Aug 26, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
Nature Camp is coming to a close, but first we're taking a look at some animals we thought were gone for good...but nature uhhhh, finds a way. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar…
I-
... to our surroundings.
[laughs]
Um, where they were like, "We didn't think this still existed," and no one had asked the locals.
[laughs] Yeah, that-
You saw those white people extinct.
Yeah, it's, yeah, it's usually what it is.
And, like, I will, I'm gonna add that caveat to, like, the start of this episode, is we're t- we talk about, like, when animals were discovered and, like, it's usually, like, the first time a white person wrote down something about this animal.
Yeah.
[laughs]
That's what we mean by discovered.
Just an indigenous person like, "Uh, we've-
Yeah
... been knowing about this since..."
It's like, "We've actually been hunting this bird for millennia, but whatever.
Yeah, sure, you discovered it."
Yeah.
[laughs]
It's just like you discovered the land we were living on.
Weird how that works.
Weird.
No one had ever seen it before.
[laughs]
I-
... to our surroundings.
[laughs]
Um, where they were like, "We didn't think this still existed," and no one had asked the locals.
[laughs] Yeah, that-
You saw those white people extinct.
Yeah, it's, yeah, it's usually what it is.
And, like, I will, I'm gonna add that caveat to, like, the start of this episode, is we're t- we talk about, like, when animals were discovered and, like, it's usually, like, the first time a white person wrote down something about this animal.
Yeah.
[laughs]
That's what we mean by discovered.
Just an indigenous person like, "Uh, we've-
Yeah
... been knowing about this since..."
It's like, "We've actually been hunting this bird for millennia, but whatever.
Yeah, sure, you discovered it."
Yeah.
[laughs]
It's just like you discovered the land we were living on.
Weird how that works.
Weird.
No one had ever seen it before.
[laughs]
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