Leigh Ann Henion: Darkness, and the creatures of the night

The Wild with Chris Morgan

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Science, Nature

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Nature writer Leigh Ann Henion has spent countless hours uncovering mysteries of the darkness that unfold while we’re asleep. She’s explored bats, moths, glow worms, spotted salamanders, and she’s written a new book about it called Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark.

Today, Chris talks with Leigh Ann Henion about what we can find in the darkness and how we can preserve it, even from our own back porch.

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0:37.4	National Park.
0:38.5	If you haven't heard it yet, go back and listen. It's one of my favorites.
0:42.9	During my trip to the Great Smoky Mountains, I spent a lot of time wandering around in the dark,
0:47.6	bumping into complete strangers, surrounded by huge crowds of people without any flashlights.
0:53.5	It's quite the experience.
0:55.0	The fireflies need the darkness to survive, to be able to light up and find their mates.
1:02.0	But it got me thinking what other creatures rely on the darkness?
1:06.0	What kinds of things can we learn from lurking around in the dark?
1:21.6	Well, it turns out, nature writer Leanne Henion had the same questions.
1:32.0	What's really shocking is that there is so much life that comes out of the darkness. It's so ingrained that the dark is a void, that darkness is associated with death to experience darkness as this
1:39.5	cornucopia of life. It's just mind-bending in a sense.
1:52.0	Leanne has spent countless hours uncovering the mysteries of the darkness that unfold while we're asleep. She's explored bats, moths, spotted salamanders, and she's written a new book about it
1:59.2	called Night Magic, Adventures among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and she's written a new book about it called Night Magic, Adventures among
2:01.7	Glow Worms, Moon Gardens and other marvels of the dark.
2:06.9	Today, a conversation with Leanne Henion about what we can find in the darkness and how we
2:13.3	can preserve it, even from our own back porch.
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