What can learn to speak many human words all without a voice box?
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How can you tell apart male and female budgies? Are grass seeds actually really nutritious? How big can budgie flocks get to be? What does zygodactyl mean? What’s a budgie’s daily routine? Today with your host, Devon, and co-hosts, Chet and Cap, and two special guests (Devon’s pet budgies, Budgly & Rex!), you will learn the first half of everything there is to know about the Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus.

This is the first part of the Budgerigar. The second part (the second half of the info I researched) and third part (an interview) will be released within the next few months.

Episode Art: Budgly at left and Rex at right.

Links:

• Bird Wing Feather Diagram
• Budgie Flying
• Episode Page
• Comic
• Transcript
• References

Credits:

• Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions, Robo9418, and Alexander Nakarada
• Additional Budgie Sounds: “Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)” (https://xeno-canto.org/335524) recorded by Marc Anderson and licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)

Support the show

You can send in questions, comments, episode suggestions, or verification that I’m not just talking into the void and all of the download numbers are from Chet and Cap (seriously, though, it means a lot) to animals@kingdomanimaliapod.com, and our website is https://kingdomanimaliapod.com/animals.

**Psst! Hey you! It’s Chet and Cap! Do you want to ask us questions which will get featured on the show? Just head over to https://kingdomanimaliapod.com/acb and send a voice message or email with your question(s), and we’ll answer it/them on an Ask the Chickadee Brothers episode of this podcast!**

Until next time, keep exploring this amazing Kingdom: Animalia.

This podcast is made by Kingdom: Animalia Podcasts.

The big reveal for Late-pril Fools 2024!
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**SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T LISTENED TO EPISODE 13!**

Let’s see which animal was fake: was it the Sarcastic Fringehead, Common Side-blotched Lizard, Atlantic Mudskipper, Hoatzin, and Stomach-Sucker? Listen to the big reveal and find out!

We didn’t get any guesses, so we’re holding a raffle for the Chet and Cap models! Go to https://kingdomanimaliapod.com/raffle and enter your name before October 1st to get a chance to win. There, you can also check out photos of the prize.

Links:

• Enter the Raffle
• Photos of the Prize
• Episode Page
• Transcript
• Late-pril Fools 2024’s Works Cited (after listening!)

Credits:

• Additional Music: ZapSplat and Kevin MacLeod

Support the show

You can send in questions, comments, episode suggestions, or verification that I’m not just talking into the void and all of the download numbers are from Chet and Cap (seriously, though, it means a lot) to animals@kingdomanimaliapod.com, and our website is https://kingdomanimaliapod.com/animals.

**Psst! Hey you! It’s Chet and Cap! Do you want to ask us questions which will get featured on the show? Just head over to https://kingdomanimaliapod.com/acb and send a voice message or email with your question(s), and we’ll answer it/them on an Ask the Chickadee Brothers episode of this podcast!**

Until next time, keep exploring this amazing Kingdom: Animalia.

This podcast is made by Kingdom: Animalia Podcasts.

5 animals, 4 real, 1 fake. Which are real and which Late-pril Fooled ya’?
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April Fools’ Day was a time of tricks, pranks, and… of course… fools. Today your host, Devon, and co-hosts, Chet and Cap, will talk about five animal species: the Sarcastic Fringehead, Common Side-blotched Lizard, Atlantic Mudskipper, Hoatzin, and Stomach-Sucker, one of which is fake, and you’ll have to guess.

The reveal is in a bonus episode that was published one week later. Even though the deadline has passed for submitting your guess, you can still try to guess which it is before listening to it! And be sure NOT to share any of the facts in today’s episode until you know which animal is fake. Happy Late April Fools’ Day!

Credits:

• Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions, ZapSplat, and Kevin MacLeod.

Links:

• Photos of the Prize
• Episode Page
• Transcript

Support the show

You can send in questions, comments, episode suggestions, or verification that I’m not just talking into the void and all of the download numbers are from Chet and Cap (seriously, though, it means a lot) to animals@kingdomanimaliapod.com, and our website is https://kingdomanimaliapod.com/animals.

**Psst! Hey you! It’s Chet and Cap! Do you want to ask us questions which will get featured on the show? Just head over to https://kingdomanimaliapod.com/acb and send a voice message or email with your question(s), and we’ll answer it/them on an Ask the Chickadee Brothers episode of this podcast!**

Until next time, keep exploring this amazing Kingdom: Animalia.

This podcast is made by Kingdom: Animalia Podcasts.