Habitat Loss: Stories of changing environments
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🗓️ 17 March 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Part 1: Ecologist Evon Hekkala travels to Madagascar to help protect a village from a man-eating croc. Part 2: Criminologist Stan Stojkovic receives a letter from an incarcerated man who killed two people when he was a teenager. Evon Hekkala was born just outside of Fossil, Oregon, population 200. How she ended up living and working in NYC and traveling around the globe studying wildlife is all a bit of a big crazy fluke, set in motion by a mixture of really good, bad parenting and the naive ability to never see her own boundaries. Now she spends her time teaching and researching at Fordham University and the American Museum of Natural History where she and her students explore a century of change in the wild world of animals. Stan Stojkovic, PhD is Dean and Professor of Criminal Justice in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He has been a faculty member within the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare for the past 33 years. He received his Ph.D. in social science (with cognate specializations in criminal justice and criminology, public administration, and philosophy) from Michigan State University in 1984. Stan Stojkovic's story was produced as part of a partnership with Springer Storytellers. Find out more at www.beforetheabstract.com/
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.9 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.5 | I felt. |
| 0:07.6 | I felt. |
| 0:07.6 | I was so much. |
| 0:09.6 | I figured it out. |
| 0:10.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:28.3 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:36.4 | This week, we're bringing you two stories about habitat loss, an encounter with a man-eating crocodile and a criminologist struggling with the idea of forgiveness. |
| 0:39.2 | Our first story this week is from Yvonne Hekala, |
| 0:42.5 | was recorded in November 2016 at the Crane Theater as part of the Gotham Storytelling Festival. |
| 0:49.4 | Several years ago, I found myself at an airport in Madagascar, and I was surrounded by several |
| 0:56.0 | bags of cash and several guards, and I was on my way to go and capture a giant man-eating |
| 1:05.6 | crocodile. |
| 1:06.9 | And before I tell you about the crocodile thing, I actually didn't have anything to do with crocodiles before this. |
| 1:12.6 | I was actually going to study lemurs in Madagascar as a graduate student at Columbia University. |
| 1:18.3 | And I had this great plan that I was going to understand more about the behavior of humans by studying the interactions between species of lemurs because they were early |
| 1:31.4 | primates. |
| 1:32.7 | And so I set up on this trek across northern Madagascar, and it was this 115, 118 kilometer, |
| 1:42.7 | trek across northern Madagascar, and I was absolutely convinced that I was going to |
| 1:47.6 | discover this hybrid zone between these two species of lemurs, and that was going to help us |
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