Creature Comforts

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson , and  Libby Hartfield,  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. We’re happy to welcome Tom Mann, conservation biologist with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. He joins us to talk about salamanders cross...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. With the holiday season underway, we’re turning our attention skyward to one of the longest-running citizen science efforts in the world: the Christm...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. With Thanksgiving approaching, we’re talking today about an avian species as synonymous with the season as Santa is to Christmas: the turkey! Despite...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Navigating through the sky in the dark of night, bats are some of the more fascinating animals we can find here in Mississippi. They’ve inspired folk...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. From irradiated bites giving you super powers to a wise lady named Charlotte spouting wisdom as she churns her web, spiders have been a significant p...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today on Creature Comforts, it’s a special drive time episode that we’ve put together of some of our best and most informative moments from shows abo...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. If you look closely enough, you’ll notice that many of our critter friends are astonishingly good construction workers. From the inner workings of a...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked about the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science a bit but have yet to mention its expansive aquarium system whi...

On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your ca...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Since they were founded in 2020, the Banding Coalition of the Americas has pushed our scientific knowledge of bird migration to new heights, and as p...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. For ten years now, the Lefleur’s Museum District in Jackson has been home to Science Fest: a massive event featuring the collaboration of the Ag Muse...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The autumn season is almost upon us, so it’s nearing time to trade in your sunscreen and towels for rakes and long-sleeves. As summer swiftly approac...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. From our creeks, lakes, and ponds; to our roads, suburbs, and driveways, the people of Mississippi can encounter a turtle just about anywhere. So, to...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Here’s a riddle for you to kick off our show this morning: flying without feathers and singing without a voice, as today’s subject of Creature Comfor...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Last week on Creature Comforts Pet Day, we discussed a few August holidays and celebrations pertaining to our animals, and in that discussion, we bro...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Our state contains many species of plants and insects scattered throughout its borders, but though they may all call Mississippi home, some actually...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The people of Mississippi are all too familiar with our subject for today’s show. Whether you experience them in passing while driving down the road,...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory aims to inform visitors and the public about coastal ecosystems through the M...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Our colleagues here at MPB have recently been working on a project of re-airing and digitizing some of our older shows, and in that process, they une...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Recently, many of Mississippi’s State Lakes have reopened after renovation. This coupled with the coming summer months means the lakes are primed for...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Last week to open Creature Comforts, we discussed a few animal holidays and celebrations taking place this month. Among those we talked about, we cel...