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Jessica Farrer, marine biologist featured in NATURE’s “Expedition Killer Whale”

Duncan — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:00:11 +0000

Jessica Farrer–a marine biologist who serves as Research Director at The Whale Museum, and part of the team of scientists working temporarily in Antarctica Peninsula, profiled in “Expedition Killer Whale,” a new installment of the PBS series “Nature”—recalls growing up landlocked in Colorado, moving as soon as possible to Washington state. Speaking in a “Talking […]

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Anton Ptushkin, director of “Saving the Animals of Ukraine”

Duncan — Wed, 15 May 2024 19:18:13 +0000

Anton Ptushkin–director of the PBS Nature documentary profiling the efforts of Ukrainian citizens to rescue animals amidst the destruction of the war—describes the sort of travel pieces he produced as a YouTuber, before he morphed into a war correspondent. Ptushkin notes that this transformation wasn’t the product of a specific ambition, but rather, reflected an […]

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Jane O’Hara, animal advocate and artist

Duncan — Wed, 24 May 2023 04:00:13 +0000

Jane O’Hara, the animal advocate and artist–whose paintings tend to celebrate animals or explore animal issues—recalls a regular upbringing, amidst conventional companion animals. Only some years later, O’Hara adds, did she start researching animals, reading some influential books, becoming steeped in the good, the bad, and the ugly of eating and otherwise mistreating animals. It […]

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Rick Yocum, executive director, the Humane Society of Manatee County

Duncan — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:00:32 +0000

Rick Yocum–executive director of the Humane Society of Manatee County (HSMC), established more than 50 years ago, and now a truly multifaceted operation—traces his career path to his current job, which he’s held for seven years. In answer to a question of mine, Yocum allows that it makes perfect sense he holds this job, noting […]

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Paul Watson, Captain Paul Watson Foundation

Duncan — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:00:08 +0000

Captain Paul Watson–a major figure for decades in the realm of animal rights, he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977—describes what he sees as the initial events that led to his ouster from his own organization. Watson recalls being told that his reputation was a liability to the reimagined mission of Sea Shepherd, […]

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Tom Mustill, author of “How To Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication”

Duncan — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:00:48 +0000

Tom Mustill, who’s a biologist, filmmaker, and author, discusses how he’s forever primarily identified by a 2015 incident: while kayaking with a friend, a humpback whale breached, landing on the pair.

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Ed Yong, author of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Duncan — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:00:42 +0000

Ed Yong—a science journalist, staff writer at The Atlantic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and author, most recently of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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Vincent Kelner, director of “A Taste of Whale”

Duncan — Wed, 25 May 2022 04:00:33 +0000

Vincent Kelner—writer-director of “A Taste of Whale,” a documentary examining the “grind,” Faroe Islanders’ ritual slaughter of pilot whales, but an intricate film with a lot more on its mind than that—addresses the question that I customarily ask documentary filmmakers: What was it about this subject matter that he found so compelling he was willing […]

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Jose Sanchez, marine biologist, ecotourism guide, expert on the “friendly whales”

Duncan — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:00:41 +0000

Jose Sanchez—a naturalist trained in marine biology, and an expert on the so-called “friendly whales” of San Ignacio Lagoon in the Baja California region of Mexico, having led ecotourism trips there for 25 years—recalls growing up in a family that prized nature and wildlife, regularly taking outdoor outings to explore and enjoy those things. Sanchez […]

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Kitty Block, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States

Duncan — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 04:00:21 +0000

Kitty Block—President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), as well as CEO of Humane Society International, HSUS’ global division—discusses getting a precocious start working in animal welfare, in that her Mom was an animal activist. Block recalls how, as a second grader, she went on a school field trip to […]

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Joshua Zeman, director of “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52”

Duncan — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:00:57 +0000

Joshua Zeman—the director of “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52,” a feature-length documentary chronicling the science-oriented pursuit of a whale that experts think has spent his whole life in solitude because, they believe, he’s communicating at a frequency no other whale can understand—addresses the observation that this film represents a departure from his past […]

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pattrice jones, cofounder of LGBTQ-led VINE Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 04:00:05 +0000

pattrice jones —cofounder of VINE (Veganism is the Next Evolution) Sanctuary, 100-acre facility in Vermont, a self-described “LGBTQ-led farmed animal sanctuary” we wanted to spotlight as we celebrate Pride Month—outlines VINE’s history and evolution, including its initial incarnation as Eastern Shore Sanctuary, which primarily housed chickens, and was located in Maryland. jones recalls the impetus […]

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William Neal, writer-director of “Long Gone Wild”

Duncan — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 04:00:08 +0000

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 hockey at the college and professional levels.He recounts how he began considering the idea […]

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Lori Marino, founder and president of The Whale Sanctuary Project

Duncan — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 04:00:29 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the 10th program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the final one of its kind for now. We’re due back in the studio on June […]

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Carl Safina, ecologist, author of “Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace”

Duncan — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:00:28 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the ninth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcasts will come together thru mid-June. Tentatively, we’re due back in studio on […]

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Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder & president of PETA

Duncan — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:00:31 +0000

Ingrid Newkirk—the co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and co-author (with Gene Stone) of “animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion”—recalls how she decided on the book’s format. Newkirk outlines some of the things she learned over the course of working on “animalkind. […]

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Tom Mustill, director of “The Whale Detective”

Duncan — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:00:42 +0000

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. Mustill spends some time […]

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

Duncan — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:00:10 +0000

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.” […]

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

Duncan — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 04:00:36 +0000

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. Noting […]

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

Duncan — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 04:00:54 +0000

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, […]

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

Duncan — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 04:00:16 +0000

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. She goes on to outline that each major […]

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Natasha Daly, author of National Geographic story “The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism”

Duncan — Wed, 22 May 2019 04:00:21 +0000

Natasha Daly—a staff writer for the National Geographic, where she wrote the June cover story, “The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism”—addresses her role as the magazine’s “wildlife crime reporter,” how she landed on that beat, and what sort of stories she’s written in that capacity. Daly outlines the approach that she and photojournalist Kirsten Luce […]

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Dr. David M. Pena-Guzman, author of “Can Nonhuman Animals Commit Suicide?”

Duncan — Wed, 15 May 2019 04:00:04 +0000

Dr. David M. Pena-Guzman—a philosopher and assistant professor at San Francisco State University, who wrote a scholarly paper for the journal Animal Sentience, entitled “Can Nonhuman Animals Commit Suicide?”—recounts how he had no pets during his formative years, and has none now, owing at least partly to the rental restrictions of apartments in San Francisco. […]

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Dr. Toni Frohoff, wildlife behavioral biologist

Duncan — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 05:00:44 +0000

Dr. Toni Frohoff—a wildlife behavioral biologist who has researched the lives and behaviors of elephants and cetaceans for more than 30 years—recalls how, as an aspiring surfer growing up in Southern California, encountering dolphins in the ocean there, spurred her initial interest in studying those cetaceans. Frohoff laments that she never learned to surf, but […]

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Dr. Nick Pyenson, paleontologist and author of “Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures”

Duncan — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 05:00:29 +0000

Dr. Nick Pyenson—the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, and the author of “Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures”—traces his interest in fossils to his childhood, when his parents would take him to natural history museums, experiences he called “formative.” […]

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Jason M. Colby, author of “Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator”

Duncan — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:00:15 +0000

Jason M. Colby—an environmental and international historian, and professor, at the University of Victoria and author, most recently of “Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator”—recounts the impetus for writing the new book, acknowledging that “Orca” was hardly telegraphed by his academic fields, or his previous book. Colby does note […]

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Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Duncan — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:00:16 +0000

Captain Paul Watson—the founder, president, and executive director of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the marine conservation organization he launched in 1977, and whose profile rose dramatically in the wake of the Animal Planet series “Whale Wars”—discusses his recent period of exile in France, and the international legal troubles that led to it. Watson explains these […]

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Stephen Wells, executive director of Animal Legal Defense Fund

Duncan — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:00:34 +0000

Stephen Wells—the executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF)—traces his intriguing, sometimes colorful, career path before joining ALDF, particularly his years in Alaska, where, among other developments, he formalized his commitment to becoming a professional animal advocate. (His early time in Alaska included participating in the clean up of the Exxon Valdez oil […]

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Callers As Guests

Duncan — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 04:00:35 +0000

About once a year, I jettison the chief component of the “Talking Animals” format—a long form interview with a single guest—to offer a debate or some other multi-guest panel discussion. As part of that periodic effort to rejigger the program, and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and […]

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Dr. Lori Marino, founder of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy

Duncan — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 05:00:59 +0000

Dr. Lori Marino—founder and executive director of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, as well as a neuroscientist and expert in animal behavior and intelligence—explains exactly what a neuroscientist is, and how that academic orientation informs her thinking about animal behavior as opposed to, say, an animal behaviorist without that scientific training. Marino describes what prompted her […]

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Dr. Ann Weaver, animal behaviorist & dolphin expert

Duncan — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:13:38 +0000

Dr. Ann Weaver—an animal behaviorist conducting a pioneering, long-term, conservation-based study of free-ranging bottle nose dolphins off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida—explains that she initially gravitated toward dolphins as an academic interest, as opposed to a personal one, having grown up in the suburbs of Chicago. Weaver traces her professional path, driven by a […]

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Neko Case, singer-songwriter-animal guardian

Duncan — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 04:00:36 +0000

Neko Case—the singer-songwriter who has created a large, revered body of work, much of it laced with nature and animal themes—recalls how her lifelong kinship with animals began as a kid whose parents were infrequently present, so she spent a great deal of time with the household critters. And while Case might seem, fundamentally, like […]

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Carl Safina, author, scientist, MacArthur Fellow

Duncan — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 04:00:17 +0000

Dr. Carl Safina — a prize-winning author, scientist and MacArthur Fellow—discusses his new book, “Beyond Words: What Animals Think And Feel,” which in the broadest of strokes, involves three big sections, in which Safina is observing the behavior of elephants at Amboseli National Park, wolves in Yellowstone National Park and killer whales in the Pacific Northwest, […]

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Alex Blount, PETA Tour Administrator: “I, Orca”

Duncan — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 04:00:09 +0000

Alex Blount, PETA Tour Administrator—in this case, the tour in question is PETA’s “I, Orca” empathy project, which involves using Google virtual reality goggles to immerse participants in a world where they can swim freely in the ocean with their orca family—recounts what drew him to working for PETA. He notes that touring with “I, […]

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John Hargrove, author of “Beneath The Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld And The Truth Beyond Blackfish”

Duncan — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 04:00:19 +0000

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 persuading his mother and stepfather to make annual pilgrimages there. He muses that his […]

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Chris Gug, underwater photographer

Duncan — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:00:39 +0000

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 scuba gear and an underwater camera, he fulfilled his dream with his first ocean adventure. Acknowledging that he launched his […]

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Don Anthony of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF)

Duncan — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:00:37 +0000

Don Anthony–Communications Director of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF), which, since 1989, has been speaking and acting on behalf of animals in a multitude of ways—traces the history of the organization, including the impetus for its founding. He discusses ARFF’s initial campaigns, and initial victories, including helping persuade the city of Hollywood, FL […]

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Liz Marshall, Director of “The Ghosts In Our Machine”

Duncan — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:00:11 +0000

Liz Marshall—an award-winning filmmaker whose latest project is directing the acclaimed documentary “The Ghosts In Our Machine,” which chiefly examines the work and life of photographer Jo-Anne McArthur—discusses the meaning behind the film’s titular ghosts. She also explains the rationale behind making a full-length documentary about McArthur as she photographs an array of abused and […]

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Jo-Anne McArthur, photojournalist & activist

Duncan — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:00:37 +0000

Jo-Anne McArthur—an award-winning photojournalist whose passion as an animal activist has informed her work in an ongoing project, “We Animals”—recounts her first forays into photography. She discusses her evolution as a photographer, deciding to specialize in animals at the urging of a mentor who recommended she follow her passion, as well as a light bulb […]

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Gabriela Cowperthwaite, director of “Blackfish”

Duncan — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 04:00:14 +0000

Gabriela Cowperthwaite—the director of “Blackfish,” the documentary examining the perils of keeping killer whales in captivity, with a focus on SeaWorld & Tilikum, who’s killed three people and emerges as an unfortunate poster boy for captive orcas going postal—discusses the profound sadness pouring out of several people who are interviewed onscreen.She also explains how she […]

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Adam Roberts, Executive Vice-President Born Free USA

Duncan — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 04:00:41 +0000

Adam Roberts—executive vice president and co-founder of Born Free USA—outlines the chief categories of animal welfare that Born Free USA concerns itself with, noting where those efforts overlap and differ from those of the Born Free Foundation, which gave rise to and shares DNA with the American organization. He also addresses the extensive databases that Born […]

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Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, co-authors of “Zoobiquity”

Duncan — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:23:59 +0000

Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers–co-authors of “Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human And Animal Health,” a New York Times bestseller recently issued in paperback—discuss the genesis of the “zoobiquity” philosophy and the term itself. Natterson-Horowitz–a cardiologist at the UCLA Medical Center and professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA—explains how she […]

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Steve Hindi, Founder of SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK)

Duncan — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:00:49 +0000

Steve Hindi–founder of SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK), a national animal welfare organization concerned with halting and/or educating the public about pigeon shoots, rodeos, bullfighting, canned hunts, and more–discusses his history as an avid and accomplished fisherman, whose world, and life, changed forever after witnessing two pigeon shoots. He recounts how this sort of […]

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Dr. Denise Herzing, pioneering dolphin researcher

Duncan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:00:22 +0000

Dr. Denise Herzing–a pioneering researcher who has spent 27 summers in Bahamian waters studying Atlantic spotted dolphins: the Wild Dolphin Project, and author of “Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years With Spotted Dolphins”–discusses various phases of her career, and her fascination with dolphins that began in childhood. She also recounts the influence Jane […]

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Captain Paul Watson–legendary figure in the animal world

libby — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:00:27 +0000

Captain Paul Watson, a veteran activist and truly legendary figure in the animal world–he was a co-founder of Greenpeace, and went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; in 2000, Time magazine named him one of the environmental heroes of the 20th Century–discusses how his animal activism began when he was 9, some of […]

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Dennis Kelly with the Coast Dolphin Project

libby — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:00:04 +0000

Professor since 1974 of Marine Science at Orange Coast College, Dennis Kelly primarily discusses the Coast Dolphin Project, a multi-faceted study he launched in 1978 (and still directs) that, among other objectives, seeks to determine the population dynamics, biology and ecology of the coastal bottlenose dolphin population In Orange County, CA and has yielded some […]

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