Garology (LONG CUTE ANCIENT PATIENT BOOPABLE NIGHTMARE FISH) with Solomon David
A long snout. Hundreds of teeth. Scales that could slice you. What is a gar and should we fear it? One of the world’s most passionate and knowledgeable experts on this ancient, mysterious fish joins to make you fall in love with these slimy longbois. Dr. Solomon David is affable, charming, enthusiastic and absolutely shameless when it comes to fish puns. Slip into some hip waders and jump in the muck to learn all about a creature that -- despite decades of mudslinging -- is not a gar-bage fish. Also: why gar caviar is a hella bad idea.
Listen via Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.
Follow Dr. Solomon David at Twitter.com/SolomonRDavid and Instagram.com/solomon.r.david
Dr. Solomon David’s website: https://solomondavid.net/
A donation went to Ranger Rick at https://rangerrick.org/, part of NWF.org
Sponsors of Ologies: alieward.com/ologies-sponsors
Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras
Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies
OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and now… MASKS. Hi. Yes.
Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies
Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard
Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris
Theme song by Nick Thorburn
More links which you may enjoy:
Dr. David’s Ranger Rick issue!
“River Monsters” clips
More ganoid scale jewelry by Bayou Woman
Gar scale brooch! I mean, should I get this?
That snot curtain, as discussed/disgust
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70177821
How to clean gar: with hardcore tools
Fish feel pain strikingly similar to mammals
Dr. Lynne Sneddon, fish pain researcher
Gar ichthyootoxin: Its effect on natural predators and the toxin's evolutionary function
1931 paper “Electricity as a Means of Garfish and Carp Control”
Platypus glows under blacklights
“It’s official: Fish Feel Pain”