That's My Favorite

Naturalist Lyndzee Rhine is a giant nerd. She loves fungus. All fungus. For this episode, Lyndzee focuses on one "type" of fungus... the ever-pleasant puffballs. Buckle up, you're in for spore-covered coaster ride and it's about to get fungal.

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Naturalist Allan Saylor is fascinated by a genuinely spooky topic: wildlife diseases. With werewolf myths, the actual zombie apocalypse, and flesh-eating fungi, we obviously had to release it a week early for Halloween. Buckle up for these ever-changing, horrifying ecological challenges that Allan loves.

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Deb delights in finding sparkling, shining eyes at night, and it's not just the deer, raccoon, and rabbit eyes that get her excited. This favorite pastime (and Halloween party activity!) of Deb's has led to countless rabbit holes on nightvision and even got her digging into real cow eyeballs! Let's geek out about eyeshine.

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GPNC naturalist Rachel can't stop talking about birds, so hosts Lyndzee and Emily indulged. The best thing about birds? They're literally dinosaurs, and it goes well beyond feathers frozen in stone. With discoveries like plumage coloration, dinosaur lungs, and literal therapod fledglings in amber, the things that make birds Rachel's favorite are dinosaur traits.

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Bees are cute. They can have shiny butts, mustaches, fuzzy legs, and petal nests, but many people only think of honeybees when they think of bees. To Nicole Brown, GPNC naturalist, that's a real bummer, because most bees in the world are _completely _different. Nicole adores them all, and she thinks you should too.

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Hands-down, frogs and toads are Emily's favorite. Host Lyndzee Rhine gets all the warty details from KDWPT and GPNC Naturalist Emily Davis in this episode of That's My Favorite. Who doesn't love grabbing jumpy frogs, getting peed on, and startling toadish screams?? We sure do!

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Want to get involved with frogs and toads in your area? Join a Frog Watch chapter and contribute to actual amphibian science!