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Calls from the Wild

by Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom

Signal species are animals and plants whose behaviors can tell us about our changing world. Will we listen?

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Episodes

  1. Howdy, New Neighbor

    We’re all familiar with the concept of endangered species, and how conservationists monitor and try to boost their shrinking populations. But when we start to see more of an animal, that’s a signal, too. In this episode, we visit some black bears in the Great Smoky Mountains, where humans are...

  2. Signal from the Noise

    Our series starts with Megan Jones, digital editor at WPLN in Nashville. Her passion for plants and animals started as a child making mud pies, and bloomed as a naturalist in New Mexico. She explains that a signal species is any living thing whose presence, absence, success or failure tells us...

  3. Coming soon... Calls from the Wild

    Nature is often a source of comfort. For much of the year, we can count on birds chirping, butterflies hovering near flowers and squirrels scurrying up trees. But sometimes we may notice something different about our wildlife neighbors. An armadillo makes its way into your backyard. A bear starts...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Signal species are animals and plants whose behaviors can tell us about our changing world. Will we listen?

HOSTED BY

Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom

Produced by Laura Ellis

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Signal species are animals and plants whose behaviors can tell us about our changing world. Will we listen?

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Calls from the Wild is created and hosted by Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom.
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