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Seattle Now: Be prepared for your next wildlife encounter

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If you’ve tried to get a camping reservation or gone hiking this summer, you already know that the Pacific Northwest is bursting with humans. But we've got plenty of diverse and even dangerous wildlife too. Ecologist and bear expert Chris Morgan shares advice on how and how NOT to act in a wildlife encounter.

Note: An earlier version of this show referenced "those little marmosets in the Olympics." Marmosets are small monkeys that live in South America, not the Olympic Peninsula, as far as we know. We were thinking of marmots, the "stout-bodied short-legged chiefly herbivorous burrowing rodents of the squirrel family." We regret the error.


Spotted any critters lately? Tag us on Instagram, we're @seattlenowpod.

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