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Tom Mustill, director of “The Whale Detective”

By | January 8, 2020 | Actors & Filmmakers, Cetaceans, Educators, General | No comments

Tom Mustill—a British director who makes nature and wildlife movies; his latest film is “The Whale Detective” (the impetus: Mustill and a friend were kayaking in Monterey Bay when a humpback whale breached, and just missed landing on them)—recounts when his fascination with animals began, and his early forays into filmmaking. Read more…

Peter Jay Brown, filmmaker of “Eco-Terrorist: The Battle For Our Planet”

By | October 23, 2019 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Cetaceans, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Peter Jay Brown—filmmaker and crew member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for upwards of 40 years, whose new documentary is “Eco-Terrorist: The Battle For Our Planet”—recounts the beginning of the affiliation, being sent to cover Sea Shepherd and its founder, Paul Watson, as a producer-director with the early-80s George Schlatter-produced reality series, “Real People.” Read more…

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers, authors of “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence To Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”

By | October 16, 2019 | Authors, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, General, Horses, Mammals, Primates | No comments

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers–New York Times bestselling authors of “Zoobiquity,” whose new book is “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”—in recalling that they both were raising adolescents while working on “Wildhood,” address how much those adolescents shaped the direction of the book and its core concept. Read more…

Stephen Bennett, founder of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief (SOAR)

By | October 9, 2019 | Advocates, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Health & Behavior, Horses, Mammals, Pets, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Stephen Bennett—the founder and executive director of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief, or SOAR, which pursues a mission that involves an unusually broad portfolio of objectives, including providing funding and assistance, and pet food to other animal organizations—recounts growing up in Ithica, NY in a home where pets weren’t allowed, but later on, deeper into adulthood, he made up for lost time, at one point having four dogs and four cats. Read more…

Dr. Valeria Vergara, marine mammal research scientist and expert on beluga whales

By | September 11, 2019 | Advocates, Cetaceans, Educators, General, Health & Behavior | No comments

Dr. Valeria Vergara—a marine mammal research scientist with the Ocean Wise Conservation Association, who has spent much of her career studying beluga whales, with a particular emphasis on their acoustic communication—recalls gravitating toward animals during childhood, growing up in Buenos Aires, in a house populated with pets. Read more…

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