Zoo Logic

By Dr. Grey Stafford

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Zoo Logic with animal trainer, zoo advocate, and ZOOmility author, Dr. Grey Stafford, is a weekly conversation with zoo, aquarium, and animal experts about Nature, wildlife, pets, animal training with positive reinforcement, health and welfare, research, conservation, and education, sustainability, zoo politics, activism and legislation, and all things animals! On Zoo Logic, we’ll go behind the scenes with animal professionals and influencers from around the world to explore the latest Zoos News and issues affecting wildlife, wild places, and people. Communicating with humor, cool stories, and candor, we’ll discover the interdependent connection between civilization, conservation, and commerce.

Episode Date
Tongue Worm Invasion
Dec 19, 2024
Latest Avian Flu Devastating Wild and Domestic Populations
Dec 12, 2024
Before You Burn That Bridge or Leave the Animal Field
Dec 05, 2024
Sea Lion and K-9 Officer Cross Training
Nov 28, 2024
Modern Miracle Dolphin
Nov 21, 2024
Primates for Me, Not for Thee
Nov 14, 2024
Nasty Names Are Hurtful
Nov 07, 2024
Zoological Recovery From Helene and Milton
Oct 31, 2024
The State of Higher Education
Oct 24, 2024
Deep Water
Oct 17, 2024
Career Educator
Oct 10, 2024
ABMA Behavior Month
Oct 03, 2024
Escape From Extinction: Rewilding
Sep 26, 2024
Survival of the Fitness
Sep 19, 2024
Enrichment Is Not a Substitute Trainer
Sep 12, 2024
Developing Dolphin Drones
Sep 05, 2024
Seadragons
Aug 29, 2024
Sharks Don't Sink
Aug 22, 2024
International Conservation Center
Aug 15, 2024
Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium
Aug 08, 2024
Cannabis for Companion, Farm and Exotic Animals
Aug 01, 2024
News Zoos Can Use
Jul 25, 2024
Ocean Connections
Jul 18, 2024
Never Too Late to Prepare for Disaster
Jul 11, 2024
Operation Beluga Rescue: Ukraine to Spain
Jul 04, 2024
Ischia: Nature's Laboratory for Ocean Acidification
Jun 27, 2024
How to Win Celebrity Friends and Influence Hollywood
Jun 20, 2024
Are Zoos Still in the Conservation Business?
Jun 13, 2024
Bullying
Jun 06, 2024
Saving and Enriching Lives Through Scent Work
May 30, 2024
Latest Avian Flu Strain Poses Lethal Risk to Marine Mammals
May 23, 2024
Mission Driven Research
May 16, 2024
Efficacy and Ethics of Using Hormones to Modify Behavior
May 09, 2024
Zoological Association of America's New Leader
May 02, 2024
Impoverished vs. Cognitively Challenging Environments
Apr 25, 2024
Training Crocs!
Apr 18, 2024
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
Apr 11, 2024
Revisiting Negative Reinforcement with Ken Ramirez
Apr 04, 2024
Boldly Go
Mar 28, 2024
Caring for Military Working Dogs After Their Service
Mar 21, 2024
Uncompromising Animal Ambassador Welfare
Mar 14, 2024
Secrets of the Octopus
Mar 07, 2024
Disaster Planning
Feb 29, 2024
Tequila Corrido
Feb 22, 2024
My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist
Feb 15, 2024
Conservation Math
Feb 08, 2024
The Cetacean Sanctuary: A Sea of Unknowns
Feb 01, 2024
International Elephant Foundation
Jan 25, 2024
Dolphin Research Center Turns 40
Jan 18, 2024
Episode 300: A Head Full of Hope
Jan 11, 2024
Planning Your First Safari
Jan 04, 2024
The Legacy of SeaWorld of Ohio
Dec 28, 2023
Veterinary Sustainability
Dec 21, 2023
Capitalism AND Conservation
Dec 14, 2023
Errorless Learning
Dec 07, 2023
A Conversation About Mental Health and Grief with GRAZE
Nov 30, 2023
Brave-ish Author Lisa Niver
Nov 23, 2023
Hounds and Hops
Nov 16, 2023
Humane Tourism
Nov 09, 2023
Evacuating Working Dogs from Afghanistan
Nov 02, 2023
Animal Educational Outreach Programs
Oct 26, 2023
Killers in Eden Revisited
Oct 19, 2023
Trade Association Accreditation
Oct 12, 2023
Hanging It High Doesn't Make It Browse
Oct 05, 2023
Wildlens
Sep 28, 2023
A Lifetime of Saving Cheetahs
Sep 21, 2023
Enrichment By Any Other Name
Sep 14, 2023
World's First Female Conservation Cyber Tracker
Sep 07, 2023
Beavers
Aug 31, 2023
Dr. Jay Sweeney part 2: small cetacean conservation, off-shore and neonatal dolphin research
Aug 24, 2023
Sustainable Tourism: MANTIS
Aug 17, 2023
Why Animal Professionals Should Pay Attention to Government Affairs
Aug 10, 2023
Rescue, Return, and Enrichment?
Aug 03, 2023
Dolphin Quest's Dr. Jay Sweeney
Jul 27, 2023
So You Want to Go On Safari?
Jul 20, 2023
Dr. Susan Friedman
Jul 13, 2023
Monarchs and the Importance of Accurate Science Communications
Jul 06, 2023
Mountain Gorillas & Conservation with Julie Scardina
Jun 29, 2023
The Fab Four
Jun 22, 2023
Hand-Rearing vs. Parent Raised
Jun 15, 2023
SeaWorld Abu Dhabi
Jun 08, 2023
Gorillas in the Mist and Mud
May 31, 2023
Marine Mammal Research Network
May 25, 2023
Accountability
May 18, 2023
Telling the Emperor He has No Clothes
May 11, 2023
Fire!
May 04, 2023
The Future of Conservation Research & Improved Welfare: Animal Data Portability
Apr 27, 2023
Toki's (a.k.a Lolita) Truth
Apr 20, 2023
Balancing the Needs of the Many with the Needs of the One Named Tokitae (Lolita)
Apr 13, 2023
How Not to Solve a Problem Like Lolita
Apr 05, 2023
Preserving Waterways Mechanically not Chemically
Mar 30, 2023
Neighborhood Cats
Mar 23, 2023
YAS/SeaWorld Research & Rescue
Mar 16, 2023
IMATA-ABMA Joint Conference
Mar 09, 2023
Conserving Ukraine
Mar 02, 2023
Greater One-Horned Rhino Birth
Feb 23, 2023
Longevity
Feb 16, 2023
Space Invaders
Feb 09, 2023
Zoological Research in a Post Blackfish Era
Feb 02, 2023
Ocearch
Jan 26, 2023
Koala
Jan 19, 2023
Passing the Torch
Jan 12, 2023
Bearizona in Winter
Jan 05, 2023
Paul Rosolie: Junglekeeper
Dec 29, 2022
IMATA at 50
Dec 22, 2022
Implications of the Big Cat Public Safety Act
Dec 15, 2022
WAZA Guide: reducing, measuring, and offsetting carbon
Dec 08, 2022
The Vet at Noah's Ark
Dec 01, 2022
ZooSpensefull Cooperative Care Conference
Nov 24, 2022
ZooSpensefull Cooperative Care Conference
Nov 24, 2022
Mission K9 Rescue
Nov 17, 2022
Animals Amplified
Nov 10, 2022
Rosenberg's Look-alike Dog Dad, Topher Brophy
Nov 03, 2022
Sea Dog Animal Training: Saves Lives
Oct 27, 2022
ZDR3 Post Ian
Oct 20, 2022
The Role of an Animal Welfare and Behavioral Coordinator
Oct 13, 2022
ZDR3 Quickly Deploys in the Wake of Hurricane Ian
Oct 01, 2022
Building A Brand New Zoo
Sep 29, 2022
Candid Conversation with Columbus Zoo's New CEO
Sep 22, 2022
Essex County Turtle Back Zoo
Sep 15, 2022
The Wild Side with Clay
Sep 08, 2022
Beating the Odds
Sep 01, 2022
Endlings
Aug 25, 2022
From Animal Trainer to Zoo Director
Aug 18, 2022
Animals in Biomedical Research Today
Aug 11, 2022
Ghosted By PeTA
Aug 04, 2022
The Extraordinary Monarch Butterfly
Jul 28, 2022
Life, Love & Conservation with Carolyn Hennesy
Jul 21, 2022
The World's First Whale Sanctuary part 2
Jul 14, 2022
The World's First Whale Sanctuary
Jul 07, 2022
Crowded County Shelters and July 4th
Jun 30, 2022
ZooMontana: Profile in Courage
Jun 23, 2022
Happy Personhood
Jun 16, 2022
Dr. Holley Muraco: trainer, researcher, rehabilitator
Jun 09, 2022
Fresh Eggs
Jun 02, 2022
Animal Welfare Research Trends part 2
May 26, 2022
Animal Welfare Research Trends part 1
May 19, 2022
Dolphin Quest
May 12, 2022
Entanglements
May 05, 2022
Wildlife ACT
Apr 28, 2022
Avian Flu 2022
Apr 21, 2022
Saving the Survivors
Apr 14, 2022
The Future of Thailand's Captive Elephants
Apr 07, 2022
Avian Behavior International
Mar 31, 2022
African Wild Dogs
Mar 24, 2022
Lolita
Mar 17, 2022
War Zoos
Mar 10, 2022
IMATA Live: Pandemic Lessons Learned
Mar 03, 2022
Save Seagrass, Save Manatees
Feb 24, 2022
One Special Penguin
Feb 17, 2022
Remembering Richard Leakey
Feb 10, 2022
Parsimony
Feb 03, 2022
Breaking the Laminated Glass Ceiling
Jan 27, 2022
Remembering EO Wilson
Jan 20, 2022
Remembering Betty White
Jan 13, 2022
IMATA In Person
Jan 06, 2022
Sahara Conservation Fund
Dec 30, 2021
Dissecting the LRS
Dec 23, 2021
The Lion in Winter
Dec 16, 2021
GRAZE
Dec 09, 2021
Animal Actors
Dec 02, 2021
Ailing Forests
Nov 25, 2021
Talk Turkey
Nov 18, 2021
"Fill the Tank," a Conversation with CNN's Clarissa Ward
Nov 11, 2021
Mazuri Exotic Animal Nutrition
Nov 04, 2021
Exactly How Many Big Cats ARE in the US?
Oct 28, 2021
To Be Accredited or Not To Be?
Oct 21, 2021
The Welfare and Ethics of Public Display of Dolphins
Oct 14, 2021
"Spectacular" Afghanistan
Oct 07, 2021
Ape Dates
Sep 30, 2021
Be a Better Cog
Sep 23, 2021
IUCN World Conservation Congress
Sep 16, 2021
Dolphin Welfare Study
Sep 09, 2021
Good Zoo News
Sep 02, 2021
Everything We Do Is Training
Aug 26, 2021
Building a Culture of Excellence
Aug 19, 2021
The Legacy of Stella the Sand Tiger Shark
Aug 12, 2021
Clicker Training Your Cat
Aug 05, 2021
Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo
Jul 29, 2021
Chuck & Ted's Excellent Training Adventure part 4
Jul 22, 2021
Sea Turtles
Jul 15, 2021
Pacific Marine Mammal Center Turns 50
Jul 08, 2021
The Life of a Zoo Spokesperson
Jul 01, 2021
Childhood Asthma to Olympic Champion
Jun 24, 2021
Brevard Zoo...and Aquarium?
Jun 17, 2021
Epigenetic Clock for Cetacean Conservation
Jun 10, 2021
Starving Manatees & the Indian River Lagoon
Jun 03, 2021
Endangered Red Wolves
May 27, 2021
Veterinarians International
May 20, 2021
Sustainable Water for Gorillas and People
May 13, 2021
Florida Coral Rescue Center
May 06, 2021
AMZAP: Increasing Minority Representation in Zoos
Apr 29, 2021
How DO You Teach a Penguin to Swim?
Apr 22, 2021
How to Succeed a Legend
Apr 15, 2021
Zoo Fit
Apr 08, 2021
ZDR3: Zoo Disaster Response, Rescue, and Recovery
Apr 01, 2021
Bats Man!
Mar 25, 2021
On Thin Ice
Mar 18, 2021
ZAA and the Big Cat Safety Bill
Mar 11, 2021
Houston, We Have a Solution
Mar 04, 2021
Zoo Logic and Friends
Feb 25, 2021
Loro Parque: No Retreat, No Surrender
Feb 18, 2021
Kong Zoo Enrichment Fundraiser Program
Feb 11, 2021
Walrus!
Feb 04, 2021
The Most Famous Guy in America Nobody Knows
Jan 28, 2021
Liberty Wildlife
Jan 21, 2021
Finding the Good in a Year of Bad
Jan 14, 2021
Positive Reinforcement Effect on the User and Bottom Line
Jan 07, 2021
Save Giraffes Now
Dec 31, 2020
A Rare 2020 Success Story: the New Mississippi Aquarium
Dec 24, 2020
Aloha, Jungle Jack Hanna
Dec 17, 2020
A Wild Life and World
Dec 10, 2020
Bushfires Rescue
Dec 03, 2020
Deserted: Ecocide on the Arizona Border
Nov 26, 2020
Marine Mammal Veterinary Scientist Dr. Sam Ridgway
Nov 19, 2020
The Rewards of Positive Training pt 2
Nov 12, 2020
The Rewards of Positive Training
Nov 05, 2020
Zoos Preserving Endangered Island Iguanas
Oct 29, 2020
IUCN Plan to Save Small Cetaceans
Oct 22, 2020
Escape From Extinction
Oct 15, 2020
The Frozen Zoo
Oct 08, 2020
Successful Cloning of an Endangered Species
Oct 01, 2020
Environmental Journalist Jeremy Hance
Sep 24, 2020
Animal Welfare and Software
Sep 17, 2020
What Species Are Most Vulnerable to COVID-19?
Sep 10, 2020
The Future of Zoos and Aquariums (part 2)
Sep 03, 2020
The Future of Zoos and Aquariums (part 1)
Aug 27, 2020
Full-Spectrum Thinking with Futurist Bob Johansen
Aug 20, 2020
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hvaldimir? A Conversation with Lindsay Rubincam
Aug 13, 2020
Proactive Aggression Management Using Positive Reinforcement
Aug 06, 2020
Rising Tide Conservation
Jul 30, 2020
Correcting the Narrative
Jul 23, 2020
Pacific Marine Mammal Center
Jul 16, 2020
A Conversation About Race and Zoos
Jul 09, 2020
Humanism vs. Behavior Management
Jul 02, 2020
Pittsburgh Zoo's Dr. Barbara Baker
Jun 25, 2020
Big Baby Beluga
Jun 18, 2020
The Least Reinforcing Scenario
Jun 11, 2020
Understanding Dolphin Pulmonary Physiology
Jun 04, 2020
Broken Trust: When the Peer Review Process Breaks Down
May 28, 2020
Into the COVID-19 Lion's Den
May 21, 2020
Okapi: Ghosts of the Forests
May 14, 2020
When Legislator Agendas Trump Animal Welfare
May 07, 2020
Deepwater Horizon: Still Deadly Ten Years Later
Apr 30, 2020
Catastrophic: Zoos and Aquariums Fight for Survival Against COVID-19
Apr 23, 2020
Ape Trees
Apr 16, 2020
Preventing the Next Pandemic: A Humane Conversation About Our Social Contract with Animals
Apr 09, 2020
The Politics of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Modeling, Public Health, and Conservation
Apr 02, 2020
Global Response of Zoos and Aquariums to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mar 26, 2020
Pandemic: Balancing Animal Welfare with Public Health
Mar 19, 2020
Overlooked Species: Wading in to Save Animals No One Cares About
Mar 12, 2020
Special Delivery: Columbus Zoo's Historic Cheetah Cubs
Mar 05, 2020
Ken Ramirez part 2
Feb 27, 2020
Ken Ramirez: Animal Training, Transformation, and Trust
Feb 20, 2020
Odysea Aquarium Conservation Expo part 2
Feb 13, 2020
Remembering Dawn Brancheau: Dream Big
Feb 06, 2020
Odysea Aquarium Conservation Expo
Jan 30, 2020
Conserving Rattlesnakes?
Jan 23, 2020
Inferno Down Under
Jan 16, 2020
Zoo School Sweethearts
Jan 09, 2020
KONG ZOO
Jan 02, 2020
Modern Training at Medieval Times
Dec 26, 2019
Steve Martin
Dec 19, 2019
Zoo to You
Dec 12, 2019
Doing Right By Whales
Dec 05, 2019
Dave, The Garden Guy
Nov 28, 2019
The Spy Whale Who Loved Me
Nov 21, 2019
CITES Secretary-General
Nov 14, 2019
Last Child in the Woods author, Richard Louv
Nov 07, 2019
Mystical Belugas
Oct 31, 2019
Zoos Saving Trumpeter Swans
Oct 24, 2019
Conservation and Tourism
Oct 17, 2019
Ewaso Lions Project
Oct 10, 2019
THE Florida Aquarium
Oct 03, 2019
Seafood Watch
Sep 26, 2019
Tell Me Something I Don't know
Sep 19, 2019
The Big "Bad" Wolf Needs Our Help
Sep 12, 2019
Deciphering Deep Diving Dolphins
Sep 05, 2019
Evolution of the Orca Conservancy
Aug 29, 2019
Phoenix Herpetological Society
Aug 22, 2019
Zoos Saving Mexican Gray Wolves From Extinction
Aug 15, 2019
Gayle Bass: Radio, TV and Animals, Oh My!
Aug 08, 2019
Deep Sea Explorer Sylvia Earle
Aug 01, 2019
Sea of Shadows
Jul 25, 2019
Health, Behavior, Longevity, or Feelings? How Should We Measure Animal Welfare?
Jul 18, 2019
Dropping Like Flies
Jul 11, 2019
Amazon River Dolphins
Jul 04, 2019
Veterinary Suicide Prevention
Jun 27, 2019
Oh Canada!
Jun 20, 2019
American Association of Zoo Keepers
Jun 13, 2019
The Bear Nonnecessities:
Jun 06, 2019
In The Navy
May 30, 2019
American Humane
May 23, 2019
Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
May 16, 2019
Elephant in the Capitol
May 09, 2019
Dolphins Live How Long?
May 02, 2019
Dark Horse
Apr 25, 2019
Chelsea Clinton
Apr 17, 2019
Polar Bears: changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Apr 11, 2019
To Thine Own Selfie Be True
Apr 04, 2019
Weaponizing Transparency
Mar 28, 2019
THE Marine Mammal Center
Mar 21, 2019
Cheetahs never prosper...or can they?
Mar 14, 2019
Ferret Out!
Mar 07, 2019
Arabian Oryx: Back from Extinction
Feb 28, 2019
Good Grief?
Feb 21, 2019
Peaceful Pangolins
Feb 14, 2019
Three Decades of the Condor
Feb 07, 2019
China's orcas. From Russia, with love?
Jan 31, 2019
Giraffe: the forgotten megafauna
Jan 24, 2019
Vulture Culture
Jan 17, 2019
The Force is with Actor, Author, and Animal Advocate Carolyn Hennesy
Jan 10, 2019
Mountain Gorilla Recovery
Jan 03, 2019
Zoo Logic's 2018 Year End Review
Dec 27, 2018
Jungle Jack Hanna Returns
Dec 20, 2018
Training makes the animal world go round
Dec 13, 2018
"Wild," wild horses?
Dec 06, 2018
Peppermint Narwhal: conservation storytelling through art
Nov 29, 2018
Training should be fun!
Nov 22, 2018
Pets for Vets
Nov 15, 2018
Global perspectives on zoo animal training and welfare with IMATA's Billy Hurley
Nov 08, 2018
Terry Ryan: 50 years of humane dog training
Nov 01, 2018
What [zoos] got here is failure to communicate
Oct 25, 2018
Animal training, research, conservation and Morgan the deaf killer whale
Oct 18, 2018
"There's no public opinion tooth fairy"
Oct 10, 2018
Dolphin Research Center's Training Institute
Oct 04, 2018
What rugby teaches about life, better zoos, and saving animals
Sep 27, 2018
The OdySea Couple
Sep 20, 2018
When animal laws conflict with veterinary ethics
Sep 13, 2018
Fires, Smoke, and Bears, Oh My
Sep 06, 2018
Helping Hungry Whales
Aug 30, 2018
Good Animal Welfare: do we know it when we see it?
Aug 23, 2018
Kong is King of the Animal Training World
Aug 16, 2018
EATM: America's first college zookeeping program
Aug 09, 2018
Elephant in the Courtroom: defending against activist threats
Aug 02, 2018
Zoos and researchers join forces to preserve Nature
Jul 26, 2018
"Don't Be Shy," the legacy of the panda-looking porpoise called vaquita
Jul 19, 2018
Zoos and Aquariums: "our time is now!"
Jul 12, 2018
Leaving behind a Legacy of Kindness
Jul 05, 2018
Wear a Wetsuit to Work
Jun 28, 2018
Julie Scardina, conservationist, trainer & author
Jun 21, 2018
Killing Keiko author, Mark Simmons
Jun 14, 2018
Jungle Jack Hanna
Jun 07, 2018
International Rhino Foundation's Susie Ellis
May 31, 2018
Elephant trainer, international consultant and animal welfare advocate, Erin Ivory
May 24, 2018
Clicker Training's Ken Ramirez and the importance of behavioral science to saving wild species
May 16, 2018
Dolphin Cognition: reality vs public perception with Dr. Kelly Jaakkola
May 16, 2018
Carolyn "mob lawyer" Hennesy's journey to animal advocate (part 1)
May 16, 2018
Dr. Kelly Jaakkola and the role of science in the debate over the need for zoos
May 16, 2018
Animal Advocacy vs Activism with guest Carolyn Hennesy (part 2)
May 16, 2018