The Wild with Chris Morgan
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"THE WILD with Chris Morgan" explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and around the world, host Chris Morgan explores wildlife and the complex web of ecosystems they inhabit. He also tells the stories of people working in and protecting the wild around us.
Radio: KUOW 94.9 FM
Categories: Science & Medicine
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Nature writer Leigh Ann Henion has spent countless hours uncovering mysteries of the darkness that unfold while we’re asleep. She’s explored bats, moths, glow worms, spotted salamanders, and she’s written a new book about it called Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark.
Today, Chris talks with Leigh Ann Henion about what we can find in the darkness and how we can preserve it, even from our own back porch.
This show would not be possible without listener support. You can help us continue to create this special storytelling by donating at kuow.org/donate/thewild. Thank you.
THE WILD is a production of KUOW, Chris Morgan Wildlife, and the NPR Network. This episode was produced by Lucy Soucek and edited by Jim Gates. The Wild is hosted, produced and written by Chris Morgan. Fact checking by Apryle Craig. Our theme music is by Michael Parker.
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Previous episodes
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161 - Leigh Ann Henion: Darkness, and the creatures of the night Tue, 12 Nov 2024
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160 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Fireflies in synchrony Tue, 05 Nov 2024
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159 - Caroline Tracey: How this tiny bird could save salt lakes Tue, 29 Oct 2024
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158 - Chris remembers Bear 399 Wed, 23 Oct 2024
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157 - Everglades National Park: Invasion of the Burmese pythons (reprise) Tue, 22 Oct 2024
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156 - Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Toxic wasteland to ecological champion Tue, 15 Oct 2024
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155 - The Wild presents The Wide Open: Balancing the needs of endangered species and humans Tue, 01 Oct 2024
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154 - The Wild presents Outside/In: Not everyone is wild about wild horses Tue, 17 Sep 2024
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153 - Goodbye chemical weapons, hello burrowing owls (reprise) Tue, 27 Aug 2024
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152 - These Italian bears survived gladiators and Mussolini (reprise) Tue, 20 Aug 2024
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151 - True grit: the wild wolverine (reprise) Tue, 13 Aug 2024
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150 - Eily Andruszkiewicz Allan: The magic of eDNA Tue, 06 Aug 2024
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149 - Death Valley National Park: Diving for fish in the hottest place on Earth Tue, 30 Jul 2024
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148 - Digital Dr. Dolittle: decoding animal conversations with artificial intelligence (reprise) Tue, 23 Jul 2024
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147 - Dan Blumstein: Fear and listening to your inner marmot Tue, 16 Jul 2024
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146 - North Cascades National Park: The wolf comes home Tue, 09 Jul 2024
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145 - The wildlife super dog (reprise) Tue, 02 Jul 2024
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144 - Stories from THE WILD Tue, 25 Jun 2024
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143 - Biscayne National Park: Raising baby corals in America's barrier reef Tue, 18 Jun 2024
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142 - There's a cougar in my backyard (reprise) Tue, 11 Jun 2024
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141 - Ben Goldfarb: How America’s roads alter our ecology Tue, 04 Jun 2024
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140 - Redwood National Park: Saving the tallest trees on Earth Tue, 28 May 2024
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139 - Welcome back to THE WILD for Season 6 Tue, 14 May 2024
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138 - Grizzlies coming back to the North Cascades Fri, 26 Apr 2024
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126 - Broadcast: In search of silence Tue, 07 Nov 2023
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125 - Broadcast: Leave it to beavers Tue, 31 Oct 2023
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124 - Broadcast: How to stay safe in the wild Tue, 24 Oct 2023
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123 - Broadcast: How to catch a grizzly Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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122 - The polar bears of Hudson Bay: cubs, climate, and calories, part 2 Tue, 20 Jun 2023
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121 - The polar bears of Hudson Bay: cubs, climate, and calories, part 1 Tue, 06 Jun 2023
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120 - Urban Coyote Tue, 23 May 2023
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119 - Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 2 Tue, 09 May 2023
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118 - Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 1 Tue, 25 Apr 2023
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117 - The worst wedding gift in history: an Irish tale of predator helps prey Tue, 11 Apr 2023
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116 - Digital Dr. Dolittle: decoding animal conversations with artificial intelligence Tue, 28 Mar 2023
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115 - Eavesdropping on orcas: love, grief, and family Tue, 14 Mar 2023
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114 - Season 5 Trailer Fri, 24 Feb 2023
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113 - A short check-in from Chris Wed, 07 Dec 2022
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112 - The fiery spell of Desolation Fri, 01 Jul 2022
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111 - Make it like it was: Clean, cold and flowing Gold Creek of Snoqualmie Pass Tue, 21 Jun 2022
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110 - Etuaptmumk: Two Eyed Seeing Tue, 07 Jun 2022
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109 - Coral reefs: a biological symphony being silenced Mon, 23 May 2022
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108 - Hard Knocks: Lessons from the woodpecker Tue, 10 May 2022
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107 - Nuclear sea otters: A wildlife refugee story Tue, 26 Apr 2022
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106 - Happy 46th Birthday! An Earth Day message from Chris Fri, 22 Apr 2022
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105 - The Cougar Conundrum Tue, 12 Apr 2022
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104 - True grit: the wild wolverine Tue, 29 Mar 2022
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103 - The Comeback Cat: Spain’s Iberian lynx Tue, 15 Mar 2022
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102 - How to love a shark Tue, 01 Mar 2022
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101 - The secret lives of giraffes and the woman who studied them Tue, 15 Feb 2022