Episodes
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Peter Singer–the philosopher, professor emeritus of bioethics at Princeton University, and author (including his landmark 1975 work, âAnimal Liberationâ and the just-published âConsider The Turkeyââexplains that his slate of pursuits post-retirement from Princeton includes a stint as visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. He goes on to clarify that while, yes, he did […]
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Jodie Wiederkehr–veteran animal advocate and Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA)ârecounts details of how CAA was formed, in 2015. (She has recalled in a previous âTalking Animalsâ conversation how her earliest professional animal advocacy work began in 1997.) Wiederkehr explained that she and her initial CAA cohort decided that aiming to ban […]
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Mara Hvistendahl, a The New York Times reporter who wrote âThe Panda Factoriesâ–an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism probing the impact of Chinaâs gambit nearly 30 years ago to send pandas to zoos in other countries, hoping the visiting animals would breed, ultimately resulting in pandas that could be returned to the wild–recounts the genesis […]
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Nancy Murrah—President of The Raptor Center of Tampa Bay (RCTB), which rescues, rehabilitates, and releases hundreds of native birds of prey annuallyâdescribes the preparations required at RCTB before something like Hurricane Milton, and how the facility fared through the storm. This led to a discussion of why tending to a veritable battalion of squirrels constituted […]
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Melissa Zepeda–an attorney and accomplished animal rights advocate, with a notable breadth of interests and topics that have animated her activismârecalls growing up in family that revered animals, then being stopped in her tracks when a fellow high school debate-club member asked her how Zepeda could love her dog yet eat a hamburger. Zepeda not […]
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Marion Gwizdala, CEO of Advocates for Service Animal Partners Inc. (ASAP)âa Tampa-based national nonprofit dedicated to securing, protecting, and advancing the rights and responsibilities of service animal handlers and the businesses they patronizeârecalls receiving his first service dog in 1987, and just days later, encountering discrimination when a restaurant he frequented prevented Gwizdala from entering […]
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Cathryn Michon–the showbiz hyphenate who co-wrote with husband W. Bruce Cameron âA Dogâs Purpose,â the film adaptation of Cameronâs New York Times bestselling novel, considered the most popular live-action dog movie of all timeâreflects on the dizzying number of dog books (including childrenâs books) and films that constitute the collective Michon/Cameron juggernaut. She goes on to […]
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Dr. Gregory Bernsâauthor, neuroscientist, professor of psychology at Emory University (and an M.D.)âaddresses the change he was seeking when he and his wife decided to buy a farm outside of Atlanta, a saga thatâs among the experiences chronicled in Bernsâ new book, âCowpuppy: An Unexpected Friendship and A Scientistâs Journey into The Secret World of […]
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Will Braden, filmmakerâand curator of CatVideoFest 2024, a 75-minute compilation of short cat videos, edited into a briskly-paced reel, screening at theaters across the country, including the Tampa Theatre Aug. 23 & 25-27ârecalls what first drew him to film. Studying film, at first informally, then later in film school, he realized that he was particularly […]
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Mark Devries–the documentary filmmaker (https://markdevries.com/) who specializes in exploring the realm of animals and animal welfareâexpands on the final line (the fate of our kin is up to us) of his new film, âHumans and Other Animals.” Laying out an eloquent and philosophical operating principleâwhich permeates his new film, as it did his debut doc, […]
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Art Shaulâfounder-director of Safe Paws Rescue, a small but mighty rescue serving the Tampa Bay Areaârecalls growing up watching his Dad bring home ill, injured, sometimes âbedraggledâ animals, caring for these critters, then making them family members. Observing these paternal acts of kindness clearly made a profound impression on Shaul (he gets a bit emotional […]
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Rebecca Reid–Director of Education at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation (wildlife refuge, veterinary hospital, rehabilitation facility, education center) in Jupiter Farms, Floridaâdiscusses the readily observable love for her job, and its probable roots in her passion for animals, and being outdoors, while growing up in New Jersey. Reid recalls it was a childhood joyously replete […]
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Journalist Joshua Hammer–author of a captivating piece in the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine, entitled âPablo Escobarâs Abandoned Hippos are Wreaking Havoc in the Columbian Jungleâârecalls how, having been casually aware of the Escobar/hippo situation, he decided to deeply delve into what turned out to be a more complex, colorful saga than anyone couldâve reasonably […]
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Tracey Callahan Molnar–handler and chief human of Beacon, the therapy dog whoâs become increasingly beloved across the U.S.A. Gymnastics world and beyond, emerging as a media sensation along the wayârecounts her own career as a gymnast and coach, specializing in rhythmic gymnastics. A fundamental narrative of this conversation reflects the intersection of gymnasts and therapy […]
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Dr. Mikel Delgado–a certified cat behavior consultant and author, most recently, of âPlay With Your Cat! The Essential Guide to Interactive Play for a Happier, Healthier Felineââtraces the path that preceded her status as a cat expert with a PhD, including dropping out of school and playing bass in punk bands, sharing stages with such […]
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Dara Eckart–CEO of Friends of Strays, St. Petersburgâs oldest no-kill animal shelter, currently undergoing a significant transformation, including opening a cats-only adoption center, The Cat Box on July 1âoutlines the shelterâs history, citing key milestones of the early years. Eckart explains that Friends of Strays began in 1978, when co-founder Jean Bomonti, whoâd been volunteering […]
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This was a truly distinctive edition of âTalking Animalsâ: For starters, the show was part of WMNFâs full day of special programming devoted to celebrating Juneteenth. Second, my two (in-studio!) guests were both stellar, veteran WMNF programmers: Harrison Nash, the universally-beloved DJ, in his 36th year at MNF, currently the host of âItâs The Music, […]
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Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice–an entomologist by training whoâs appeared on the show multiple times, discussing ants, spiders, homing pigeons, and microbes (often tied to a book sheâs written on the topic)âacknowledges that writing for young readers has officially become a trend for her, primarily discussing her second, just-published book in this series, while also briefly […]
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Rhonda Eldridge–Executive Director of The Community Pet Project, which provides pet food and several other resources to homeless and at-risk communities throughout Hillsborough Countyâdiscusses the organizationâs origin story, beginning in 2017 as an offshoot of a local rescue, before peeling off as a separate entity with 501c3 nonprofit status. The Community Pet Project was launched […]
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Melissa Hoppert–a horse-racing writer for The New York Times, and one of two reporter-producers (with Times colleague Joe Drape) featured onscreen in the new horse-racing documentary, âBroken Horses,â a New York Times/FX production streaming on Huluârecalls becoming enchanted with the horse racing realm as a young girl, after an uncle married into a horse breeding […]
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