On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson, and Libby Hartfield, retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

We’re happy to welcome Tom Mann, conservation biologist with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. He joins us to talk about salamanders crossing the Natchez Trace and the hands-on work he does to help these amphibians along the way. 

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

With the holiday season underway, we’re turning our attention skyward to one of the longest-running citizen science efforts in the world: the Christmas Bird Count. Each winter, volunteers across the country head outdoors to help track bird populations and migration patterns—data that’s critical for understanding the health of our ecosystems. To help us unpack why this count matters and what it reveals about birds in Mississippi and beyond, we’re joined by Jason Hoeksema, Professor of Biology, Associate Chair, and Graduate Program Coordinator at the University of Mississippi.

Delta Wind Birds website:

https://www.deltawindbirds.org/

Search for a Christmas Bird Count near you:

https://www.audubon.org/community-science/christmas-bird-count/join-christmas-bird-count

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your calls today, we're going to be reading interesting facts from petgratitude.com about not just cats and dogs, but all pets in general. Also, we talk about some trendy pet names!

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

With Thanksgiving approaching, we’re talking today about an avian species as synonymous with the season as Santa is to Christmas: the turkey! Despite their dinner-plate popularity, they’re quite fierce and resilient animals – characteristics that inspired Benjamin Franklin to state that they should be a national symbol! So today, we’re joined by Wild Turkey Program Coordinator at the MDWFP, Caleb Hinton.

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

Navigating through the sky in the dark of night, bats are some of the more fascinating animals we can find here in Mississippi. They’ve inspired folklore in many cultures around the world, and though they may not be blood-sucking harbingers of death or benevolent beings of good fortune, they are vital to our ecosystem! Jack Creely from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science joins to tell us all about them.

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your calls and emails today, we’re going to be listing one interesting fact about each state park in Mississippi, all sourced directly from the MDWFP website.

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

From irradiated bites giving you super powers to a wise lady named Charlotte spouting wisdom as she churns her web, spiders have been a significant part of pop culture for ages. This Halloween season, Dr. Wesley Shoop joins us as our guest today for Creature Comforts to tell us about the significance of spiders – maybe not in pop culture – but in our ecosystem. 

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

Today on Creature Comforts, it’s a special drive time episode that we’ve put together of some of our best and most informative moments from shows about Crawfish, Lizards, Hummingbirds, and Aquariums.

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

If you look closely enough, you’ll notice that many of our critter friends are astonishingly good construction workers. From the inner workings of a beehive to the underground networks of moles, there are many talented architects in the wild, and one such animal is the beaver. Today, we’re joined by Holley Muraco from the MSU Coastal Research and Extension Center to discuss beavers, dams, and her research on the subject. 

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On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked about the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science a bit but have yet to mention its expansive aquarium system which houses all sorts of fish that can be found throughout Mississippi waterways. Aquarist at the Museum, Haley Wagner, will join us today to discuss these aquariums and will likely persuade you to give these marine habitats a viewing yourself in the meantime.

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