Alie Ward
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Are the more armored mammals, are they tend to be slower lopers?
Do they not have that bunny hop fast getaway?
Like the fact that an armadillo is related to sloths.
You don't think of sloths for their, like, fast getaways.
But do these all tend to be slower little dudes?
You know, we're sitting in this lab full of pangolin scales and armor and spikes and spines.
And it occurs to me like how squishy humans are, how absolutely vulnerable.
Does that ever strike you that you're walking around with no armor?
Like we're wearing just like cotton.
Yeah.
Like, does their cortisol level go up or down?
Or down, yeah.
Well, getting back to humans, it's so funny that you mentioned human beings wearing armor.
My husband has a black belt in jujitsu.
And he's a musician, a playwright.
He's working on this piece right now.
And he's going to perform it in a full suit of armor.
And we have a friend who is a prop maker who shipped us his suit of armor.
They're about the same size.