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Black Bears Will Blow Your Mind! (with Benjamin Kilham)
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Black bears have a very strong public image as lone roaming, dangerous and mindless eating machines - here's something that will completely change the way you look at them!
Benjamin Kilham, author of In the Company of Bears: What Black Bears Have Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition, has been studying and living with them for many years and has a connection and insight into their society that almost no one else has. Mother bears punishing cubs, sharing with family members, language, standing up to bears in the wild and so much more!
Important Times:
00:10 Intro
02:50 Welcome Benjamin! What caused you to start studying bears?
04:20 Your first bear encounter
06:40 Rehabilitating black bears and keeping bear cubs
10:15 Bear scent: how do they use their sense of smell?
15:50 Sharing resources and being social: bears share with family members
22:10 Your friend Squirty the bear
25:40 Do the bears you raise see you as a parent? How she punishes bad behavior
29:50 They can read people, highly cognitive animals
34:55 Males vs female bears
38:45 Bear hazing - helping bears caught around people
40:20 Communicating with the bears in the way they understand
42:05 Alpha males
45:10 What do you do if you run into a bear in the wild? Deescalate the situation
50:10 Attacks on humans
52:45 Backyard chickens are drawing the bears closer to humans
54:50 Hunting black bears and population
59:40 One thing you wish people understood about bears
01:02:35 Male bears and cubs
01:05:25 There's so much more to learn, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Black bears have a very strong public image as lone roaming, dangerous and mindless eating machines - here's something that will completely change the way you look at them!
Benjamin Kilham, author of In the Company of Bears: What Black Bears Have Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition, has been studying and living with them for many years and has a connection and insight into their society that almost no one else has. Mother bears punishing cubs, sharing with family members, language, standing up to bears in the wild and so much more!
Important Times:
00:10 Intro
02:50 Welcome Benjamin! What caused you to start studying bears?
04:20 Your first bear encounter
06:40 Rehabilitating black bears and keeping bear cubs
10:15 Bear scent: how do they use their sense of smell?
15:50 Sharing resources and being social: bears share with family members
22:10 Your friend Squirty the bear
25:40 Do the bears you raise see you as a parent? How she punishes bad behavior
29:50 They can read people, highly cognitive animals
34:55 Males vs female bears
38:45 Bear hazing - helping bears caught around people
40:20 Communicating with the bears in the way they understand
42:05 Alpha males
45:10 What do you do if you run into a bear in the wild? Deescalate the situation
50:10 Attacks on humans
52:45 Backyard chickens are drawing the bears closer to humans
54:50 Hunting black bears and population
59:40 One thing you wish people understood about bears
01:02:35 Male bears and cubs
01:05:25 There's so much more to learn, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
09/07/22 • 67 min
Port and Starboard, 2 affectionately named Orca's that have been visiting Cape Town's shores over the past few years seem to be responsible for the disappearance of the once common Great White Sharks! Are these 2 individuals really responsible for chasing them ALL away? Join Martin as he shares his thoughts about a recent study that found that these whales were linked with the disappearance of the Great Whites.
Orca's are incredibly intelligent animals, come learn more about them!
Important Times:
- 00:10 Hello and welcome!
- 01:20 Shark Shield
- 02:40 Orca's and Great White Sharks
- 04:15 Why are the sharks disappearing?
- 07:00 Orca brains
- 09:50 They are very culturally specific and don't mix with other groups and hunting styles
- 12:45 The findings of the study done in South Africa
- 15:35 What are Great White Sharks most scared of?
- 17:20 An alternative theory
Port and Starboard, 2 affectionately named Orca's that have been visiting Cape Town's shores over the past few years seem to be responsible for the disappearance of the once common Great White Sharks! Are these 2 individuals really responsible for chasing them ALL away? Join Martin as he shares his thoughts about a recent study that found that these whales were linked with the disappearance of the Great Whites.
Orca's are incredibly intelligent animals, come learn more about them!
Important Times:
- 00:10 Hello and welcome!
- 01:20 Shark Shield
- 02:40 Orca's and Great White Sharks
- 04:15 Why are the sharks disappearing?
- 07:00 Orca brains
- 09:50 They are very culturally specific and don't mix with other groups and hunting styles
- 12:45 The findings of the study done in South Africa
- 15:35 What are Great White Sharks most scared of?
- 17:20 An alternative theory
07/20/22 • 19 min
Path Of The Puma (with Jim Williams)
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Jim Williams, author of Path Of The Puma, is on the show this week! Find out all about mountain lions, where they live, how they hunt and a bunch of interesting facts about them! They are very interesting creatures that are spread over a large area, come and learn about the similarities and differences between them and other big cats and how their relationship to humans is changing. You can find out more about his book here: www.pathofthepuma.comCheck out All Things Wild YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UC5_MH_H-LW9ZUBR-layMc6w
- 01:10 Hello and welcome to the show!
- 02:55 Welcome Jim Williams
- 03:30 You wrote a book, The Path Of The Puma
- 04:40 It is an audio book too, how long did it take to make?
- 06:15 You started out in marine biology?
- 10:00 Decline in kelp forests and Great White sharks
- 12:25 From working with dolphins to studying mountain lions?!
- 18:25 What was it like working with dolphins? Do you think that zoos and aquariums are still necessary?
- 25:40 Tell us about the Mountain Lion habitat
- 30:00 Most of the time we don’t know they are around
- 32:40 Great tracking story
- 34:30 How do they compare to leopards?
- 36:40 Jaguars
- 37:55 Regional differences between the same species
- 40:45 Mountain lion conservation should be an easier thing to get right
- 42:30 People and mountain lions
- 46:05 The hunters are leading the conservation for these cats
- 50:55 Predator vs prey ratio
- 55:25 Predators keep the food chain stable
- 59:40 Glacier National Park
- 01:02:30 Thank you for being on the show! Your last thoughts
Jim Williams, author of Path Of The Puma, is on the show this week! Find out all about mountain lions, where they live, how they hunt and a bunch of interesting facts about them! They are very interesting creatures that are spread over a large area, come and learn about the similarities and differences between them and other big cats and how their relationship to humans is changing. You can find out more about his book here: www.pathofthepuma.comCheck out All Things Wild YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UC5_MH_H-LW9ZUBR-layMc6w
- 01:10 Hello and welcome to the show!
- 02:55 Welcome Jim Williams
- 03:30 You wrote a book, The Path Of The Puma
- 04:40 It is an audio book too, how long did it take to make?
- 06:15 You started out in marine biology?
- 10:00 Decline in kelp forests and Great White sharks
- 12:25 From working with dolphins to studying mountain lions?!
- 18:25 What was it like working with dolphins? Do you think that zoos and aquariums are still necessary?
- 25:40 Tell us about the Mountain Lion habitat
- 30:00 Most of the time we don’t know they are around
- 32:40 Great tracking story
- 34:30 How do they compare to leopards?
- 36:40 Jaguars
- 37:55 Regional differences between the same species
- 40:45 Mountain lion conservation should be an easier thing to get right
- 42:30 People and mountain lions
- 46:05 The hunters are leading the conservation for these cats
- 50:55 Predator vs prey ratio
- 55:25 Predators keep the food chain stable
- 59:40 Glacier National Park
- 01:02:30 Thank you for being on the show! Your last thoughts
03/02/22 • 64 min
Today's interview is with Dr Eduardo Mercado, a professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo in New York. He is interested in how humans and animal brains change when they learn new things, and more specifically to study animal cognition and in particular dolphin cognition. He has come across some startling new evidence that could rewrite a lot of what we know about Humpback whales and large cetaceans alike. Listen in on our interview as we find out Dr Mercado’s answer to “why do Humpback whales sing?”.
Find his research here!
Check out All Things Wild YouTube here:
https://youtube.com/channel/UC5_MH_H-LW9ZUBR-layMc6w
Important Times:
- 00:10 Intro
- 01:15 Welcome Dr Mercado! Please tell us about yourself and what you study
- 02:00 How did you end up studying dolphins and whales?
- 04:35 So why do Humpback whales sing?
- 06:05 Are these like bird songs?
- 07:55 Other whales sing predictable and similar songs
- 09:20 Regional differences
- 11:55 What are the problems with the current accepted theories?
- 16:50 Humpback mating has never been observed before
- 18:15 Mating season
- 22:45 So what do you think they are doing?
- 27:00 Mapping the ocean’s whales
- 30:55 What are the sounds they use? Tell us about the songs themselves
- 32:30 What do you want to happen next with this research?
- 34:50 Great experiment idea
- 36:30 Convincing people and standing up to pushback from the scientific community
- 39:30 Whale ears
- 42:00 Echolocation controversy
- 45:55 What are your next steps?
- 47:40 How can people follow your research?
- 49:25 Outro
Today's interview is with Dr Eduardo Mercado, a professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo in New York. He is interested in how humans and animal brains change when they learn new things, and more specifically to study animal cognition and in particular dolphin cognition. He has come across some startling new evidence that could rewrite a lot of what we know about Humpback whales and large cetaceans alike. Listen in on our interview as we find out Dr Mercado’s answer to “why do Humpback whales sing?”.
Find his research here!
Check out All Things Wild YouTube here:
https://youtube.com/channel/UC5_MH_H-LW9ZUBR-layMc6w
Important Times:
- 00:10 Intro
- 01:15 Welcome Dr Mercado! Please tell us about yourself and what you study
- 02:00 How did you end up studying dolphins and whales?
- 04:35 So why do Humpback whales sing?
- 06:05 Are these like bird songs?
- 07:55 Other whales sing predictable and similar songs
- 09:20 Regional differences
- 11:55 What are the problems with the current accepted theories?
- 16:50 Humpback mating has never been observed before
- 18:15 Mating season
- 22:45 So what do you think they are doing?
- 27:00 Mapping the ocean’s whales
- 30:55 What are the sounds they use? Tell us about the songs themselves
- 32:30 What do you want to happen next with this research?
- 34:50 Great experiment idea
- 36:30 Convincing people and standing up to pushback from the scientific community
- 39:30 Whale ears
- 42:00 Echolocation controversy
- 45:55 What are your next steps?
- 47:40 How can people follow your research?
- 49:25 Outro
02/08/22 • 50 min
Captain David Hochman is a competitive freediver and has competed in spearfishing competitions since 1996. In 2003, he and his Three-Man team won the United States National Spear Fishing Championship beating 130 of the top competitors in the US. He has captained boats in the Block Island sound for 26 years and has 31 years of boat handling and spearfishing experience. Through his company Spear-it Charters, he runs premiere spearfishing charters to Block Island, RI. Block Island is the best location in the country for fishing striped bass and hosts a wide array of species. We cover TONS of topics from spearfishing with sharks, preventing shallow water black out, the ethics of spearfishing, issues with commercial fishing, and what is known about striped bass (to list a few). There are a lot of cool stories contained in this episode. Enjoy!
Links from episode:
Spear-it Charters
Check out All Things Wild YouTube here: https://youtube.com/channel/UC5_MH_H-LW9ZUBR-layMc6w
Captain David Hochman is a competitive freediver and has competed in spearfishing competitions since 1996. In 2003, he and his Three-Man team won the United States National Spear Fishing Championship beating 130 of the top competitors in the US. He has captained boats in the Block Island sound for 26 years and has 31 years of boat handling and spearfishing experience. Through his company Spear-it Charters, he runs premiere spearfishing charters to Block Island, RI. Block Island is the best location in the country for fishing striped bass and hosts a wide array of species. We cover TONS of topics from spearfishing with sharks, preventing shallow water black out, the ethics of spearfishing, issues with commercial fishing, and what is known about striped bass (to list a few). There are a lot of cool stories contained in this episode. Enjoy!
Links from episode:
Spear-it Charters
Check out All Things Wild YouTube here: https://youtube.com/channel/UC5_MH_H-LW9ZUBR-layMc6w
07/29/21 • 66 min
Wild City (with Thomas Hynes)
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Tom is a writer whose work has been featured in Scientific American, Sierra Club, The Awl, Gothamist, Business Insider, Atlas Obscura, and Untapped New York. His book Wild City is an illustrated guide to 40 of the most well-known, surprising, notorious, mythical, and sublime non-human citizens of New York City, and love letter to its surprising ecological diversity. Wild City tells the funny, quirky, and memorable stories of forty of New York City’s most surprising nonhuman citizens. In today's episode we talk about a few of the interesting stories about wild life and New York featured in the book. One a more personal note, I truly enjoyed this book and if you are interested in New York City or wild life you will not be disappointed. Grab your copy! Link below.
Wild City
Tom is a writer whose work has been featured in Scientific American, Sierra Club, The Awl, Gothamist, Business Insider, Atlas Obscura, and Untapped New York. His book Wild City is an illustrated guide to 40 of the most well-known, surprising, notorious, mythical, and sublime non-human citizens of New York City, and love letter to its surprising ecological diversity. Wild City tells the funny, quirky, and memorable stories of forty of New York City’s most surprising nonhuman citizens. In today's episode we talk about a few of the interesting stories about wild life and New York featured in the book. One a more personal note, I truly enjoyed this book and if you are interested in New York City or wild life you will not be disappointed. Grab your copy! Link below.
Wild City
06/18/21 • 60 min
Coyote Teacher pt. 1 (with Geri Vistein)
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Geri Vistein is a Conservation Biologist whose focus is on carnivores and their vital role in maintaining the biodiversity of our planet. Her work centers on educating her community in Maine about carnivores, their ecology, complex cultures and history, and how we can coexist with them. She is the Founder of Coyote Center for Carnivore Ecology and Coexistence whose mission is to share with community members the science of our returning carnivores and the skills to live well with them. In today’s episode we talk about the natural history of the coyote as a native North American canid, shifts in coyotes range distribution throughout its ancient history, as well as in response to the arrival of Europeans, the unique biology of coyotes that has allowed them to survive and expand their territories during efforts to eradicate predators by early European Americans through efforts to “control” coyote populations today. We also discuss the new role coyotes are playing in ecosystems that have been disrupted by the extinction of apex predators, how humans and coyotes can coexist, and new legislation her organization is presenting to the Maine legislature to restrict using dogs to hunt coyotes and other cruel measures that are currently practiced in parts of the state.
Links from Episode:
Geri Vistein’s educational websites: www.CoyoteLivesinMaine.org and www.FarmingwithCarnivoresNetwork.com
Geri Vistein L.L. Bean Speaker Series
The following videos are graphic and may be disturbing. This is real footage of recreation that occurs legally in many parts of the United States.
Geri Vistein is a Conservation Biologist whose focus is on carnivores and their vital role in maintaining the biodiversity of our planet. Her work centers on educating her community in Maine about carnivores, their ecology, complex cultures and history, and how we can coexist with them. She is the Founder of Coyote Center for Carnivore Ecology and Coexistence whose mission is to share with community members the science of our returning carnivores and the skills to live well with them. In today’s episode we talk about the natural history of the coyote as a native North American canid, shifts in coyotes range distribution throughout its ancient history, as well as in response to the arrival of Europeans, the unique biology of coyotes that has allowed them to survive and expand their territories during efforts to eradicate predators by early European Americans through efforts to “control” coyote populations today. We also discuss the new role coyotes are playing in ecosystems that have been disrupted by the extinction of apex predators, how humans and coyotes can coexist, and new legislation her organization is presenting to the Maine legislature to restrict using dogs to hunt coyotes and other cruel measures that are currently practiced in parts of the state.
Links from Episode:
Geri Vistein’s educational websites: www.CoyoteLivesinMaine.org and www.FarmingwithCarnivoresNetwork.com
Geri Vistein L.L. Bean Speaker Series
The following videos are graphic and may be disturbing. This is real footage of recreation that occurs legally in many parts of the United States.
05/29/21 • 50 min
Africa's Wild Elephants (with Dr. Phyllis Lee)
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Professor Phyllis Lee is the director of science for the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, which was started in 1972 by Cynthia Moss and is the longest running study of wild elephants anywhere in the world. Phyllis has been carrying out field research on animal behavior since 1975 and has been studying the elephants of Amboseli since1982. She has collaborated with a number of researchers working on forest and Asian elephants as well as primates from around the world and she is the author of over 80 journal publications. In this episode we speak about what has been learned through this long-term study of individual wild elephants and what is still unknown. We speak extensively about the wide range of behaviors elephants engage in that highlights the unique personalities of each individual animal. We also speak about the different modalities of elephant communication, the dynamics of elephant social structure, the phenomena of “Musth” in bull elephants, and the challenges mother elephants face raising their young in the wilderness of Kenya.
Links for Episode
Professor Phyllis Lee is the director of science for the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, which was started in 1972 by Cynthia Moss and is the longest running study of wild elephants anywhere in the world. Phyllis has been carrying out field research on animal behavior since 1975 and has been studying the elephants of Amboseli since1982. She has collaborated with a number of researchers working on forest and Asian elephants as well as primates from around the world and she is the author of over 80 journal publications. In this episode we speak about what has been learned through this long-term study of individual wild elephants and what is still unknown. We speak extensively about the wide range of behaviors elephants engage in that highlights the unique personalities of each individual animal. We also speak about the different modalities of elephant communication, the dynamics of elephant social structure, the phenomena of “Musth” in bull elephants, and the challenges mother elephants face raising their young in the wilderness of Kenya.
Links for Episode
05/03/21 • 59 min
Unlocking the Cage (with Kevin Schneider)
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Kevin Schneider is the Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project. The NhRP was featured in the documentary Unlocking the Cage and works to secure fundamental rights for nonhuman animals through litigation, legislation, and education. Specifically, the NhRP is involved in ongoing litigation to change the common law status of great apes, elephants, dolphins, and whales from mere “things” to “legal persons” that possess such fundamental rights as bodily liberty and bodily integrity. Kevin earned his law degree from Florida State University in 2013 with a specialization in environmental and land use law. He graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in 2009. We discuss the differences between animal welfare laws and rights, the history of habeas corpus, the legal definition and application of personhood, the clients of the NhRP, and the common counter arguments of opponents to legal rights for nonhuman animals.
Links from episode
Kevin Schneider is the Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project. The NhRP was featured in the documentary Unlocking the Cage and works to secure fundamental rights for nonhuman animals through litigation, legislation, and education. Specifically, the NhRP is involved in ongoing litigation to change the common law status of great apes, elephants, dolphins, and whales from mere “things” to “legal persons” that possess such fundamental rights as bodily liberty and bodily integrity. Kevin earned his law degree from Florida State University in 2013 with a specialization in environmental and land use law. He graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in 2009. We discuss the differences between animal welfare laws and rights, the history of habeas corpus, the legal definition and application of personhood, the clients of the NhRP, and the common counter arguments of opponents to legal rights for nonhuman animals.
Links from episode
04/25/21 • 65 min
Reef Shark Society! (with Yannis Papastamatiou)
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Yannis Papastamatiou definitely studies one of the coolest animals in the world: Reef Sharks! We talk about all things Reef Sharks, the many different types, new info on their body language, communication and what their society is like.
Yannis tells us about his research and theories on these interesting animals! When you hear sharks, you don’t think of social animals - this should change your mind!
Follow him on Instagram @yannispapastamatiou
Important Times:
- 00:10 Intro
- 00:55 Welcome Yannis! What is your background with sharks?
- 02:25 Are sharks ‘social animals’?
- 04:25 What species of shark are we talking about?
- 05:10 Tell us about Reef Sharks - are they one species or many different ones?
- 06:25 Notorious body language
- 07:05 Attacking scuba divers or is it spearfishing?
- 09:20 Do sharks form schools? School vs Shoal
- 10:00 Some sharks seem to become friends
- 11:30 How many sharks did you tag and how did you study them?
- 13:35 Night time activity
- 17:50 What fish do they eat? Do they target weaker fish?
- 20:05 Sharks behaving similar to sharks
- 22:35 Why do they pick friends?
- 24:35 The mystery of shark pups: where are they?!
- 27:25 Thanks for your time!
Yannis Papastamatiou definitely studies one of the coolest animals in the world: Reef Sharks! We talk about all things Reef Sharks, the many different types, new info on their body language, communication and what their society is like.
Yannis tells us about his research and theories on these interesting animals! When you hear sharks, you don’t think of social animals - this should change your mind!
Follow him on Instagram @yannispapastamatiou
Important Times:
- 00:10 Intro
- 00:55 Welcome Yannis! What is your background with sharks?
- 02:25 Are sharks ‘social animals’?
- 04:25 What species of shark are we talking about?
- 05:10 Tell us about Reef Sharks - are they one species or many different ones?
- 06:25 Notorious body language
- 07:05 Attacking scuba divers or is it spearfishing?
- 09:20 Do sharks form schools? School vs Shoal
- 10:00 Some sharks seem to become friends
- 11:30 How many sharks did you tag and how did you study them?
- 13:35 Night time activity
- 17:50 What fish do they eat? Do they target weaker fish?
- 20:05 Sharks behaving similar to sharks
- 22:35 Why do they pick friends?
- 24:35 The mystery of shark pups: where are they?!
- 27:25 Thanks for your time!
07/07/22 • 30 min
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