Summary: <p>This week we’re going to learn about all sorts of animals first described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in the mid-18th century and named after him, from the common Steller’s jay to the mysterious Steller’s sea ape.</p> <p>Steller’s jay. It looks like someone photoshopped a frowny line over its eye:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-543" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/stellersjay-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-544" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Steller2-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>A male Steller’s eider in breeding plumage, looking spiffy:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-545" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/eider-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>Steller’s sea eagle will MESS YOU UP:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-546" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Stellers-sea-eagle-walking-over-ice-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199"></p> <p>Steller’s sea lions. Looks like the cover of their latest album:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-547" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/stellers-sea-lion-300x227.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="227"></p> <p>A drawing of a Steller’s sea cow, one of the only drawings that was probably made from an actual animal before it went extinct:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-548" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180px-Pallas_Sea_Cow.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="68"></p> <p>An alive dugong, just to show you what Steller’s sea cow probably looked like, only bigger and fatter because it lived in colder water:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-549" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/dugong-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169"></p> <p>A Northern fur seal not taking any of your crap:</p> <p><img class="size-medium wp-image-550" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/northern-fur-seal-1-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p>
