When We Talk About Animals

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, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School and the Yale Broadcast Stu

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Ep. 15 – Gay Bradshaw on Charlie Russell, grizzly bears, and the search for truth

Posted April 29, 201901:00:02

Bears, like other carnivores, are typically cast as unthinking, emotionless killers. But the late naturalist Charlie Russell believed this tragic misperception...

Ep. 14 – David Wolfson on pioneering the field of farm animal law

Posted April 15, 201901:04:16

In the United States today, 10 billion land animals are raised and killed for food annually. That’s over 19,000 animals per minute. About 1.1 million...

Ep. 11 – Diana Reiss on recognizing the dolphins in the mirror

Posted March 11, 201900:59:17

In mountainous regions of the world, there are human societies that use whistled languages to transmit and understand a potentially unlimited number...

Ep. 10 – Dale Jamieson on love and meaning in the age of humans

Posted February 25, 201900:53:40

In their book, Love in the Anthropocene, our guest, the environmental philosopher Dale Jamieson, and his co-author Bonnie Nadzam invite us to imagine...

Ep. 8 – Charles Siebert on translating nature’s symphony

Posted January 28, 201900:58:09

During his travels in South America at the close of the 18th century, the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt came upon a parrot speaking the words...