by Duncan | Apr 22, 2015 | Authors, Cetaceans, General
John Hargrove —author of “Beneath The Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld And The Truth Beyond Blackfish”—discusses his childhood love for SeaWorld and its orcas, which began with his first visit to the Florida park in 1980 at age six, and subsequently involved...
by Duncan | Apr 15, 2015 | Actors & Filmmakers, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cetaceans, Educators, General
Chris Gug—an innovative and heralded underwater photographer—recalls growing up “landlocked” in Connecticut, enchanted by the sea and dreaming of becoming an underwater photographer, but meanwhile shooting all sorts of pictures locally, until, at 15, having purchased...
by Duncan | Apr 8, 2015 | Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, General
Helen Macdonald—author of “H is for Hawk,” a wildly-acclaimed, multifaceted memoir that recounts Macdonald’s struggle with the debilitating grief spawned by her father’s sudden death, and her singular solution to that struggle: training a goshawk, a large and...
by Duncan | Apr 1, 2015 | Advocates, Environmental Impact, Factory Farming, Health & Behavior, Investigations, Legislation, Operations, Vegetarian/Vegan
Nathan Runkle—founder and president of Mercy For Animals—recounts the horrific incident (a fellow high school student that Runkle said slammed a baby piglet on a concrete floor during class) that prompted him to create the organization in 1999. He discusses Mercy For...
by Duncan | Mar 25, 2015 | Authors, Dogs, Educators, General, Health & Behavior
Cat Warren—author of “What The Dog Knows: Scent, Science, And The Amazing Ways Dog Perceive The World”—discusses how she approached writing the book, which, it’s observed in the interview, is so skillfully sprawling, it constitutes multiple books, and probably a few...
