Alie Ward

Run me down a menu.

Let's say that you are a critter, you need defense, and you have a menu of options.

You need a big cats episode.

I know that.

And a few days ago, I recorded Megafelinology with Dr. Imogen Cancellari.

But you got to be patient, my babies.

It'll be up in a few weeks, I think.

But until then, we have Ted's fieldwork hijinks with kind of like cardboard wooden cutouts, which I'm sorry, is very funny.

Science is extremely funny.

Well, you know, that's prevalent too in poisonous insects.

Like if you see, you know, a really brightly colored insect or a frog, it's likely that they're either poisonous or they're a mimic of one that is, right?

Is that something that a predator learns from the first time or is that innate?

Mercedes, our lead editor, told me about a dog they had up in Canada that went back and tried to chew on a dead porcupine numerous times.

Numerous times getting just stabbed in the face.

They were like, come on, man.

But like, is it similar for spikes?

I can't believe I haven't asked this yet, but you work with skunk oil.

You have some in a fridge.

Your last name does have the word stank in it.

How often does that come up in emails, in classes?