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#158: Transphobes? (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Are You Lazy? Or Are You Diurnal?

There's good reason to think that beavers have moved into a nocturnal niche, presumably to avoid people. Lazy is a matter of self-preservation in large measure. If you ever shine a flashlight at a dog at night, you see the eyes shine back. That absence suggests that this was not initially aNocturnal creature. It's interesting, I know another story where a creature has moved into direnality by the same mechanism. For the same reason. And this is the one and only example of a bat that is diurnal but it is hunted by people in the roost.

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