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The Wild Life

An optimistic, curiosity-chasing show about the wonder and wildness of life, following the threads that connect us to the natural world. The Wild Life is, always has been, and always will be a show about the diversity of life within the animal kingdom, but it"s about more than that. It"s about connections. It"s about how the natural world inspires our culture, movies, and technologies. It"s about the patterns that persist throughout not just life, but the universe itself. It"s about us. The Wild

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11:24

SHORT: The Dirty Truth About Butterflies

The Wild Life ·

2019/06/15

Grace is basically synonymous with butterflies. The truth, however, is far...dirtier. Like poop, pee, blood, sweat, and tears dirty. After this, you'll never be able to look at one the same way again. Oh, and also, stay tuned for a big announcement coming soon about the future of the podcast and The Wild Life. You're not going to want to miss it! To read the blog version, visit https://thewildlife.blog/2018/08/18/mud-puddling-the-dirty-truth-about-butterflies/ Become a patron (and our best

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SHORT: The Trouble with Trilobites

The Wild Life ·

2019/06/08

It’s #FossilFriday, and you know what that means—fossils. Big surprise, right? This week, with an unoriginal but begging to be used titular parody on the classic Star Trek episode ‘The Trouble with Tribbles”—we’re talking trilobites!

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48:52

No Brainer

The Wild Life ·

2019/05/21

In the mid-season finale, Devon and Richard talk to Lucas Brotz, research associate at the Marine Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia and a Cnidaria Scientist for Quantitative Aquatics, to discuss how a creature without a brain dominates the worlds oceans, and the many ways they impact our lives.

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18:06

Scattered

The Wild Life ·

2019/02/24

In this episode, Devon and Richard look into the void to unveil the cause of the once mysterious Deep Scattering Layer, taking you on a journey involving covert military research in World War 2, the largest migration on earth, shimmering creatures of the deep (and their food), and an organic machine responsible for capturing carbon and sinking it into the depths of the ocean.

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15:19

Animal Magnetism

The Wild Life ·

2019/02/09

In this episode, Devon and Richard explore the animal magnetism. No, not the kind you might be thinking. Instead, we're talking about the surprisingly common animal superpower which allows creatures all around the world, from the skies to the oceans, to sense the magnetic field of our planet.

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28:23

Ant Farm with Dr Cameron Currie

The Wild Life ·

2019/01/28

We as humans often think of ourselves as unique. In this episode, we discover that we may not be as unique, or advanced, as we thought as we learn about amazing subterranean fungi farmers, cowboy insects, and a 55 million year old relationship that puts our use (or misuse) of antibiotics to shame. Special thanks to our guest for the episode, Dr Cameron Currie of UW-Madison.

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42:02

Is Anybody Out There?

The Wild Life ·

2019/01/12

In the Season 2 premier of The Wild Life, Devon attempts to settle an age old argument between him and his co-host by enlisting the help of renowned biochemist, professor, and author, Dr Nick Lane of the University College of London. The debate: is there complex alien life somewhere out there, or is it improbable that there is anything more than cellular life. We look to the improbable origins of complex life on earth in search of answers.

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SHORT: Plant or Fungi?

The Wild Life ·

2018/12/21

A random find while hiking that lead to a life history story that was unexpectedly fascinating. Read more and see images of the find here: https://thewildlife.blog/2018/09/06/this-ghostly-parasitic-plant-survives-by-hacking-the-wood-wide-web/

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SHORT: Hoarfrost

The Wild Life ·

2018/12/11

In this short, Devon shares a story from thewildlife.blog of a hoarfrost christened hike he had last spring and explains how this magical rock candy frost phenomena occurs.

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SHORT: ATTACK OF THE BYROZOANS

The Wild Life ·

2018/08/21

While we work on Season 2, I decided to begin a sub-series of shorts in which we take some of our most popular blog post and create audio versions. Now, something you may have read on the website (thewildlife.blog)will be available to listen to on the go! Be sure to stay on the lookout for Season 2 snippets and teasers. If you've ever seen a gelatinous blob of ick floating in the water and wondered what type of alien life you were seeing, it was probably a Bryozoan, and they're honestly pretty

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37:46

The Metamorphosis Metaphor

The Wild Life ·

2018/07/27

Starting at a young age, we are all introduced to this idea, an idea that we carry with us and adapt, and reapply as a metaphor for our own lives---this idea of becoming something new, beginning again as something better. But behind this idea is a process, and despite our lifelong exposure, most don’t really know what exactly is going on In the Season 1 Finale of The Wild Life, Devon and Richard expose the mystery of metamorphosis, what happens inside the chrysalis, whether or not a butterfly

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29:39

Leave it to Beavers

The Wild Life ·

2018/07/01

In this episode, Devon and Richard go on a totally real, not-recorded-indoors, time travel adventure to explore the life history of the busiest mammal out there---the beaver. Meet Beatrice the Beaver in the Boundary Waters, a Voyageur in the 1600's and learn about all the ways beavers can impact their environment.

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33:32

The Air We Breathe

The Wild Life ·

2018/05/31

In this episode, Devon and Richard talk to Dr Julie Koester of UNC-Wilmington and Dr Orly Levithan of Rutgers about the truth behind where our oxygen comes from, and the tiny organisms we have to thank for our very existence.

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18:45

Life in the Twilight (Crepuscular) Zone

The Wild Life ·

2018/05/12

Devon and Richard venture into the Twilight Zone, by going on a walk at Twilight, the time between light and dark, to explore what life is like and what has pressured so many animals to take advantage of this peculiar time of day---er, night---the in-between?

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40:44

It's Not Easy Being Green: Canary in the Coal Mine

The Wild Life ·

2018/04/23

In this episode, we tell the story of two Harvard professors with a bucket of frogs and a rooftop, solve the decade old mystery of exploding toads in Germany, explain what was the culprit of frog deformities across the Western US, speak with Dr Voyles about her research on disease ecology and amphibians in Panama, and chat with Dr Konrad Rykaczewski about the inspiration for his antifreeze technology.

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25:51

Taste For Blood: Nature's Vampires

The Wild Life ·

2018/03/24

This episode, we have a story that takes us all the way from Copenhagen, to the rain forest of South America--- from the belly of the beast, to it’s excrement---as we explore nature’s Vampires Our guest is Dr Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza, who recently finished her post doc in Copenhagen, Denmark and whose recently published research on vampire bats and how they survive on such a peculiar diet is at the center of this story.

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23:28

Myth-Understood: Busting Bat Myths

The Wild Life ·

2018/03/06

Belief…belief is an interesting thing. Some of our beliefs are very close to our hearts, untouchable, unchangeable. Some of our beliefs are more flexible, changing if you have some kind of evidence or experience that can convince you otherwise. Belief can be harmless and belief can be harmful. Belief can be truth and it can be myth. This week, we are going off format in the first of an intermittent series we are calling Myth-Understood in which we explore commonly believed myths about different

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Love and Loneliness

The Wild Life ·

2018/02/10

In S1E1, Devon and Richard tell the story of Nigel "No Mates" the lonely Gannet, explore the reason behind a massive crab migration, and share this weeks Animal Sound of the Week!

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