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When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. Supported by the Law, Ethics & A...
Fiction can provide the most profound, incisive truths about the absurdities of our reality. In his most recent novel, Venomous Lumpsucker,...
Upon seeing an adorable Koala sitting on an eucalyptus branch in Australia, few would expect the beloved marsupial to emit a booming bellow...
Most books on puppies are dog-improvement manuals, guiding readers ‘How to Raise the Perfect Dog’ or how to achieve ‘Perfe...
Grazing peacefully through shallow waterways, the Florida manatee is one of the state’s most beloved creatures. Due to a multitude of compou...
Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s exuberant book of essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishme...
The fossil record acts as both a memorial to life’s spectacular possibilities and as a warning to humanity about how fast dominance can beco...
Amid the cataclysms of the Anthropocene, an era defined by humans’ attempts to control the natural world, it’s easy to forget that we remain...
In 1995, the U.S. government took unprecedented actions to restore the wolf population of Yellowstone National Park, which it had brutally d...
From tiny cowries to giant clams, seashells have gripped human imaginations since time immemorial. In her magnificent new book, The Sound of...
Most of us land-lubbers assume that light-making among ocean creatures is an exotic and rare phenomenon. But that’s wrong. The majority of a...
Hedgehogs, despite being consistently voted the most beloved mammal in the United Kingdom, have suffered great population losses as industri...
In “Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction,” science journalist Michelle Nijhuis chronicles the history of the wild...
In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and early master of the electronic synthesiz...
In the long months we’ve all been confined to our homes, many people have become reacquainted with the vibrant life just outside their doors...
Are plants intelligent? Can they think? Can they hear, see, feel, smell and taste? Throughout history, most Western philosophers and scienti...
In 2013, a sperm whale washed up dead on Spain’s southern coast. In its ruptured digestive tract, scientists found an entire flattened green...
As Dr. Joseph Drew Lanham writes in his beautiful and deeply moving memoir, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Natu...
Born in Paris to an African-American GI and a French woman at the end of World War II, Dr. Daniel Pauly rose from a difficult and extraordin...
As wildlife across Canada face unprecedented pressures from climate change and industrial development, Indigenous Peoples, who have relied u...
Amid the systematic cruelties and alienating conditions which define our factory farm system, Farm Sanctuary stands out as an exemplar of hu...
The repercussions of the international wildlife trade, which is a primary driver of our planet’s biodiversity crisis, have recently hi...
Roughly two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases — including COVID-19 and almost all recent epidemics — originate in the bodies of animals...
In an age where almost everything we eat is produced outside of public view, whistleblowers are critical to maintaining the integrity of our...
In her acclaimed first book, “Floating Coast,” historian Bathsheba Demuth explores how capitalism, communism and ecology have clashed...
Nonhuman beings, and the passionate people who study them, animate Ed Yong’s vast, award-winning and kaleidoscopically varied body of journa...
Over 40 percent of the Earth’s surface is open ocean that is over 200 miles from the nearest shore. These waters exist outside national juri...
Professors Doug Kysar and Jonathan Lovvorn are the Faculty Co-Directors of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School....
For the past ten years, journalist Christopher Ketcham has documented the confluence of commercial exploitation and government misconduct on...
Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg has spent decades collecting and studying the calls of birds and whales. In the early 2000s, he be...
In the 1970s, scientists proposed what has become known as the Gaia Hypothesis: the idea that earth is best understood not as a passive subs...
Author and sailor David Barrie voyaged around the globe and through scientific literature to learn about the awe-inducing and still mysterio...
Film director and producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite did not set out to make a film that would force a national moral reckoning over how we kee...
“Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us,” Robert Macfarlane once wrote. “Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay...
In 1950, a physicist posed the question that has come to be known as the Fermi Paradox: given the high mathematical probability that other i...
In 2007, our guest, Fabrice Schnoller, was sailing off the coast of Mauritius when he had an encounter that would change his life and open a...
In the spring of 1963, when our guest Dr. Thomas Seeley was not quite 11 years old, he lived — as he still does today — in a wooded stream v...
Bears, like other carnivores, are typically cast as unthinking, emotionless killers. But the late naturalist Charlie Russell believed this t...
In the United States today, 10 billion land animals are raised and killed for food annually. That’s over 19,000 animals per minute. About 1....
For decades, researchers have debated whether or not animals make friends. “Friends” — the taboo “f word” — was generally put in quote...
In March of 2016, a group of scientists reported a startling discovery from the forests of central Japan: syntax, the property of speech tha...
In mountainous regions of the world, there are human societies that use whistled languages to transmit and understand a potentially unlimite...
In their book, Love in the Anthropocene, our guest, the environmental philosopher Dale Jamieson, and his co-author Bonnie Nadzam invite us t...
What is it like to be another creature? What is it like to see, smell, hear, taste and feel the world as a different animal? Our guest today...
During his travels in South America at the close of the 18th century, the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt came upon a parrot speaking...
Award-winning film director, writer, and producer Christopher Quinn’s new film, “Eating Animals,” based on Jonathan Safran Foer’...
A concert pianist-turned-entomologist and bedbug expert, Dr. Gale Ridge is an insect detective. She solves mysteries and help...
Termites outweigh humans ten to one. If they went on strike, ecological chaos would ensue. We speak with science writer Lisa Margonelli, aut...
In 2007, Dr. Irene Pepperberg said goodnight to her avian research subject, Alex, an African Grey Parrot. “You be good,” he replied. “I love...
Twenty minutes southeast of Des Moines, Iowa, you’ll find a large, unassuming cement complex with fenced in grounds. You’d never know it, bu...
Dr. Peter Godfrey-Smith is professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney and the author of Other Minds: The Oct...