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We humans learn some of our earliest life lessons from our brothers and sisters, watching what toys our siblings play with and what treats they stash away for later. In this Halloween season podcast, Ari Daniel Shapiro journeys to Austria to learn how such social learning happens in a spooky bird—the raven. Image Credit:
Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
Download a transcript of this podcast read moreDuration: 5:26Published: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:52:05 +0000
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In this sample a young male seems to "stutter" when he calls - recorded near Pinal Air Park, southern Arizona, 4/99.
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Rufous-crowned Sparrows (Aimophila ruficeps) sing this Spring song when they're looking for love around Peck's Lake [Arizona]. This one was in the creosote scrub which grows on the steep hillsides around the lake.
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What is it like to be eyeball to eyeball with a fish the size of a Volkswagen? Learn about the process of tagging tuna and how those tags are revealing surprises that might help save tuna from their own popularity in sushi restaurants. Photo credit: Opencage, Japan
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read moreDuration: 5:08Published: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:52:27 +0000
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Rufous-crowned Sparrows (Aimophila ruficeps) are one of the most common sparrows in Costa Rica. They like urban and semi-rural field environments, like parks, soccer fields, etc. This song is sung over and over, and loudly!
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Hear how research unfolds at sea. Playing female whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself the center of attention of a group of male North Atlantic Right Whales. Will she be able to gather crucial data before a breaching whale crashes down on her boat?
Download a transcript of this podcast Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
read moreDuration: 5:45Published: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:27:58 +0000
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Two different hens at Peck's Lake [Arizona] in October, 1997.
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Cyprus is split in half, with a Turkish sector in the north and a Greek sector in the south. The unofficial division makes scientific collaboration in this Mediterranean island nation all but impossible; it also complicates management of the island's endangered sea turtles.
read moreDuration: 6:01Published: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:14:16 +0000
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The male Wood Duck call is a strange high squeak.
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The city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory lies in the heart of crocodile country. In the 1950s, saltwater crocodiles were shot, skinned, and turned into shoes and handbags. After hunting was banned in the 1970s, crocodile numbers climbed. Now there’s a croc for every man, woman, and child in Darwin. Can the human citizens learn to live alongside their toothy neighbors? Image Credit: Gerald and Buff Corsi. CalPhotos. CC BY-NC-SA
read moreDuration: 5:32Published: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:40:17 +0000
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A frog high above El Pizote (Costa Rica), on the trail into the woods that leads to the antenna, near Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, 6/21/99. The only frog I saw other than Dendrobates pumilio was Dendrobates auratus. However, this call was later identified as that of Allobates talamancae.
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Over the past century the grasslands of northern Mexico have been taken over by shrubby mesquite and turned to desert. Ecologist Gerardo Ceballos is on a mission to turn them back. Can he restore an entire prairie ecosystem? Ceballos hopes he can, with the help of an unlikely ally. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Chihuahua.
Podcast transcript Image Credit: Arthur Chapman, Flickr: EOL Images. CC BY-NC-SA
read moreDuration: 5:28Published: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:17:45 +0000
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Mantled Howler Monkeys - Tortuguero (Costa Rica).
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Writer Karen Romano Young takes an icebreaker to Barrow, Alaska, to join in the festival of Naluqatak and learn about the intimate relationship between the Inupiat Eskimos and the bowhead whale. Listen as she tells Ari Daniel Shapiro how the whole community turns out for whale hunt, how the bowhead nourishes the Inupiat, both physically and spiritually—and how the hunt is proving to be an unexpected gift to scientists.
read moreDuration: 5:14Published: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:36:55 +0000
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Mantled Howler Monkeys Monteverde (Costa Rica), 6/16/99
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No iguana wants to be cooked alive on a hot rock and then served up as dinner for a Galapagos hawk. But it turns out the marine iguanas have a strategy that warns them of the presence of hawks they can’t see. They learned to tune in to a kind of police scanner…the alarm calls of mockingbirds. Photo Credit: Phil Myers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
Download a transcript of this podcast read moreDuration: 4:13Published: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:06:48 +0000
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Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) This is a common species around Arenal - this one was recorded at La Fortuna (Costa Rica).
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How is a tadpole like a short-sleeved white tee shirt? The answer lies in the Alameda Creek outside San Francisco, California, USA. Ari Daniel Shapiro wades into the issue of dams and biodiversity with two biologists sampling the DNA of this threatened frog in order to save it. Photo Credit: Alessandro Catenazzi, CC BY-NC-SA
Download a transcript of this podcast read moreDuration: 5:12Published: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:24:17 +0000
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Here's another example of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) trill. (Costa Rica)
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Join shark expert Greg Skomal as he ventures under the Arctic ice in search of the Greenland shark. Sharing this icy, blue twilight with an apex predator is a thrill--so long as you don’t end up being mistaken for a ringed seal, the shark’s favorite meal. In this episode, we’ll learn how Skomal’s research is revealing how these evolutionary survivors endure despite astonishing obstacles. Photo Credit: Jeffrey Gallant
(GEERG) read moreDuration: 5:33Published: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:45:03 +0000
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Growing up in a village in the foothills of the French Alps, Francis Roucher used to hunt the chamois. But on the day one of his shots went astray, Roucher was transformed from hunter to game manager, working to reverse the chamois’ decline.
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read moreDuration: 6:20Published: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:03:08 +0000
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This is the"feeding call" of a Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) at a Heliconia flower at El Gavilan lodge, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui (Costa Rica), 6/18/99.
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White-fronted Parrots (Amazona albifrons) in Costa Rica. They are fairly common in this country.
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Can painted wooden fish on a schoolyard fence change human behavior and help clean up the ocean for the real salmon? Stream of Dreams in British Columbia thinks so, and a lot of wooden fish and some 100,000 school kids later, they have some intriguing results to show for their effort. Image: Willoughby Elementary School, Stream of Dreams Mural
Podcast transcript read moreDuration: 4:21Published: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:19:33 +0000