Creature Comforts

Jason Klein

Check out Creature Comforts on MPB Think Radio! Each week, Libby Hartfield, Retired Director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, brings a specialist into the studio to answer your questions about various animals we see in Mississippi. And of course, Dr. Troy Majure, a veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center of Jackson answers your pet questions. Each week, you’ll learn more about the animals that live in our homes and the animals who live in the world around us. You’ll also find out more about family-friendly exhibits and events at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson. Email your pet and animal questions to [email protected] and listen to Creature Comforts Thursday mornings at 9 on MPB Think Radio.

  • 43 minutes 33 seconds
    Creature Comforts - CLASSIC | Sawfish

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    We have many remnants of the prehistoric world in bones and fossils around the globe, but there are a few animals still alive today that remind us of those creatures, like today’s subject, the sawfish. Our guest for the hour is Annmarie Fearing, who will join to school us about her work with these shockingly fascinating fish.


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    19 December 2024, 4:05 pm
  • 30 seconds
    Creature Comforts Promo | Dear Santa... More MPB Think Radio

    Happy Holidays From MPB Think Radio! This promo features Kamel King with Next Stop, Mississippi and his daughter, Kennedy King.


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    12 December 2024, 9:58 pm
  • 43 minutes 21 seconds
    Creature Comforts | Deer Overpopulation

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    Recently, to the excitement of many Mississippi hunters, the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks began a campaign encouraging games-men to harvest even more deer than they have previously due to overpopulation. William McKinley from the department joins today to share more about our state’s deer population.


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    12 December 2024, 4:48 pm
  • 42 minutes 21 seconds
    Creature Comforts | Pet Day - December 2024

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your calls we’ll be discussing some interesting fun facts about nature and wildlife in Mississippi.


    Email the show: [email protected].


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    5 December 2024, 4:30 pm
  • 42 minutes 53 seconds
    Creature Comforts | Gopher Tortoises

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    Noble, half-shelled reptiles living underground and saving lives may sound like a cartoonish idea, but it is the reality for the heroic Gopher Tortoise. Emily Rezac from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks joins us today to discuss these tortoises and how their presence is essential to the survival of many other species.


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    21 November 2024, 6:54 pm
  • 44 minutes 30 seconds
    Creature Comforts | iNaturalist and WMAs

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    Colt Mooney is our guest for the hour. He is an Environmental/Natural Resources Specialist at the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. He joins to tell us about his work with the department and inform us about iNaturalist and WMAs.


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    14 November 2024, 4:59 pm
  • 43 minutes 45 seconds
    Creature Comforts | Pet Day - November 2024

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, we have several email questions from our very own in-house staff here at MPB which we’ll answer between your phone calls.


    Email the show: [email protected].


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    7 November 2024, 6:30 pm
  • 43 minutes 58 seconds
    Creature Comforts - HALLOWEEN | Spooky Spiders

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    For this year’s Halloween, Creature Comforts is going to talk about the infamously spooky and ever-scary spider. Along with skeletons, pumpkins, and candy, the 8-legged arachnids have become entwined with All Hallow’s Eve, so our guest for the hour Dr. Wesley Shoop, will join to inform us of the life cycles of this Halloween mainstay.


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    31 October 2024, 4:31 pm
  • 43 minutes 33 seconds
    Creature Comforts | Sawfish

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    We have many remnants of the prehistoric world in bones and fossils around the globe, but there are a few animals still alive today that remind us of those creatures, like today’s subject, the sawfish. Our guest for the hour is Annmarie Fearing, who will join to school us about her work with these shockingly fascinating fish.


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    24 October 2024, 7:22 pm
  • 44 minutes 27 seconds
    Creature Comforts | Salamanders Across the Trace

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    Kevin is out this week, so Marissa Vaughn hops in for the hour to guest-host the show. Conservation biologist with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Tom Mann is joining us today. We have Tom on routinely to discuss the migration of salamanders that struggle to survive crossing the Natchez Trace, and it’s these salamanders’ time of year again. We welcome him on to discuss what he does to help these amphibians. 


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    17 October 2024, 3:33 pm
  • 45 minutes 2 seconds
    Creature Comforts | Fossil Discovery

    On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.


    Before the lines of our state borders were drawn, many animals walked throughout the area that we now call Mississippi. Prehistoric birds, mammals, and reptiles charted their course throughout the state, and thanks to paleontologists like our guest today, we can peer back through time and guess what these animals might have been like. James Starnes from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is our guest for the hour.


    To submit your own question for the show, email us at [email protected] or send us a message with the Talk To Us feature in the MPB Public Media App.


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    10 October 2024, 3:26 pm
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