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Ten Things I Like About... Podcast

Kiersten Gibizov

This is a 10 minute, 10 episode podcast about unknown or misunderstood wildlife.

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06:02

Tanuki - Japanese Racoon Dog

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2024/05/29

Summary: A raccoon that’s a dog? Not exactly. Join Kiersten as she introduces you to the Tanuki.For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: Biology and Conservation of Wild Canids, edited by David W. Macdonald and Claudio Sillero-Zubiri. Raccoon dogs: Finnish and Japanese raccoon dogs - on the road to speciation?” By Kaarina Kauhala and Midair Saeki, pgs 217-226. https://static1.squarespace.com Music written and

07:21

Slime Mold: Conservation, Control, and More Cool Facts

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2024/05/08

Summary: Want more cool facts about slime mold? Who doesn’t!? Join Kiersten for more unbelievable facts about slime mold.For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: “Slime Molds: No Brains, No Feet, No Problem,” Science Thursday. PBS. https://www.pbs.org “100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold,” University of Gottingen. Science Daily. https://www.sciencedaily.com “Slime Molds” by

08:32

Slime Mold: Make Good Pets?

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2024/05/01

Summary: Looking for an easy care but unusual pet? Slime mold might be just what you’re looking for! Join Kiersten as she talks about slime molds as pets.For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: “Slime Molds: No Brains, No Feet, No Problem,” Science Thursday. PBS. https://www.pbs.org The Slime Mould Collective, https://slimoco.ning.com Carolina Biological Supply Company, https://www.carolina.com Slime Moulds: The

08:56

Slime Mold: Intelligence

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2024/04/24

Summary: Can an organism without a brain be smart? You bet! Join Kiersten as she discusses some of the smart things slime mold can do. For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: “Slime Molds” by Dr. Sharon M. Douglas, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. https://portal.ct.gov “Eight smart things slime molds can do without a brain,” by Alissa Greenberg. Nova,

10:13

Slime Mold: Diet

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2024/03/27

Summary: Slime mold eats some pretty interesting stuff, but how it finds it’s food is they really fascinating part. Join Kiersten as she talks about who slime mold eats.For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: “Slime Molds” by Dr. Sharon M. Douglas, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. https://portal.ct.gov “Slime Mould,” by Thomas J. Volk, in Encyclopedia of

11:05

World Pangolin Day

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2024/02/17

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 episode is the first of ten about the amazing pangolin. Show Notes: References for this episode - The

10:21

Echidna: Conservation

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2024/01/24

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://iecl.libguides.com “The Long-beaked Echidna: can we save the earth’s oldest living mammal?”, by Andrew

09:30

Echidnas: Electro-Senses

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2024/01/17

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 Zhang, Frank Grutzner, Hire Imai. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 39, Issue 6, June 2022

08:20

Echidna: Dreamers?

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2024/01/10

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. R. Soc. London, B (1998) 353, 1147-1157. “The Echidna Tachyglossus aculeates Combines REM and Non-REM

09:23

Echidna: Social Structure

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2024/01/03

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 Ranges, Movement, and Den Use in Long-beaked Echidnas, Zaglossus bartoni, From Papua New Guinea,” by

08:29

Echidna: Spines

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2023/12/28

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 Development in Echidna (Monotremata, Mammalia) Indicate the Spines Precede Hairs in Ontogeny,” by Lorenzo

06:30

Echidna: Defense

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2023/12/21

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.libguides.com Eastern long-beaked echidna, Animalia, https://animlia.bio Music written and performed by

09:27

Echidna: Reproduction

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2023/12/14

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 Geographic, August 6, 2021. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au “Getting out of a mammalian egg: the egg

09:02

Echidna: Diet and Digestion

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2023/12/06

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.libguides.com “Characterizing the Gut Microbiomes in Wild and Captive Short-Beaked Echidnas Reveals

09:35

Echidna: Habitat

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2023/11/29

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,” by Muse D.Opiang. Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 90,Issue 2, 14 April 2009, pages 340-346.

10:06

Echidna: Modern Enigma

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2023/11/23

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. https://ww.pbs.org “The Creature Feature: 10 Fun Facts About the Echidna,” by Mary Bates, Wired, Jul 3,

10:53

Rattlesnakes: Conservation

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2023/11/09

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://cwhi.vet.cornell.edu IUCN Red List, https://www.iucnredlist.org “Timber Rattlesnakes” Pennsylvania DCNR,

10:36

Rattlesnakes: Myths Part 2

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2023/11/01

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 Levin Music written and performed by Katherine Camp Transcript (Piano music plays) Kiersten - This is

10:56

Rattlesnakes: Rattle

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2023/10/25

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 Do Rattlesnakes Rattle?” By Cameron Duke, Live Science, August 12, 2023.

12:29

Rattlesnakes: Hunting and Catching Prey

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2023/10/18

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://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/pit-vipers-can-detect-prey-via-heat “Snakes’ Flexible,

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