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First Aired - 03/12/2012 12:00PM
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Bernie Wides and Carol Butler take listeners to the zoo this week on The Naturalist. Learn about the history of some of the most popular zoo's in the world including New York City's very own Bronx Zoo and Central Park zoo. Learn more about imprinting, remote feeding and wildlife rehabilitation. Hear about how war generals and others donated animals to the original Central Park zoo years ago and find out what a tiglon is! This program was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
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"Zoos claim that they are doing captive breeding now, but none of those animals can go back to the wild unless they never see a human. It's a problem."
"For the first time in 300 years, there's a beaver living in New York City! His name is Jose the Beaver!
--Bernie Wides on The Naturalist
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The Naturalist Goes to the Zoo! (19:35)
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zoo, The Monkey House, Bronx Zoo, Artis Royal Zoo, wildlife conservation, habitats, biomes, Congo exhibit, butterfly garden, The Lion House, sustainable design, Madagascar, Vogelpark Avifauna, imprinting, remote feeding, wildlife rehabilitation center, Staten Island Zoo, animal husbandry, Queens college,More Zoo History (18:22)
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Central Park, menagerie, zoo history, donated animals, tiglon, zebras, horses, Robert Moses, Alfred Smith, zookeeper, Jose the Beaver, penguin exhibit,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/18/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie and Carol return to the studio with Ornithologist Peter Capainolo of The Natural History Museum. This time around they discuss the joy of training and working with birds of prey. Peter discusses the process of "manning" a hawk, falcon, and other raptors, and what they are capable of when hunting alone or with a human buddy. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Raptors (14:36)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A. Butler, Heritage Radio Network, Steve Jenkins, Fairway Market, rooms in lodges and inns were made with a perch, hunters had special facilities for their birds, special perching equipment, developed over thousands of years so birds don't injure themselves, you can't stick a falcon in a parrot cage, capturing birds by using bait, first thing you do when you capture a hawk is weigh it, molting, Audubon New York, imprinting, taming birds, keeping birds as pets, vulture puppets, taking rare animals out of the wild, raptor regulations, falconry, has zero impact on activity, hybrid falcons and hawks, by law cannot be released in the wild,Ornithologist Peter Capainolo (27:37)
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Cooper's Hawk, Green Chimneys Children's Services, Birds of Prey Day, breeding Peregrines in captivity, collecting semen from male birds, how do you collect semen from a raptor?, a hat with a brim, the bird perches on the top of the hat and copulates, semen will be collected at the brim of the hat, captive breeders would keep imprinted males for this purpose, strip the male and rub the back where the kidneys are, seminal fluid is secreted this way, reproductive qualities of raptors,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
