Alie Ward

And we're really happy to make that donation on Ted's behalf there at pangolincrisisfund.org.

We'll link them in the show notes.

Thank you to Ology sponsors for making these donations each week possible.

Also making this show possible are patrons at patreon.com slash ologies who submit questions for ologists before we record.

And this week we had a great one from A. Ortega who asked about noises and communication used for certain types of dangers or threats or urgency.

Olga Kolesnikova asked, is screaming actually a good defense mechanism?

Screams internally and...

Marla T wants to know, do animals in the wild pick up on each other's warnings?

Like, for example, do squirrels listen to warnings from birds when hawks or eagles fly over?

Well, you know, you mentioned seeing possums when you were younger, and we're looking at, you know, armadillos that are kind of possum size.

A lot of people wanted to know, Scalbar, the Cole, Gracie, Maldonada, Brittany Corrigan, Jen, Squirrel Alvarez, and Justin Bowen.

Scalbar asked, does playing dead ever, like, backfire?

Laying down in front of a predator seems kind of risky.

And Justin asked, I wonder if fainting goats qualify as playing dead.

So...

Possums don't have any armor on their bellies, but they just keel over drooling.

Is that a defense?

Is that a bug or a feature?

Yeah.

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