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Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic ...
49 min
27
Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Pre...
61 min
28
Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal H...
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles...
56 min
29
Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Anima...
Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...
98 min
30
Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion...
37 min
31
Graeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Her...
54 min
32
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
25 min
33
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for Mor...
61 min
34
Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural Histor...
45 min
35
Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Pre...
61 min
36
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota P...
An interview with Ron Broglio
46 min
37
Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Sc...
56 min
38
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Yoga and Animal Ethics" (Pa...
40 min
39
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
29 min
40
Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural Hist...
44 min
41
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Ta...
Why do Americans eat so much beef?
27 min
42
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans an...
Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...
41 min
43
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Mach...
An interview with Paul Thagard
57 min
44
Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoo...
85 min
45
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: ...
43 min
46
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishi...
An interview with Emma Marris
50 min
47
Julia Brock, "Closed Seasons: The Transformatio...
47 min
48
Todd May "Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophica...
54 min
49
Barbara Allen, "Lost Animals, Disappearing Worl...
59 min
50
Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in...
38 min