Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend an Animal podcast?
Episode Date: August 29, 2025Ep. 47: Doomed to fail species? The story of the passenger pigeonOnce the most abundant bird in North America, they darkened the skies in flocks of millions—until humans hunted them into extinction....Ep 179: A Friend Till The End & Beyond - HachikōThe dog who waited at a Tokyo train station every day for his owner, even years after the man had died.Ep 215: Nowhere to Echo - Whale EntrapmentWhen whales become trapped in icy waters, it’s a race between nature and human intervention to save them. Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: doomedtofailpod@gmail.com
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Hello and welcome to Doomed to Fail. I'm Taylor and along with my co-host Farrs,
we bring you history's most notorious disasters and epic failures. We have over 200 episodes
and I wanted to give you a couple that have the same theme. So we have a small group this week
that I'm going to highlight for you, but these are stories about animals. And we have three
episodes that specifically are about animals and we start with episode 47 about the passenger
pigeon. So when the Europeans first came to the United States area, there were so many passenger
pigeons and think like a pigeon, just think like a pigeon, but a little bit longer neck than like
the ones you see at Home Depot. You know what I mean. And they were so, there was just so many
of them. I can't even explain it. And I can't even really picture it myself. But there were billions.
They would flock over your house and they, you, they would, they would, they would,
out the sun for an hour. There were so many of them. And we just killed them and ate them and
used their feathers into absolute extinction. And there aren't anymore. The last one was named
Martha. She died like 100 years ago. So that's wild. And then episode 179 is about Hachiko.
And if you are a dog person, you would know. This is the story of the dog in Japan whose owner
went to work and did not come home. And the dog went to the train station every day waiting
for them to come back. It is a movie called Hotchik.
with Richard Gear, and I only laugh because we tease my mom about loving that movie, because
you know, moms, they love Richard Gear, and they love, they love, they love Hachi and Hachico.
So that's episode 179.
And then a recent episode, episode 215, was about whale entrapment.
So Farras tells us a story about a couple of very specific times that whales get stuck in
like a part of the ice where they can breathe, but then they can't get out and they cannot move
any further, and the ice is sort of trapping them.
It's called whale entrapment.
That's what it is.
So look up those three episodes.
Anywhere you listen to podcasts, wherever you're listening right now, just use a search.
Or on YouTube, we are there as well.
Thank you so much for listening.
And if you have any questions or ideas or, like, I don't know, other animal stories,
I'm super interested in megafauna.
Did I say that out loud already?
I really want to know about giant animals.
So, yeah, any ideas, any suggestions, let us know.
Doomedafilpod at gmail.com.
do you put to fill a pod on all the socials and i'll talk to you soon thanks