Episode #942
Dan Flores
Books mentioned
Moby-Dick
Mentioned by Dan Flores · at 00:19:28
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American Serengeti
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:50:56
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Roughing It
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:04:48
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Coyote America
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Historian Dan Flores discusses coyote biology, adaptation, persecution and expanding range, including their relationships with wolves and people in urban areas. He also explores the ecological and cultural history of horses, bison and Great Plains megafauna, Pleistocene climate cycles and extinctions, and the American Prairie Reserve’s effort to restore large predators.
What they talked about
- Coyote evolution and spread across North America
- Coyote-wolf hybridization and the coy wolf
- Coyote adaptability and pack behavior
- Pleistocene megafauna and the American Serengeti
- Pronghorn speed as an evolutionary relic
- European settlers' destruction of wildlife
- Native American relationship with bison and coyotes
- Bison restoration and the American Prairie Reserve
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