Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Sat, 07 May 2022 17:17:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice, author, entomologist, pigeon proponent https://talkinganimals.net/2022/05/dr-eleanor-spicer-rice-author-entomologist-pigeon-proponent/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/05/dr-eleanor-spicer-rice-author-entomologist-pigeon-proponent/#respond Wed, 04 May 2022 04:00:36 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9464 Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice—a North Carolina-based entomologist and author of books on ants and spiders, who, as the product of a family activity, has developed a passion for pigeons and attendant expertise—recounts the objectives propelling her to get a PhD, and noting why a career in academia was not the goal. Spicer Rice describes carving […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2022/05/dr-eleanor-spicer-rice-author-entomologist-pigeon-proponent/feed/ 0 9464 Colleen Plumb, artist, photographer, and videographer https://talkinganimals.net/2018/12/colleen-plumb-artist-photographer-and-videographer/ https://talkinganimals.net/2018/12/colleen-plumb-artist-photographer-and-videographer/#respond Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:00:03 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7210 Colleen Plumb—the Chicago-based artist, photographer and videographer, whose work explores the relationships people have with animals (particularly, captive ones)—recounts growing up in the Rogers Park area of Chicago, where her Dad cultivated in her an appreciation of nature, and where there was a family dog (and for a time, a family duck, Sir Francis Drake). […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2018/12/colleen-plumb-artist-photographer-and-videographer/feed/ 0 7210 Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice and Dr. Christopher M. Buddle, co-authors of “Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Spiders” https://talkinganimals.net/2018/06/dr-eleanor-spicer-rice-and-dr-christopher-m-buddle-co-authors-of-dr-eleanors-book-of-common-spiders/ https://talkinganimals.net/2018/06/dr-eleanor-spicer-rice-and-dr-christopher-m-buddle-co-authors-of-dr-eleanors-book-of-common-spiders/#respond Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:00:40 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=6931 Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice and Dr. Christopher M. Buddle—a North Carolina writer who holds a PhD in entomology and the author of “Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants” series, and an arachnologist who’s dean of students and associate professor in the Department of Natural Resource Science at McGill University, respectively—explain how a tweet from Buddle […]

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