This week the Natural selection say goodbye.. at least for now. In this our final episode, we touched on some of our favourite topics or subjects that we haven’t discussed in previous episodes. We learned about some extinct species and some species that have reappeared after being thought extinct. We got meta and investigated the world of memes both in humans and other animals. We also tested our knowledge with not one but two quizzes this week! Listen now to see if you can answer some questions related to our past episodes.

And Finally from everyone here at the Natural Selection, we would like to say a huge thank you to anyone who has listened to any of our episodes or shared our podcast with someone. To anyone who has gotten in contact with us, thank you it means so much to know people are enjoying what we do. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Thanks for listening and goodbye for now.

animals and subjects discussed in this episode include:

lesser spectral tarsier  (Tarsius pumilus), also known as the mountain tarsier or the pygmy tarsier

Dusky Flying Fox (Pteropus brunneus)

Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus)

Megalodon (Otodus megalodon)

Simeulue hill mynas (Gracula religiosa miotera)

tree lobster (Dryococelus australis) commonly known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect

memes

Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás

Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Pancrustacea/ Crustaceans & Hexapods

Thrips (order Thysanoptera)

Coleoptera - beetles

Lepidoptera butterflies

Hemiptera – true bugs

Hymenoptera – wasps bees and ants

Diapause

Rodents, mustelids, armadillos, marsupials, roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)

Quiz

Episode 9: parasites  Ophiocordyceps unilateralis –fungus that makes ants into zombies –

Episode 13: metamorphosis

Episode 14: myths Animal paradoxa -

Including Antelope, Pelicans, Deathwatch beetle (make a ticking noise associated with impending death), Barnacle goose (believed to grow from rotten wood thrown out to sea) and shrinking frog or paradoxical frog (Pseudis paradoxa) as well as dragons, hydras, Borometz (plant like a sheep - might be cotton, such as in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville)

Episode 19: brains dung beetles use the milky way to navigate

Episode 28: fossils – coprolite- Fossil poo

brontosaurus

Ep 33: blood - Ocellated ice fish

- Horseshoe crab

Ep 67: blue - the mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus)

Blue poison dart

Ep 29: beetles – luciferin is a group of light emitting compounds that make fireflies and other bioluminescent animals glow

Ep 36: DNA - marbled lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus)