The Wild with Chris Morgan

The Wild with Chris Morgan

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Episodes 138
Avg. Duration 31m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 4.8 (3,452)
Since Mar 2019
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Weekly
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Episodic
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38%
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About This Podcast

THE WILD with Chris Morgan brings stories from the natural world right to your ears in a beautifully immersive way. You’ll feel like you are right there with Chris in wild places all over the world, alongside wildlife ecologists, researchers and colorful characters on the front line.

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Recent Episodes

Earth Day 2026 - You look beautiful

Apr 22, 2026 12m

You look amazing, you look beautiful. Those are the words of Victor Glover, pilot of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission. He spoke those words less than a month ago on his trip to the moon. His way of…

S7E16 Bird watching and listening with Libby Mills

Mar 03, 2026 33m

When I was eight, growing up in England, I was already really into birds. I was in the Young Ornithologists Club for goodness sake! I didn't have one friend who was into birds. But these days, things…

S7E15 Grey seals of Scotland: my lost tapes from 1994

Feb 24, 2026 46m

Today, a fun trip down memory lane!  Lots of things have shaped my life and work as an ecologist, and this experience when I was 25 was one of them. As I wrapped up my master's degree at the…

S7E14 Rhino Man

Feb 17, 2026 41m

Anton Mzimba was the head ranger at the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve in South Africa. Anton and hundreds of wildlife rangers like him risk their lives every day to protect endangered species,…

S7E13 Back to the future: Genetically modified wildlife

Feb 10, 2026 55m

De-extinction! You probably saw the headlines - big, splashy statements about bringing the dire wolf - the ancient wolf species - back from the dead. But are they really back? Dr. Helen Pilcher says…

S7E12 The Buffalo Boys of the Kalispel Tribe

Feb 03, 2026 45m

I drive across the mountains and forests to a small corner of Washington state, where there's a group of ranchers from the Kalispel Tribe of Indians. They’re known as ‘The Buffalo Boys.’ Generations…

S7E11 Musical termites? What happens when you let nature sing

Jan 27, 2026 46m

Animals and music? What a tantalizing mix! In a fascinating conversation with scientist and musician Dr. Diego Ellis Soto we learn about the way animals move - through music. When animals swarm,…

S7E10 How the quest for the giant panda changed modern conservation

Jan 20, 2026 52m

There was a time when the existence of the giant panda was nothing more than legend. A fairytale to those in the western world. Whispers of a black and white beast echoed around the early 1900s. In…

S7E9 The Humpback comeback: Vancouver's whales come home

Jan 13, 2026 45m

Humpback whales in the Salish Sea have a complicated history. They were hunted to near extinction a century ago, with whalers turning some of the largest creatures on Earth into buckets of oil, slabs…

How America’s roads alter our ecology, with Ben Goldfarb (reprise)

Dec 23, 2025 43m

Happy holidays! Thanks for tuning into THE WILD. I’m so glad you’re here.  THE WILD team is hard at work on some more brand-new episodes that will come out in the new year. But for now, I want to…

S7E8 Japan's bear attacks: we unravel what's going on

Dec 16, 2025 35m

Bear attacks in Japan have been in the news a lot recently. There have been over 220 attacks so far this year, and a record 13 people dead.  Why is this happening? And what can be done about it?…

S7E7 50 years of Jaws: shark myths and misunderstandings

Dec 09, 2025 53m

JAWS can only mean one thing! The movie that forever changed how we feel about sharks. It did me, that’s for sure. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the movie, we thought it might be time to…

S7E6 How our planet came to life with Ferris Jabr

Dec 02, 2025 48m

“Life is earth, animated.” When I heard this statement for the first time it made me think about my relationship to our planet differently. That all life on earth is part of a giant feedback loop, a…

S7E5 The story of Whatcom Creek: an explosion, a tragedy, and a rebirth

Nov 18, 2025 43m

This is not an easy story to tell. In the town where I live, Bellingham, Washington, there’s a beautiful urban creek. It flows just four miles from a lake, through a city park, down through the town…

S7E4 Sniffs, scratches, sights and sounds: Ed Yong on how animals sense the world

Nov 11, 2025 27m

Have you ever wondered why your dog takes such a long time to sniff a patch of grass? Or why flies buzz around so sporadically? It’s because most of what a creature actually senses is invisible to…

S7E3 Tiny but tough: Hummingbirds of the Arizona desert

Nov 04, 2025 36m

Blink and you’ll miss ‘em! In this episode we get to know hummingbirds eyeball-to-eyeball.  The world of the hummingbird is changing fast in the deserts of Arizona. So much so that even an animal as…

S7E2 Brooke Williams encountered a dragonfly and became a dreamer

Oct 28, 2025 33m

Environmental author Brooke Williams believes that dragonflies are messengers of wisdom and enlightenment. This idea got my head buzzing so I invited Williams to join me at a pond near my home to…

S7E1 A Mexican jaguar walked into Arizona, then the US built a wall

Oct 21, 2025 42m

Twenty-nine years ago cowboy Warner Glen took the first photograph of a jaguar that crossed from Mexico into Arizona. His surprising story opens our show. Today though, there is something very…

S7 New season trailer! Welcome back to THE WILD

Oct 07, 2025 1m

Welcome back to a brand new season of THE WILD! Travel with Chris as he uncovers unexpected stories from nature. Like jaguars - America’s biggest cat - trying to navigate the giant steel wall on the…

S6 Happy Earth Day 2025!

Apr 22, 2025 12m

Happy Earth Day! There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now when it comes to the environmental health of our planet. Political leaders seem unable or unwilling to take action on climate…

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The Wild with Chris Morgan has published 138 episodes since March 2019, covering topics in Nature, Science.

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