38: Ellen Weatherford, Can Fish Drown, and Real Pokemon

Special guest Ellen Weatherford joins us to ask: just how interesting can water and fish be? And are there any pokemon inspired by strange but real animals?

Check out Ellen's podcasts "Just the Zoo of Us" and "Spellbound and Gagged"

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We also learn about: defining fish, “just be cool about it”, defining drowning, Ellen and Caroline teach Tom and Ella about where water oxygen comes from, history of breathing, where we’re going we don’t need bones, christmas tree worm, osmoregulation and ion gradients i love it and i wish i understood it better, keeping a salt backpack, gills and lungs, “sorry for the crisis”, I’ve been sleeping on fish, mmmmm actually gonna evolve back to the water, can I get a return on these lungs? but what we’re talking about is drowning. cold water more oxygen, arapaima, ding ding ding drowning yay! thousand mile dead zones, only some sharks need to move to breathe, Ram Ventilation vs Buccal Pumping at Coachella, buccal vs buckle, asmr buccal pumping, tuna need to swim or drown, letting arapaima rest in your arms, learning to love fish, Spiders and Commitment, alligators vs manatees, singing a B flat for gators, alligator snapping turtle, bringing Ellen to party, Wooper and Clodsire, the iberian ribbed newt, obliterating your future husband with a Whimsicott.

Sources: WHO Definition of Drowning Origin of Gills 2022 Gill Ion Regulation Paper Evolution of Lungs Lung Conversion to Swim Bladders How Fish Deal with Salinity Salmon Osmoregulation Bullshark Osmoregulation Cold Water Holds more Oxygen Hypoxia Adaptations in the Amazon Rainforest Air Breathing Arapaima Gill Remodeling Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Hypoxia Task Force Tuna Ram Ventilation