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

By | December 7, 2022 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Authors, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Educators | No comments

Tom Mustill—biologist, filmmaker, and author, but forever primarily identified by a 2015 incident: while kayaking with a friend, when a humpback whale breached, landing on the pair—describes the ways this incident has affected him personally and professionally. Read more…

Mark Reinfeld, vegan chef, author & educator

By | June 29, 2022 | Advocates, Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Mark Reinfeld— the award-winning vegan chef and author of numerous books, including “Healing The Vegan Way: Plant-Based Eating for Optimal Health and Wellness”—returns to the show, this time offering more early biographical information than we’ve discussed in past conversations. Read more…

Thomas French, Journalist-Author

By | September 1, 2010 | Authors | No comments

Thomas French–a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, formerly with The St. Petersburg Times, and the author, most recently, of “Zoo Story: Life In The Garden Of Captives”–discusses when and how, in the course of writing articles about Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo for the newspaper, he decided he had the makings of a book. Read more…

Alan Rabinowitz, Zoologist-Conservationist-Author

By | August 11, 2010 | Authors, Captive Exotic, Wildlife | No comments

Alan Rabinowitz–the world-renowned zoologist, conservationist and field biologist, whose latest book, “Life In The Valley Of Death: The Fight To Save Tigers In A Land Of Guns, Gold And Greed” will be issued in paperback Sept. 7– discusses his dim view of zoos (lifelong, even as The Bronx Zoo played a pivotal, somewhat soothing role in his childhood); addresses how the word “conservation” has become fuzzy in meaning from indiscriminate use, and been co-opted for nefarious purposes. Read more…

Gordon Grice–journalist and author

By | June 9, 2010 | Authors | No comments

Gordon Grice–the journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and author, most recently, of “Deadly Kingdom: The Book Of Dangerous Animals”–discusses how a boyhood fascination with snakes and spiders (influenced at least partly by where he was living) didn’t recede as he reached adulthood but rather grew stronger (ditto); Read more…

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