Join Ellen & special guest, co-founder and CEO of conservation organization Wildlife SOS Kartick Satyanarayan, for a review of Asian elephants. We discuss the harm caused by wildlife exploitation, how they protect animals by uplifting human communities, how education can help tourists make more ethical choices, and of course our guest shares some stories of what it’s like living and working alongside these beautiful giants. He’s got feel-good conservation success stories, workplace comedy, an adorable baby elephant, truly what more could you want from a podcast episode?

Links:

• Learn more about Wildlife SOS's work on their website!
• See Baby Bani and more on Wildlife SOS's YouTube channel!
• Learn more about ethical tourism on RefuseToRide.org
• For more information about us & our podcast, head over to our website!
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Follow Ellen down the jackrabbit hole. We discuss facial tilt, satellite dish ears, evolutionary ghosts of predators past, touchdown dances, jackalopes, Easter, and so much more.

Works Cited:

• "A Field Guide to Jackrabbits" - Matthew L. Miller, The Nature Conservancy, Nov 2022
• “Ecological correlates to cranial morphology in Leporids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha)” - Brian Kraatz et al., PeerJ, Dec 2014
• "Jackrabbit Gets a Touchdown!" - YouTube
• “Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna” – Malene Lauritsen et al., World Archaeology, Oct 2018
• “The Shifting Baselines of the British Hare Goddess” - Luke John Murphy & Carly Ameen, Open Archaeology, August 2020
• “What Do Eggs Have To Do With Easter?” - Encyclopedia Britannica
• "Meet Jack" - City of Douglas, Wyoming's website

Links:

• Check out your local MaxFun Meetup Day - Ellen will be at the Seattle meetup!
• For more information about us & our podcast, head over to our website!
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Join Ellen & the Cryptonaturalist (Jarod K. Anderson) to talk about the ways that nature and wildlife can inspire our creativity and shape our stories, particularly the enticingly unknowable cryptids. We discuss being raised by a witch, the natural poetry in scientific facts about starfish, the value of enthusiasm, caked up Mothman and the tragic Squonk, getting emoted on by skunks, the surprisingly complicated history of dandelions, a vulture named Potato, and so much more.

Links:

• Learn more about Jarod's work on his website
• Find Strange Animals and Jarod's other books on his Bookshop
• Follow Jarod as The Cryptonaturalist on Instagram
• Follow Jarod on Bluesky or Substack
• Check out The CryptoNaturalist Podcast
• For more information about us & our podcast, head over to our website!
• Follow Just the Zoo of Us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram & Discord!
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