Wildlife

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Did a Shark Encounter Survivor Become an Advocate for Their Protection?

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Shark Week’s Luke Tipple welcomes professional photographer Mike Coots, who lost his leg to a tiger shark attack when he was only 18. But after his horrific injury, he came to love sharks, and became a lifelong advocate for their safety. Luke and Mike discuss his career, his love for photographing sharks, and how to positively approach the big life-changing moments that can happen to any of us.

Nature is Fly | Dolphin Rescue

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Join Luke Tipple and his family as they venture to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to learn about its conservation efforts and meet the playful, rescued dolphins that inhabit it.

Caves to Condors: Uncovering Pinnacles National Park

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Photographer and conservationist Ian Shive explores one of the lesser known National Parks, Pinnacles National Park, finding rare wildlife and extraordinary landscapes along the way.

Nature in Focus | Uncovering Pinnacles National Park

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Photographer and conservationist Ian Shive explores the lesser-known Pinnacles National Park, finding a unique landscape full of winding trails, towering rock formations, and one of the rarest species of bird found in the wild.

Bobcat on the Hunt

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Nature photographer Ian Shive gets a rare close-up of a bobcat hunting ground squirrels in California's Central Coast.

Nature in Focus | Bobcat on the Hunt

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Nature photographer Ian Shive gets a rare close-up of a bobcat hunting ground squirrels in California's Central Coast. See the technique used to photograph the bobcat in action.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Moral Outrage Online, Cuttlefish Memory, Sounds Have Shapes

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Learn about the dark side of likes and shares; how cuttlefish memory stays sharp in old age; and bouba and kiki shapes.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Glowing Sharks, Cities’ Unique Microbes, Milky Way Mistake

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Learn about the record-breaking glowing kitefin shark; cities’ unique microbiomes; and the true origin of the Milky Way.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Shark Week Tech, Crime & Birth Year, Sharks’ Near-Extinction

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Learn about cutting-edge Shark Week tech; how birthdays impact criminal records; and the time sharks nearly went extinct.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, Elephant Trunks, Pineapples Eat You Back

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Learn about how to combat revenge bedtime procrastination; the power of elephant trunks; and how pineapples eat you back.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Bomb-Detected Whales & What It’s Like to Film Shark Week

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Learn how nuclear bomb detectors found a secret population of blue whales. Plus: what it takes to film sharks underwater.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Your Brain on Music, Super-Singing Songbirds, Animal Sunburns

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Learn about the social neuroscience of music; songbirds’ ultra-precise song control; and how animals can get skin cancer.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Alien Dataomes, How Animals Smell Viruses, Why to Read Aloud

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Learn why aliens have a dataome; how animals sniff out viral infections; and how reading out loud can boost your memory.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Accent-Changing Monkeys and the Information “Dataome”

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Learn about why monkeys imitate other species’ accents; and the “dataome,” a new way to think about information.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Do Wild Animals Know What to Eat?

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Learn why helping others feels like helping ourselves, how wild animals eat healthy, and how the Sahara feeds the Amazon.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Hot Testes, Blasting Diabetes, Robo Fish Cleans Ocean

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Come along with us to figure out how heating up testicles could be an effective male contraceptive, how ultrasounds might help us cure Type 2 diabetes, and how a robotic fish might soon clean our oceans.