The Wild with Chris Morgan
THE WILD with Chris Morgan explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and around the world, host Chris Morgan explores wildlife and the complex web of ecosystems they inhabit. He also tells the stories of people working in and protecting the wild around us.
This podcast is a production of KUOW in Seattle in partnership with Chris Morgan and Wildlife Media. It is produced by Matt Martin and edited by Jim Gates. It is hosted, produced and written by Chris Morgan. Fact checking by Apryle Craig. Our theme music is by Michael Parker.
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Episodes
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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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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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Happy 46th Birthday!
An Earth Day message from Chris
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The Cougar Conundrum
How we are sharing the world with a successful predator
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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 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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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 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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Goodbye chemical weapons, hello burrowing owls
A decommissioned military base in northeast Oregon provides sanctuary for a recovering burrowing owl population.
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These people want to create Portugal’s ecological utopia
A curious story of fires, Stone Age art, rural abandonment, and a mission to bring back an entire forest ecosystem.
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THE WILD: Season 4 Trailer
New episodes of THE WILD begin on Tuesday, January 18th.
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Living Planet (special episode)
This is a special episode from the podcast Living Planet from Deutsche Welle. In this episode they explore the efforts to bring life back to seabeds off the coast of Scotland and learn about an app that can tell what species a frog is by its song. A sort of Shazam for amphibians.