SPCA Tampa Bay | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:49:54 +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 SPCA Tampa Bay | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Dr. Catherine Macdonald, shark expert https://talkinganimals.net/2023/08/dr-catherine-macdonald-shark-expert/ https://talkinganimals.net/2023/08/dr-catherine-macdonald-shark-expert/#respond Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:00:28 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10276 Dr. Catherine Macdonald–a marine conservation biologist and assistant professor at the University of Miami, who conducts, and oversees, research on sharks—recalls a childhood less enamored of the sea, at first, than of mud. This, Macdonald says, was part of being a kid who loved being outdoors, exploring nature, endlessly curious, and not at all opposed […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2023/08/dr-catherine-macdonald-shark-expert/feed/ 0 10276 Vincent Kelner, director of “A Taste of Whale” https://talkinganimals.net/2022/05/vincent-kelner-director-of-a-taste-of-whale/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/05/vincent-kelner-director-of-a-taste-of-whale/#respond Wed, 25 May 2022 04:00:33 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9522 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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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2022/05/vincent-kelner-director-of-a-taste-of-whale/feed/ 0 9522 Liz Marshall, director of “Meat The Future” https://talkinganimals.net/2022/03/liz-marshall-director-of-meat-the-future/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/03/liz-marshall-director-of-meat-the-future/#respond Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:00:41 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9393 Liz Marshall—a documentary director whose latest film, “Meat The Future,” examines the realm of “cultivated meat,” generated in a lab setting, from animal cells, but these animals remain unharmed—explains the criteria she considers when deciding what topic or person will constitute her next movie. More specifically, Marshall recounts how she started down the path of […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2022/03/liz-marshall-director-of-meat-the-future/feed/ 0 9393 Luan Dean, Director of Mission Advancement at SPCA Tampa Bay https://talkinganimals.net/2016/09/luan-dean-director-of-mission-advancement-at-spca-tampa-bay/ https://talkinganimals.net/2016/09/luan-dean-director-of-mission-advancement-at-spca-tampa-bay/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2016 04:00:16 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=5725 Luan Dean—the Director of Mission Advancement at SPCA Tampa Bay—explains the scope of her duties at the organization, which began in 1940, while describing the work undertaken there in the earliest days, some 70 years ago. Dean also briefly traces SPCA Tampa Bay’s evolution and change in those ensuing decades, including relocating from St. Petersburg to […]

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