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

By | January 6, 2016 | Advocates, Captive, Cetaceans, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Sanctuaries | No comments

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. Read more…

Dr. Ann Weaver, animal behaviorist & dolphin expert

By | November 18, 2015 | Cetaceans, Educators | No comments

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. Read more…

Neko Case, singer-songwriter-animal guardian

By | September 30, 2015 | Advocates, Captive, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Elephants, General, Horses, Musicians | No comments

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. Read more…

Carl Safina, author, scientist, MacArthur Fellow

By | August 12, 2015 | Authors, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, Factory Farming, General, Primates, Wild | No comments

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, alongside top experts who’ve worked in each of those areas for decades. Read more…

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

By | June 24, 2015 | Advocates, Cetaceans, General | No comments

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. Read more…

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