Our Wild World
Our Wild World introduces listeners to, as the Lakota would say, Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ or, All Our Relations, in the animal world. Each episode is meticulously researched and includes firsthand observations from the bush of our 2 legged, 4 legged, and winged friends in the animal kingdom. The host, Dr. John David Ulferts, has been an educator for over 38 years serving as an Adjunct Professor, Superintendent, Principal, and Teacher. When John isn’t teaching, he’s traveling with his wife, Christina, also an educator and a conservationist, into the wild. Together they’ve sat in the cloud forest entertained by the shenanigans of a baby mountain gorilla as she hung from a vine, and played on the stomach of her napping silverback father. They’ve been startled as they sat alongside the campfire in the Okavango Delta by the thunderous roaring of two aggressive hippos who shook the ground as they fought just behind their tents. John and Chris have been woken from their sleep by a curious African lion who laid down outside their tent and played with their tent bag before carrying it off into the bush. John hiked through the forest accompanied by a Tanzanian National Parks ranger to come within 75 yards of an elephant family drinking from a stream. Walking to the toilet house one night while camping at Meru National Park in Kenya, John and Chris came eye to eye with a black mamba who lifted herself up just 12 feet from them, her beady eyes and flickering tongue warning them that she was about to strike. After all his time in the bush, John has a story or two to tell. So, it makes sense that he’s combining his passion for teaching with his passion for wildlife to launch Our Wild World. It’s a podcast like no other. Our Wild World’s webpage and sister Facebook, Instagram, X, and BlueSky pages all feature photographs and videos that John and Christina took of the animals featured in each podcast. Our Wild World’s mission is to educate listeners on our brethren in the animal world so that we can live in harmony with Nature and conserve the Earth’s vanishing wildlife. You can reach the host at ourwildworldshow@gmail.com Interested in advertising? Any profits generated by the podcast will be donated to wildlife conservation organizations. Special thanks to Viacheslav Starostin for the African Safari Music that is featured at the beginning and end of each podcast.
Episodes
Leopards have the widest range of any of the great cats and can be found in any landscape from sea level to 17,000 feet. Their range includes all of sub-Saharan Africa and west of the Kalahari Desert as well as the Middle East and Asia. Yet, many a safari goer can attest that they are exceedingly hard to find on safari. This is because they are very shy, solitary, and do most of their hunting at night. Becau...
In this episode, Part 3 of the Gorillas in Our Midst miniseries, you’ll hear about the amazing treks my wife and I made to see the mountain gorillas that Dian Fossey studied at Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, and the mountain gorillas of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Of course, along the way, we will also learn more about the behavior of mountain gorillas. If you haven't listened to the first two e...
This special three part miniseries from Our Wild World explores both lowland and mountain gorillas can be listened to in any order. Part 2 begins with the life and legacy of the American primatologist Dian Fossey – no one loved gorillas more. By the time Dian Fossey began her study of mountain gorillas in 1966, the species was well on the way to extinction due to poaching and habitat loss. Dian Fossey’...
In this special three part miniseries from Our Wild World, we will explore the behavior of both lowland and mountain gorillas. For many of us of a certain age, the first gorilla we ever became aware of was King Kong, scaling the Empire State Building and batting airplanes and helicopters like they were no more than bothersome flies. The film reflects the prevailing misconception of gorillas that dated back to their disc...
In this special three part Elephants Among Us series of Our Wild World, we will explore the savannah elephants of Africa. If you’ve missed the first two episodes, I recommend you go back to listen to them before starting this third episode. In Part 3 of Elephants Among Us, we will further explore elephant adolescence and the importance of play. I'll share an amazing farewell that an elephant family gave Chris and ...
In this special three part Elephants Among Us series of Our Wild World, we will explore the savannah elephants of Africa. In Part Two we will dig deeper into elephant communication, including the recent exciting discovery that elephants use unique names to identify each other, and its implications. I'll share the amazing account of a lone female elephant in South Africa apparently using infrasound to communicate with a ...
In the first of a three part Elephants Among Us series of Our Wild World, we will explore the savannah elephants of Africa. Elephants are highly intelligent, emotional and social beings and you’ll learn all about their strong family bonds, their social behavior, the different roles of males and females, their unique anatomy, and the truly amazing discoveries being made on how elephants communicate. Elephants are t...
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