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)

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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.

Updates on the next episodes of Kingdom: Animalia plus some jokes!
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Sorry, you have to wait a little longer for the next episodes. It’s taken extra time because we’re making a miniseries for the animal you got the riddle for, and one of them was an interview; also, we’ve updated the cover art and the website. Also homework.
Update: The miniseries has been postponed for our anual April Fools’ special!
While you wait for the next episode, listen to Chet tell you three animal jokes to pass the time. Enjoy!

Links:

• Episode Page
• Transcript

Credits:

• Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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.

Their bad rap is really batty!
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It’s Kingdom: Animalia - A Zoology Podcast for Kids’ 1st Anniversary! Do Vampire Bats drink human blood (**SPOILER ALERT: NO**)? Do bats deserve their bad reputation? Have people gone to war over bat poop? Did scientists have Common Vampire Bats go to the gym? Are Vampire Bats actually very nice to each other? Today with your host, Devon, and co-hosts, Chet and Cap, on Kingdom: Animalia’s 1st ANNIVERSARY episode, you will learn everything there is to know about the Common Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus.

Credits:

• Episode Art: Uwe Schmidt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; background removed.
• Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions and Kevin MacLeod

Further Reading (Experiments):

• Vampire Bats Call Out to Friends to Share Blood Meals
• Unlike other bats, vampire bats keep out of trouble by running, Cornell researchers find

Links:

• Common Vampire Bat on Treadmill Video
• Episode Page
• Comic
• Memory Quiz
• Transcript
• Works Cited

Extended Credits:

• Winter Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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.

It’s time for everybody’s favorite game show…
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Kingdom: Animalia - A Zoology Podcast for Kids is back with its trimonthly game show: Animalia Fake! Every episode—with your host, Devon, and announcers, Chet and Cap—there will be THREE rounds, each with FOUR outrageous animal facts, ONE of those facts is so outrageous it’s an Animalia Fake (it’s not true), and you have to guess which it is.

Roar! Thump. Thump. What are those sounds? They’re prehistoric creatures! Prehistoric creatures were pretty cool and strange and we’re still learning more about them; but which facts about them aren’t true? Listen and find out! You can keep score at home on a paper, or open or print the scoresheet linked below.

Credits:

• Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions and Kevin MacLeod

Links:

• Episode Page
• Official Episode Scoresheet
• Transcript
• Works Cited (After listening!)

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.

It’s time for everybody’s favorite game show…
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Kingdom: Animalia - A Zoology Podcast for Kids is back with its trimonthly game show: Animalia Fake! Every episode—with your host, Devon, and announcers, Chet and Cap—there will be THREE rounds, each with FOUR outrageous animal facts, ONE of those facts is so outrageous it’s an Animalia Fake (it’s not true), and you have to guess which it is.

What’s that, up in the sky? It’s a drone, it’s a plane, no it’s an animal! That’s because today’s episode is about air creatures! Air animals are pretty cool, but which facts aren’t true? Listen and find out! You can keep score at home on a paper, or open or print the scoresheet linked below.

Credits:

• Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions and Kevin MacLeod

Links:

• Episode Page
• Official Episode Scoresheet
• Transcript
• Works Cited (After listening!)

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.

It’s time for some panda-monium!
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Why are pandas bamboo-etarians? Do they eat anything other than bamboo? How come Giant Pandas are black-and-white? Which was the original panda, the Red or the Giant? Just how big are Giant Pandas? Today with your host, Devon, and co-hosts, Chet and Cap, on the first listener suggested episode, you will learn everything there is to know about the Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca.

Credits:

• Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Links:

• Subscribe to the Newsletter
• Listen to our new podcast, Where Are the Chickadee Brothers?
• Episode Page
• Comic
• Memory Quiz
• Transcript
• Works Cited

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.