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Sound Ecology: Raptors
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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What is a raptor? Naturalist Ken Burton offers up some details on these amazing birds, including addressing the concept of convergent evolution.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tale of Two Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Island life evolves in isolation, and complex relationships develop that can make island ecosystems especially dependent on niche species.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cow Pie Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
RBI: Rapid Biological Inventory
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cod Downsizing
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Followers of fish facts -- especially North Atlantic Cod enthusiasts -- are doing a double-take these days.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tough Times for Pandas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Giant pandas are about as cute as an animal can get -- and, just as endangered.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Holy Batfish!
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Holy algae, batfish, we need you to clean up that reef! When researchers wanted to know what fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was best at rem...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Striped Bass Comeback
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Is Carl Safina, a prominent marine ecologist, up to something fishy?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Setting the Mood for Pandas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Apparently, China's pandas could use some help. It seems that some of the males have lost their moves, their mojo, their get down and boogy...well ...

Bought by KOSU and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Creature Feature: Not a Shrew
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's about the size of a small cat, but looks like a bizarre cross between a miniature antelope and an anteater. Give up?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mosquito Bait From Stinky Socks
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you're doing scientific research!

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wild Bees Do It Better
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Heirloom Gardens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You probably won't find Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Italian frying peppers or Amish Deer Tongue lettuce at your local supermarket. But, a growing commun...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Puffin Stuff
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Bees Tell Elephants "No Loitering"
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you ever need to shoo a herd of elephants out of your backyard, new research suggests that you may want to unleash: the bees!

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Butterflies are Back
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The recent removal of the Bald Eagle from the endangered species list generated lots of excitement. And, another conservation success is giving us ...

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Giant Squid Invade Pacific Coast
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The kraken is a fictitious Scandinavian sea monster...But this fiction is borrowed from fact. There really is a giant squid called the Humboldt.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Pachyderms: Pint Sized Surprise
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Today's creature feature is on a petite pachyderm that has dark gray to reddish brown skin and abundant hair that is finer and softer than a "norma...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Australian Savanna
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Welcome to the world's largest tropical grasslands. Covering more territory than all of Western Europe, they stretch for over twelve hundred miles ...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
Counting Whales
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You'd think the world's biggest mammal would be hard to miss. But counting blue whales is turning into a whale of a challenge.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
Gardeners Unite!
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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According to a recent report , the earth's temperature could rise up to seven and a half degrees before the end of the century.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:24
  • Purchases: 2
Fooling Bats Restores Rainforests
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The world's rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 1
Batteries That Run on Sugar
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? They might be just around the corner.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
Whale Music
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here's a question for you. What musical artist holds the record for the largest single pressing in the history of the business? Michael Jackson? So...

Bought by KMXT and KUAC


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
Save the Whales
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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One of the most successful conservation campaigns in history was launched back in the 1970s, when bellbottoms were still in style.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2