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Life is strange, naturally you want to hear about it. Strange by Nature is your guide to the strange, weird and unbelievable side of nature. Professional naturalists present weekly curated stories about just how strange nature can get.
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Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
On this week's show 2/3 of us talk about animal defenses.
Kirk starts us off with the Giant Vinegaroon, an acid shooting whip scorpion.
Rachel then also talks defenses with the Fulmar, a bird that covers enemies with stinking projectile vomit.
Victoria takes us in an all new direction by talking about Left-handedness.
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1 years ago
left handedness is so interesting to me! My mom is left handed, but I’m not. Still, I eat like a leftie (fork on the right hand, knife on the left) I presume because toddler me was mimicking her :0 also, I once heard that a species of whale (I think sperm whales??) has a preference for doing things with the right or left side of their bodies, and iirc the proportion of ”left/right finned” whales was the same as left/right handed humans! pretty cool!