The New Yorker | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 07 May 2021 22:29:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 The New Yorker | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Barbara Trask Lovett, president of Save Nosey Now, advocate for captive elephants https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/ https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/#respond Wed, 05 May 2021 04:00:34 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8697 Barbara Trask Lovett—president of Save Nosey Now, member of the Board of Directors of The Elephant Advocacy Project, and generally a veteran advocate for improving the lives of captive elephants—recounts part of her background and how earlier efforts for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (at times, working closely with Paul Watson) gradually mutated into parallel concerns […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/feed/ 0 8697 Helen Macdonald, author of “H is for Hawk” https://talkinganimals.net/2015/04/helen-macdonald-author-of-h-is-for-hawk/ https://talkinganimals.net/2015/04/helen-macdonald-author-of-h-is-for-hawk/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2015 04:00:27 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4544 Helen Macdonald—author of “H is for Hawk,” a wildly-acclaimed, multifaceted memoir that recounts Macdonald’s struggle with the debilitating grief spawned by her father’s sudden death, and her singular solution to that struggle: training a goshawk, a large and particularly fierce bird of prey—explains that at 37, she had not yet experienced profound loss, so her […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2015/04/helen-macdonald-author-of-h-is-for-hawk/feed/ 0 4544 Gordon Grice–journalist and author https://talkinganimals.net/2010/06/gordon-grice-journalist-and-author/ https://talkinganimals.net/2010/06/gordon-grice-journalist-and-author/#respond Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:00:24 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=1165 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); explains how the observation […]

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