Ep. 1240: Sharks, Underwater Caves & SCUBA with Cristina Zenato

I gotta t- tell you this little anecdote that I guess just surprised me.

We, uh, I was on a farm, grew up on a farm, and I had, uh, windows in my room, and we had outdoor cats.

And a cat had a litter of kittens, and when I first started working with the kittens, you know, they would hiss at me.

They're afraid of me.

They're like, "I don't know what you are." When they got old enough, the mother cat grabbed the kittens one at a time and jumped up on the windowsill and showed me to the kitten, and then did this special kind of a meow, which I've come to recognize.

And I thought, "Well, that's really strange behavior.

What is she doing?" She just...

I thought, "Is she trying to get me to help the kittens?" Or, you know.

But she kept bringing kitten after kitten up to show me to the kittens.

Huh.

The next time I went outside, all the kittens chased me around the yard and wanted to play.

That's, that's cool.

See, that's...

And that's a cat, but, you know, it would be cool to see how many people have observed that behavior.

But I...

And in the ocean, sometimes it happens as well.

We just came back from South Africa.

We were running, um, sardine run expeditions.

You [laughs] literally chase the sardine runs in the water as they migrate from Antarctica along the coast of South Africa, and attract every single possible predator you can think.

Birds, whales, dolphins, sharks.

And us humans just jump in in the midst of this bait ball, just watching-

Wow

...

these predators launching onto the sardines.

And the predator's very much aware of our presence, all of them, and completely avoiding and missing us and just going after the sardines.

I gotta t- tell you this little anecdote that I guess just surprised me.

We, uh, I was on a farm, grew up on a farm, and I had, uh, windows in my room, and we had outdoor cats.

And a cat had a litter of kittens, and when I first started working with the kittens, you know, they would hiss at me.

They're afraid of me.

They're like, "I don't know what you are." When they got old enough, the mother cat grabbed the kittens one at a time and jumped up on the windowsill and showed me to the kitten, and then did this special kind of a meow, which I've come to recognize.

And I thought, "Well, that's really strange behavior.

What is she doing?" She just...

I thought, "Is she trying to get me to help the kittens?" Or, you know.

But she kept bringing kitten after kitten up to show me to the kittens.

Huh.

The next time I went outside, all the kittens chased me around the yard and wanted to play.

That's, that's cool.

See, that's...

And that's a cat, but, you know, it would be cool to see how many people have observed that behavior.

But I...

And in the ocean, sometimes it happens as well.

We just came back from South Africa.

We were running, um, sardine run expeditions.

You [laughs] literally chase the sardine runs in the water as they migrate from Antarctica along the coast of South Africa, and attract every single possible predator you can think.

Birds, whales, dolphins, sharks.

And us humans just jump in in the midst of this bait ball, just watching-

Wow

...

these predators launching onto the sardines.

And the predator's very much aware of our presence, all of them, and completely avoiding and missing us and just going after the sardines.