by Duncan | Aug 5, 2020 | Adoption, Advocates, Horses, Rescue
Rebekah Keat & Siri Lindley—co-founders of Horses in Our Hands, which is dedicated to ending horse slaughter—discuss their respective entries into competing at the world-class level in the Triathlon. Lindley recalls that she started at 23 (late, she says, to take...
by Duncan | Jul 29, 2020 | Authors, Dogs, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior
Marc Bekoff —professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder—discusses, in a conversation that traveled from his very latest work backwards, his current research, which involves the way various animals play, and the rules...
by Duncan | Jul 22, 2020 | Authors, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Primates
Brian Hare —a professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, Psychology, and Neuroscience at Duke University, where he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and co-author (with Vanessa Woods) of “Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering...
by Duncan | Jul 15, 2020 | Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles
Wendy Clark —the publisher of Bird Watcher’s Digest, which is the name of the 42-year-old flagship magazine, but now really also refers to the multi-media enterprise that includes bird identification guides, publications, podcasts, and events—recounts the history of...
by Duncan | Jul 8, 2020 | Actors & Filmmakers, Authors, Cetaceans, General
William Neal —writer-director of “Long Gone Wild,” a documentary that focuses on captive orcas, arriving as a cinematic successor to “Blackfish”—provides an overview of his pre-doc career, a mix of all sort of television work, writing books, and, early on, coaching...
