The Wild Life
Your Online Naturalist & Biodiversity Blog
The Podcast
The Wild Life is a show that embraces curiosity, answers your questions, and reveals exciting discoveries through humor, story-telling, and interviews with leading experts. The Wild Life is hosted by brothers Devon and Richard Bowker. Here’s what to expect: we’ll start off each episode…
The Wild Life Hiking Club
[caption id="attachment_4389" align="alignright" width="150"] Meet your Hiking Club Leader. Chelsea is a high school English teacher, avid hiker, mother, and all around nature lover.[/caption]We are a community of hikers. It’s as simple as that! It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out or…
About the Blog
A blog about natural history, earth science, biodiversity, extraordinary discoveries, and the amazing lives of this planets inhabitants.
#SundayFishSketch Goliath Tigerfish
If there is any fish that lives up to its name it’s the Goliath Tigerfish—a truly gigantic African predator with razor sharp teeth. The largest on record weighed over 150 pounds at nearly five feet in length. For perspective, that’s two German Shepard’s stacked on top of each other, or a welterweight fighter—and a fighter they certainly are.
#SundayFishSketch Redeye Piranha
Piranhas need no introduction being that their teeth and diet have earned them quite the reputation, especially around Hollywood as a super villains aquarium species of choice or as the center of several B-movies.
Birding by Smartphone
In 1917, the American poet Wallace Stevens published a poem called 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. In truth, 13 is a major understatement, with just as much variation in “why” as their is in “how”. Whether you’re a life “lister”, a casual admirer, or anywhere in between, at some point each and every one of has had a moment where we saw a bird and thought to ourselves, “what is that?”
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