Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why brown bears are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Types Of Bears: Brown Bears (U.S. National Park Service)
- Brown Bear — Ursus arctos (San Diego Zoo)
- Grizzly Bear: Overview (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- After Living Alongside Humans for Millennia, These Italian Brown Bears Have Evolved to Become Less Aggressive (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Lost history of brown bears in Britain revealed (BBC News)
- How Did the Bears Get Their Name? (Chicago Magazine)
- The Skull of an Ancient Brown Bear Tells a Story of Brutality and Abuse at the Hands of Roman Entertainers (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Polar Bears Diverged From Brown Bears Fairly Recently (Scientific American)
- News: 100,000-year-old polar bear genome reveals ancient hybridization with brown bears (UC Santa Cruz)
- News: How species form: What the tangled history of polar bear and brown bear relations tells us (University at Buffalo)
- The Polar Bears of the Arctic are Evolving in Real Time (Popular Mechanics)
- ‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears (The Guardian)
- Grizzly Bears Went Extinct in California 100 Years Ago. Scientists Say They Could Soon Return. (Popular Mechanics)
- The Tamest Grizzly of Yellowstone (JStor Daily)
- Two Brown Bears Broke Out of Their Pen. Then They Ransacked the Honey Stash. (The New York Times)
- The Law Protects Them. The Villagers Fear Them. (The New York Times)
- ASK A WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST: Do Bears Really Eat Honey (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
- Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days (The Guardian)
- Shocker: “Yeti” poo, bones not actually from yeti (Ars Technica)
- Bear that bit man in Norway roams free after hunt in which wrong animal shot (The Guardian)
- How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife (The Conversation)
- Ground-breaking brown bear research holds great promise (Alaska Beacon)
- Dan, how is bear hibernation different from sleep? (Wyoming Game & Fish Department)
- The Bears of Winter (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
- Hibernation (The Scandinavian Brown Bear Project)
- All of the Bears Were Fat, but Chunk Was the Fattest of All (The New York Times)
- They logged on to watch the famous fat brown bears. They saved a hiker’s life instead (NPR)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Teddy Bears
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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