{"podcast":{"title":"Natural Connections","slug":"natural-connections-90209","podcast_index_feed_id":90209,"rss_url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/4/7/6/a4765a07d301e418/podcast_logo.jpg","author":"Emily Stone","episode_count":99,"summary":"Natural Connections is a weekly newspaper column created by Emily Stone, the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin. In each episode, Emily reads her fun and informative weekly column about Northwoods Nature.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209"},"episode":{"title":"413 - The Elusive Lynx","slug":"413-the-elusive-lynx","published_at":"2026-02-12T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/413-the-elusive-lynx","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209","url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/413-the-loping-lynx","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cablenaturalhistorymuseum/413_-_The_Elusive_Lynx.mp3?dest-id=491045","summary":"I stared open-mouthed in disbelief at the cat crossing the neighborhood street in front of my new house in Silver Bay, MN (I'll be moving up full time in 2027). Trotting purposefully on long legs, with a body almost three feet long, this was no housecat. \"Bobcat!\" I exclaimed, eyeing the black tip on their short tail and dark blotches on gray-brown fur. Bobcats are common in Northern Wisconsin where I've been living for the past 15 years, and are often spotted around homes and roads, so that was the most likely identification my startled brain could find. But as the cat climbed up the pile of dirty snow on the curb and into my neighbor's yard, the size of their huge, furry feet came into full view. That, along with long black ear tufts visible against the white, confirmed their identity: Canada lynx.","meta_description":"I stared open-mouthed in disbelief at the cat crossing the neighborhood street in front of my new house in Silver Bay, MN (I'll be moving up full time in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":324,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/natural-connections-90209/episodes/413-the-elusive-lynx/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/413-the-elusive-lynx.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}