The mindboggling marvels of nature

In this episode we review everything about horses and humans.

Here is one of the many mindboggling facts that we have in this episode: Horses can recognise human faces!

WOW! That´s amazing. Join Chris and Anna as they talk through some of the most interesting facts about horses.

Sources of information: Wikipedia, Smithsonian, British Science Museum.

Image attribution: Myousry6666, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Learn about the fascinating wildlife in the US state of Florida.

This episode was requested by a listener called Cheryl.

Our sources were Wikipedia, YouTube and national Geographic Kids.

Our cover picture is Florida Water Moccasin Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti at Cincinnati Zoo from Wikimedia Commons

Sources of information: Wikipedia, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, PBS, Wired, European Space Agency. 

Cover photo: "Tube worms at a Pacific hydrothermal vent are related to hydrocarbon seep worms." Image ID: nur04505, National Undersearch Research Program (NURP) Collection. Author: C. Van Dover (OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); College of William & Mary)

Sources of information: Zoological society of London. Brookfield zoo (Chicago Zoological society), Wikipedia, YouTube. 

Cover photo is "Okapi dans le sanctuaire des okapis au Bioparc de Doué-la-Fontaine" by Melvin TOULLEC under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 licence.

The sources of information in this episode are Wikipedia, National Geographic Kids, World Wildlife Fund. 

The tiger sounds are from the Tierstimmenarchiv of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. 

The cover photo is "Machali, The Legendary Queen Tigress of Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, India" by Sundeep Kheria licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

In this episode we look at - and listen to - two birds, two reptiles and a mammal from different parts of the world that look really peculiar.

Sources: Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Avian Voacalisations Centre, Crazy Creatures, Wikipedia, Voice of America, San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Cover picture for this episode is by Olaf Oliviero Riemer licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

The research for this episode was done in YouTube, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance website. 

The image for this episode is "North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar) in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana" from the U.S. National Park Service (this work is in the public domain in the United States)

The recording pf the puma voice is from the Tierstimmenarchiv, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

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We take the listeners on a world tour presenting five endangered animals from five continents: the numbat, the spectacled bear, the mountain gorilla, the Mediterranean monk seal and the Caucasian leopard. 

Sources of information: Bildatlas Bedrohte Tierarten, by Kerstin Viering and Roland Knauer from Naumann & Göbel Verlagsgesellschaft; World Wildlife Fund; The Numbat Project; Wikipedia; The National Geographic

Cover art: "Numbat" by Martin Pot licences under GNU Free Documentation License.

In this episode we talk about jaguars. To prepare the story we used the Wikipedia, the World Wildlife Fund and National Geographic Kids. 

The photo is "Jaguar Looking at Camera" by Eric Kilby. 

The jaguar sound from Tierstimmenarchiv of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. 

Both licenced under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en