Mar 6, 2018
Meet Colby Anton, PhD candidate at
the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). Marcia interviewed
Colby Anton at the beautiful UCSC campus to talk to him about his
work with cougars and wolves in Yellowstone National Park. (This is
Colby in the photo by Justin Duffer:NPS with his four legged
workmate. Not a bad work setting at all!)
In this episode we learn about:
- It is important to ask questions about the world around you, to be more mindful of how things work and how they behave
- If you put your mind to it, you can work in any discipline to help in the field of conservation
- The importance of team work
- Cougars and wolves are more afraid of us then we know
- New and old technologies to study cougar and wolf behavior and physiology
- What keeps Colby going back for more!
This was a fun interview, Colby is a great storyteller and is very passionate about the work he is doing. I learned a lot! Thank you for listening!
Pictures of Colby's Workplace! (I am so jealous!):
cougar at Yellowstone
Picking up deceased and frozen wolf at Yellowstone to study
Colby after skiing in -20 degree F weather to pick up deceased wolf in Yellowstone with his amazing team.