When We Talk About Animals

Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School

When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. Supported by the Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School and the Yale Broadcast Studio.

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When We Talk About Animals

Episodes (52)

Apr 11, 2023 Ep. 51 – Novelist Ned Beauman on venomous lumpsuckers and the price of extinction
Feb 21, 2023 Ep. 50 – Australian Biologist Danielle Clode on the Extraordinary World of Koalas
Oct 5, 2022 Ep. 49 – Dog Cognition Expert Alexandra Horowitz on the Quiddity of Puppies

When We Talk About Animals

Apr 11, 2023
1¼ hours
90 MB

Fiction can provide the most profound, incisive truths about the absurdities of our reality. In his most recent novel, Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman, a master of finding the humor and the fantastical in even the most devastating facets of human nature, has crafted a chilling—and deeply funny—look into what our future relationship with animals might hold. Imagining a not-so-distant future world, in which ‘extinction credits’ allow companies to eradicate entire species for a minor cost, Beauman’s novel explores where complacency and indolent market approaches to saving the world’s biodiversity might lead. In the process, through the voices o...

When We Talk About Animals

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

Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School

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