Ep 22: The Skydiving Beavers of 1948

Melissa talks about a monkey who killed the King of Greece, skydiving beavers, and one lizard earns the number one slot for the largest number 2. Let’s go! 

We discuss white colonization and urban sprawl by way of parachuting beavers. 

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I’m Melissa McCue-McGrath with Muttstuff media, author of Considerations for the City Dog and cotraining director of the New England Dog Training Club, the oldest AKC Obedience Club in the United States - 

Now, go get curious!

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I got today’s information from

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Geronimo

https://time.com/4084997/parachuting-beavers-history/#:~:text=At%20last%2C%20the%20world,become%20the%20Internet's%20latest%20favorite

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/skydiving-beavers/

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/parachuting-beavers-idahos-wilderness-yes-it-really-happened#stream/0

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/10/23/9604608/parachuting-beavers-video-idaho-fish-game

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/idaho-parachuting-beavers-mccall-fish-and-game/277-f3ee3ca0-f029-4744-9461-f256a84fbe6a 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-king-of-Greece

https://historycollection.com/40-animals-that-changed-history/3/

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201026.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a18832/royalty-and-their-strange-deaths/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece 

https://www.inverse.com/science/deceptively-chubby-lizard-breaks-poop-record