TONIGHT ON KLRN 9.1

John Phillip Santos is one of those people who could read a phone book and sound good doing it. Perhaps it comes from his education—Oxford University’s 1st Hispanic Rhodes scholar. It might possibly come from his twenty years in New York, producing Emmy-nominated documentaries. Or maybe it comes from his rearing—split between San Antonio and his family’s historic Mexican ranch.

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8:00PM TONIGHT

SUNDAY ON KLRN 9.1

The Drakensberg Mountains are southern Africa’s Alps, rising more than 11,000 feet into the sky. But beneath their shimmering beauty lies an incredibly hostile environment for the surprising number of creatures that manage to live there. Each spring, drenching rains destroy the grasslands at the base of the mountains, and those who would survive must climb straight up sheer cliffs of volcanic rock, through gauntlets of storms and snow, to reach the carpets of grass on the plateau. The baboons that make this astonishing annual journey may have the advantage of agility, but eland, the world’s largest antelope, have long, spindly legs and heavy bodies, which make the climb all but unbelievable. All have babies at their sides. And the vultures circle overhead.

7:00PM SUNDAY

TONIGHT ON KLRN TOO 9.2

It’s no secret that northern New England is home to many insects in the summertime. We share this season with at least 16,000 species of insects – and those are just the ones we know about. Insects outnumber all other kinds of animals combined. Summertime is when they’re at their peak of activity. They suddenly appear and then multiply right before our eyes. For many of these bugs, their lives are very short and terribly dangerous. There’s so much to learn about the lives these diminutive animals lead. And there’s no better time to see that than in the summer. But imagine trying to identify and count all the different species of insects as well as other forms of life? That’s what a BioBlitz is all about. And to make it even tougher, they give themselves just 24 hours to do it. There’s a remarkable flush of life in the summer. Could it be that insects are at the center of it all?

8:00PM TONIGHT