Just Animals Among Other Animals

In this live, Sindhoor and I talked about recent events in India. You might remember that we had chosen streeties in India for “Philosophy in the Wild: Finding Hope in Mixed Communities” as another case of mutualism between humans and wild living animals (and streeties are yet another wonderful case to question our preconceived and unduly romantic notions of ‘wild’). While not all humans in India...

Conservation biologist Noreen Mutoro talks with us about her experience working with Action for Cheetahs in Kenya , who have been pioneering the work with dogs in conversation. (Follow them on LinkedIn or Facebook to learn about sharing space with wild living animals or how Apollo, the newest canine on the team, is doing.) We also talk about One Health considerations, working with local communitie...

Thank you to everyone who joined Greg and me for a discussion of Mary Midgley’s ‘mixed community. Greg kindly shared with us what it was really like to do philosophy with Midgley: Besides wisdom and biscuits, she could also happen to recite poetry or make you read it out loud. Here is “The Song of Quoodle” Greg mentions — loving it. If you would like to read up on the mixed community and Greg’s th...

Thank you to everyone who listened to Beth and me chatting about the idea of the inner child and working with actual children! Here are the quotes from Midgley’s Animals and Why They Matter that inspired us again in full: On the Species-Barrier […] the species-barrier there, imposing though it may look, is rather like one of those tall wire fences whose impressiveness is confined to their upper re...

Thank you to everyone who tuned into our conversation! This time, we got the video right, I feel the audio sounds perhaps a bit canny, but here is the recording. Michelle and I based our discussion about laws and legal concepts that are designed to benefit the rest of nature in the chapter that Dale Jamieson has contributed to the following book, edited by César Rodriguez-Garavíto: An Ecology of L...

It’s been quite the dog days of late — in future posts, I will determine whether what you can see in the video above is still poetry, or not, and illustrate my transition from writing about other animals to writing with and for them. For now, enjoy your summer if you have one! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

If you are interested in what poetry can do to us and why a spider’s dream can be smelled, please feel free to listen to my first audio-only odour appreciation — and don’t forget to follow Team Wales’s ongoing activities . Thanks so much to Beth . And to you for staying with us. Hope it makes scents. Love, Mara This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or g...

I will start with a round of apologies: * This was meant to become a note, not a post - but turns out it is 2:13 too long. But after - what? 21 hours of fretting over a crashed computer and ongoing software issues, I want to get it out in time. (Team Romania’s exhibition opens this weekend.) * Honestly, the more I hone my sense of smell, the less I seem to be able to speak one language coherently....