Species Unite Podcast
1) Matt Rossell: His Time Inside The Hidden Worlds of Testing Labs, Circuses, and Fur
He has spent the past two decades fighting to create a better world for animals and it all started by accident. While he was in grad school in the 90s, he worked security at a hospital at night. One n...Show More
2) Christine Mott: Free Bird
“How could this owl, who was born in captivity, lived his whole life in a cage, how could he possibly survive? He's going to be dead in a few days. That's what everybody thought.” – Christine Mott  ...Show More
3) Edita Birnkrant and Tracy Winston: The Horse Who Collapsed in the Street
“I could be walking in Central Park and come up on one of these horse and buggies. I don't think twice about it because I see it as part of the New York attraction. You know, you have the Statue of Li...Show More
4) Mari Andrew: How To Be A Living Thing
“It was just this love I developed of life, all life and how much life can be a joy to witness and experience if we're not severing ourselves or severing other lives from our own. And then you start t...Show More
5) Dr. Shirley Strum: The Echoes of Our Origins
"So I think this whole idea of cumulative culture is a way to make humans exceptional. But it's clear to me that humans are exceptional, and seeing it through baboon glasses, I can understand in a dif...Show More
6) Jeffrey Reed: Cry Wolf: Decoding the Language of the Wild
“I sit in the camp that is going to defend wildlife, and I will live and die in that space. Even though what I see is in the West. Wolves have a bad reputation. It's still there…" -Jeffrey Reed   Wh...Show More
7) Trevor Ritland: The Golden Toad
I think you could probably go back and track the stages of grief, probably that is what I went through. But I think if you do it right, you end up at acceptance. And that's where I ended up. And that'...Show More
8) Reuven Banks and Andrew Lee: When the Ocean Lost Its Stars
"72 juveniles is 28% of the current population of sunflower stars under human care in California. More than a quarter of them are at our facility. If you had asked us that question about a year and a ...Show More
9) Delcianna Winders: The Beginning of the End of Animal Testing
“We don't actually know how many animals we're testing on in this country, because most of them are not protected by any laws. There's not even a requirement that you track their numbers.” – Delcianna...Show More
10) Jeff Kerr: Our First Amendment Right to Receive Communications (from Monkeys)
"It is a scientific fact that these macaques, like all other primates, including humans, are communicating. They communicate in much the same way we do - facial expressions, vocalizations, body postur...Show More