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 anim