BewilderBeasts

A civil war reenactment roster flew the coop, a dog inherits 5 million dollars, pigs play video games for science

The CIA tried to turn a cat into a spy, cat islands around the world, and some cats are allergic to humans

Explore feminism via Alice Roosevelt and her pet snake, Emily Spinach; pandas love rolling in horse poop; Melbourne's wild taxidermy museum says a final farewell,

Dwarf giraffes, Beave the abandoned baby beaver, honeybees are using both tools and twerking to kill giant murderous hornets

A lizard has the #1 record for largest #2; the skydiving beavers of 1948 teaches kids about white colonization and urban sprawl; the monkey who killed a sitting king.

Sweden nearly goes to war over fish farts, octopus are the coolest creatures on the planet, and why we use a rodent to predict the weather

Meet LiLou, the worlds first airport therapy pig, the raven who creeped out Edgar Allan Poe, and a headless chicken lives for 18 months.

This week, we look at how horseshoe crabs are saving us from COVID19, platypuses glow in the dark, and an armadillo fires back against animal cruelty.

Melissa tells you why you shouldn't lick toads, historic towns with animal ties, and New Zealand calls fowl on voter fraud.

Melissa reviews all the creatures we talked about in a not-so-classic retelling of Clement Clarke Moore's, "''Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Today, Melissa dives in to explore other customs, like the "Boomers" who pull Santa's sled in Australia; how a video game about animals has given a place for practicing Muslims to find community in a pandemic, and what a confused Rooster has to do with Christmas in the Philippines.

Yes, red-nosed reindeer exist in the wild, and all those birds in the 12 Days of Christmas would be very, very, very expensive presents.

Melissa talks about an animal who builds a house the size of a 3 year old human child out of snot, who was really to blame for the Black Plague and why bunnies are banned from Queensland.

We’re going to talk about a frisky feline who left her prints ALL over history, a mutt who was promoted to sergeant in WW1 and a snake who sent a man to a hospital hours after the snake was beheaded

This week, Melissa dives deep on the little dog who became the first recognized therapy dog after WW2, a little boy who helped solve the case of a stolen lemur, and the National Weather Service in Florida is dabbling in falling iguanas.

Snail racing and goats want to drink your pee

We cover Balto and Togo, the hero dogs who helped save the town of Nome, Alaska; a hero rat who earned a gold medal for saving thousands of people and weird animal laws still on the books around the United States.

With 6 days before the 2020 national election in America, we include kids in the process. She she talks about animals in politics, including a berserker bunny who nearly sunk President Jimmy Carter's boat, why the two parties use a donkey and an elephant for representation, and animals who became town mayors in Vermont.

A president's parrot gets kicked out of a funeral for swearing like a pirate, birds in a zoo get separated for swearing too much, and Australian birds start fires on purpose to catch prey!

Host Melissa McCue-McGrath introduces a pigeon who saved 194 people in WWI and goats who are fighting wildfires in an unusual way.

Today we'll discuss the whale fail that lives in infamy and a cat who solved a murder