Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., Expert on Animal Pleasure

Happy Halloween! But we won’t be scaring anybody with today’s program: Instead, we’ll be inviting “Ooohs” and “Ahhhs” with our delightful guest, animal behaviorist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., author of Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (Macsci). Dr. Balcombe will regale us with incredible stories of the self-awareness, the personalities and the altruism of creatures from fish to rats to birds and all the rest. It’s no wonder God looked at what He’d made and pronounced it all good—we’ll learn this Halloween that these creatures are good—and smart and fascinating and valuable in their own right. You’ll love this show.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices