Ep. 055: Bozeman, Montana. Steven Rinella talks with bear biologist Frank VanManen along with Janis Putelis and Nicole Qualtieri from the MeatEater crew.
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4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2017
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Subjects discussed: Bear DNA; bear denning behaviors; why Steve thinks the naming of 'The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem' was a mistake; Sloth bears; Andean bears; Panda bears; tricks for uncovering a journalist's biases; closing garbage dumps to save grizzly bears; super cougars; bear population size estimating methods, including Chao 2 and mark-resight; bear populations in Europe; Kate Kendall's research on grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem; getting hosed by bear spray; genetic connectivity; bucket biologists; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Meet Meater Podcast coming at you shirtless severely boat bitten in my case underwear listen |
| 0:16.0 | Let me eat your podcast |
| 0:18.0 | You can't predict anything |
| 0:20.0 | All right, our guest is Frank tell us your last name event man and man or |
| 0:34.6 | Von Bonn and whatever you prefer so no, but you're not I was surprised you walked in you know you're not you weren't born in the US |
| 0:40.9 | I wasn't born in US no, I am a US |
| 0:43.3 | Bear biologist or a bear biologist here in this fairs and I came to the US in 1988 and do you remember how old you weren't you saw your first bear when I saw my first bear |
| 0:54.5 | I was about 25 probably yeah, so you at what age did you get into a wild of biology? Did you get that back home? |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, so I did a masters in biology at the university and in the Netherlands at the agriculture university and studying what like what we're looking at there |
| 1:15.2 | Well, it was actually a combined bachelor's master so in the beginning was kind of undetermined and towards the end |
| 1:22.5 | I got really interested in doing an internship on a large carnivore because there weren't any in the Netherlands |
| 1:30.8 | You know there's no wolves there's there were no bears or anything like it doesn't the largest carnivore we had there was a red |
| 1:38.1 | Fault not that they'd been extra paid but they weren't there in the first place no they were extirpated |
| 1:43.2 | Okay, brown bears were extirpated there probably more than a thousand years ago |
| 1:47.0 | I see and wolves I don't know exactly but that that had been quite a while as well |
| 1:52.4 | And interestingly wolves and I gradually returning to Western Europe. There's to have been a few sightings of wolves now in the Netherlands |
| 1:59.4 | How are they received their open arms? Not as a controversial there as well not not yet |
| 2:05.8 | But I think it's because it's just been a sighting or two you know they have a dusted off someone's lame |
| 2:11.0 | Yeah, exactly and that once thought that starts happening at my change but |
| 2:16.0 | But so far it's mostly excitement actually that's yeah, it's amazing that in a place like the Netherlands you know |
| 2:22.0 | It's a 60 million people in in a country this size. That's one ninth of the state of Montana |
| 2:28.8 | You know so you do the do the math. It's a pretty amazing that you still wow and wolves there so you started looking at large carnivores |
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