Podcast Episodes

Episode 7: The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Episode 7

Wait!  Don't squash that spider!  Did you know that spiders can create 7 different kinds of web for different uses?  Or that some spiders use water j…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Episode 6: Bats in the Belfry

Episode 6

Did you know that bats fly with their hands?  In fact, their Latin name "Chiroptera" literally translates to "hand wing".  Often misunderstood, bats …

4 years, 11 months ago

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Episode 5: The Carrion Crew

Episode 5

Meet the organisms that do the dirty work in the forest: getting rid of dead bodies!  It may be gross but they perform a very important function - an…

4 years, 11 months ago

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Episode 4: Spotlight on Coyotes

Episode 4

Few things are as wild sounding as the howls of coyotes, but even if you live in a big city, there's a good chance that there are coyotes nearby.  Pe…

5 years ago

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Episode 3: Overlooked and Underappreciated

Episode 3

Opossum, geese, squirrels and robins aren’t the “sexiest” animals around, but these critters are more interesting than most people think. And what yo…

5 years ago

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Episode 2: Bird Brained Corvids

Episode 2

“Bird brain” is an age-old insult, but as it turns out, there are some pretty smart birds out there - particularly those in the Corvid family which i…

5 years ago

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Episode 1: Spotlight on Cicadas

Episode 1

Every year annual cicadas emerge to provide the background sounds of summer.  But every 13 or 17 years different periodic "broods" emerge by the mill…

5 years, 1 month ago

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