{"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":"420 - Spring Cleaning with Turkey Vultures","slug":"420-spring-cleaning-with-turkey-vultures","published_at":"2026-04-02T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/420-spring-cleaning-with-turkey-vultures","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209","url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/420-spring-cleaning-with-turkey-vultures","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cablenaturalhistorymuseum/420_-_Spring_Cleaning_with_Turkey_Vultures.mp3?dest-id=491045","summary":"On the inside, turkey vultures' intense stomach acids can kill the microbes that cause botulism, anthrax, cholera, tuberculosis, salmonella, and rabies. How appropriate that the birds' scientific name—Cathartes aura—means \"purifying breeze.\" Their digestive system is so powerful that it even destroys the DNA of their food. As of March 27, I still haven't seen a turkey vulture in the Northwoods, but soon they'll be showing up on the wind and helping us out with a little spring cleaning!","meta_description":"On the inside, turkey vultures' intense stomach acids can kill the microbes that cause botulism, anthrax, cholera, tuberculosis, salmonella, and rabies. H…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":363,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/natural-connections-90209/episodes/420-spring-cleaning-with-turkey-vultures/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/420-spring-cleaning-with-turkey-vultures.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}