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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, October 20th. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B forward slash story."

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A Naturalist has made an incredible discovery about birds in Yellowstone National Park. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that Naturalist George Bumann and his wife cracked the code, learning the language that ravens use for everything from predator warnings, to where they can find something to eat.

"When folks would pull into the parking lot there in Lamar Valley, they had a specific call that basically said, We're going to eat anything that falls out of your picnic basket. This is our territory…he figured out that if he heard a certain call, he knew that that Raven was telling other ravens in the world that a type of Eagle was flying their way…So the Ravens give away the Eagles…Fascinating insights into our relationship and how sound really governs activity out in the natural world, where a raven can call and not only alert other ravens, but alert all kinds of other species that an eagle's in the area."

Bumann says this type of "language" isn't just confined to ravens, other animals communicate with calls and sounds as well.

Read the full story HERE.

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In her 2016 memoir "North of Crazy," Neltje Doubleday Kings chronicles her decision to leave a life of privileged aristocracy for a more authentic life in Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Wendy Corr reports from the road that Neltje gifted her ranch on Lower Piney Creek near Banner, Wyoming, to the University of Wyoming and her legacy is benefiting many.

"Now, students, professors, anybody with the association with University of Wyoming has this space to be creative. There's so many different creative opportunities that can be had there at the Nell cheese center. And that's why the collegiate chorale and the orchestra and the jazz band were able to go there in mid September and make this amazing, amazing performance, this beautiful tribute to music there are the great outdoors in the at the at the foot of the Big Horns."

Along the way, the publishing heiress recreated herself as a painter, rancher, businesswoman, and mother while creating a platform for other artists to find their voices.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Powell photographer has gotten photos of a piebald cow elk in a herd southwest of Cody. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi tells that Michael Moore got the perfect shot of this rare condition.

"Pie baldism is a result of a recessive gene that has to be in both parents in animals, and when both parents have that gene, and not every time they produce an offspring, but if they both have the recessive gene, their offspring will be off color, for lack of a better way to put it. In this case, elk usually have brown hair and skin, and there have been several elk spotted. They're elk. There are a lot of elk that have been spotted that are piebald, which means that they have blotches of white on their skin and in their hair. But in this case, the elk that was spotted along the South Fork of the Shoshone River near Cody was almost entirely white. So that's a really rare instance where both of the parents had this recessive gene that when they got toge