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are joined by our very special guest
Emily Grassley of the brain scoop thanks for joining us thank you for having me
today you're going to have to stop me
and then we're going to talk about some news and then we're going to visit an
animal that sound like a plan that sounds awesome
okay i don't know i have no idea about any of those things I don't know what
animal
I don't know what you want to talk about and I don't know what you brought in so
let's just go do it
what did you bring me skulls yes it is
let's start running she's going to stop me with bones because i did so well last
time like a shoebox
well no I taped over the label so even if you need a binomial nomenclature
probably do
I'm very very clever so it's a head is ahead boo
you know what i look at those teeth and jaws II
yeah that's that's part of it if you can get the animal then I'm going to ask you
what you think those teeth therefore i think therefore awesome i mean this is
making me
this is I mean it looks well there it is together it fits very well as good teeth
and good job at know stuff
it's got a big head yep you know what it beats do you know where it lives arm
i I don't I imagine it's a terrestrial mammal
kind of i'm not even I've already made
I went with two it has four legs kinda kinda kind of how does it you are always
doing this to me and then it turns out that it's like a pig and I'm like how
everything going to have your leg
I mean it does have four legs but I don't think it uses them in the way that
you think might use them
well how else do you use legs
oh it's just when i think of something with four legs i'm thinking like do
something that are
are you saying that it had it has four legs but it walks on to know kind if I
some more like on three legs
how what walks on three legs it's just it's just another the the motion how
they use them i mean like i was i was thinking like paper but it came from a
paper
I don't know you want me to tell you do you wanna keep give me another hint
where does it live very very cold places
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is it a is a marine mammal is it a sea lion close is also you yes it's a seal
it's a very special how do the seal walk on I guess it's yeah because you're
getting it here
ok just like that yeah yeah i guess its back legs are sort of like a mermaid
yeah happened huh I would know yeah
so these are these are me trippin teeth and well actually no no this is what is
called a crabeater seal it doesn't need any crab
I don't know who thought of that name but it is thought that they eat no crabs
because crabs don't existed this from the Antarctic right don't live in
antarctica tom
so it's a crap either steal it actually is the fastest of all seals on land it's
the fastest benefit they can move up to like 15 miles an hour runway 25
kilometers yeah just by like flipping around it's like it back in
and it has the most specialized teeth of any carnivore in the world
these little ridges on the teeth are called tubercles and when you put the
mandible on it
you saw how well they fit together and they use it as a sieve
so they can like sucking water for months later you leave yeah exactly and
the like suckin a krill from up to Lake you know a foot away or so and then they
just expel all the water and they'll do this they'll feed for about 16 hours a
day
wow I want to eat like that nope that was fascinating
so what do you have something else that you would like to share
yes exciting exciting news okay you tell what I'm thinking
can you read my mind i think it may have something to do with rat telepathy
it does because you just said that before we started rolling yeah
so this week some scientific report was published in science journal
there is a neuroscientist from duke university that confirmed rats can
communicate through electrode implants in their brains so that it's crazy to me
it's like sci-fi blows my mind
they had one rat that was in North Carolina and one rat that was in Brazil
and they both gave them brain implants like electrode brain implants and they
had one of the rats was the sender and one was the receiver may have them go
through the series of tests
so the center rat was in a little box in the receiver rat all the way you know
thousands of miles away was in a dark box and they had the first rat solve a
series of problems and then as it solve the problems that the signal was sent it
was encoded and sent through the internet to the receiver rat that
completed the same tests totally in the dark like visual task that required the
right to be able to see
so the rat in the dark is basically seeing what the rat in the light of
seeing
yeah and this is they're just taking whatever like spike analog signal is
coming off of the rat and just throwing that back in as it came off yeah like
reading the electronic signals being fired off of the brain of the first rat
and then kind of jumping them up entry translating them into like electric
signals that the receiver at could pick up and just like you know like push this
button on on in a little box and you'll get a water reward or something like
that
that's not yeah yeah it's amazing and so right so when how long is it before they
do this to me and I can like see what you're dreaming while you're dreaming
I don't know so and they talk about how like abstract thoughts like that our
little further off in the future I horse arm but for now they are hoping that
they can someone to make this thing
wireless because right now the rats they have something reading the things from
they're gonna go thinking hell yeah from the brain so they're thinking they want
to test this by making a wireless and then putting one of the receiver rats in
with a bunch of other rats and then still trying to do a brain control on it
and get it to respond to the first rat's brain signals
just crazy brave new world yeah it exactly
it's freaking me out yeah again a another another moment and scishow talk
show where I feel uncomfortable about the future have a little bit but I mean
there are good things
they're thinking about how they can adapt this to humans and everyone's
first notion is like oh my gosh like a military brain
yeah control or something like that in my happen on a brighter note
they're hoping that they can use this for amputee victims with prosthetics
right to recreate feelings sensations and feelings of touch which is very
positive and a lot less creepy to think about
also maybe they could just use it to teach me how to do stuff and I wouldn't
have to learn
oh yeah I could just do kung foo that'd be pretty awesome
so now we are going to meet an animal Jesse from animal wonders will be
bringing us something i'm not sure what yet
jesse has arrived from animal wonders with an animal that is wonderful
good introduction this is zoe and she's a red Lord Amazon parrot read Lord read
Lord what do I think we were you when she comes for everything is a pretty
bird
I think it comes from the Amazon yes the Amazon
all right she is a red Lord there's about 20 different species of Amazon
parrots and it's kind of difficult to tell apart
mostly it's the very specific coloration patterns on their things
yeah sometimes on their shoulders what is she thinking she's tripping at us
he's talking she is yeah Zoe likes to pretend she's part of the conversation
oh so we're just chatting yeah okay
for me to see a wave
yeah oh yeah oh yeah I get you one thing it on black tongues back
oh all right that's pretty metal yeah you know that she's actually peeling her
sunflower seeds oh I don't like that show
Michelle in unison Joshua spoiled wow yeah pretty
I didn't do that the whole thing
well it takes a self she breaks the shell off and she also appealed this
skin oh weird
yeah that is very definitely hot you're very lucky
yeah what else do you want you to have it that's amazingly dextrous there
Oh would you like this peanut I'm just that good girl
take a look at how to eat my gosh I know what I'm doing is making sure - no shell
on this mission
yeah I don't know what happened that too huh
messy messy here i want to mention that birds are very messy eaters and it's
kind of important that they're messy eaters because they live in the jungle
and they're going to be eating all the time going through the trees they live
in flocks up to a hundred
wow so they're just going to go through the jungle and just eat as fast as they
can in one try and move on
so they're going to be dropping a lot of things and a lot of times it's going to
be seeds whole seeds or pieces of fruit or something like that
and so if you're gonna be good for some kind of Gardner's just gonna know my
seeds can all parents like learning how to communicate ER birds like what it
what is the distinction between birds i can vocalize like that like Nikita and
we're yeah yeah
um it's mostly it's in the citizen family
all right so even the little teeny tiny Pacific parallettes that are about this
big
thinking that it's you know it's limited and then the best you know all the way
up to the content and the heart that are huge
they say the best two speakers are the African Gray parrots and yellow headed
Amazon parrot
well as to how about this one ready
oh you shot
I like the show-off as her yeah buddy
I like to use that behavior when we're doing educational presentations to show
her amazing feat me see those features two toes on the front and two toes on
the back
you know the word family but uh oh
taste it taste it to make them i don't know if i go to a catalyst oh that's
what to do it on the front she doesn't like trying to get right
just one foot one showing off so they can hang upside down on their own
grab food and other birds would be able to find yeah pretty neat house only
Thank You Zoe for visiting us here at scishow talk show thank you got you for
bringing her and thanks for having it
thank you for watching this episode of scishow talk show thank you too Emily
Grassley for joining us and jesse from animal wonders and we hope you enjoyed
this as much as we did
and we'll see you next time