Braveheart and the Bat + More - The July 2026 Animal News Round-up
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Hello, and welcome to Tooth and Claw Podcast. We have our wildlife bear biologist, Wes Larson, and I'm his younger brother, Jeff Larson. And then we have Mike Smith, who's a man of few talents, but those talents are really good.
Jack of few trades, master of absolutely none.
Mike, Wes, you want to hear the text Mike sent me? Sure.
Wait, which one?
Hold on. He asked me what the coolest sword in Game of Thrones is, right? You have a good answer for that? In Game of Thrones? Yeah. Longclaw. John's sword. Is it? I said Lightbringer, Stannis Baratheon's sword that like light glows and kind of lights on fire sometimes, you know? That's a cool sword. That one sounds cool. And Mike said... Because it does light on fire. So Mike said, bro, if you got sliced by it, it would cauterize the wound immediately. Bad sword design. And then he said, it's so bad. I'm going to myself. I don't. This is a breach of trust. So I was thinking about that. And it's like, do you think like if he did do that, but he left a note saying his reason why is the is the sword Lightbringer cauterizing a wound that that would make big news and even get to like George R.R.
Martin and he would see that someone did that.
Hmm. I don't know. I think 10 years ago it would have. I don't think it would now. I'm not sending you guys any more texts.
You just air all my dirty luck.
Hey, don't roll me up into this.
You're the worst, Wes. I didn't do anything.
It's like that guy who lit himself on fire because he knew all the stuff the American government was doing bad and all the bad stuff in Palestine. Yeah, that's different, though. Yeah. It's different, but similar.
It made the news cycles.
Are we going to be talking about these swords, or can I say why Jeff is wrong? Go for it.
No, you're fine to do that.
Longclaw's Valyrian steel, so for the White Walkers and stuff, you need that. Okay. That's the only thing that kills them. Yeah, they die when they get lit on fire, too. Oh, that's true. But not the White Walkers, just the whites, right? Just their zombie people.
I don't know because that one guy grabbed the sword that lights on fire and he's using it against them when they went across the wall.
Yeah, but do you know what I'm saying? What? There's two different things. There's the white walkers, which are like... The guys with the blue eyes that are like controlling all the zombie people. And then there's the whites like W I G H T S. And they're like the zombies and the whites you can kill with fire. But I think the white walkers, like the bosses you have to kill with Valerian steel.
Having not seen Game of Thrones, your description of the Nightwalkers, you might be one of those, Wes. I got bright blue eyes. Yeah. Weird blue eyes. Pale. Not that pale.
It glows blue when the orcs are close, too. That's true. My eyes do glow when I'm really excited about something. Right. Yeah. They glow? They just get really bright. People are like, whoa, your eyes look crazy.
Yeah.
Because I'm all freaking excited. I'm all amped up over here. Or on meth. All right. Well, it's our news episode. If you're new to this here show, our typical episodes involve like one story with a narrative and a more kind of storytelling basis where we go over the story and then break down what happened. This episode, which is every fourth episode on average, is one where we go over the recent news stories that happened. And we talk about, yeah, what happened involving animals over the last probably like six weeks. And these stories might not be big enough to, you know, take up a whole episode, but we still want to talk about them.
So that's what we're doing today.
No less important, right? No less important. So who wants to go first? I can go first. Okay, yeah. Oh, you were about to, huh? I was. I don't feel bad about it anymore. I used to feel bad about that when I got shamed for it, but not anymore. You guys take the longest pauses sometimes, so I just feel like I have to. I feel the dead air, you know? Mike, you got a question? I'll go first.
Okay. Go first. So my story I'm titling The Bat in the Braveheart Sword.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:12–11:56
2
What news format and goals does this Tooth & Claw roundup episode follow?
11:56–15:08
3
How did a bat bite in Tigerton lead to a rabies test and public‑health discussion?
15:08–56:04
4
What happened when a child was thrown into a crocodile enclosure in Cambridgeshire?
56:04–1:05:39
5
Why did floods in Hangzhou wash venomous snakes into town and what were the consequences?
1:05:39–1:29:30
Speakers
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