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407 - Natural Selections: Raven vs. Crow, what's the difference?

Conversations about the natural world with Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley, from member-supported North Country Public Radio.

407 - Natural Selections: Raven vs. Crow, what's the difference?

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Conversations about the natural world with Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley, from member-supported North Country Public Radio.

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Natural Selections

Episodes

Natural Selections: Raven vs. Crow, what's the difference?

Natural Selections: For cats, the comfort zone is shaped like a box

Natural Selections: "Couch potato" bass evolving in response to human predation

Natural Selections: Get to know your closet nemesis, the clothes moth

Natural Selections: Bats can sing, too!

Natural Selections: How nature journals put the history in natural history

Natural Selections: Just how individual are animals?

More fish: good for the flowers, bad for the snakes

Really, really big bugs (and some tiny ones, too)

Natural Selections: The evolution of breathing

Natural Selections: Why pigeons feel at home in the city

Natural Selections: Pigeons are doves, high-rises are cliffs

Northern Flicker, the anteater of the woodpecker family

Natural Selections: Why manatees are related to elephants, and whales are related to deer

The manatee: like the mermaid, its kin live on land

Natural Selections: Can ADK lake trout survive climate change?

Natural Selections: The shorter winged Cliff Swallows prevail

Natural Selections: Turns out bullheads ('trash fish') are really good parents

Natural Selections: hyenas get a bad rap

Natural Selections: Why does hair just keep growing?

Natural Selections: The curious history of Malaria in the U.S.

Natural Selections: Where do coral reefs get their food supply?

Natural Selections: The many virtues of the silk-making insect

Natural Selections: Smells like turf spirit

Natural Selections: How rocks recycle

Natural Selections - Your body is smart, it knows when you need water. But how?

Every rock tells a story

Natural Selections: All the buzz about plants and sweet nectar

Natural Selections: Deer up close and personal

Natural Selections: How high? How fast? How far? The remarkable records of bird flight

The science behind maple syrup

The life-sustaining space capsules we know simply as "eggs"

Glitches? Could be gremlins, could be cosmic rays

Making planet earth from a ball of mud and more miracles of the muskrat

Natural Selections: The tip-toe ballet of the walking deer

Chewing underwater and the many feats of the magnificent muskrat

Animals that make their living outside the box

Not all mammals hibernate. How do they survive a cold winter?

How you and me and flowers and bees get charged up (with static electricity)

What is a flame?

Why is the sky blue?, take 2

Is any part of the body original equipment?

Flying squirrels glide through winter nights, hunting lichen

Why so many snowy owls all of a sudden?

Natural Selections: How do turtles survive a winter underwater?

Bacteria plus iron equals ochre, the prehistoric paint

Adirondack lakes recover from acid rain, but with an altered ecosystem

How do you tell the age of a fossil?

When domesticated animals return to the wild

No nitrogen, no food, no life

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