Fenekie Bedtime Stories

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you go somewhere very wild: a kelp forest off the California coast, taller than a house and golden all the way down. There you meet Drift, a sea otter who sleeps on his back with a rope of kelp tied around his middle and a paw resting on the otter beside him, so the sea can never carry him off alone.

Then one big swell rolls through, and Drift wakes up in the fog with his kelp gone and no paw beside him. Somewhere out there in the grey, an old friend is calling for help, and Drift has to swim toward the sound with nothing to keep him warm but his own coat, listening for the whisper of kelp that might lead them both home.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase goes to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Program, which rescues stranded sea otters and raises orphaned pups to return to the wild.

Keep exploring with Drift
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/LsD-wgPrJnY?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Drift storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL5RS9KS
Drift tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/product/32489972
Drift's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-sea-otter.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sea-otter&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you go somewhere very small: a patch of moss on a garden wall, no wider than your hand, which up close turns out to be a whole forest with leaf-trees taller than a house. There you meet Dewey, a tardigrade about the size of a single grain of salt, who walks his own path every morning up to one round drop of water at the top, his own small lake.

Then the sun gets hotter and the lake starts to go. Dewey waits, and it comes back. It goes again, and he waits again. And on the day it does not come back at all, he finds out what his own body already knows how to do: fold himself small, let the water leave, and wait, for as long as waiting takes, until one drop finds him and the wall wakes up with him.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase goes to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, to protect the small animals that live in moss, leaf litter and soil.

Keep exploring with Dewey
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/DErL6bCUfbw?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
Dewey tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/product/32236225
Dewey's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-tardigrade.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tardigrade&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you go to the Pantanal, a huge flooded grassland in Brazil where the rivers spread out flat across the land and the water lies so still it holds the palm trees upside down. There you meet Bo, a capybara, the largest rodent on Earth, lying at the edge of the river with his eyes and his ears and his nose just above the surface and the whole rest of him gone quiet underneath. Birds come and stand on his back, and he lets them. He even rolls over to help. And when the river shrinks in the dry season and everyone crowds in around the last of the water, Bo waits, the way he always waits, for the rain to come back and give the river to everybody again.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports Onçafari, who work on the ground in the Brazilian Pantanal, the wetland this whole story rests on.

Keep exploring with Bo
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/NwsGf6eiKGk?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Bo storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHMJ9JTP
Bo tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/product/31726829
Bo's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-capybara.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=capybara&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you go far out into the warm open ocean, past the last of the shallow water, to the place where there is no shore and no bottom you can see. Blue in every direction. There you meet Cosmo, a whale shark, the largest fish in the whole sea, drifting slowly with his mouth open and letting the water bring him his supper. On his back he carries a pattern of pale spots that belongs to no other animal alive, and behind his left fin four of them sit together like a small quiet constellation. Everyone who swims past can see it. Divers can see it. You can see it. Cosmo cannot, and he never will. He carries his whole sky around with him and has never once looked at it.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports Wild Me, who build the shared photo-identification database that lets a holiday snapshot become real science.

Keep exploring with Cosmo
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/L2XlBjAIYFA?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Cosmo storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHK9DHJZ
Fenekie tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/
Cosmo's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-whale-shark.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=whale-shark&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you go down into the wet green forests of southeastern Australia, where the tree ferns arch overhead and the fallen leaves lie deep and soft. There you meet Digby, a young lyrebird with a silvery tail and two heavy digging feet. He is hungry, so he scratches. He scratches all day long, sweeping the leaves back with his feet, looking for beetles. And he is a little sad, because his song is not finished yet, and the older birds down in the gully have songs that are. What Digby does not know is that everywhere his feet have been, the forest is quietly starting again. More beetles come. Small green shoots find the bare ground and wake up. He is making the very thing he is looking for, and he never once turns around to see it.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports BirdLife Australia, who work to protect Australian birds and the forests they depend on.

Keep exploring with Digby
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/lQYHwwJIkhY?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Digby storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHN26YRY
Fenekie tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/
Digby's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-superb-lyrebird.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=superb-lyrebird&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you go up into the warm green dark of a Central American rainforest, where the big leaves hang low and the rain taps softly overhead. There you meet Poppy, a bat as small as your thumb and as white as snow, with a bright yellow nose and two bright yellow ears. She has no house yet. So she climbs out along one enormous leaf and begins to bite, carefully, one side vein at a time, until the whole green roof folds down around her like a tent. And when the morning sun comes through it, something quiet and lovely happens to her.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports Bat Conservation International, who work to protect bats and the forests they depend on across the Americas.

Keep exploring with Poppy
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/4IRAZbnMUoY?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Poppy storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHN2M4PP
Fenekie tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/
Poppy's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-honduran-white-bat.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=honduran-white-bat&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you slip beneath the warm green water of the Gulf of California, where the sunlight fades a few body-lengths down and the sea keeps its secrets. There you meet Eco, a small grey vaquita with two dark rings around her eyes. She cannot see far in her murky sea, so she calls into the dark, and the sea calls back. Fish. Rock. Current. Family. Tonight, somewhere out in the green, a small new voice is calling for the very first time, and Eco is listening.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports VaquitaCPR, the international rescue effort keeping the waters of the upper Gulf of California safe and quiet for the last vaquitas.

Keep exploring with Eco
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/_nnTnXufWjo?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Eco storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHM2RPGT
Eco tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/product/32066457
Eco's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-vaquita.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vaquita&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you are deep in the golden grasslands of the Brazilian Cerrado, where the grass grows taller than a grown-up and rolls all the way out to a wide, quiet horizon. Somewhere in all that gold, on legs as long as stilts, walks an animal unlike any other, not quite a fox, not quite a wolf, the only one of her kind anywhere on Earth. Her name is Pip, and tonight she is walking the long way home, the way she always does, carrying something small and secret inside her that will grow into a tree long after she has moved on.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports the World Land Trust, protecting maned wolf habitat in the Brazilian Cerrado.

Keep exploring with Pip
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/_AnpHj9bXMQ?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Pip storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHK2SQJ6
Fenekie tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/
Pip's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-maned-wolf.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=maned-wolf&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you are deep in the Ituri rainforest of the Congo, where the trees grow so tall and so close together that the sunlight arrives in thin gold shafts, and the whole world is green and hushed and soft. Somewhere in all that green, an animal is standing so still that you could walk right past her and never know. Her name is Strike, and she is an okapi, the giraffe's only cousin, so well hidden that people once believed she was only a story. Tonight she walks the shadows with her calf behind her, and her striped legs gather up what little light there is, so that he always knows the way home.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports the Okapi Conservation Project, which trains and equips anti-poaching rangers to protect the Ituri forest and its communities.

Keep exploring with Strike
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/MSCYJ3cLc20?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Strike storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHK6KDDX
Fenekie tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/
Strike's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-okapi.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=okapi&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com

A gentle bedtime story from the Fenekie Explorer Club.

Tonight you are in the rocky desert of Pakistan, under a thin crescent moon, where the stones are still warm from the long bright day and the whole world smells of dust and cooling rock. Between two great boulders, a small spotted lizard is waking up. Her name is Luria, and she is a leopard gecko, one of the very few geckos who can close her eyes to sleep. Tonight she will press her belly to the warm stone, hunt her supper under the stars, and carry her little pantry with her wherever she goes.

Soft voice, slow pace, warm light. Made for the wind-down before sleep.

Made for families to listen to together.

1% of every purchase from the Fenekie Explorer Club goes directly to the wild animals in our stories. This week it supports the wild places where Luria's cousins live, out on the rocky deserts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Keep exploring with Luria
The daytime episode: https://youtu.be/wWmljbUEgc0?list=PLQx9P3kQsksM
The Luria storybook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHMR1V6L
Fenekie tees, stickers and more: https://fenekie.printify.me/
Luria's page, everything in one place: https://fenekie.com/animal-leopard-gecko.html?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=leopard-gecko&utm_content=podcast-b
The daytime show, Fenekie Explorer Club: https://open.spotify.com/show/6L4Ht9twMFVx4UKrpfg3VG

Stories, podcasts, videos, and more at fenekie.com