Black Friday is the official kickoff for the holiday buying season. As a conservationist, I know that buying stuff is inherently bad for the planet. But as the daughter of a family business, I know …
#32: Clearing Up Coyote Misconceptions
What's the deal with coyotes? It seems like people are seeing them more and more and some coyotes have unusual behavior. What's going on? People also seem to really hate them, but do they deserve such …
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#31: Can Coyotes and Humans Replace Apex Predators in the Eastern USA?
This week Colorado citizens voted to reintroduce grey wolves to their state. Historically, grey wolves were all over the west, but currently they are extirpated (locally extinct) throughout most of …
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#30: Eastern Cougars? How to Know if a Species is Really There
This week's episode is inspired by photos posted to a Facebook group. A user posted these photos of part of a deer carcass high in a tree. They asked what animal would cause this? I watched the …
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#29: Cougar Viral Video: Interview with Trail Runner Kyle Burgess
A week ago, I made a YouTube video in response to a cougar "attack/stalking" video that went viral. But what was missing from the cougar viral video is what actually happened. That's where I came in …
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#28: Why Aggressive Elephants? Also, Field Stories, Dung DNA, and Elephant Conservation
This is the fifth episode in a series all about how I actually studied elephants. For my Ph.D., I studied the social structure and genetic patterns of African forest elephants in Gabon. Here I follow …
