12. Snow Monkey and Narwhal

Weird Animal Facts: Explicit

Baby it's cold outside. That means it's time for our winter weathered animals! For all of the month of December we take a look at winter and cold weather animals! And even though I messed up the first recording I was still able to piece together the entire show and still use the original (s#!$$y) recording for the ever stupid, yet soon-to-be popular, "Scientific Names are Hard" segment.
Today we learn out how the Japanese macaque rebranded itself to become the Snow Monkey, compare Jigokudani Monkey Park to Yellowstone National Park (as well as listen to me struggle and at times succeed, in pronouncing Japanese words)...I don't think I'd do will in Japan.
And what is winter without the mythical narwhal! It is a real animal? Yes! Is is a whale? A toothed one. Does that make it a unicorn? Maybe. See why the narwhal horn is something of a dick-pic (but really it's a tooth...a tusk, horn. Call it what you will). But as cool as that horn...tooth...tusk is why? Why? Why oh why?! And only the males have that long dramatic tooth.
We are most definitely going to get weird.
**Also listen to this Narwhal song by the Irish Rovers called "Narwhal: the Continuing Story of the Unicorn." (You won't be disappointed!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJqAjRd7vE
Here are the scientific names:
Snow Monkey: Macaca fuscata
Narwhal: Monodon monoceros
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