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This Ologies episode on dolorology (pain)

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Lida Richardson
@lidarichardson
You have an ologies ep for literally everything!! ❤️
jmd
@jmduncan

LOL, there is one for everything! (I was starting to think that, nine years in, she surely must be starting to run low on really good topics, but then just this year she's like, How about a whole episode on Venus? Or groundhogs? Donkeys? Big cats? Antarctica? Chile peppers? Hyenas? Why yes, Alie, it turns out I would very much like to hear how the hyena research community feels about The Lion King. 😂)

Lida Richardson
@lidarichardson
Omg I bet the hyena research community resents their representation in the lion king. I mean that’s the thing about being a curious person you will never stop having things to be curious about
jmd
@jmduncan

The Lion King came up multiple times in that episode, and when the movie first came out, one hyena scientist reportedly tried to sue Disney for hyena defamation. (Apparently Disney animators had visited a hyena research station at UC Berkeley to sketch them and study their movements, but didn't know that those particular hyenas had their canines filed down, so among other things, they got the teeth wrong. The one thing the movie got right is that they had a female leader.)

jmd
@jmduncan

(BTW, in a kind of astounding bit of coincidence, my wife asked me out of the blue just now whether remembered this dolorology episode. Turns out she had gotten Zoffness's book "Tell Me Where It Hurts" on her Kindle recently and is currently reading it, and she reports that it is very good. So that might be worth checking out too.)

Lida Richardson
@lidarichardson
I just learned about hyenas giving birth and I am shocked and even more motivated to listen to the episode. And wow that’s so lovely! Thank you to you and your wife

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