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KC Currents
5:28 pm
Mon March 4, 2013

Getting To Know Your Neighborhood Crow

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The American Crow is a smart and wary social bird with all black feathers, black talons and a black beak. Every once in a while during the winter, you can see thousands of these crows gathering in certain spots around parts of Kansas City.  Over the past 50 years, crows have been congregating more and more in urban environments – and if you’ve been in the middle of a dive-bombing murder, you know they create quite the disturbance.

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Central Standard
1:32 pm
Tue July 31, 2012

Nature In The City: Drought Edition

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Credit Mike Stoakes
Mike writes, "Adding a water feature to your backyard is an excellent way to attract birds and wildlife in hot, dry weather!"
Credit Mike Stoakes
Mike writes, "Adding a water feature to your backyard is an excellent way to attract birds and wildlife in hot, dry weather!"
Credit Mike Stoakes
Mike writes, "Adding a water feature to your backyard is an excellent way to attract birds and wildlife in hot, dry weather!"
Photo from listener Kathy who says she's been putting water out for a family of 5 falcons living on her block.
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Listener Matt sent us pictures of his (briefly) resident Barred owl.
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Listener Matt sent us pictures of his (briefly) resident Barred owl.
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Also from Listener Matt, a deer resting in Harrison Park this summer.
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This summer's drought is affecting everyone: from farmers to daily commuters to animals. Especially animals.

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Up to Date
5:53 pm
Tue May 8, 2012

NFL Cheerleader To Ph.D.: National Geographic Explorer Mireya Mayor

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Photo: Mark Thiessen, NGS
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Often described in the media as “a female Indiana Jones,” Mireya Mayor is not your typical scientist.

Both as an anthropologist working in the jungles of Madagascar, and as a wildlife correspondent for National Geographic, the city girl and former Miami Dolphins cheerleader has found herself sleeping in a rain forest hammock amid poisonous snakes, being charged by gorillas, scaling rocky cliffs, and diving with great white sharks.

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Up to Date
5:30 pm
Wed April 25, 2012

Photographer Mattias Klum: Rare...And Dangerous Shots

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'When I came to Borneo for the first time in 1988 as a 20-year-old this is the Borneo I imagined ... mist-drenched rainforest, incredible trees and rich vegetation ... '
Credit Mattias Klum
An Asiatic grass-green whipsnake in the Danum Valley, Borneo: These incredibly cautious and well-camouflaged animals are very difficult to spot among the greenery
Credit Mattias Klum
Asiatic lioness and cub, Sasan Gir, India: This teak forest in Gujarat, western India, is the last domain of Asiatic lions in the world. There are only 300 left, making it one of the most vulnerable species - and extremely difficult to photograph
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Monastery in Ladakh: This monastery is in a locked area way up in the mountains, meaning it has been lost in a time warp, untouched by globalisation or tourism. It took two years and a letter from the Dalai Lama to gain access to this hidden valley
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Icebergs shaped by water and wind in Antarctica: Antarctica holds about 90% of the earth's ice and scientists now believe that the Antarctic Peninsula is melting faster than previously thought
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Pine tree, Stockholm archipelago, Sweden
Credit Photo: Samuel Svensäter
Photographer Mattias Klum
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Mattias Klum makes a living by shooting photographs of some of the world's most endangered species and places.

A photographer for National Geographic, Klum might be considered an endangered species himself, given his recent work shooting closes ups of the venomous Chinese cobra, which can shoot its venom up to nearly 7 feet. Even a drop of that venom can blind you.

But there he sat....shooting away....nonetheless.

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Up to Date
2:40 pm
Wed April 18, 2012

Spring Gardening: Help Grow Your Green Thumb

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There may be no controlling Mother Nature, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your garden to cooperate. But keeping your gardening blossoming instead of browning is easier said than done.

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