When We Talk About Animals

When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big

Episodes

Total: 52

Fiction can provide the most profound, incisive truths about the absurdities of our reality. In his

Upon seeing an adorable Koala sitting on an eucalyptus branch in Australia, few would expect the bel

Most books on puppies are dog-improvement manuals, guiding readers ‘How to Raise the Perfect D

Grazing peacefully through shallow waterways, the Florida manatee is one of the state’s most beloved

Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s exuberant book of essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflie

The fossil record acts as both a memorial to life’s spectacular possibilities and as a warning to hu

Amid the cataclysms of the Anthropocene, an era defined by humans’ attempts to control the natural w

In 1995, the U.S. government took unprecedented actions to restore the wolf population of Yellowston

From tiny cowries to giant clams, seashells have gripped human imaginations since time immemorial. I

Most of us land-lubbers assume that light-making among ocean creatures is an exotic and rare phenome

Hedgehogs, despite being consistently voted the most beloved mammal in the United Kingdom, have suff

In “Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction,” science journalist Michelle Ni

In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and

In the long months we’ve all been confined to our homes, many people have become reacquainted with t

Are plants intelligent? Can they think? Can they hear, see, feel, smell and taste? Throughout histor

In 2013, a sperm whale washed up dead on Spain’s southern coast. In its ruptured digestive tract, sc

As Dr. Joseph Drew Lanham writes in his beautiful and deeply moving memoir, The Home Place: Memoirs

Born in Paris to an African-American GI and a French woman at the end of World War II, Dr. Daniel Pa

As wildlife across Canada face unprecedented pressures from climate change and industrial developmen

Amid the systematic cruelties and alienating conditions which define our factory farm system, Farm S