Hello everyone, welcome back to relax with animal facts.

I am Steph Wolf and today I am going to be learning with you about our furry, scaly or possibly

even slimy friends.

And in today's case it is definitely going to be a furry friend of

ours because we are covering the oh so wonderful rock hyracks. This, of course, is a very special

listener episode dedicated to Astrid Day, which is spelled D-A-E. I hope that is how it is

pronounced, Nicole, Caleb, Charlotte, and also to Tara, or maybe to Tara. You know what I just realized

for many names there are going to be alternate pronunciations,

and just for the sake of not butchering your name on your own episode, I think it would be

helpful that for those of you that have such names as myself, let me know also how to pronounce it.

Many of you have already done this. But come on, this is

season eight. This is no joke anymore. I cannot start the season off with mispronounced names.

I give all of you again a very hearty thanks for seven wonderful seasons, and I look forward to another seven.

We are going to do another Q&A next episode, so stay until the end to figure out how to do that.

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A huge shout out to George Flad for the ambiance is used in today's episode.

His work is linked in the description, and you should check him out.

And now, let us begin to wind down a little bit. If this is your first episode of the show,

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