Alan Gofinski

It was like unreal.

And that's where we got to leave it, with the Spooky Beaver Dam.

And I won't tell you that vanilla ice cream, candy, yogurt, and many perfumes used to be made with an oil that came from the beaver's booty.

It was called castoreum, and that's true if you used to eat vanilla ice cream or certain candies back in the time of your great-great-grandparents.

you are actually tasting beaver bum.

I won't tell you that because I'm nice, but I did learn it in beaver believer Ben Goldfarb's great book called Eager, The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.

Highly recommend you check it out.

And that'll do it for today.

Terrestrials was created by me, Lulu Miller, with WNYC Studios.

Our executive producer is Sarah Sambach.

This episode was produced by the naughty...

gnawing on wood uh anna gonzalez tail slappingly good sound design by mira burtwin tonic our team also includes alan gofinski tanya chala and joe plourd fact checking by diane kelly she would not let us get anything wrong would spell w o o d

Support for Terrestrials is provided by the Simons Foundation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and the John Templeton Foundation.

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