Nature’s Wonders

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Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City
(Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Emily Hiestand)

Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild
(Benjamin Kilham, Ed Gray)

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Thai Elephant Orchestra
Among the Bears
04.18.2004

Dave Soldier has an unusual hobby.  He teaches elephants to play music instruments...in an elephant orchestra.  Ben Kilham does something else that’s unique.  He raises orphan bear cubs and then releases them into the wild.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, some remarkable stories about animals, people and the natural world.

  1. Richard Ranft on Ocean Sounds

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    Richard Ranft has collected underwater sounds of mating haddock, snapping shrimp, walruses and other sea creatures.

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  2. Carl and Estella Leopold and Nina Leopold Bradley on Aldo Leopold

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    What’s it like to grow up with a great naturalist?  Well, it made quite an impression on the children of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold.

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  3. Dave Soldier on the Thai Elephant Orchestra

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    Dave Soldier is a neurologist with an unusual hobby.  He teaches elephants to play musical instruments.

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  4. Laure-Anne Bosselaar on "Urban Nature"

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    Laure-Anne Bosselaar talks with Jim Fleming about finding nature in the city.  Bosselaar reads several poems from the poetry anthology she edited, “Urban Nature.”

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  5. Ben Kilham on Raising Orphan Bears

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    Ben Kilham raises orphan bear cubs and then releases them into the wild.  Steve Paulson visits Kilham at his home in New Hampshire.

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