Devon Bowker
@devonthenatureguy.bsky.social
Science teacher and naturalist from a galaxy far, far away
“One day, the youngest child—let’s call her Cassandra, because she is doomed to be right—noticed something troubling.
“The house is on fire,” she said.”
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“The house is on fire,” she said.”
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Cassandra and the Burning House
Once upon a time, there was a house.
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March 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“One day, the youngest child—let’s call her Cassandra, because she is doomed to be right—noticed something troubling.
“The house is on fire,” she said.”
open.substack.com/pub/devonthe...
“The house is on fire,” she said.”
open.substack.com/pub/devonthe...
Trying this out 🙂 open.substack.com/pub/devonthe...
The Wild Life with Devon the Nature Guy | Devon Bowker | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read The Wild Life with Devon the Nature Guy, by Devon Bowker, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.
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March 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Trying this out 🙂 open.substack.com/pub/devonthe...
Remember, reading about nature, climate, environmental justice, and traditional ecological knowledge is a meaningful form of 🌈climate action✨, especially when you share what you’ve learned with others
March 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Remember, reading about nature, climate, environmental justice, and traditional ecological knowledge is a meaningful form of 🌈climate action✨, especially when you share what you’ve learned with others
Something I really *love* is friends and family telling me that I should keep up the work because it’s important, or that I should consider a degree in environmental law because I’m “smart and could make a difference”, and yet they voted for Trump…
It makes me want to vomit
It makes me want to vomit
March 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Something I really *love* is friends and family telling me that I should keep up the work because it’s important, or that I should consider a degree in environmental law because I’m “smart and could make a difference”, and yet they voted for Trump…
It makes me want to vomit
It makes me want to vomit
New on The Wild Life and in my efforts to write more creatively to process all the absurdity taking place | The Great Wanting and The Last Tree. The reviews are in: “this is a bad story. Why aren’t there pictures?” - My 8 year old. thewildlife.blog/2025/02/27/t...
The Last Tree
There once was a forest, and in it, the world was whole. The trees stretched tall, as trees do, and their roots tangled deep, as roots must. The wind, which has been around much longer than anyone,…
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February 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
New on The Wild Life and in my efforts to write more creatively to process all the absurdity taking place | The Great Wanting and The Last Tree. The reviews are in: “this is a bad story. Why aren’t there pictures?” - My 8 year old. thewildlife.blog/2025/02/27/t...
New blog post
“This is the story of how the Earth learned to breathe, and like all the best stories, it is full of magic.”
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“This is the story of how the Earth learned to breathe, and like all the best stories, it is full of magic.”
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The Living World
This is the story of how the Earth learned to breathe, and like all the best stories, it is full of magic.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New blog post
“This is the story of how the Earth learned to breathe, and like all the best stories, it is full of magic.”
thewildlife.blog/2025/02/20/t...
“This is the story of how the Earth learned to breathe, and like all the best stories, it is full of magic.”
thewildlife.blog/2025/02/20/t...
To every SciCommer, educator, and scientist striving to spread hope, raise awareness, inspire action, and change minds—even if you can’t change the minds of those closest to you—I see you. Your work matters. You are making a difference.
January 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
To every SciCommer, educator, and scientist striving to spread hope, raise awareness, inspire action, and change minds—even if you can’t change the minds of those closest to you—I see you. Your work matters. You are making a difference.
Do I believe there is hope for us? Absolutely.
Not a passive hope that waits for rescue, but an active, living hope—a hope you build with your hands, your voice, your choices. As long as you care, as long as you act, as long as you refuse to let despair win, hope is alive.
Not a passive hope that waits for rescue, but an active, living hope—a hope you build with your hands, your voice, your choices. As long as you care, as long as you act, as long as you refuse to let despair win, hope is alive.
January 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Do I believe there is hope for us? Absolutely.
Not a passive hope that waits for rescue, but an active, living hope—a hope you build with your hands, your voice, your choices. As long as you care, as long as you act, as long as you refuse to let despair win, hope is alive.
Not a passive hope that waits for rescue, but an active, living hope—a hope you build with your hands, your voice, your choices. As long as you care, as long as you act, as long as you refuse to let despair win, hope is alive.
I’ll get there eventually
January 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’ll get there eventually
Looking to connect with people who love science, nature, wildlife, sustainability, humankind, finding solutions and common ground, & all kinds of geekery
And also people who are skeptical about climate change (let’s chat!) or have even the most causal interest in animals of all kinds
Just people 😊
And also people who are skeptical about climate change (let’s chat!) or have even the most causal interest in animals of all kinds
Just people 😊
November 21, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Looking to connect with people who love science, nature, wildlife, sustainability, humankind, finding solutions and common ground, & all kinds of geekery
And also people who are skeptical about climate change (let’s chat!) or have even the most causal interest in animals of all kinds
Just people 😊
And also people who are skeptical about climate change (let’s chat!) or have even the most causal interest in animals of all kinds
Just people 😊
I don’t just want people to learn about nature; I want them to feel it in their bones, to look at the world with fresh eyes, and to care enough to protect it, for its own sake, and the sake of future generations.
November 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM
I don’t just want people to learn about nature; I want them to feel it in their bones, to look at the world with fresh eyes, and to care enough to protect it, for its own sake, and the sake of future generations.
Me for the past couple weeks
November 16, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Me for the past couple weeks
If I can get the outlandish threshold of 3.75 million views on this video, I’ll be able to afford all my big dream school supplies for teaching this year AND keep The Wild Life going for another year! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNu8DQM9/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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July 21, 2024 at 6:24 PM
If I can get the outlandish threshold of 3.75 million views on this video, I’ll be able to afford all my big dream school supplies for teaching this year AND keep The Wild Life going for another year! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNu8DQM9/
Calling all climate scientists, conservationists, and biologists!
I need your help launching my new project—Us, a podcast about navigating climate change. I’m looking for experts willing to contribute the following:
I need your help launching my new project—Us, a podcast about navigating climate change. I’m looking for experts willing to contribute the following:
July 20, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Calling all climate scientists, conservationists, and biologists!
I need your help launching my new project—Us, a podcast about navigating climate change. I’m looking for experts willing to contribute the following:
I need your help launching my new project—Us, a podcast about navigating climate change. I’m looking for experts willing to contribute the following:
PLEASE help my student win a trip to the MN Zoo for our class! They made this website: sc012315.wixsite.com/showusyourmu...
Check it out and then vote for Apollo here: mnzoo.org/mussels-chal...
SHARE SHARE SHARE! You can vote once per day!
Check it out and then vote for Apollo here: mnzoo.org/mussels-chal...
SHARE SHARE SHARE! You can vote once per day!
Mussels Challenge - Minnesota Zoo
Welcome to The Show Us Your Mussels Challenge voting page! Minnesota middle and high school students created original digital media campaigns educating the public about Read More
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February 14, 2024 at 11:46 AM
PLEASE help my student win a trip to the MN Zoo for our class! They made this website: sc012315.wixsite.com/showusyourmu...
Check it out and then vote for Apollo here: mnzoo.org/mussels-chal...
SHARE SHARE SHARE! You can vote once per day!
Check it out and then vote for Apollo here: mnzoo.org/mussels-chal...
SHARE SHARE SHARE! You can vote once per day!
Turns out, parrotfish poop is responsible for 70% of the sand in the white beaches of the Caribbean and Hawaii
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The Secret Ingredient to the Perfect Beach Sand? Parrotfish Poop -
Turns out, parrotfish poop is responsible for 70% of the sand in the white beaches of the Caribbean and Hawaii
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January 21, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Turns out, parrotfish poop is responsible for 70% of the sand in the white beaches of the Caribbean and Hawaii
thewildlife.blog/2024/01/21/b...
thewildlife.blog/2024/01/21/b...
Let’s rethink the metamorphosis metaphor www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8X1vR3c/
January 3, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Let’s rethink the metamorphosis metaphor www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8X1vR3c/
How to make chlorophyll glow red www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8ADLyhH/
November 9, 2023 at 1:05 AM
How to make chlorophyll glow red www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8ADLyhH/
This episode originally aired on 3/24/18 & takes us all the way from Copenhagen to the rainforest of South America, from the belly of the beast to its excrement, as we explore nature’s Vampires with Dr Marie Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza player.captivate.fm/episode/a13d...
Revisited: Nature's Vampires with Dr Marie Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza
<p>This episode, which originally aired on March 24 2018, takes us all the way from Copenhagen to the rainforest of South America, from the belly of the beast to its excrement, as we explore...
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October 14, 2023 at 2:31 PM
This episode originally aired on 3/24/18 & takes us all the way from Copenhagen to the rainforest of South America, from the belly of the beast to its excrement, as we explore nature’s Vampires with Dr Marie Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza player.captivate.fm/episode/a13d...
Sharks are in the water. But is the ocean shark-infested, or shark-depleted? I sat down to talk with Dr Alexandra McInturf to find out in my first interview since Jeff Corwin in February of 2022 🙂 player.captivate.fm/episode/aa34...
Shark Conservation with Dr Alexandra McInturf
<p>Sharks are in the water. But is the ocean shark-infested, or shark-depleted? I sat down to talk with Dr Alexandra McInturf to find out.</p><p><a...
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September 29, 2023 at 2:47 AM
Sharks are in the water. But is the ocean shark-infested, or shark-depleted? I sat down to talk with Dr Alexandra McInturf to find out in my first interview since Jeff Corwin in February of 2022 🙂 player.captivate.fm/episode/aa34...
Here for but a minuscule moment in time, and trying my best to make the most of it
September 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Here for but a minuscule moment in time, and trying my best to make the most of it
If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no on there to hear it, is it more likely to use expletives?
July 31, 2023 at 2:36 PM
If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no on there to hear it, is it more likely to use expletives?
Sometimes I see insects that I’ve never seen before, and I feel like a kid again 😊 Podisus placidus, a young one at least. It’s a species of predatory stink bug in the family Pentatomidae.
July 18, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Sometimes I see insects that I’ve never seen before, and I feel like a kid again 😊 Podisus placidus, a young one at least. It’s a species of predatory stink bug in the family Pentatomidae.
Hard question to ask (harder to answer), but I’m curious on peoples thoughts:
In the midst of mass biodiversity decline, climate change, loss of habitats, and many populations being the lowest they’ve been on record, how can we truly define “sustainable take”?
Obv huge caveats
In the midst of mass biodiversity decline, climate change, loss of habitats, and many populations being the lowest they’ve been on record, how can we truly define “sustainable take”?
Obv huge caveats
July 13, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Hard question to ask (harder to answer), but I’m curious on peoples thoughts:
In the midst of mass biodiversity decline, climate change, loss of habitats, and many populations being the lowest they’ve been on record, how can we truly define “sustainable take”?
Obv huge caveats
In the midst of mass biodiversity decline, climate change, loss of habitats, and many populations being the lowest they’ve been on record, how can we truly define “sustainable take”?
Obv huge caveats
Definitely didn’t have “Going Viral for an Impression of a Keurig” on my 2023 BINGO card 😳 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dshBCJ/
Devon Bowker on TikTok
How’d I do? @Keurig #keurig #coffee #impression #americasgottalent #thrivingtalent
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July 13, 2023 at 3:10 AM
Definitely didn’t have “Going Viral for an Impression of a Keurig” on my 2023 BINGO card 😳 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dshBCJ/