The Museum für Naturkunde is home to one of the largest collections of animal sound recordings in the world. They're studied by scientists to learn about what animals live in an area, and...
========== This episode is brought to you by the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois and the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany. Hey, we are here in the National Park Unteres Odertal, and Poland is right there! We can see it! Also, my feet are freezing. Let's go! People have been cultivating grain and farming cattle in the Oder Valley for more than seven thousand years. alteration of the land ramped up in the early nineteenth century and continued through the 1990s. During the 1970s, industrialization and expanded agricultural practices had a huge impact on transforming the region. Then, the political changes in 1990 allowed for the area to be set aside and protected, and the lower Oder Valley National Park was established in 1995. Dr. Karl-Heinz Frommolt, Germa...