The Muppet of Birds

This week Victoria starts us off with one of the weirdest looking birds in the world. She presents...the Potoo. This strange muppet-looking bird can see with closed eyes and looks like a tree stump.

Kirk then brings us the Longest Animal in the World, siphonophores, specifically, the string jelly. This bizarre super-organism is even longer than a blue whale!

Rachel wraps up the show with a discussion of two libraries in Portugal that have for centuries used colonies of bats to keep insects from eating the books.

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