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The Wild with Chris Morgan

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The Wild with Chris Morgan is a celebration of the natural world and the people devoted to wild places and incredible species. In each episode, host and ecologist Chris Morgan brings you face to face with some of the most extraordinary creatures and explores how they are finding unique and inspiring ways to adapt and…

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The Wild with Chris Morgan

Meet the eider keepers of subarctic Norway

Skiers vs bighorn sheep…clash in the Tetons

For shuck's sake! Saving wild oysters

A mating dance party with robotic sage grouse

A 750-mile misadventure in the Grand Canyon

There's a bear in my swimming pool!

Remembering David Johnson and the burrowing owls he loved

Earth Day 2026 - You look beautiful

Bird watching and listening with Libby Mills

Grey seals of Scotland: my lost tapes from 1994

Rhino Man

Back to the future: Genetically modified wildlife

The Buffalo Boys of the Kalispel Tribe

Musical termites? What happens when you let nature sing

How the quest for the giant panda changed modern conservation

The Humpback comeback: Vancouver's whales come home

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

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

50 years of Jaws: shark myths and misunderstandings

How our planet came to life with Ferris Jabr

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

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

Tiny but tough: Hummingbirds of the Arizona desert

Brooke Williams encountered a dragonfly and became a dreamer

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

Happy Earth Day 2025!

Tom Mangelsen: Grizzy 399 and confessions of a wildlife photographer

Yellowstone National Park: Celebrity bears, and a tale of two trout

A harsh life among ‘super over-caffeinated’ penguins (reprise)

Zoë Schlanger: Do plants think? Why eating a salad may never feel the same again

Glacier Bay National Park: Life after ice - the birth of a river

The Wild presents How Wild: Solitude

A river runs through it ... once again (reprise)

Leigh Ann Henion: Darkness, and the creatures of the night

Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Fireflies in synchrony

Caroline Tracey: How this tiny bird could save salt lakes

Chris remembers Bear 399

Everglades National Park: Invasion of the Burmese pythons (reprise)

Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Toxic wasteland to ecological champion

The Wild presents The Wide Open: Balancing the needs of endangered species and humans

The Wild presents Outside/In: Not everyone is wild about wild horses

Goodbye chemical weapons, hello burrowing owls (reprise)

These Italian bears survived gladiators and Mussolini (reprise)

True grit: the wild wolverine (reprise)

Eily Andruszkiewicz Allan: The magic of eDNA

Death Valley National Park: Diving for fish in the hottest place on Earth

Digital Dr. Dolittle: decoding animal conversations with artificial intelligence (reprise)

Dan Blumstein: Fear and listening to your inner marmot

North Cascades National Park: The wolf comes home

The wildlife super dog (reprise)

Stories from THE WILD

Biscayne National Park: Raising baby corals in America's barrier reef

There's a cougar in my backyard (reprise)

Ben Goldfarb: How America’s roads alter our ecology

Redwood National Park: Saving the tallest trees on Earth

Grizzlies coming back to the North Cascades

Broadcast: In search of silence

Broadcast: Leave it to beavers

Broadcast: How to stay safe in the wild

Broadcast: How to catch a grizzly

The polar bears of Hudson Bay: cubs, climate, and calories, part 2

The polar bears of Hudson Bay: cubs, climate, and calories, part 1

Urban Coyote

Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 2

Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 1

The worst wedding gift in history: an Irish tale of predator helps prey

Digital Dr. Dolittle: decoding animal conversations with artificial intelligence

Eavesdropping on orcas: love, grief, and family

Season 5 Trailer

A short check-in from Chris

The fiery spell of Desolation

Make it like it was: Clean, cold and flowing Gold Creek of Snoqualmie Pass

Etuaptmumk: Two Eyed Seeing

Coral reefs: a biological symphony being silenced

Hard Knocks: Lessons from the woodpecker

Nuclear sea otters: A wildlife refugee story

Happy 46th Birthday! An Earth Day message from Chris

The Cougar Conundrum

True grit: the wild wolverine