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Matt Guziejka

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110 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

But the otters will breed and breed and breed and breed so much until basically the female just drowns because she can't take care of herself anymore. And they bite them on the nose. They rip the nose up. It is a brutal, brutal thing. But the Monterey Bay Aquarium has a lot of stock in the otter. So they are trying to keep it looking cute and keep it going. But guess who benefits from beavers?

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

But the otters will breed and breed and breed and breed so much until basically the female just drowns because she can't take care of herself anymore. And they bite them on the nose. They rip the nose up. It is a brutal, brutal thing. But the Monterey Bay Aquarium has a lot of stock in the otter. So they are trying to keep it looking cute and keep it going. But guess who benefits from beavers?

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Oregon. Oregon is not a person, but that's okay. But... But because beavers have the ability to take a weak little stream and make it this powerhouse pond, this huge habitat, otters move into these habitats. And otters use the habitat because they are creating this habitat for birds, fish, food, and wildlife. So the otters benefit from this keystone species. And they are also a keystone species.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Oregon. Oregon is not a person, but that's okay. But... But because beavers have the ability to take a weak little stream and make it this powerhouse pond, this huge habitat, otters move into these habitats. And otters use the habitat because they are creating this habitat for birds, fish, food, and wildlife. So the otters benefit from this keystone species. And they are also a keystone species.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They just don't build houses and lodging and stuff like beavers do. That's the difference between those two cuteness levels. Everything can look cute and you can like it, but when you get to know someone really, then you really know deep down.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They just don't build houses and lodging and stuff like beavers do. That's the difference between those two cuteness levels. Everything can look cute and you can like it, but when you get to know someone really, then you really know deep down.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

We could, but I'm not a beaver biologist. I don't know the relationship between platypus and beavers. You know, a beaver is a mammal. A platypus lays an egg and is hairy. I mean, that's all I got. Beautiful. I love it. Okay, next. Can you repeat that question? Yes, she wants to know, beavers versus nutria. Do you know what a nutria is, David? No. Okay, a nutrient kind of looks like a beaver.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

We could, but I'm not a beaver biologist. I don't know the relationship between platypus and beavers. You know, a beaver is a mammal. A platypus lays an egg and is hairy. I mean, that's all I got. Beautiful. I love it. Okay, next. Can you repeat that question? Yes, she wants to know, beavers versus nutria. Do you know what a nutria is, David? No. Okay, a nutrient kind of looks like a beaver.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They got the same color teeth, kind of same body shape, but they have a long, very long rat tail. Yeah, they're gross. They're gross.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They got the same color teeth, kind of same body shape, but they have a long, very long rat tail. Yeah, they're gross. They're gross.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Nutria are highly invasive species here in Oregon. But, you know, they're mean. They have a lot of young. They rear a lot compared to beaver. But, you know, Smith and Bybee, which is in North Portland, as we know by the airport, they have nutria and beavers there. And there is visual evidence, oral evidence, of nutria actually collaborating with beavers to put a dam together. So... Yeah!

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Nutria are highly invasive species here in Oregon. But, you know, they're mean. They have a lot of young. They rear a lot compared to beaver. But, you know, Smith and Bybee, which is in North Portland, as we know by the airport, they have nutria and beavers there. And there is visual evidence, oral evidence, of nutria actually collaborating with beavers to put a dam together. So... Yeah!

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

There's a little... We can come together. Yeah, we can.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

There's a little... We can come together. Yeah, we can.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, but... But that's the main difference between those two. They're not the same, and one's invasive, and you can trap, kill, and eat the other one. Yeah.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, but... But that's the main difference between those two. They're not the same, and one's invasive, and you can trap, kill, and eat the other one. Yeah.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

So, castor, cananodensis, castor, castor oil, we're all familiar with that. And, you know, there's shit floating around that. There's the anus, which is the butthole for any scientific people. It doesn't come from the anus. It has glands on the outside of the anus that secretes this musk that is kind of vanilla-y in scent, deep leathery.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

So, castor, cananodensis, castor, castor oil, we're all familiar with that. And, you know, there's shit floating around that. There's the anus, which is the butthole for any scientific people. It doesn't come from the anus. It has glands on the outside of the anus that secretes this musk that is kind of vanilla-y in scent, deep leathery.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

And it used to be used to do some natural flavoring in foods. Now they make it synthetically to do that, so they don't have to do that. Do they? Yeah, I hope so. But what it still gets used for is it gets put into, I think, a certain kind of whiskey now.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

And it used to be used to do some natural flavoring in foods. Now they make it synthetically to do that, so they don't have to do that. Do they? Yeah, I hope so. But what it still gets used for is it gets put into, I think, a certain kind of whiskey now.