All Episodes

Ep. 51 – Novelist Ned Beauman on venomous lumpsuckers and the price of extinction

Ep. 50 – Australian Biologist Danielle Clode on the Extraordinary World of Koalas

Ep. 49 – Dog Cognition Expert Alexandra Horowitz on the Quiddity of Puppies

Ep. 48 – Patrick Rose on the Fight to Save Florida’s Manatees

Ep. 47 – Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil on writing love letters to nature

Ep. 46 – Paleobiologist Thomas Halliday on the Animals of Ancient Worlds

Ep. 45 – Rob Dunn on what the laws of biology predict about our future

Ep. 44 – Rick McIntyre on the stories of Yellowstone’s greatest wolves

Ep. 43 – Cynthia Barnett on our world of seashells

Ep. 42 – Edie Widder on the ocean’s spectacular light

Ep. 41 – Ecologist Hugh Warwick on Loving Your Hedgehogs

Ep. 40 – Michelle Nijhuis on the history of the wildlife conservation movement

Ep. 39 – Bernie Krause on saving the music of the wild

Ep. 38 – Margaret Renkl on discovering wonder, grief, and inspiration in backyard nature

Ep. 37 – Monica Gagliano on plant intelligence and human imagination

Ep. 36 – Rebecca Giggs on the world in the whale

Ep. 35 – J. Drew Lanham on finding ourselves magnified in nature’s colored hues

Ep. 34 – Daniel Pauly on why overfishing is a Ponzi scheme

Ep. 33 – Valérie Courtois on Indigenous-led land and wildlife stewardship

Ep. 32 – Gene Baur on changing hearts, minds and laws about farm animals

Ep. 31 – Zak Smith on ending the international wildlife trade

Ep. 30 – Sonia Shah on how animal microbes become human pandemics

Ep. 29 – Amanda Hitt on why the animal agriculture industry needs whistleblowers

Ep. 28 – Bathsheba Demuth on capitalism, communism and arctic ecology

Ep. 27 – Ed Yong on telling the grand, urgent and surprising stories of animal worlds

Ep. 26 – Ian Urbina on the Outlaw Ocean

Ep. 25 – Doug Kysar and Jon Lovvorn on law in the Anthropocene

Ep. 24 – Christopher Ketcham on the abuse of the American West

Ep. 23 – David Rothenberg on playing music with whales and nightingales

Ep. 22 – Ferris Jabr on reviving the Gaia hypothesis

Ep. 21 – David Barrie on the wonders of animal navigation

Ep. 20 – Gabriela Cowperthwaite on the legacy of “Blackfish”

Ep. 19 – Robert Macfarlane on being good ancestors across deep time

Ep. 18 — Anthony Weston on animals, aliens and the silence of the universe

Ep. 17 – Fabrice Schnoller on free diving with sperm whales

Ep. 16 — Thomas Seeley on the lives of bees

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

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

Ep. 13 – Nicholas Christakis on the animal origins of goodness

Ep. 12 – Novelist Lindsay Stern on “The Study of Animal Languages”

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

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

Ep. 9 – Being Charles Foster being a beast

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

Ep. 7 – “Eating Animals” film director Christopher Quinn on the hidden costs of factory farming

Ep. 6 – Gale Ridge on bringing peace to humans’ befuddling relationships with bugs

Ep. 5 – Lisa Margonelli on the big ideas termites raise about science, technology, and morality

Ep. 4 – Irene Pepperberg on revolutionizing what humans think of bird brains

Ep. 3 – Sue Savage-Rumbaugh on learning from humanity’s closest living relatives

Ep. 2 – Peter Godfrey-Smith asks: What can the octopus teach us about consciousness?

Ep. 1 – Natalie Kofler asks: What role should humans play in editing nature?

Ep. 0 – Coming soon: When We Talk About Animals