Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why pangolins are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- The Pangolin Extinction Vortex (JStor Daily)
- Pangolins Use Rocks in Lieu of Teeth (McGill Office for Science and Society)
- Animals: Giant Pangolin (National Geographic)
- Black-bellied pangolin (African Pangolin Working Group)
- To Save Pangolins: A Nutritional Perspective (“Animals” journal / PubMed)
- Latest Pangolin Family Tree Provides Key To Tracking World’s Most Trafficked Mammal (Smithsonian National Zoo)
- Pangolins in Africa: expert unpacks why millions have been traded illegally and what can be done about it (The Conversation)
- Pangolin guide: where they’re found, and why they’re the most trafficked animal in the world (BBC Discover Wildlife Magazine)
- Pangolins: The scaly mammal under threat (Zoological Society of London)
- Blog: Pangolins (Greater Vancouver Zoo)
- World’s Weirdest: Pangolins (Nat Geo Animals / YouTube)
- Pangolin Pup Born at Brookfield Zoo, Part of Global Effort To Save Animal Being Driven to Extinction by Poaching (PBS WTTW Channel 11)
- Animalogic: “Pangolins are the Cutest Animals You’ve Never Heard Of” (YouTube)
- Trilobites: A Mystery Species Was Discovered in Trafficked Pangolin Scales (The New York Times)
- A Taste for Pangolin Meat and the Fall of an African Wildlife Cartel (The New York Times)
- Are wildlife trade bans backfiring? (Knowable Magazine)
- Cowboy Boots Purchased in the U.S. Played Part in Pangolins’ Decline (Smithsonian SmartNews)
- 9 Tons of Pangolin Scales Are Seized in Hong Kong (The New York Times)
- Seizure of 14 Tons of Pangolin Scales in Singapore Sets a Dismal Record (The New York Times)
- The Sunda Pangolin – Defender of the Realm (WAWA Conservation)
- China Increases Protections for Pangolins (Smithsonian SmartNews)
- There’s a new species of pangolin — and illegal trade means it’s already likely to be critically endangered (EIA-International.org)
- Continuing to learn about coronaviruses (UNC Gillings School Of Global Public Health)
- The wet market sources of Covid-19: bats and pangolins have an alibi (University Of Oxford Department Of Biology)
- Significance of Pangolin Viruses in Human Pandemic Remains Murky (The New York Times)
- Taiwan offers hope in battle to save vulnerable pangolin (Al Jazeera)
- Big Little Journeys: “Filming pangolins in Taiwan” (BBC Two)
- Theft in our Forests: Examining Taiwan’s Silent War (Harvard International Review)
- This is the photo of Roxy the pangolin that we looked at, with noticeable breasts.
- This is the Bulbapedia article about Sandslash and Sandshrew’s naming.
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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