Erethizonology (PORCUPINES) with Tim Bean

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  Oh, hey, it's yesterday's medication in your jeans pocket.

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  Oops.

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  Alie Ward, let's stab ourselves with information from a porcupine's business end.

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  We have a good one.

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  What a chat.

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  I remember getting off this interview and being like, this is.

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  This is why I make the show.

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  You're in for a treat.

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  Okay, so we've got an associate professor from San Luis Obispo's California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly, who teaches courses like Introduction to Wildlife Conservation and administration.

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  They studied ecology, evolution and environmental biology at Columbia University.

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  They headed a UC Berkeley for a master's and PhD in environmental science policy and management.

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  Bonus, they specialize in rodents.

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  What does that have to do with porcupines?

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  Everything.

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  Porcupines are rodents.

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  What?

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  Yep.

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  Big, beautiful, barbed, rat like creatures and we love them.

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  Thank you also to Sarah listener Berman.

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  To listener Sarah Berman who suggested this ologist singing their praises of their porcupine enthusiasm.

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