Daniel Blumstein

I'm not going in the skunkologist car.

That's a sore point.

I have not been to Punxsutawney.

That's shocking.

Yeah, I know it is.

Who wants to hang out with a bunch of drunk people in top hats or whatever?

That's a good point.

Well, it's cold.

But with climate change, maybe I will go to Punxsutawney because it'll be warmer soon in the winter.

Every year.

Yeah, I've worked all over the world.

I've been incredibly blessed to work pretty much everywhere.

And I've worked with eight of the 15 species of marmots all around the Northern Hemisphere.

I think it's an opportunity to celebrate animal behavior and educate people about animals and have a good time.

So Groundhog's Day, so I mean, you know, culturally, we build holidays on previous holidays.

And Groundhog Day is half the way between

winter solstice and spring equinox.

And the pagans had a holiday to sort of celebrate the coming of spring.

And I guess in Northern Europe, they realized their hibernators around there and they were living close to hedgehogs and hedgehogs hibernate.

So, you know, they were using hedgehogs as this idea of predicting how long the rest of the winter would be.