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    Natural Selections

    Natural Selections

    Natural Selections

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    Length:
    93 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Conversations about the natural world with Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley, from member-supported North Country Public Radio.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 93 episodes

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    Natural Selections: "Couch potato" bass evolving in response to human predation

    (Oct 21, 2021) The pressure to keep billions of humans fed can have a transformative im...

    5 minutes
    		Oct 21, 2021

    Natural Selections: Get to know your closet nemesis, the clothes moth

    (Oct 14, 2021) Keratin, the substance wool, hair, and feathers are made from, makes a p...

    5 minutes
    		Oct 14, 2021

    Natural Selections: For cats, the comfort zone is shaped like a box

    (Oct 7, 2021) Of all the places a cat can hang out, why do do many of them want to hang...

    4 minutes
    		Oct 07, 2021

    Natural Selections: How nature journals put the history in natural history

    (Sep 30, 2021) Martha Foley has never succeeded in keeping a nature journal long-term, ...

    5 minutes
    		Sep 30, 2021

    Natural Selections: Bats can sing, too!

    (Sep 23, 2021) Humans, birds, and whales are not the only creatures who can sing. Marth...

    5 minutes
    		Sep 23, 2021

    Natural Selections: Just how individual are animals?

    (Sep 16, 2021) We tend to think that dogs do this, and that cats do that. We think anim...

    5 minutes
    		Sep 16, 2021

    More fish: good for the flowers, bad for the snakes

    (Sep 9, 2021) The complex web of species interaction is full of odd associations. Stock...

    5 minutes
    		Sep 09, 2021

    Really, really big bugs (and some tiny ones, too)

    (Sep 2, 2021) Martha Foley? - not a fan of bugs. And Curt Stager took a course on them ...

    5 minutes
    		Sep 02, 2021

    Natural Selections: The evolution of breathing

    (Aug 26, 2021) All creatures breathe in some fashion, but how the job gets done has cha...

    6 minutes
    		Aug 26, 2021

    Natural Selections: Why pigeons feel at home in the city

    (Aug 19, 2021) The ubiquitous bird of cities and towns was designed for a different env...

    5 minutes
    		Aug 19, 2021