The Monarch and the Frog

Bonus Episode: The Art of Foley

In this week’s bonus episode, Jake talks with Marko Costanzo, renowned foley artist, about how he makes the sounds of nature come to life in movies like Life of Pi and Ice Age with a collection of household objects and a lot of imagination.   To learn more about the BiodiverCity podcast, visit www.thegottliebnativegarden.com/podcast [http://www.thegottliebnativegarden.com/podcast]

The Monarch and the Frog

If you counted all the migratory monarch butterflies in California in 1992, you might total five million. But today, that number is less than 2,000. How did one of the most popular butterflies in the world begin to disappear? Xerces Society’s Senior Endangered Species Conservation Biologist Emma Pelton unravels the mystery of why the western monarch is vanishing, and she and horticulturist and native plant specialist Carol Bornstein explore ways that everyone can help. Meanwhile at the zoo, Curator of Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish Ian Recchio tells us how his team is working to save a largely unknown, nondescript amphibian called the southern mountain yellow-legged frog from extinction.   To find out more about what the Xerces Society is doing for the Western Monarch and how you can help: https://xerces.org/western-monarch-call-to-action [https://xerces.org/western-monarch-call-to-action]    For more information about programs at the L.A. Zoo visit lazoo.org [http://lazoo.org]  BiodiverCity is made possible with support from The Gottlieb Native Garden [https://thegottliebnativegarden.com/].  Host: Dr Jake Owens, Director of Conservation, Los Angeles Zoo Executive Producers: Susan Gottlieb Tom Jacobson Diane Shader Smith Denise Verret Producers: April Merl Jake Owens Associate Producer: Brenda Scott Royce Original Music: Micah Smith Additional contributions from:  Hannah Beal Bennett Rea

Bonus Episode: With a Side of Bugs

In this week’s bonus episode, Jake talks with JaV’on Latimore, entomologist and entotarian, about insects on the menu and not yuck-ing anyone else’s yum.   Follow JaV’on on TikTok at @vonnroach [https://www.tiktok.com/@vonnroach?lang=en], on Instagram at @en.tune [https://www.instagram.com/en.tune/?hl=en], and on Twitter at @ent_tune [https://twitter.com/ent_tune].    To learn more about the BiodiverCity podcast, visit www.thegottliebnativegarden.com/podcast [http://www.thegottliebnativegarden.com/podcast]

What's on the Menu?

It’s all about food as we get behind the scenes at the zoo and discuss one of L.A.’s most complicated diets with Zoo Nutritionist Emily Schwartz and Curator of Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish, Ian Recchio: the diet of the Butaan, one of the world’s largest lizards. After that, we talk about southern Californian indigenous food traditions and how to strike the balance between passing down traditions and depleting the land with Sherman High School Indian Museum curator and co-author of Cooking the Native Way Lorene Sisquoc.   For more information about programs at the L.A. Zoo, visit lazoo.org [http://lazoo.org]   To learn more about the Malki Museum: http://malkimuseum.org/ Buy the Chia Café Collective cookbook, Cooking the Native Way here [https://www.chumashmuseum.org/store/p_1361876/cooking-the-native-way-book] and at many book sellers.    BiodiverCity is made possible with support from The Gottlieb Native Garden [https://thegottliebnativegarden.com/].  Host: Dr Jake Owens, Director of Conservation, Los Angeles Zoo Executive Producers: Susan Gottlieb Tom Jacobson Diane Shader Smith Denise Verret Producers: April Merl Jake Owens Associate Producer: Brenda Scott Royce Original Music: Micah Smith Additional contributions from:  Hannah Beal Bennett Rea

Bonus Episode: A Batman for a Cause

In this week’s bonus episode, Jake talks to Chris Van Dorn, founder of Batman4Paws [https://batman4paws.org/], about how dressing up as a superhero is turning heads and helping animals in need.   To learn more about the BiodiverCity podcast, visit www.thegottliebnativegarden.com/podcast [http://www.thegottliebnativegarden.com/podcast]