This piece is filled with moments of description that, um, appeal to the senses, and all of them. Dried chipmunk carcasses hanging "like beef jerky." A meal of beaver (cooked with beer and worcester sauce) that tastes like swiss steak, not chicken. The peeling off of a chipmunk's skin "like taking off a sweater." Mix in flesh-eating beatles, "brain juice," and the smells of death so powerful they cling to clothes and skin, and you're likely to find yourself engaged and entertained, as I was, or lunging for the off switch.

I suspect many stations will find the piece too long. But if you've got space for a good, meandering science feature that mentions maggots and bloated bodies and brain juice, this is the piece for you.