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It's our fifth updates and corrections episode, with some fun information about a New Zealand parrot, suggested by Pranav! Thanks also to Llewelly, Zachary, Nicholas, and Simon who sent in corrections.\n\nFurther reading:\n\nVitiligo\n\nTyrannosaurus remains hint at three possible distinct species\n\nStudy refutes claim that T. rex was three separate species\n\nThe reign of the dinosaurs ended in spring\n\nImpact crater may be dinosaur killer\u2019s baby cousin\n\nCalifornia mice eat monarch butterflies\n\n'Hobbit' human story gets a twist, thanks to thousands of rat bones\n\nPlayground aims to distract mischievous kea\n\nThe kea showing off the bright colors under its wings:\n\n\n\nA kea jungle gym set up to stop the birds from moving traffic cones around for fun:\n\n\n\nShow transcript:\n\nWelcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I\u2019m your host, Kate Shaw.\n\nThis is our fifth annual updates episode, where I catch us up on new studies published about various animals we\u2019ve talked about before. This is mostly just whatever happens to catch my eye and isn\u2019t comprehensive by any means. Also, because things have been so busy for me the last few weeks, I decided to just go with what I\u2019d already finished and not try to add more.\n\nWe\u2019ll start as usual with corrections, then do some updates, then learn about a parrot from New Zealand, which was a suggestion from Pranav. This part of the episode started as a Patreon episode from 2019, so patrons, I promise your October bonus episode will be brand new and interesting and in-depth!\n\nFirst, both Llewelly and Zachary pointed out that there are lions living in Asia, not just Africa. It\u2019s called the Asiatic lion and these days, it only lives in a few small areas in India. It\u2019s a protected animal but even though their numbers are increasing, there are probably still no more than 700 Asiatic lions living in the wild.\n\nNext, Nicholas points out that vitiligo isn\u2019t a genetic condition, it\u2019s an autoimmune disorder that can be caused by a number of different diseases and conditions. You still can\u2019t catch it from other people, though. We talked about vitiligo briefly in episode 241, about squirrels. Nicholas included a link, which I\u2019ll put in the show notes for anyone who\u2019s interested in learning more.\n\nFor our final correction, Simon questioned whether there really are only six living species of macaw known. This was polite of him, since I was completely wrong about this. In fact, there are six genera of macaws and lots of species, although how many species there are exactly depends on who you ask. Since this mistake made it into the Beyond Bigfoot & Nessie book, I am very irritated at myself, but thank you to Simon for helping me clear this up.\n\nLet\u2019s start our updates with the animal who gets an update every single time, Tyrannosaurus rex. A study published in February 2022 examined the fossilized remains of 37 T. rexes and suggested that there may actually be three distinct species of T. rex instead of just one. The study focused specifically on differences in teeth and leg bones that don\u2019t seem to have anything to do with the individual\u2019s age when it died or whether it was male or female.\n\nHowever, in July 2022, another study found that all the T. rexes found so far do indeed belong to the same species. This is how science works, because new information is always being discovered and that means we have to reassess the things we thought we knew.\n\nIn other dinosaur news, in episode 240 we talked about the last day of the dinosaurs. Results of a study released in February 2022 suggest that the asteroid struck in early spring in the northern hemisphere. The asteroid hit the earth so hard that it rocked the entire continental plate that it struck, which caused massive waves unlike any other waves, since all the water above the continental plate was pushed upwards at once. This pushed all the sediment lying quietly on the bottom of the ocean up into the water,