About this episode

Cal discusses wildlife management stories involving crowdsourcing, bear-spray drones, and the authenticity of the bigfoot video.

This week, Cal covers two fascinating stories of wildlife managers using crowdsourcing to get things done, a new program in Japan to deploy bear-spray-wielding drones, and an explosive report that claims the famous bigfoot video was a fake. Connect with Cal and  MeatEater To learn more and get involved with any Cal to Action,  click here . Cal on Instagram  and Twitter MeatEater on Instagram , Facebook , Twitter , Youtube , and Youtube Clips Subscribe to The MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop Cal's Week in Review Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Cal

Topics covered

• crowdsourcing
• wildlife management
• drones
• grizzly bears
• bigfoot hoax

Keywords

• crowdsourcing
• grizzly drones
• bigfoot
• wildlife management
• bear spray

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Organizations: MeatEater

Places: Japan

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