NPR⁠84%

TikTok's favorite zoologist quizzes us on the most dangerous animals ⁠75%

By Berly McCoy⁠0%

12/27/2022, 5:15:31 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 42.4% saturation with 84 hits. Analysis detected 502 faulty-reasoning hits from 198 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠75% (5,619 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.30% of the article peer group.

The natural world is filled with treats - and tricks. 
Today, Internet zoologist and TikTok star Mamadou Ndiaye takes over to talk about some of those tricks — specifically the murderous ones. 
He turns the tables on Emily and Aaron, quizzing them on some of the animals in his new book 100 Animals That Can F*cking End You. 
Special guests span land and sea, including the hippopotamus, blowfish, snails, snakes — and more! 
Here's a sneak preview of one of the questions: 
Which of these animals is so infamous it's earned nicknames like black death, and widowmaker. 
It's the Cape buffalo! 
It's widely considered to be one of Africa's most malicious herbivores, causing an estimated 200 flatlines a year. 
Most of those are hunters who would never return back to their wives and children, hence the name Widowmaker. 
To learn more, you can listen to the episode as well as watch Mamadou Ndiaye TikTok below. 
Listen to Short Wave on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify. 
This episode was produced by Berly McCoy, edited by Rebecca Ramirez and fact-checked by Abē Levine. 
The audio engineer was Gilly Moon. 
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