Wild Ideas...The Podcast - The Wilderness Center episodes:

• July 22, 2009Wild Ideas...The Podcast 17

  
  Cicadas, Snake hybernaculua, prairie development and the xerothermic period, and what is a “natural area.”

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• July 15, 2009Wild Ideas...the Podcast 16

  
  Another stochastic event, woodpeckers, and mosquitoes. Insect diversity.

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• July 08, 2009Wild Ideas...the Podcast 15

  
  Bergamot, milkweed, second clutch of eggs, kettlehole bogs. How geology can affect biological communities.

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• July 01, 2009WIld Ideas...The Podcast 14

  
  Fireflies, a kettle of hawks, and trees down in a windstorm lead to discussion of stochasticity

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• June 23, 2009Wild Ideas...the Podcast 13

  
  Importance of Wetlands, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Horsehair Worms

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• June 16, 2009Wild Ideas...the Podcast 12

  
  Murder of Crows, Precocial & Altricial Birds, Interview with Brian Gray about the Sun & Moon

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• June 09, 2009Wild Ideas...the Podcast 11

  
  Play behavior is exhibited by many species of animals. Why do they play? How is play an adaptive behavior?

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• June 03, 2009Wild Ideas the Podcast 10

  
  Mobbing behavior in birds and other species of wildlife. Why do they do it? What is the risk/benefit?

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• May 29, 2009Wild Ideas the Podcast 9

  
  Weather! Thunder, hail, rain, fronts...

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• May 21, 2009Wild Ideas the Podcast 8

  
  Brown-headed Cowbirds and nest parasitism.

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