Summary: <p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.blazingcariboustudios.com/shows/varmints/">Varmints! podcast</a> for suggesting the dodo for this week’s topic.</p> <p>And thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TwoClamsGaming/">Two Clams Gaming podcas</a>t for suggesting clams as this week’s topic.</p> <p>It’s two suggestions in one fun episode! Learn all about that most famous of extinct birds and all about a thing that tastes great deep-fried. (Well, okay, everything tastes great deep-fried. But you know what I mean.)</p> <p>The dodo:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-204" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Dodo_1-291x300.jpg" alt="" width="291" height="300"></p> <p>A giant clam and its algae pals:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-206" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/giantclam-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169"></p> <p>Stop, thief! Put that clam down!</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-207" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/clamthief-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169"></p> <p>The disco clam looks as awesome as its name implies. It looks like a Muppet clam:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-208" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/disco_2_1.jpg.CROP_.promo-mediumlarge-300x214.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="214"></p> <p><em><span class="irc_su" dir="ltr">Calyptogena magnifica</span></em> hanging out around a hydrothermal vent:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-209" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/deepseaclams-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199"></p> <p>Show transcript:</p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>We’re getting backed up on suggestions, so I’m going to combine two in one episode today even though they don’t really have anything to do with each other. The first suggestion is from the podcast Varmints, a super fun podcast about animals. They want to know about the dodo. After that, we’ll go on to learn about clams. Yes, clams! Totally not anything to do with dodos, but the hosts at Two Clams Gaming suggested it. That’s another fun podcast, this one about video games—which you may have guessed. I’ll have links to both podcasts in the show notes for you to check out.</p> <p>The dodo isn’t just extinct, it’s famously extinct. Dead as a dodo. That makes it difficult to research the dodo, too—type “dodo” into the search bar at Science Daily, for instance, and you get a ton of hits that have nothing to do with the actual dodo bird, like the article that says “Researchers believe they now know why the sup</p>
