Alie Ward

Again, ologiesmerch.com.

And for $0, thank you for helping boost the show by leaving reviews such as this very recent one from Jordan D. Friend who wrote, five stars.

It's great, but, and it's a big but, they write, it's too damn interesting.

They say, I listen to the podcast as I fall asleep and suddenly it's two hours later, I'm still awake and I'm like, damn girl, beavers are interesting.

Jordan D. Friend, thank you for that.

I hope it's your real name because friend indeed.

Also, thank you to sponsors of the show who let us donate to a cause of eachologist choosing every week.

Okay, this absolute gem studied biological sciences at Cornell, then got a master's and a PhD in animal behavior from Davis, and has taught at UMass Amherst, University of Mississippi, and Harvard, and has been a Darwin postdoc fellow.

But above all that, if you know an animal biologist in LA, they know this guy, everyone loves him.

Also, kind enough to help coin a term for this ology, since it's so specific.

So, zoo-hoplology it is.

It combines zoo, animal,

with the Greek root haplon, which means arms or armor.

So animal armor and defense.

The visit was also a visual feast as I walked past skunk pelts and tiger cutouts and sat under a whale skeleton.

No.

Aren't those leggies or hips?

Nuts.

Yeah.

And this was a deer at one point.