Left: Rhiannon Jakopak sits in green grass smiling and wearing field clothes soaked with rain and mud, with chin length brown hair and a baseball cap. Middle: Ologies logo with various natural history drawings on creme-yellow paper. Right: Rhiannon Kirton wears snow clothes (red fleece and turquoise snow pants) in a snowy landscape. She is smiling, wearing a grey ski hat and bending over into a long white cooler while clutching a fish.

PART 1:

What IS a deer? And an elk? And a moose? And a Rhiannon? One thing they all have in common: cervidology. Buckle up for some spirited, laughy chatter with a duo of deer scientists. They dish all about Welsh mythology and their field trips into the remote, gorgeous wilderness. They’ll explain what to do if you find a fawn, if you should feed backyard deer, what deer population numbers are like, hunting, ungulates, being a first-generation scientist and more. This episode is a quick overview and then the real fireworks are next week: in Part 2 we answer some questions with BANANAS facts that will stay burned in your brain until the end of time. Trust me.

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Part 1 Transcript

PART 2:

The spirited, laughy chatter with a duo of deer scientists named Rhiannon continues with the thrilling conclusion of Part 2. Buckle up for listener questions addressing everything from social structure to hunting to Chronic Wasting Disease to how not to hit a deer with your car. Also the weirdest animal fact Alie has ever learned in the history of Ologies. Soul-rattling. And ff you missed Part 1, circle back and catch up to learn all abut ungulates and deer and moose and elk and fawns and … some Stevie Nicks trivia and Welsh mythology for good measure. These episodes may change the way you look at our furry backyard friends forever.

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Part 2 Transcript

Rhiannon Kirton on PBS. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Rhiannon Jakopak website. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram

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