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  • <p>In the episode of <a href="http://education.eol.org/podcast">One Species at a Time</a>, writer Karen Romano Young takes an icebreaker to Barrow, Alaska, to join in the festival of Naluqatak and learn about the intimate relationship between the Inupiat Eskimos and the bowhead whale (<em>Balaena mysticetus</em>). Listen as she tells Ari Daniel Shapiro how the whole community turns out for whale hunt, how the bowhead nourishes the Inupiat, both physically and spiritually—and how the hunt is proving to be an unexpected gift to scientists.</p>

    Bowhead Whale: One Species at a Time
    Oct 25 2010 - 6:18pm
    In the episode of One Species at a Time, writer Karen Romano Young takes an icebreaker to Barrow, Alaska, to join in the festival of Naluqatak and learn about the intimate relationship between the...
  • <p>What is it like to be eyeball to eyeball with a fish the size of a Volkswagen? In this episode of the <strong><a href="http://education.eol.org/podcast" target="_blank">Podcast of Life</a></strong>, learn how a tuna fisherman and a biologist are teaming up to tag <strong><a href="http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/atlantic-bluefin-tuna-thunnus-thynnus">bluefin tuna</a></strong>, and how those tags are revealing surprises that might help save tuna from their own popularity in sushi restaurants.</p>

    Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: One Species at a Time
    Jul 8 2010 - 6:57pm
    What is it like to be eyeball to eyeball with a fish the size of a Volkswagen? In this episode of the Podcast of Life, learn how a tuna fisherman and a biologist are teaming up to tag bluefin tuna,...