Welcome to a growing collection of stories at the intersection between human and other species on planet earth.
"Content expressed in a "story way" creates relationship, translates information into image and excites our imagining - our sense of wonder." - Susan Strauss, "The Passionate Fact"
Kingdom Animalia:
Crows, Corvus
Recent research has shown that crows not only use tools but can construct them too.
Gray Wolves, Canis Lupus
In a wolf pack, the siblings, aunts and uncles often help to raise a new litter of pups.
Grizzly Bears, Ursus arctos ssp.
When grizzly bears fish for salmon along the coasts of Alaska and British Columbia, they often only eat the skin, brain and roe of the fish. This provides leftovers for gulls, ravens, and foxes.
Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Humpback whales are known for their complex songs, which travel great distances underwater and often last for hours on end.
- Video: Humpback Whale shows amazing appreciation after being freed from net: "As I swam alongside the whale our eyes met, there were no words we could share but I wanted to let the whale know we were there to help." - Michael Fishbach, Great Whale Conservancy.
Salmon, Oncorhynchus
Salmon are born in inland streams, swim out to the ocean and return to their birth streams by sense of smell.
- Video: Part 1 - Source to Sea, Columbia River Swim. Join Chris Swain for a thirteen-hundred mile swim down one of Americas greatest and most troubled rivers, www.swimwithswain.org.
Kingdom Plantae:
Phytoplankton
Microscopic ocean-going plants that provide half the world's oxygen supply.
- Website: Plastics and Phytoplankton, Plastiki Expedition
