Tobias Landberg & Snapper (Patrick Raycraft)
What’s cooler than turtles breaking a bite-o-meter? High school urban ecology research assistants, that’s what! We had so much great conversation with Tobias Landberg from Episode 13 that we’re posting some more of it as a bonus episode. Tony and Tobias share notes on turning kids onto science through hands on research, and we all geek out over the wonders of snapping turtles.
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Urban wildlife can’t always take care of itself. Herpetologist Tobias Landberg of Arcadia University joins us as we take our podcast to Mexico City with Luis Zambrano of the Reserva Ecologica del Pedregal de San Angel and a project to save the axolotl from extinction in the wild (as opposed to captivity, where they thrive as a research subject). We also talk to Phillip Spinks of UCLA about the pond turtles of California and hear about Tobias’ work with axolotls in the lab as well as taking urban toads to the suburban Briar Bush Nature Center.
Axolotl (by Carmen Loyola)
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