Welcome to Creature Feature, production of IHeart Radio. I'm your host of many parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show we're talking about some animals that you should not have as a pet unless you want to become

extremely dead. From innocent-looking beach beauties to our lovable, goofy, and deadly cousins,

these creatures would sooner destroy you than cuddle. Discover this and more as we answer the

age-old question, when does a kangaroo become your kangadoom?

Joining me today is the internet's zoologist,

TikTok star,

and author of the book 100 animals that can fucking end you.

Mamadu, welcome!

Hi, I just want to say, that was your radio voice.

That was amazing.

I want to be able to do that one day. But thanks for having

me. This is really exciting. You're very welcome. That's about it for my radio voice. The rest of

the show is just in my normal voice because I don't have written out for me what I say. So,

yeah, I love your content. I love how you make evolutionary biology relatable, exciting,

fun, and scary. It's definitely the kind of thing I'm super into. Well, thank you. I really appreciate it.

My whole thing with what I do is I kind of wanted to make the type of content that I myself as a kid would have really liked.

Not for people that don't necessarily watch the hour-long documentaries or they're not exactly

animal planet like junkies the way I was.

They could still get something out of the content because of just the way I present information.

I feel like it's entertaining.

It's funny.

But you can also come away with it and learn something and, you know, have a bunch of things

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