In Our Nature: Nebraska

Whooping Crane: The King of Birds

In the season finale of In Our Nature: Nebraska, we're traveling to Central Nebraska, where whooping cranes have paused their 2500 mile migration at the Platte. What is it about whooping cranes that draws us in? Why do we connect with them? And how has that connection caused them harm? Explore these questions and more in today's episode.

Audience Choice: Swift Fox, the Predator of a Fragile Web

Welcome to the audience choice episode! Today, we talk about the swift fox, the smallest wild canine in North America. The fox itself is well-liked and harmless, but efforts to tackle other pests and unwanted creatures have driven them from their historic range. In Episode 4, we discuss what it means to be a predator and how predation has left the swift fox vulnerable to harm.

The Living Fossil Who Calls Us Home: Pallid Sturgeons

In this episode of In Our Nature: Nebraska, we dive beneath the surface of Nebraska's rivers to discover the pallid sturgeon—strange and threatened. But there's more than meets the eye to these bizarre fish, entangling us in a story about the consequences of the conservation, as well as the price of doing nothing at all. Stick around the credits as we introduce the subject of next week's audience choice episode! News coverage from KETV Omaha, KMBC News, and WRDW 12 26,

Week 3: What's Happening and What's Next?

In Our Nature: Nebraska is on hiatus this week, but amazing things are right around this corner! Listen to this quick update to hear what you've missed and what's to come — including information about our audience choice episode! Link to voting for audience choice episode: https://forms.gle/7VKTg6hDAYS6Ut2r6

Gliding Through Campus: When Flying Squirrels Came to College

This week, we're taking to the air with the southern flying squirrel, which captured the hearts of UNL's East Campus when it was spotted in December of 2021. Since then, the amazing flying squirrel has us thinking about what it really means to be threatened and the role we all have to recognize the natural beauty in our urban communities! Citizen science project: https://snr.unl.edu/research/projects/researchproject.aspx?pid=20 FLYING SQUIRREL SHIRTS: https://marketplace.unl.edu/nemaps/flying-squirrel-t-shirt.html