by Duncan | Sep 27, 2017 | Authors, Educators, General, Health & Behavior
Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice—an entomologist and writer who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and who just published four new guides on ants—recalls growing up having a fascination with ants (and other insects), but unlike most kids, she never lost that for bugs. Spicer...
by Duncan | Sep 20, 2017 | Adoption, Advocates, Dogs, Legislation, Pets, Rescue
Tracy Voss—the co-founder of TracysDogs, a San Antonio, Texas-based organization that pulls dogs from high-kill shelters, rehabilitates them, then adopts them out to families across the country, transporting the dogs in their 32-foot trailer—discusses growing up as a...
by Duncan | Sep 13, 2017 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cats, Dogs, General, Horses, Pets, Rescue
For this edition of “Talking Animals,” we broke format and did something a little different: Setting aside our customary approach of a long-form guest interview and, often, a shorter second interview, I opened the phone lines and invited listeners to Call In To...
by Duncan | Sep 6, 2017 | Advocates, General, Primates
Patti Ragan—the founder of The Center For Great Apes, a 120-acre sanctuary in Wauchula, FL that houses nearly 50 chimpanzees and orangutans—recalls how she first became interested in great apes. That history, Ragan explains, dates back to 1984, when he volunteered on...
by Duncan | Aug 30, 2017 | Advocates, Authors, Captive, General, Health & Behavior
Dr. Keith Lindsay—the conservation biologist whose career reflects a longstanding dedication to studying elephants—recalls how he got started in 1977 at the Amboseli Elephants Research Project, in southern Kenya, by something of a fluke. He notes that he returned to...
