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Road Ecology (ROAD KILL) with Ben Goldfarb

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Deer in headlights! Alligators in crosswalks! A possum in the oven? If you love wildlife, this is a must-listen to avoid killing critters with your car. Ben Goldfarb wrote the book on road kill and we chat about: wildlife crossings, skunk smells, moose impacts, ocelot facts, what to do if you see roadkill, how to avoid making more of it, and whether it's okay to pick up a dead thing. Ben is an award-winning science journalist with a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and I’ve waited LITERAL YEARS to talk to him about this topic as he wrote his latest book: “Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.” Also: flip phones, sleep hygiene, and how to ask your boss for a raise.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh hey it's your old binder from junior year with slipnot lyrics in the margins

0:05.0

alley ward bulky your seat belts for a ride through the science of roadkill.

0:09.0

People study this so that you encounter it less. So heads up, obviously we do talk about

0:15.2

accidents with wildlife. That's the episode, but in the context of how to

0:19.2

prevent and avoid and survive them. So if you care about animals or your car insurance premiums, it's worth

0:26.4

the listen to learn how to help these critters out, both every day and in an emergency. So this interviewee I have chased down for years. I have

0:35.2

been tailgating his social media like can we do an episode yet? Cammie,

0:39.5

Cammy, Cammy, Cammy, Cammy, and he has been the most elusive guest inology's history because he's been

0:45.0

writing a book about this very subject for years interviewing road ecologists

0:50.3

all over the world about nearly every biome and biological specimen and he wanted to wait

0:56.4

until it was done and out to chat and that time is now except the he got COVID.

1:01.8

But he's a really dedicated man

1:03.6

and we did the interview anyway remotely

1:06.0

as he was getting over it.

1:07.4

So we're gonna get right to it.

1:08.4

But first, thank you to every patron

1:10.3

at Patreon.com slash ologies

1:11.8

for supporting the show and sending in your questions

1:14.3

for this. You can join as an ologist pal for a buck a month and submit questions

1:19.0

but the BFF tier can leave me questions, we may even plan the show.

1:24.0

Also, thank you to everyone wearing and tagging yourself with Ologies

1:27.4

merch for social media and folks who just leave a review for me to read, which you know I do. Such as this one from was an odd child who wrote five stars.

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