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Summary: Where can you find slime molds. Everywhere! Join Kiersten as she tells you the best places to look for slime mold.   Show Notes:  “Introduction to the Slime Molds” UC Berkeley “What is Slime Mold?” By Stephen C. George. Discover Magazine, Apr 21, 2023. https://www.discovermagazine.com “Slime Molds” by Dr. Sharon M. Douglas, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricu...

Summary: Yuck! What is that goopy, gross pile of snot?! It’s Slime Mold! Join Kiersten as she reveals slime mold.   Show Notes:  “Introduction to the Slime Molds” UC Berkeley “What is Slime Mold?” By Stephen C. George. Discover Magazine, Apr 21, 2023. https://www.discovermagazine.com “Slime Molds” by Dr. Sharon M. Douglas, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Exp...

Today is World Pangolin Day! To celebrate this amazing but highly endangered animal, we’re reposting the first episode of our series on pangolins. Please enjoy and go back and listen to the rest of the series to learn more about the pangolin!    Originally Aired:  9/14/2022   Pangolin Scales Summary: Join Kiersten as she talks about her first favorite thing about pangolins, their scales! This epis...

Episode 65: Echidna: Conservation Summary: What does the future of the echidna look like? Join Kiersten as she discusses echidna conservation   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeates) Fact Sheet: Population and Conservation Status, San Diego Wildlife Alliance Library. https:...

Summary: Some echidna senses don’t make much sense, but they’re really cool! Join Kiersten as she discusses echidna senses.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   “Functional Diversity and Evolution of Bitter Taste Receptors in Egg-Laying Mammals,” by Akihito Itoigawa, Akashi Hayakawa, Yang Zhou, Adrian D. Manning, Goujie Zhan...

Summary: Do echidnas dream? Join Kiersten as she travels into the sleep cycles of the echidna to find out if they dream.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  “Monotremes and the evolution of rapid eye movement of sleep,” J. M. Siegel, P. R. Manger, R. Nienhuis, H. M. Fahringer, and J. D. Pettigrew. Phil. Trans....

Summary: Do echidnas ever get on each others nerves? Join Kiersten as she talks about the social structure of echidnas to find out!   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  Short-beaked Echidna. Bush Heritage Australia, https://www.bushheritage.org.au Eastern long-beaked echidna, Animalia, https://animlia.bio “Home...

Summary: Ouch! Echidna spines are no joke! Join Kiersten as she discusses this amazing echidna anatomy.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeates) Fact Sheet: Physical Characteristics, San Diego Wildlife Alliance Library. https://iecl.libguides.com “Observations on Fur Dev...

Summary: Echidnas don’t have a lot of natural predators but they do have some great defense strategies. Join Kiersten as talks defense in echidnas. For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeates) Fact Sheet: Behavior and Ecology, San Diego Wildlife Alliance Library. https://iecl....

Summary: Making baby echidnas is weird! Join Kiersten as she talks echidna baby-making.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  “Echidna penises: Why They’re so Weird,” by Angela Heathcote, Australian Geographic, May 24, 2021. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au “Echidna trains: Explained,” by Australian Geogra...

Summary: We all gotta eat, right? The echidna eats insects. Take a trip with Kiersten as she travels through the digestive track of the echidna.    For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeates) Fact Sheet: Diet and Feeding, San Diego Wildlife Alliance Library. https://iecl.libg...

Summary: Join Kiersten as she takes a closer look at the habitats in which echidnas are found.    For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: Short-beaked Echidna. Bush Heritage Australia, https://www.bushheritage.org.au “Home Ranges, Movement, and Den Use in Long-Beaked Echidnas, Zaglossus Barton, From Papua New Guinea,”...

Summary: Ech-what? Echindas are mammals that break all the rules of Nature! Join Kiersten as she takes us on a journey into the weird world of the echidna.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  “The Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals,” edited by David W. Macdonald Echidna Fact Sheet, March 18, 2022. PBS Nature. ht...

Summary: Rattlesnakes need love too! Join Kiersten as she talks about what threatens the survival of our scaly friends and how we can help.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin “Snake Fungal Disease” Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, https://cw...

Summary: There are sooo many myths about rattlesnakes that Kiersten had to do a second episode! Join Kiersten as she dispels more myths about rattlesnakes.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: Rattlesnake: Portrait of a Predator by Manny Russo America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Le...

Summary: Rattlesnakes are the only types pf snakes with a rattle, hence the name. But how much do you know about the rattle? Join Kiersten as she tells you everything you ever wanted to know about a rattlesnake’s rattle.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: Rattlesnake: Portrait of a Predator by Manny Russo “How...

Summary: Rattlesnakes are excellent hunters, but how do they do it? Join Kiersten as she explains how rattlesnakes hunt and catch their prey.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: Rattlesnake: Portrait of a Predator by Manny Russo “Pit Viper Can Detect Prey Via Heat” by American Museum of Natural History, https://...

Summary: Rattlesnakes are solitary animals. Are you sure? Join Kiersten as she turns what we know about rattlesnake lifestyles on its head.    For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin “Social Lives of Rattlesnakes”, by Rulon Clark. Natural Histor...

Summary: Fangs and venom are two of the amazing adaptations that rattlesnakes are known for and feared for. Join Kiersten as she discusses these two valuable assets.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show notes: America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin Rattlesnake: Portrait of a Predator b...

Summary: There are so many myths about rattlesnakes. Join Kiersten as she dispels some of these harmful myths.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin “Coexisting with Rattlesnakes” by Bryan Hughes. Live lecture through Desert Rivers Audubon....

Summary: How do rattlesnakes make baby rattlesnakes? You might be surprised! Join Kiersten as she gives you a rundown of rattlesnake reproduction.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin Rattlesnake: Portrait of a Predator by Manny Russo Musi...

Summary: Even though rattlesnakes are only found in the New World, there are a plethora of cool species. Join Kiersten as she take a few close up looks at some wicked cool rattlesnakes.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin Rattlesnake: Port...

Summary: Rattlesnakes are terribly misunderstood animals. Join Kiersten as she kicks of this series on rattlesnakes with anatomy   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin Rattlesnake: Portrait of a Predator by Manny Russo Music written and perf...

Summary: Join Kiersten as she talks about the conservation status of the coelacanth and how we can help!   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  https://www.iucnredlist.org “Coelacanth: A Living Fossil From Eons Past (2023 Update),” by Lance Wilkins, Call Outdoors, https://www.calloutdoors.com “Coelacanth, the Famo...

Summary: Join Kiersten as she takes a trip through time with the fossil record of the coelacanth.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: “Coelacanth Fish Fossils, Mawsonia Woodward, 1907,” by Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam, Ali Taher, Mohammad Ahmad, Mostafa Khalaf-Prinz Sakerfalke von Jaffa. https://issuu.com “Th...