The Outside Professor Blog
Mention the word 'tribalism' and most people will respond with disparaging remarks about this mostly bygone era of human existence, typically labeling it as primitive, archaic, or backward. In...
If you wanted to identify an animal that was accessing your your yard, moving through a hunting trail you frequent, or rummaging through your campsite at night, would you know how to confidently...
After a brief introduction on the basics of bird language, I led fifteen students down a trail at a nature preserve to perform what is known as a bird language ‘sit’ (a term coined by...
Breeding season has begun in the southern parts of North America, where birds are now defining and defending territories. If you want to know where a mating pair's territory begins and ends,...
Most people never realize how many food resources are literally right at their fingertips, especially with regards to edible plants and how straight forward it can be to prepare them. But with the...
Defining animal language
When we speak of animal language, we are referring to a coarse way of interpreting and understanding the inter-species communication around us. All higher animals/mammals...
A strange phenomenon often happens with survival training; people just don't approach it like they would any other topic. If they want to understand how they can be more healthy or treat a medical...
For humans and other mammals, the process of learning language begins in the womb. Scientists know that even at an early stage of development, embryos pick up on the sound of their mother’s...
Today the majority of people who live in the western world visit the outdoors for recreational pursuits (hunting, fishing, birding, exercise, etc.) or just for the purpose of relaxation. Whether it...
In the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, a member of the San Bushmen hunter-gatherer tribe stumbles across a Coke bottle that was tossed out the window of a small plane. He takes it back to his...
We had a major ice storm where I live in central Texas, causing a lot of disruption including power outages, downed trees, and other problems. This comes on the heels of a major winter storm a...
