stuff.

“So, that's what I would recommend they do, just Queen House. I'm going to say Antarctica just so, like,”

they think there's no lights here. Yeah, they're like, well, it's just birds. It's like,

the place is cold. This place is hot. I want to get out of here. Now, they would be like,

this is the most beautiful place in the world, but it's also cold and there's just birds. Yeah. They take all the ice with them and then if we wouldn't have to worry about it melting, they would be good. Then we wouldn't flood. Yeah. It's a good thing. Um, it would not be good. Liv likes frogs says, which continent has seen your worst poop North America? Yeah, it's Thailand, so Asia for me. Here's its massacre. All right, what? Yeah. Yeah.

Here's his Thailand, Mike. Yeah. I got, I had to get like, you got to tell that story sometime.

I had to get comforted in the Guatemala airport. Someone was like, you'll be all right, man.

TXN Peach says, where's the coolest place you've pooped? I mean, watching a snow leopard in the Himalayas is pretty hard for me to be. Like, I made eye contact with that snow leopard while that's pooping. So, yeah, it's probably that one for me. Yeah. For me, it's Mexico. Watching the way as why pooped. Yeah, it's a tough one for me. I guess the close to the Great Wall of China, it wasn't on the ground. It was a toilet, but it was like Asia has the best toilets, but they're

“normally in like a little room with no view, you know? Right. So that's what I was in a room with”

no view, but that wall was close. That's cool. All right, we didn't really go over this completely. So, at least Shavelu, we asked, which continent has the most venomous animal slash insects. Do you think Australia kind of gets the most they get the fame for it? I would honestly it might be Australia. If we are if we're expanding insects to like all our thropods. Yeah. So, like including arachnids, it might be Australia. They got the most spider. Yeah. And Z asked what

continents the most biodiverse. Asia. And then is there an animal that can be found on all seven continents? Um, like a single species? No. Yeah. Red fox is close. Antarctica, that was the big one that like removes it. Mid. There's animals that can be found on sage, but yeah, not in Antarctica. You know, the biodiversity thing I should rewind because the Amazon might make South America more biodiverse. But as far as like, I would still think it's Asia. And as far as like animals that

we are aware that we know of like not little insects and stuff that are like in the human collective consciousness, it's Asia. And then last one, Lisa's lions want to know if you're excited for Easter candy season less. I have been way too excited for it. I put on I'm like getting a little soft 'cause I've been eating so much Easter candy. So I have not had the restraint I've had in past years. What's your main go to? Uh, I really, this is gonna sound gross to a lot of people. I really like

Cadbury cremigs. Like the full size. I just got some because I was thinking of you. Oh, they're good. I like the mini ones. The big ones have too much stuff. I like them. I like um, robin eggs. I like the little Cadbury chocolate eggs. I like good. Man, I like so much Easter candy starburst jelly beans, peeps. There's so, there's so many good things out there. All right. That's it for the episode. Thank you ever for listening. And thank you for all of our travelers who have helped us

get to all seven of these continents. Yep. We do, for those of you who haven't been able to join us yet, we have some really fun trips lined up for next year. Uh, we're trying to do budgets to kind of fit

“a lot of different income levels and everything just so people can make it if you want to. We know”

they're really competitive. Uh, there's just some, we can only do so many. So hopefully if you want to

really want to go to so that we're equally as excited for these trips. So we are going to continue going places that are sometimes a little hard to get to, but we're really excited for them. All right. Thank you, everyone. Yep. Love you. See you guys. Love you. Bye.