When We Talk About Animals

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When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. Supported by the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, Yale University’s Human Nature Lab, and the Yale Broadcast Studio.

Episode Date
Ep. 51 – Novelist Ned Beauman on venomous lumpsuckers and the price of extinction
Apr 11, 2023
Ep. 50 – Australian Biologist Danielle Clode on the Extraordinary World of Koalas
Feb 21, 2023
Ep. 49 – Dog Cognition Expert Alexandra Horowitz on the Quiddity of Puppies
Oct 05, 2022
Ep. 48 – Patrick Rose on the Fight to Save Florida’s Manatees
Aug 02, 2022
Ep. 47 – Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil on writing love letters to nature
May 24, 2022
Ep. 46 – Paleobiologist Thomas Halliday on the Animals of Ancient Worlds
Mar 21, 2022
Ep. 45 – Rob Dunn on what the laws of biology predict about our future
Feb 02, 2022
Ep. 44 – Rick McIntyre on the stories of Yellowstone’s greatest wolves
Nov 22, 2021
Ep. 43 – Cynthia Barnett on our world of seashells
Sep 22, 2021
Ep. 42 – Edie Widder on the ocean’s spectacular light
Aug 16, 2021
Ep. 41 – Ecologist Hugh Warwick on Loving Your Hedgehogs
May 27, 2021
Ep. 40 – Michelle Nijhuis on the history of the wildlife conservation movement
Apr 28, 2021
Ep. 39 – Bernie Krause on saving the music of the wild
Feb 24, 2021
Ep. 38 – Margaret Renkl on discovering wonder, grief, and inspiration in backyard nature
Dec 09, 2020
Ep. 37 – Monica Gagliano on plant intelligence and human imagination
Nov 04, 2020
Ep. 36 – Rebecca Giggs on the world in the whale
Sep 28, 2020
Ep. 35 – J. Drew Lanham on finding ourselves magnified in nature’s colored hues
Sep 02, 2020
Ep. 34 – Daniel Pauly on why overfishing is a Ponzi scheme
Jul 20, 2020
Ep. 33 – Valérie Courtois on Indigenous-led land and wildlife stewardship
Jun 15, 2020
Ep. 32 – Gene Baur on changing hearts, minds and laws about farm animals
May 18, 2020
Ep. 31 – Zak Smith on ending the international wildlife trade
Apr 27, 2020
Ep. 30 – Sonia Shah on how animal microbes become human pandemics
Apr 06, 2020
Ep. 29 – Amanda Hitt on why the animal agriculture industry needs whistleblowers
Mar 09, 2020
Ep. 28 – Bathsheba Demuth on capitalism, communism and arctic ecology
Feb 10, 2020
Ep. 27 – Ed Yong on telling the grand, urgent and surprising stories of animal worlds
Jan 13, 2020
Ep. 26 – Ian Urbina on the Outlaw Ocean
Dec 16, 2019
Ep. 25 – Doug Kysar and Jon Lovvorn on law in the Anthropocene
Nov 18, 2019
Ep. 24 – Christopher Ketcham on the abuse of the American West
Oct 21, 2019
Ep. 23 – David Rothenberg on playing music with whales and nightingales
Sep 23, 2019
Ep. 22 – Ferris Jabr on reviving the Gaia hypothesis
Aug 27, 2019
Ep. 21 – David Barrie on the wonders of animal navigation
Aug 05, 2019
Ep. 20 – Gabriela Cowperthwaite on the legacy of “Blackfish”
Jul 15, 2019
Ep. 19 – Robert Macfarlane on being good ancestors across deep time
Jun 24, 2019
Ep. 18 — Anthony Weston on animals, aliens and the silence of the universe
Jun 10, 2019
Ep. 17 – Fabrice Schnoller on free diving with sperm whales
May 27, 2019
Ep. 16 — Thomas Seeley on the lives of bees
May 13, 2019
Ep. 15 – Gay Bradshaw on Charlie Russell, grizzly bears, and the search for truth
Apr 29, 2019
Ep. 14 – David Wolfson on pioneering the field of farm animal law
Apr 15, 2019
Ep. 13 – Nicholas Christakis on the animal origins of goodness
Apr 01, 2019
Ep. 12 – Novelist Lindsay Stern on “The Study of Animal Languages”
Mar 18, 2019
Ep. 11 – Diana Reiss on recognizing the dolphins in the mirror
Mar 11, 2019
Ep. 10 – Dale Jamieson on love and meaning in the age of humans
Feb 25, 2019
Ep. 9 – Being Charles Foster being a beast
Feb 11, 2019
Ep. 8 – Charles Siebert on translating nature’s symphony
Jan 28, 2019
Ep. 7 – “Eating Animals” film director Christopher Quinn on the hidden costs of factory farming
Jan 14, 2019
Ep. 6 – Gale Ridge on bringing peace to humans’ befuddling relationships with bugs
Jan 07, 2019
Ep. 5 – Lisa Margonelli on the big ideas termites raise about science, technology, and morality
Dec 17, 2018
Ep. 4 – Irene Pepperberg on revolutionizing what humans think of bird brains
Dec 10, 2018
Ep. 3 – Sue Savage-Rumbaugh on learning from humanity’s closest living relatives
Dec 03, 2018
Ep. 2 – Peter Godfrey-Smith asks: What can the octopus teach us about consciousness?
Nov 26, 2018
Ep. 1 – Natalie Kofler asks: What role should humans play in editing nature?
Nov 19, 2018
Ep. 0 – Coming soon: When We Talk About Animals
Nov 09, 2018