Here is a selection of recent noteworthy podcast episodes featuring interviews with authors of natural history books as well as a newly launched botany podcast and a bit of nature-originating auditory mind massage to help with relaxation.
In 2018, when the Southern Resident Orca given the human name of Tahlequah by observers gave birth to a calf that soon died and that she subsequently carried on her head for seventeen days, endangering her own life in the process due to the difficulties the act caused in her eating enough to recover from the birth, journalists from around the world flooded the airwaves and Internet with stories of her mourning, her sorrow, her grief, how much she was like a human mother whose own child had died.
Of all the creatures with which humans have been associated – both physically as well as spiritually – from times that long predate written records, bears have been among the foremost. The source of both fear as well as of fascination; alternately hated and revered, bears have for millennia been the embodiment of our nightmares as well as of our greatest desires for power within as well as over our environment.
It was when I took up walking in the very early mornings in order to improve my health that I came to better understand the local deer. Columbia Blacktails, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, are abundant around our Pacific Northwest home, being particularly visible in the hours just before and after sunrise. Each day, as I set […]