Today, a quick update and a revisit of episode 8: the naughty bird who got evicted from a President's funeral for swearing, some birds who were separa...
Updates on the wanderlust walrus who is now sinking boats in Spain, a bomb sniffing rat retires, and a revisit of the raven who inspired two old-timey...
A father's devotion to his daughter is saving the monarch butterfly; condors go all Spinal Tap on a woman's home; Melissa gets real with how local and...
Melissa presents three happy stories about animals and humans - Yoriko the fish makes an unusual friend at an underwater shrine; a service dog flunk o...
This week all about dogs and sight! We have a greyhound who gets corrective lenses, the first seeing eye dogs, and a guardian livestock dog gets an un...
On this shortie, Melissa got vaccinated and wanted to revisit the horseshoe crabs who made our vaccines --- and nearly every medical instrument and me...
Melissa talks about some animals who could easily end up in a police lineup, a horse to thank every time Romaine lettuce is recalled, and cat butt sci...
An animal control investigator gets a delicious surprise; emus beat the Australian Army, and we finally have a spi...spi….a story about my phobia that...
Today's episode covers three stories of how animals intersect with human death or death prevention, including forensic entomology (the use of bugs to ...
Today we have an all NEWFOUNDLAND DOG special! A lifeguard Newfie named Reef jumps out of helicopters for the Italian Coast Guard; a Newf named Hairy ...
The a cow who escaped a slaughterhouse and went on the lam, the dolphin of Dingle Bay, the town who went dark to save a nest of baby birds. Support th...
The story of the cow who didn't start the fire- no, she didn't light it, but she tried to fight it. Original episode and shownotes can be found: Bewil...
Bears in bear jail are in the quality assurance department; crossbow conservation, and a sleepy walrus gets a rude awakening Support the show: http://...
Bears put breaking and entering skills to good use, action hero scientists save the Lear's Macaw from killer bees, and a walrus wakes up in an unexpec...
A crow tampers with a crime scene - TWICE; Nikola Tesla’s obsession with pigeons, and are you liable if your murder of crows commits murder? Support t...
Today, Melissa covers the legendary Andre the Seal from Rockport, Maine. Additional topics include slugs who decapitate their own heads and regrow bod...
Naked mole rats can save humans, horses killed a lot of kings named Loius, and eagle killed a playwright with a turtle. Terry Pratchett's book, "Small...
The story of the 150 dogs and 20 men who raced against odds, weather, frostbite, fake news, and the worst storm in decades to save the kids and Indige...
Sea cucumbers magic superpower, a bear found and ate 76 pounds of cocaine he found in the woods, and a flock of holy geese saved Rome. Support the sho...
Today's topics: Civil War reenacting rooster flew the coop, a dark walk through history thanks to a Border collie who inherited $5 million from her de...
The one time the CIA tried - and failed - to use a cat as a spy (code name Acoustic Kitty), some cats need hypoallergenic humans, and what happens whe...
We meet Emily Spinach - the pet garter snake of wild-child first daughter, Alice Roosevelt. Also, the hilariously creepy, Wild Taxidermy Room in Melbo...
Melissa talks about the cutest little toilet plunger thief, the tallest dwarfs in the animal kingdom, and how honey bees twerk murder the murder horne...
Melissa talks about a monkey who killed the King of Greece, skydiving beavers, and one lizard earns the number one slot for the largest number 2. Let’...
How fish farts nearly caused a war between Russia and Sweden, how severed octopus arms continue to try to feed the octopus, and why we use a rodent to...
Today on BewilderBeasts, we’re going to meet a pig who wants to be a therapy dog, a headless chicken lives for 18 months & and the raven who haunt...
Melissa dives deep on how horseshoe crabs are saving us from COVID19 (this was recorded before the vaccines started rolling out), platypuses are WAY w...
Today on Bewilderbeasts Melissa explores Australia's hallucinogenic toads, New Zealand calls "fowl" in voter fraud, and a Salem, Massachusetts, landma...
For the last episode of the year, Melissa reviews all the creatures we talked about in a not-so-classic retelling of Clement Clarke Moore's, "'Twas th...
Today, Melissa explores other customs, like the "Boomers" who pull Santa's sled in Australia, how a video game about animals has given a place for pra...
Today on Bewilderbeasts, Melissa explores two popular Christmas Songs: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the 12 Days of Christmas. Why are the reinde...
Today Melissa discusses the rats of the Black Plague who got a bad rap ; the tiniest, but mightiest, snot house of the sea, and a common house pet who...