Hello everyone, welcome back to relax with animal facts. I am Steph Wolf and today I'm 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 scaly friend of

ours because we are covering the oh so wonderful Savannah Monitor. This, of course, is a very

special listener episode dedicated to Charlotte, Bree, and to Teddy. Thank you for taking the time to send in your

animal request, and this episode would not have been possible without you. For how to send in

your very own animal request, and for all of the facts that were used in this episode, that info is

immediately available in the show notes or the

description, but I will also go over it at the end of the episode. If you love the show and would like

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click the Patreon link in the description. For only a dollar a month, you get complete access to all

of that exclusive content and I look forward to seeing you there. And now let us begin to wind

down. As always, I have three primary exhortations for you.

The first is to have a comfortable pair of shoes on. We're going to be needing some

versatile footwear for where we're going today. And the second thing I encourage you to do

is to notice perhaps where you are carrying tension.

It doesn't matter if it is in the neck, in the shoulders, in the hands.

Everybody in this way is different, but my encouragement to you is the same.

Do your very best to impersonate Jello. Jello, it seems to me, is like the antithesis of tension.

And so bring up that jello in your mind and really go for the Oscar here and do your best impersonation.

Relax whatever it is that you tense.

And my third exhortation to you is to give your mind permission

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