Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:28:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Dr. Crystal Heath, veterinarian and activist https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/dr-crystal-heath-veterinarian-and-activist/ https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/dr-crystal-heath-veterinarian-and-activist/#respond Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:08:23 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=12079 Dr. Crystal Heath–a veterinarian who’s bristled at inhumane treatment of animals throughout her career, and before, dating back to her childhood as a 4-H kid discovering the goats she’d raised would be slaughtered—recalls growing up in a rural part of Northern California, adoring animals and riding horses. Dr. Heath, a speaker at the Tampa Bay […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/dr-crystal-heath-veterinarian-and-activist/feed/ 0 12079 Journalist Joshua Hammer, author of the Smithsonian Magazine piece, “Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Hippos are Wreaking Havoc in the Columbian Jungle” https://talkinganimals.net/2024/07/journalist-joshua-hammer-author-of-the-smithsonian-magazine-piece-pablo-escobars-abandoned-hippos-are-wreaking-havoc-in-the-columbian-jungle/ https://talkinganimals.net/2024/07/journalist-joshua-hammer-author-of-the-smithsonian-magazine-piece-pablo-escobars-abandoned-hippos-are-wreaking-havoc-in-the-columbian-jungle/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:00:06 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11355 Journalist Joshua Hammer–author of a captivating piece in the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine, entitled “Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Hippos are Wreaking Havoc in the Columbian Jungle”—recalls how, having been casually aware of the Escobar/hippo situation, he decided to deeply delve into what turned out to be a more complex, colorful saga than anyone could’ve reasonably […]

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