Chris Morgan
Host, "The Wild"
Podcasts
Stories
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Hard Knocks: Lessons from the woodpecker
Woodpeckers will peck at a tree up to 12,000 times a day and just one woodpecker peck produces about 15 times the force needed to give a human a concussion. So, how do woodpeckers bang their heads so much, and so hard and not come away with brain damage?
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Soundside
Sea Otters are both adorable and valuable fighters in the battle against climate change
Chris Morgan, host of KUOW's "The Wild" podcast, talked to Libby Denkmann about the otters' rescue from nuclear testing in Alaska in the 60's, and the part they play in combatting climate change.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Nuclear sea otters: A wildlife refugee story
Fifty years later, we checked in on a rescue mission to save sea otters from nuclear annihilation and recolonize them along the west coast of North America.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Happy 46th Birthday!
An Earth Day message from Chris
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The Cougar Conundrum
How we are sharing the world with a successful predator
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
True grit: the wild wolverine
For the first time in 100 years, wolverines are back in Mount Rainier National Park. How did they get there?
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The Comeback Cat: Spain’s Iberian lynx
How did what used to be the rarest cat on earth leap a staggering 1000% in number in just 20 years?
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
How to love a shark
There are 540 shark species in the world and 143 of them are endangered. Rachel Graham is their evangelist.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The secret lives of giraffes and the woman who studied them
Anne Innis Dagg had a curiosity and love for giraffes that took her to South Africa in the 1950s. Little was known about them in western science at the time. Anne would change that.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Goodbye chemical weapons, hello burrowing owls
A decommissioned military base in northeast Oregon provides sanctuary for a recovering burrowing owl population.