Animal Facts and Animal Snacks

On this latest episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks, learn all about pandas! Are giant pandas and red pandas closely related? How big are baby giant pandas? Why don’t more zoos exhibit giant pandas? Listen to find out! In this episode, we eat giant panda cake pops provided by the SD Cake Pop Shop!

Do you know which animal is the largest to ever live?? Do you how many bugs a bat will eat in one day?!?! Find out the answers to these questions, along with many others, in today's mini episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks!

Listen to the first ever episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks starring a guest expert! Okapi keeper Noah answers all of our burning questions about okapi, like: what are the closest living relatives of okapi? What do okapis’ coats feel like? How do you bond with an okapi? As we listen to Noah give expert answers based on his years of experience with okapi, we eat an abstract “okapi salad.” Enjoy!

On this latest episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks, learn all about orcas! Why are these whales sometimes called orcas and sometimes called killer whales? What is a marine mammal? How do killer whales communicate and hunt? What can you do at home to help protect this amazing species? Listen to find out! In this episode, we eat cake pops shaped like killer whales!

In this mini episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks, hear some amazing anecdotal stories about times that animals acted as heroes to help save people's lives.

Listen to this latest episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks! What organism is symbiotic with a sloth? How are kids helping to save sloths in Costa Rica? Listen to find out! In this episode, we munch on chocolate-covered pretzels made to look like sloths' faces.

Listen to this latest episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks! What makes a crocodile a reptile? What's the difference between a crocodile and an alligator? What animal has the strongest bite force in the world? Listen to find out! In this episode, we also enjoy crocamole (aka guacadiles).

Latest episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks. Get ready for turkey facts and jokes!

In this latest episode, we discuss all eight species of bears! Where do bears live? What are the most significant threats to bears? How can people safely coexist with bears? Listen to find out! In this episode, we also enjoy bear claws provided by C'est la Vie bakery in Carlsbad, California.

Halloween double-feature episode! For this spooky Halloween episode, we discuss wolves and werewolves. What role do wolves play in an ecosystem? Where did the werewolf myth come from? How are werewolves created and killed? Listen to find out! In this episode, we eat strawberry cupcakes with werewolf claw marks in them.

In this latest episode, we discuss tigers of all shapes and sizes! Elise is a zookeeper who has been working with tigers for a number of years, and she has lots of great information to share! Why are tigers orange? Who would win in a fight, a tiger or a lion? Why are tigers endangered? Listen to find out! In this episode, we also enjoy tiger stripe brownies.

The very first episode of Animal Facts and Animal Snacks! In this episode, we discuss one of Elise's favorite animals, pigs! Do micro pigs exist? Which country produces and consumes the most pork in the world? Listen to find out! In this episode, we also enjoy our first snack: fondant pigs in a dark chocolate pudding mud wallow.