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Welcome back to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast.
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In case you’re just joining us, you’re listening to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast
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with Emma Hickins and Trevor Gear.
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Of course it’s computer.
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What is that one then?
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Okay.
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Yeah, should we make a start then, bro?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So do you want to do the opening remarks for us, please?
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Yes, good afternoon.
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Welcome along to our regular listeners and viewers.
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We are the Alien Space Sheep Talk podcast by Trevor Gear and he calls me “Bruv”.
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Hi, baby.
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Hickins and he calls me “cause”.
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Welcome to the Alien Space Sheep.
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Are you there?
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Can you hear me?
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Yeah.
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Oh.
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It’s still echoing.
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Strange.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yes, what are we talking about today, bro?
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Well, I almost forgot, actually, I was even keeping my waiting so long.
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But we’re talking about one or two different things and we’ll start off
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it’s sort of the word friends come into this.
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I think I said on the WhatsApp that it’s who goes there, friend or foes, so it’s kind of
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related to them.
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And first of all, I’d like to ask you how many different species on our planet do you
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think there are in terms of having been identified rather than just hazarded, I guess, how many
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different species?
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How many different species of what?
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Of humans or…
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Of life.
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It’s not just human life, but of…
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I mean, the planet teams with life, doesn’t it?
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It literally teams with life.
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Many, many, probably more undiscovered species and species that have come and gone without
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being discovered than there are the we know about.
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But yeah, just hazarded, I guess, how many do you think they have as a… have been identified
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as species on this planet?
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I think it being tens of thousands.
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Yeah, it’s well, it certainly would be tens of thousands.
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And the actual answer to that is there are 2.1… I mean, there could be estimates up to
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trillion different species, but 2.1 million have actually been officially identified.
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So that’s quite a lot.
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Now, for the purpose of what we’re doing here, we’re saying here, we’re going to ignore
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the majority of those, which are in the form of plants and fungi and bacteria, stuff like
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that.
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I mean, there could be up to billions of those, but that’s obviously the majority of the
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2.1 million.
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Now, if we look at insects, there’s 1 million approximately, identifiably identified species
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of insect, which is a hell of a lot of insects, when you think about it.
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And the other main issue, the main genre here is the animals.
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There they include vertebrates and mammals, obviously we have vertebrates as well.
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And of those, the animals, there are 65,000 known species, but of those, 6,000 are mammals,
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which is us, of course, and 10,000 are birds.
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So 6,000 mammals, of which we are one of those, have been formally identified.
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So all the millions, likely millions of species, there are 6,000 of us, and then birds, about
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10,000.
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Now, we share the planet, don’t we?
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As we said before, just now, it teams and teams with different life forms and we share,
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we share our lives on this great ride, on this amazing planet.
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And this is where we come to the thing about friends, and our place in that has humans.
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Let me just throw in a quick quote, something you may have heard before, sort of a saying,
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just because it relates to, like, word friends, and it’s this, “Champagne for my real friends,
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real pain for my sham friends,” which is quite a clever little quotation actually from,
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from the 19th century ability, “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends,
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which touches on friends, who are our friends in species that run alongside us?”
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Now the next question to you is this, what do you think the most dangerous animal on this
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planet is?
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Animals include mammals, vertebrates, everything.
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What do you think the most dangerous of the species is in the animal kingdom, the mammal
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kingdom?
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Well I think the most dangerous will be humans.
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Yeah, I mean that’s it.
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We’re going to take a short break now, we’re back shortly.
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Thank you.
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