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episode 14: Beaches
Summer is here, which means it's time to visit everyone's favorite geological feature consisting of a strip of land covered in loose particles, existing exclusively alongside a body of water ! That's right, pack your trunks, cause today we're hitting the beach!
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[Trivia Question]
Goose-scaring drones
https://www.livescience.com/39146-canada-geese-drone.html
[Fact Off]
Waterproof chemicals (PFASes) in tides
https://www.inverse.com/science/sea-spray-is-toxic
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937518
https://massivesci.com/articles/pfas-chemical-ocean-mammals-fish-dolphins-wildlife/
Salish wooly dogs
https://monova.ca/senaqwila-wyss-on-the-salish-woolly-dogs/
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wool-and-the-people-who-love-them
https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/a-woolly-tale
https://research.library.mun.ca/14680/1/thesis.pdf
https://www.science.org/content/article/native-american-blankets-made-dog-hair
[Ask the Science Couch]
Beached cetaceans (and orcas/catfish that intentionally strand themselves)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-do-whales-beach-themselves
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/whales-mass-stranding-australia/556400/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/774692
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/salish-sea-killer-whales-have-a-surprising-new-way-of-hunting/
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/z91-383
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-catfish-that-strands-itself-to-kill-pigeons
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050840
[Butt One More Thing]
Lugworm casts made of sand
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lugworm-poos-and-the-secrets-they-hold.html
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/worms/lugworm