by Duncan | Jan 3, 2018 | Authors, Educators, General
Dr. Ann Weaver—an animal behaviorist conducting a long-term study of bottlenose dolphins off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida—talks about the enormous array of species she has worked with directly or studied before landing on the dolphin study in 2005, driven by a...
by Duncan | Dec 27, 2017 | Advocates, Educators, General, Health & Behavior
Christophe Cox—co-founder and CEO of APOPO, a Tanzania-based nonprofit organization that trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and to detect tuberculosis—recounts the genesis of the organization, when co-founder Bart Weetjens began contemplating...
by Duncan | Dec 21, 2017 | General
This morning, I once again tabled the usual “Talking Animals” format to present my Annual Christmas Animal Song special—that is, a show entirely devoted to Holiday-oriented animal tunes. Once again, as we make no bones about in the opening of the program, to...
by Duncan | Dec 13, 2017 | Advocates, Comedians, General, Health & Behavior, Pets, Rescue
Scott Hardy—co-founder of Hardy Hayes Refuge, a mom-and-pop rescue-rehab operation with sizable ambitions, and accomplishments to match—outlines his lifelong love of animals, describing a childhood where the insights gleaned from trying to treat a locust as a pet...
by Duncan | Dec 6, 2017 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan
Kathy Stevens—founder and director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary, which sprawls over 148 acres in New York’s Hudson Valley, providing refuge to about 300 farmed animals rescued from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment—recalls a childhood growing up on a horse farm in...
