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    Explore "animal instincts" with insightful episodes like "Dwarf Mongoose", "SC EP:1049 He Slimed Me", "Basic instinct", "#550 - Rupert Sheldrake" and "#307 - Bryan Callen" from podcasts like ""Relax With Animal Facts", "Sasquatch Chronicles", "Unexplainable", "The Joe Rogan Experience" and "The Joe Rogan Experience"" and more!

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    Dwarf Mongoose

    Dwarf Mongoose

    Join me again on a wildlife adventure to learn about the fascinatingly world of the Dwarf Mongoose—Africa's smallest mammalian carnivore. Whether you're looking to sleep or are simply curious about these amazing creatures, this episode is sure to provide a calming escape. Grab some tea, find somewhere cozy, and prepare for an adventure to a forest in Ethiopia.

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    If you would like to learn more, the resources used in this episode are listed below:

    1. https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/dwarf-mongoose
    2. https://africageographic.com/stories/dwarf-mongoose/
    3. https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/dwarf-mongoose

    SC EP:1049 He Slimed Me

    SC EP:1049 He Slimed Me

    Chad writes "In 2003 a hunting friend and myself had a very strange thing happen to us. I live in Mercer county Ohio, it's in West central Ohio, flat land, small box woods, and miles of corn fields.

    I live in a small town called Celina, we have one of the largest man dug lakes in the world its 5 miles wide and 10 miles long, it was dug by hand by German immigrants for a water supply for the cannel systems in Ohio . I'm telling you this because I think these things could travel the old cannels from time to time, the BFRO has a one report from back in the 70's close to the cannels.

    One night while out running our coondogs we had a very weird night. We had very nice hounds that did their job, no nonsense dogs.

    We cut 2 dogs into a section we often hunted, it didn't take long for my dog to open up on a track, and the my buddies dog opened up.

    Shortly after the dogs went quiet, followed by high pitched squeaks from both dogs and then not another peep out of either dog. We had tracking collars on the dogs but we couldn't get a signal from them , these collars can be tracked for 5 miles or so...But we had nothing.

    We looked at each other discussing why the dogs were acting strange, coyotes, running a deer, we didn't know. But our dogs almost never ran off game.

    It was early September so the corn was 7 or 8 feet tall and still green and we was standing in it, All of a sudden I had an overwhelming feeling of fear sweep over me, we heard something running around us in a circle, it sounded like more than one thing and it was big, it stopped moving and i could hear heavy breathing and they started moving again... Not going to lie I was scared very scared.... I moved closer to my friend and asked him if could hear that and what is it...

    He just said be quiet listen .. we heard some more movement and then nothing. We continued to try to track the dogs but nothing. All of sudden I heard something splatter I looked at John and he said what the....His shoulder was covered in a thick clear slime that smelled awful. It freaked John out.

    We headed back to the truck. Keep in mind these dogs are worth literally thousands of dollars so heading back without them wasn't an easy choice.

    We got back to the truck and found both dogs hiding behind the back tire of the truck, we had to drag them out from under the truck...Not normal, these big walker hounds could have easily killed any animal we have here.

    We loaded the dogs into the dog box got into the truck and the smell from johns jacket was the nastiest thing I have ever smelled, John actually had to put it bed of the truck...

    What do you think happened...? Was it cryptic related?"

    Basic instinct

    Basic instinct
    How do animals know how to do things like spin a web or build a dam? A neuroscientist argues it's not “instinct.” Something bigger is going on. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices