Welcome to Creature Feature, production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of Mini Parasites Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show it's Baby Mayhem.

We're talking about giant babies from a variety of big megafauna and all of the

shenanigans these little babies get up to from elk to elephants to the biggest animal in the

world that has ever existed. We are talking about fairly large babies and how they live their lives,

how they baby around, and how essentially every animal baby is pretty much the same.

Joining me today is proprietress of the website How to Eat L.A. and host of the Smart Mouth podcast, Catherine Spires.

Welcome.

Thank you so much for having me back on.

I love being here.

I am so excited to have you on.

You told me about a elk story that you have involving baby elk, which is the whole

reason I'm doing this.

So can you share your baby elk observations?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so my parents live in Utah in like semi-rural Utah, and there's a herd of elk that

lives in their neighborhood.

And so in the fall, there's just like, I don't know, about 200 elk just wandering about

and you might wake up one morning and they're all in your yard or something like that.

I was there in November and December and their backyard.

Imagine like the house with a hill immediately behind it in the backyard, a hill that goes down and then there's a flatland and then it goes up again.

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