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Wild Life Week: Why Would a Researcher Pull a Lion’s Tail?

Producer Abbey Perrault takes a trip into the Kenyan savanna, where she meets researchers who are studying how people share space with unlikely neighbors: lions. Along the way, she learns why a researcher would possibly pull the tail of a lion, and gets *extremely* up close and personal with two massive lionesses.

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  Roger Williams Root (Classic)

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  A Pasta Tour of Italy with Dan Pashman

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  The Day the Tractors Stood Still

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  Wood Island Lighthouse

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  The Wave Organ

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  Wild Life Week: Rae Wynn-Grant and the Bear (Classic)

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  Wild Life Week: Celery Makes A Nature Documentary

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  Wild Life Week: The Female Alphas of Yellowstone

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  Wild Life Week: Exploring Our Alien Planet with Cara Giaimo

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  Ottoman Bird Palaces (Classic)

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  The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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  Auctioning off Roadside America

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  Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: Sa Cabaneta & Provincetown

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  The Wimbledon Queue