Digital Dr. Dolittle: decoding animal conversations with artificial intelligence

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The Humpback comeback: Vancouver's whales come home

Humpback whales in the Salish Sea have a complicated history. They were hunted to near extinction a century ago, with whalers turning some of the largest creatures on Earth into buckets of oil, slabs of meat, tubs of cheap margarine and fertilizer. These coastal waters were empti ...  Show more

How America’s roads alter our ecology, with Ben Goldfarb (reprise)

Happy holidays! Thanks for tuning into THE WILD. I’m so glad you’re here. THE WILD team is hard at work on some more brand-new episodes that will come out in the new year. But for now, I want to revisit a very popular episode from last season that I think is perfect for this busy ...  Show more

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