Summary: <p>It’s update week! I call myself out for some mistakes, then catch us all up on new information about topics we’ve covered in the past. Then we’ll learn about the Nandi bear, a mystery animal that is probably not actually a bear.</p> <p>Check out <a href="https://sirfinnhayes.podbean.com/">Finn and Lila’s Natural History and Horse Podcast</a> on Podbean!</p> <p>Check out the<a href="http://www.zengthis.podbean.com/"> Zeng This!</a> pop culture podcast while you’re at it!</p> <p>A new species of Bird of Paradise:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-590" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Vogelkop-Superb-BOP-300x218.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="218"></p> <p>Buša cattle:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-591" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Busa-Cattle-300x245.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="245"></p> <p><strong>Further reading/watching:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.sci-news.com/biology/vogelkop-superb-bird-of-paradise-05924.html">http://www.sci-news.com/biology/vogelkop-superb-bird-of-paradise-05924.html</a></p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>This week we’re going to dig into some updates to previous episodes! Don’t worry, it’ll be interesting. We’re also going to look at a mystery animal we haven’t examined before.</p> <p>First, though, a big shout-out to Sir Finn Hayes, a long-time listener who has started his own podcast! It’s called Finn’s Natural History, although now I see it’s been renamed Finn and Lila’s Natural History and Horse Podcast, and you can find it on Podbean. I’ll put a link in the show notes. The great thing is, Finn is just ten years old but he and his younger sister Lila are already dropping knowledge on us about animals and plants and other things they find interesting. So give their podcast a listen because I bet you’ll like it as much as I do.</p> <p>Before we get into the updates, let me call myself out on a few glaring mistakes in past episodes. In episode four, I called my own podcast by the wrong name. Instead of Strange Animals, I said Strange Beasties, which is my Twitter handle. In episode 29, I said Loch Ness was 50 miles above sea level instead of 50 feet, a pretty big difference. In episode 15 I called Zenger of the Zeng This! podcast Zengus, which is just unforgiveable because I really like that podcast and you’d think I could remember the cohost’s name. There’s a link to the Zeng This! podcast in the show notes. It’s a family-friendly, cheerful show about comics, movies, video games, and lots of other fun pop culture stuff.</p> <p>If you ever hear me state something in the podcast that you know isn’t true, definitely let me know. I’ll look into it and issue a correction when appropriate. As they say on the Varmints Podcast, I am not an animal expert. I do my best, but sometimes I get things wrong. For instance, in episode 60, I said sirenians like dugongs and manatees have tails in place of hind legs like seals do, but sirenian tails actually developed from tails, not hind legs. Pinniped tails developed from hind legs and have flipper-like feet.</p> <p>Anyway, here are some updates to topics we’ve covered in past episodes. It isn’t all-inclusive, mostly just stuff I’ve stumbled across while researching other animals.</p> <p>In episode 47 about strange horses, I talked a lot about Przewalski’s horse. I was really hoping never to</p>
