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CHARLIE: What's up guys?
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Today we're hanging out
in Alaska, and talking
about animal fashion.
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When you think about fashion,
a few cities might come to
mind, like New York, Milan,
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Paris, but, for animals,
it's actually right
here, in Portage, Alaska,
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'cause they've got animal
headgear fashion down.
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KIRBY: Hey guys, what's up?
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CHARLIE: It's time
for Weird but True!
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Hey guys! Charlie here!
You know my sister Kirby.
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KIRBY: Hey guys!
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CHARLIE: We're so
glad that you're here.
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KIRBY: Because the
coolest thing just happened.
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CHARLIE: Alright so Kirby
and I were just outside
on a hike you know?
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Normal day.
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When all of the sudden
we stumbled across
something awesome.
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-Whoa!
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CHARLIE: Check it out!
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KIRBY: An antler!
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CHARLIE: A horn!
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KIRBY: Wait.
CHARLIE: Wait.
-What?
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KIRBY: I'm pretty
sure it's an antler.
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CHARLIE: I know it's an
antler, but is it also a horn?
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KIRBY: Is an antler
a kind of horn?
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CHARLIE: Or is a horn
a kind of antler?
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I don't know.
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KIRBY: I don't know either.
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CHARLIE: So I guess that's
what we're doing today.
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Unraveling the world of.
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-Animal headgear!
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CHARLIE: Hey guys, today we're
checking out animal headgear.
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Looking at antlers and
horns and trying to figure
out what sets them apart.
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KIRBY: Hey Charles.
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Check out page 35.
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CHARLIE: Ahh this is good.
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Alright, so apparently
this is an antler.
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KIRBY: Whattup!
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CHARLIE: Yeah and
100% not a horn.
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KIRBY: Kirby's a genius.
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CHARLIE: Yeah yeah, whatever,
but this clears everything up,
and I think I know the perfect
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way to explain it.
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Hey Kirb I'm feeling a little
poetic today, what about you?
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KIRBY: Charles, I'm
always feeling poetic.
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CHARLIE: Alright guys well
toss on your black turtlenecks
and buckle up buddies!
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Welcome to HQ
underground, people.
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Today we're listening
to a selection of
prose on the topic.
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KIRBY: Horns vs antlers.
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CHARLIE: We just learned
that there are three differences
between horns and antlers.
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Which we will describe to you.
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Man. In poem form.
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KIRBY: Naturally.
CHARLIE: Naturally.
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KIRBY: Naturally.
Difference number one!
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Shape!
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Oh I can see,
count one two three,
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these antlers branched
just like a tree.
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CHARLIE: Many times thick,
one spot to prick,
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my horn is shaped
just like a stick.
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Alright. Time for
difference number two.
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KIRBY: Composition.
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Snap your fingers
just like that,
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antlers are dense
more like a bat.
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CHARLIE: Antlers are dense
and a single structure.
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Just like a baseball bat.
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While a baseball bat is
made entirely of wood.
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An antler is made entirely
of bone, through and through,
that grows right out of the
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animal's skull.
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Horns, however are different.
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They are made up of two parts.
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Like a sword and a sheath.
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There's a hard core
connected to the skull,
that would be the sword,
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and an outer covering
that fits right over
it, like a sheath.
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That core is pure bone,
but the outer sheath part
is made out of keratin,
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the same material that makes
up our hair and fingernails!
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KIRBY: Alright,
difference number three.
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CHARLIE: Lifespan!
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KIRBY: It's quite clear,
your antlers deer,
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will last as long
as one school year.
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CHARLIE: Antlers start
growing in the spring!
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In April or May.
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Throughout the summer
they continue to grow.
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They eventually lose their
soft velvet, and become
hard and bony by the fall.
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Finally, in the winter,
the antlers are shed.
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They fall right off!
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Next spring, the
process starts all over.
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So animals with
antlers have to regrow
them every single year.
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Man the life style of horns
is the opposite of antlers.
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Cows, muskox,
big horns too,
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my horns will last
a whole life through.
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Animals keep their horns
throughout the whole year,
throughout their whole lives!
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Some animal's horns
never stop growing!
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Wonderful, wonderful.
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KIRBY: Charles,
this is so easy.
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CHARLIE: Oh yeah?
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KIRBY: Yeah.
Check it out. Antlers.
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Branched, bony, temporary.
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Horns, unbranched, bone
in a keratin sheath,
and last forever.
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It's easy stuff!
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CHARLIE: Alright Kirb, well
if you're feeling strong,
let's see what you got!
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KIRBY: Okay!
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CHARLIE: I'm gonna hold
up some images of animals and
you gotta guess the head gear.
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Antler or horn.
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Sound good?
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KIRBY: I got this.
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CHARLIE: Let's do it.
First up we've got a moose.
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The largest moose
headgear measured six
feet, nine inches across.
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That's more than one Kirby!
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KIRBY: Well I know
horns aren't branched
and antlers are,
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so I'm gonna go with
antlers for this one.
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CHARLIE: Perfect!
Number two the alpine ibex.
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Male alpine ibex have headgear
that can be 55 inches long.
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KIRBY: Alright those
are looking pretty
unbranched to me.
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Maybe like a keratin
sheath around a bony core!
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I'm gonna go with a horn.
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CHARLIE: Awesome.
Here's a tricky one.
The white-tailed deer.
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KIRBY: Tricky?
Come on man this is what
we picked up in the backyard.
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-Whoa!
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KIRBY: Branched, bony, we're
looking at some antlers there.
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CHARLIE: Three for three!
Speed round. Bison.
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KIRBY: Horn.
CHARLIE: Elk.
KIRBY: Antler.
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CHARLIE: Antelope.
KIRBY: Horn.
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CHARLIE: Markhour.
KIRBY: Horn.
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CHARLIE: Jackson's Chameleon.
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KIRBY: Oooo a lizard!
I'm gonna go with horn.
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CHARLIE: Giraffe.
KIRBY: Horn.
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CHARLIE: Wait, uh what?
Giraffes don't have horns?
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Let's just go
with another one.
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Pronghorn.
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KIRBY: Antler.
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CHARLIE: Huh. What?
No again. Ummm, rhinoceros.
KIRBY: Horn.
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CHARLIE: Wait rhinoceroses
don't have horns?
What's going on here?
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KIRBY: How is that possible?
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CHARLIE: Yeah, I don't know.
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We need like a few
minutes and when we come
back I'm sure we'll have
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it all down alright?
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See you in a bit.
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KIRBY: Weird but True,
antlers can grow up
to one inch per day!
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That makes them one of
the fastest growing types of
animal tissue on the planet.
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CHARLIE: Remember, antlers
are branched, solid
bone, and shed every year.
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Horns are unbranched,
made up of a bony core
and keratin sheath,
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and last for a lifetime.
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So if we look at giraffes,
it turns out that these little
giraffe things are made out of
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cartilage, not bone.
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That means they're something
different, called ossicones.
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So it's true, giraffes,
don't have horns.
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KIRBY: And rhinos look
like they have horns,
too, right, there,
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but those things are
made out of only keratin.
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No bony core and
no keratin sheath.
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So, they're not horns either!
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Yeah, rhinos don't have horns.
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CHARLIE: Pronghorns have
pretty hornlike headgear, but
they're actually kind of like
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a mashup between an
antler and a horn.
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The thing is made up of a bony
core and a keratin sheath, but
it's forked, like an antler.
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And they shed the sheath in
the fall, also like an antler.
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So these aren't really
horns, but they aren't
really antlers either.
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They're just something
else entirely.
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KIRBY: So it turns
out horns and antlers aren't
really the end of the story.
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CHARLIE: There's a whole
lot of other animal
headgear out there.
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KIRBY: Whoa Charles!
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Check this out!
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Animal Headgear Fashion Week!
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Live! We gotta tune in!
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CHARLIE: Welcome everyone to
Animal Headgear Fashion Week!
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KIRBY: We're broadcasting
live from what we've decided
is the animal headgear capital
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of the world.
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-Portage, Alaska!
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CHARLIE: I'm Charles.
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KIRBY: And I'm Kirby.
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CHARLIE: Bringing you the
latest styles of headgear
making their way across the
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runway.
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KIRBY: It's sure to
be an exciting week.
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Isn't it Charles?
Let's dive right in!
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First up, the
tusk runway show.
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CHARLIE: You know,
Kirb, I was blown away
by this year's looks.
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Tusks are definitely
in this year.
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KIRBY: The elephant
looked absolutely timeless
in its enormous tusks,
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simply dazzling the runway.
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CHARLIE: Our favorite
swimwear look.
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-The walrus!
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KIRBY: He never disappoints.
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CHARLIE: But the real
runway show stopper.
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The hippo.
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KIRBY: Two sets of tusks.
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CHARLIE: The perfect
complement to
its enormous mouth.
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KIRBY: The detail!
CHARLIE: The accents.
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KIRBY: The energy it
took to grow those, they
work for any occasion.
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CHARLIE: Hey you
changed the channel!
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KIRBY: Super quickly, we
gotta talk about tusks!
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Tusks are another awesome
example of animal headgear.
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They kind of look
like horns coming out
of an animal's mouth,
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but they're actually teeth.
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Teeth! That just keep
on continuously growing.
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How weird is that?
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Usually they're the
canines, but sometimes
the incisors, too.
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One of the most impressive
tusked animals, the
north sulawesi babirusa.
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CHARLIE: Two sets of tusks.
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KIRBY: Yup! the
upper and lower canines.
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The upper canines grow up and
backwards through its nose!
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The north sulawesi babirusa,
major tusk all-star.
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Alright back to fashion week.
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Alright up next
fresh for fall!
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We have our newest bird looks!
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CHARLIE: You can dress it
up, you can dress it down,
but in a bird's ensemble,
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the beak takes the crown.
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KIRBY: Our favorites
in active-wear.
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The Australian Pelican.
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CHARLIE: Dazzling,
simply ravishing.
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KIRBY: Functional fashion,
a big trend this spring.
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CHARLIE: In day wear we were
impressed by the toucan.
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KIRBY: Bold pops of color.
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A nice accent and
something new.
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CHARLIE: Cool cool.
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So beaks, like horns
and our fingernails, have a
covering made up of keratin.
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They keep growing throughout
the bird's entire life!
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Birds use beaks for
all sorts of things.
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Let's check out the
Rhinoceros Hornbill.
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The theory is that it uses
this chamber on the top of
its beak to amplify its calls.
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The Roseate Spoonbill uses
its beak to strain tiny little
crustaceans out of the water.
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And the Shoebill
Stork uses its big old
bill to chomp on fish.
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How weird does this guy look?
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Like a goose shoved it's
face into a wooden clog!
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So weird!
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This just about wraps up
our coverage for this year's
animal headgear fashion week.
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KIRBY: All that's left to
do is give our lifetime in
fashion achievement award.
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CHARLIE: This year we're
honoring a true visionary.
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KIRBY: A surprise
choice, the porcupine.
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CHARLIE: Timeless.
KIRBY: Elegant.
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CHARLIE: Ingenious.
KIRBY: Inspiring.
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CHARLIE: All seem to
fall short of describing
this fashion mogul.
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So yeah, the porcupine
comes out of nowhere with
the ultimate headgear.
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Quills are super stiff prickly
pointy hairs made out of
keratin that cover their head
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and body.
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When a porcupine feels
threatened his sharp quills
stand up and easily detach if
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touched.
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A brush with this headgear
won't soon be forgotten.
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So we got horns and antlers.
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KIRBY: And now we've
got tusks, beaks, and
porcupine quills, too.
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CHARLIE: Oh my gosh
Kirb check it out!
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KIRBY: What's up?
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CHARLIE: The Alaska
Wildlife Conservation Center
is accepting visitors!
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It's in Portage, Alaska!
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KIRBY: No way!
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We gotta go!
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CHARLIE: Alright guys, we
gotta pack up a few things,
but when we get back we're
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gonna head on over to Alaska.
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KIRBY: See you in a bit.
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Weird But True, their antlers
are super heavy, but moose
can still run faster than the
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fastest human Olympians!
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CHARLIE: Oh man this is
gonna be so cool! Hey, guys!
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KIRBY: Hey!
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CHARLIE: You're just in
time, we're getting ready
to go to Portage, Alaska.
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KIRBY: The animal headgear
capital of the world.
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CHARLIE: To see some
awesome headgear.
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You ready to go?
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Sweet, let's roll.
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Time to head up to Alaska.
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The last frontier.
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The Land of the Midnight Sun.
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Purchased by the US in 1867,
granted statehood in 1959.
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Hey guys we made it.
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KIRBY: We're at the Alaska
Wildlife Conservation Center.
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They take in orphaned and
injured animals and nurse 'em
back to health until they're
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good to go.
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CHARLIE: Or if they're
too injured, provide them
with a nice natural home.
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I gotta feeling we're
gonna see some pretty
sweet animal headgear too.
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KIRBY: We gotta go talk to
someone about this. Let's go.
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CHARLIE: Let's go.
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Guys, it's Wilson!
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KIRBY: He's an animal keeper
at the Alaska Wildlife
Conservation Center.
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CHARLIE: So exactly
who we need to talk to!
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Hi Wilson!
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WILSON: Hey guys
how's it going?
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KIRBY: Wilson's favorite
Weird but True fact is, the
Triceratops was the last and
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largest of the
horned dinosaurs!
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CHARLIE: Are you an
animal headgear expert?
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WILSON: Well I grew up here
in Alaska so I've seen a lot
of animals that carry headgear
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around and I'm a Zoologist.
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So hopefully I'll
be able to answer some
questions you guys have.
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CHARLIE: Perfect!
KIRBY: Awesome.
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CHARLIE: You got
anything to show us?
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WILSON: Oh I got tons
to show you guys. Come
on let's go check it out.
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CHARLIE: Alright
let's go guys!
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Alright Wilson what are
we looking at here man?
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WILSON: Before us here we've
got kind of a smorgasbord of
headgear as you can kind find
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on all sorts of animals that
are found here in Alaska.
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Right here sort of is a
centerpiece we do have the
skull of a bull reindeer.
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So you can see it's.
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CHARLIE: This thing is massive.
WILSON: Pretty impressive.
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KIRBY: Oh yeah.
CHARLIE: Holy cow.
KIRBY: Oh yeah.
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WILSON: Sort of
sculpture of bone.
KIRBY: Super cool.
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WILSON: And then right
next to it, is actually the
antler of a female reindeer.
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KIRBY: It's tiny!
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CHARLIE: What are we
looking at over here?
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WILSON: The uh keratin sheath
of a wood bison's horn.
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-Ahhh.
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CHARLIE: This is what
we were talking about earlier
in the episode the bony core.
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Goes right in here.
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WILSON: Fit right up in there.
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This is the horn from a female
muskox, but you'll notice that
they look a lot different from
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most horns you think
of that kind of.
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CHARLIE: Yeah its.
WILSON: Go up.
KIRBY: Yeah.
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WILSON: This kind of upward
hook, that's basically
for grabbing a predator.
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CHARLIE: So you got anything
around here that we can
see not just some skulls and
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antlers here.
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WILSON: Well we've got animals
like you wouldn't believe.
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There's moose here,
reindeer, black tail deer,
muskox, and you know,
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if he's not too busy, and
if he's feeling up to it.
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You guys might be able
to uh meet Snickers one
of the porcupines here.
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-Oh!
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CHARLIE: That sounds
awesome. Thanks Wilson!
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KIRBY: See you soon.
CHARLIE: We'll see you later.
WILSON: See you around.
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KIRBY: Alaska is so huge
the state of Texas could
fit inside of it twice!
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With all that terrain it's
no wonder that it's home
to some incredible animals.
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The conservation center we're
at isn't nearly that big, but
it's gonna take some exploring
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to find some headgear
all-stars around here.
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Check it out guys.
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We found some elk with
crazy impressive antlers.
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They can be as tall as
four feet, making the
elk nine feet tall.
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That's like skimming
the bottom of the net
of a basketball hoop.
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Crazy!
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But elk are just the beginning
of what you can find here.
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CHARLIE: What's up guys?
We met a new friend over here.
This guy's name is Teddy!
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He's four years old
and he's an adult bull moose
and check out those antlers.
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Moose antlers, they can be as
heavy as 40 pounds, which is
about as heavy as a microwave.
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So imagine walking around
you whole life with
a microwave on your head.
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That's the life of a
bull moose right there.
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So Wilson, these antlers
look super fuzzy.
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What's going on here?
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WILSON: So this real, kind
of fuzzy looking stuff on it,
that's actually a really thin
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layer of skin called velvet.
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CHARLIE: Skin?
WILSON: Mmhm.
CHARLIE: Oh.
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WILSON: And it's got a lot
of kind of blood vessels and
nerves in it that's actually
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providing nutrients to
these growing antlers.
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And they'll actually shed that
off in the fall once those
antlers are fully hardened.
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-Mmmm.
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CHARLIE: Does it peel
off kind of slowly?
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WILSON: Kind of like
a banana peel. Yeah.
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CHARLIE: Kind of
like a banana peel?
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WILSON: They'll go up
to it and they'll sort
of rub on brush and.
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CHARLIE: It's nice
and unraveled.
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WILSON: And anything that uh
that's getting hard for them
and they'll just scrape it
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right off.
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CHARLIE: No way.
So how long does it take 'em
to grow the antlers each year?
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WILSON: It takes a few months.
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Antler, believe it or not is
actually the fastest growing
animal tissue that we know of.
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CHARLIE: Wow.
WILSON: In some
species, like moose,
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it can grow up to an
inch a day at the peak
of the growing season.
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KIRBY: How come Teddy's
are so much bigger?
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WILSON: There's really
kind of three things that
contribute to their size.
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Age of the animal,
which is the case here.
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Teddy's four years
old, Toke's only one.
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-Mmmm.
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WILSON: And then,
nutrition and genetics.
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CHARLIE: So nutrition
just how, the better
food that they get?
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WILSON: Yeah. If they've
got better food, just like us,
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they'll grow bigger
and stronger and that
includes their antlers too.
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KIRBY: So many cool animals,
so many cool antlers!
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CHARLIE: But guys, this
is the animal headgear
capital of the world,
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so we're just getting started.
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We're gonna scope out the
area, look for some more
antlers, maybe some horns,
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a quill or two and uh we'll
see you guys in a few.
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There'll be so much
more to see alright?
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See you soon.
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KIRBY: Weird but True,
porcupine quills secrete
a natural antibiotic,
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so if they prick themselves,
it heals quickly!
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CHARLIE: What's up guys?
You made it back!
KIRBY: What's up?
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CHARLIE: Today we're hanging
out in the Alaskan Wildlife
Conservation Center checking
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out animals with antlers.
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KIRBY: Like our friend
Teddy over here.
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CHARLIE: But I think
there's a bunch more
headgear nearby too.
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You wanna go check 'em out?
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KIRBY: Let's do it.
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CHARLIE: Let's roll.
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Check it out guys we
found another animal with
absolutely huge antlers!
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This guy is a caribou A.K.A.
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a reindeer.
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KIRBY: His name is Chuckles.
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CHARLIE: Hey Chuckles!
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The cool thing about caribou
antlers is that they're the
one species where both males
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and females both have antlers.
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Moose, deer, elk, all
of the others it's just
males, but caribou,
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both males and
females have 'em.
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If you look closely at
Chuckle's antlers right here
they seem like a nice tangled
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mess.
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And if you look at, we got
we've got a nice strong branch
right here and they kind of
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fork at the tips.
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And these are words that
we use to describe antlers
a lot, we got branched,
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and we got forked.
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They seem really similar,
but actually they're
distinctly different.
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So let's check 'em out
a little more closely.
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Here's the difference between
branched and forked antlers.
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Branched have one main beam
right here, and every so often
a tiny little branch shoots
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off.
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Some antlers are
forked, instead of
having one main beam,
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they split a few times
into equal branches.
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Branched, forked,
I think we got it.
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Here's a Weird but True fact,
Caribou migrate 1,600
miles every single year.
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So imagine walking from
Chicago to Los Angeles every
year of your entire life.
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That's the life of a caribou.
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Check it out guys,
We found a Muskox.
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We can't get too close to 'em
because it's breeding season
and these guys get super
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aggressive, but you
see those horns?
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They're super key to their
survival and they use
'em in pretty neat ways.
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Check it out.
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If a predator comes to attack
a herd of oxen they circle
the wagon and form a nice
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protective circle around
their young, with their horns
pointed outwards it's like a
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protective shield.
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If the predator still ends
up attacking, these huge
oxen charge right at it,
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their horns pointed
outwards, ready to
defend their families.
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We've seen some pretty
amazing headgear here today.
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Like a wood bison horn
and moose antlers.
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And just as we're
about to go back to HQ we
stumble across the animal
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we've been waiting for.
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We found a porcupine!
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KIRBY: This guy's
name is Snickers.
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CHARLIE: He's a North
American Porcupine.
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WILSON: Hey guys.
CHARLIE: Hey Wilson.
KIRBY: Hey.
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WILSON: I see you
met snickers here.
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CHARLIE: Snickers is the best!
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WILSON: He's a pretty
neat little guy.
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CHARLIE: Can we touch him?
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WILSON: Yeah absolutely.
Just do be careful, he does
have all of his quills.
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Best way to pet him is just
like you're doing, yeah.
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CHARLIE: Hey bud!
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WILSON: Start at the head
and sort of work down the
uh, work down the back there.
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CHARLIE: Oooo.
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So although you might not
think about a porcupine as
having awesome headgear,
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they have quills right
on the top of their head.
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So it's like if our hair just
turned into spiky quills.
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How crazy would that be?
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WILSON: You can see
that he's covered by
about 30,000 quills.
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CHARLIE: He's really smelly.
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I'm not gonna lie.
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WILSON: He is.
CHARLIE: It's like
a wet sour sock.
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Is what this porcupine smells
like right now, not the best.
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KIRBY: Weird but True , a
group of porcupines is called
a prickle and baby porcupines
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are called porcupettes.
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So a group of baby
porcupines is called a
prickle of porcupettes.
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CHARLIE: So porcupines
can't shoot their quills
like a lot of people think,
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but if he ever feels
threatened they'll
stand right up on end.
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And because they're barbed
at the end, you know, if a
predator attacks these guys
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they're gonna end up with a
lot of quills to the face.
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WILSON: Well unfortunately
guys, I'm afraid we are gonna
have to wrap it up a little
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bit, uh snickers is really
busy this week and he's got
another interview he's got to
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prep for, you know, with
the lifetime achievement
award and all.
443
00:20:28,126 --> 00:20:29,526
CHARLIE: Don't worry
we totally understand.
444
00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:31,095
Thanks so much for
your time snickers!
445
00:20:31,163 --> 00:20:32,663
KIRBY: Thanks for
showing us around.
446
00:20:32,731 --> 00:20:34,231
CHARLIE: See ya snickers!
Bye Wilson.
KIRBY: Bye.
447
00:20:35,601 --> 00:20:39,871
Weird but True, Cape
Buffalo horns can grow
so large that they fuse
448
00:20:39,938 --> 00:20:41,668
in the center to become one!
449
00:20:43,542 --> 00:20:45,512
CHARLIE: Hey guys!
KIRBY: Hey!
CHARLIE: What's crackin'?
450
00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:50,777
We just got back from the
Alaskan Wildlife Conservation
Center in Portage, Alaska.
451
00:20:50,849 --> 00:20:55,689
KIRBY: We saw some of the
best animal headgear in the
world like moose and muskox.
452
00:20:55,754 --> 00:20:57,864
CHARLIE: How cute
was Snickers, man?
453
00:20:57,923 --> 00:20:59,663
KIRBY: Those
quills were unreal!
454
00:20:59,725 --> 00:21:01,185
CHARLIE: We learned
so much today.
455
00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:04,560
KIRBY: Antlers are shed each
year, but horns last forever.
456
00:21:04,630 --> 00:21:06,060
CHARLIE: What else
did we learn today?
457
00:21:06,131 --> 00:21:07,731
There were so many
interesting things!
458
00:21:07,799 --> 00:21:12,799
KIRBY: Antlers are covered
with a thin layer of skin
called velvet and grow up to
459
00:21:12,871 --> 00:21:14,741
one inch each day.
460
00:21:14,806 --> 00:21:18,706
Rhinoceroses don't have
horns, because they
don't have bony cores.
461
00:21:18,777 --> 00:21:20,747
CHARLIE: And Giraffes
don't either.
462
00:21:20,812 --> 00:21:22,782
They have Ossicones
made of cartilage.
463
00:21:22,848 --> 00:21:27,788
KIRBY: Elk antlers grow
as big as four feet long,
making them nine feet tall.
464
00:21:27,853 --> 00:21:29,763
I just love this
stuff you know?
465
00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:31,761
It's like finally
learning the truth.
466
00:21:31,823 --> 00:21:32,663
CHARLIE: What are
you talking about?
467
00:21:32,724 --> 00:21:34,594
KIRBY: The unexpected
stuff, the surprises.
468
00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:37,530
Like how pronghorns
don't have horns.
469
00:21:37,596 --> 00:21:39,896
CHARLIE: Oh there's
loads of stuff like that.
470
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:41,195
Like.
471
00:21:41,266 --> 00:21:42,266
KIRBY: Spanish
Moss isn't Spanish.
472
00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:43,574
CHARLIE: Or a moss.
473
00:21:43,635 --> 00:21:45,265
KIRBY: Dragonflies
aren't flies.
474
00:21:45,337 --> 00:21:47,367
CHARLIE: Killer
whales aren't whales!
475
00:21:47,439 --> 00:21:48,939
KIRBY: We gotta
go to the library.
476
00:21:49,007 --> 00:21:50,337
CHARLIE: There's so much
we have to research!
477
00:21:50,409 --> 00:21:52,639
KIRBY: Alright guys we gotta
go get some library books.
478
00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:54,551
CHARLIE: But thanks
for stopping by.
479
00:21:54,613 --> 00:21:57,453
Come by again,
when we discover more
things that are weird.
480
00:21:57,516 --> 00:21:58,816
KIRBY: But true!
CHARLIE: We'll see you soon.
481
00:21:58,884 --> 00:22:00,154
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