Our Wild World

science, nature · EN

Our Wild World introduces listeners to, as the Lakota would say, Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ or, All Our Relations, in the animal world. Each episode is meticulously researched and includes firsthand observations from the bush of our 2 legged, 4 legged, and winged friends in the animal kingdom. The host, Dr. John David Ulferts, has been an educator for over 38 years serving as an Adjunct Professor, Superintendent, Principal, and Teacher. When John isn’t teaching, he’s traveling with his wife, Christina, also an educator and a conservationist, into the wild. Together they’ve sat in the cloud forest entertained by the shenanigans of a baby mountain gorilla as she hung from a vine, and played on the stomach of her napping silverback father. They’ve been startled as they sat alongside the campfire in the Okavango Delta by the thunderous roaring of two aggressive hippos who shook the ground as they fought just behind their tents. John and Chris have been woken from their sleep by a curious Afric