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Ep26 Amanda Embury on animal welfare assessments, teamwork, and continuous improvements
In this episode Amanda Embury, whose career has spanned over 40 years in the fields of animal welfare and species management, shares insights on ongoing animal welfare assessments, teamwork and continuous...
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Ep25 Jason Wark on ZooMonitor and assessing animal welfare
In this episode, Dr. Jason Wark, an Animal Welfare Scientist in Lincoln Park Zoo’s Animal Welfare Science Program shares details and stories of how he and a wider team, manages and develops the ZooMonitor app.Jason...
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Ep24 Robert Young on the sciences and practices of animal care and welfare
Robert Young is a Professor at University of Salford, at the School of Science, Engineering and Environment, and also a Chair in Wildlife Conservation. He has hundreds of publications in Wildlife Conservation, Animal...
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Ep23 Frans de Waal on emotions and morality in animals
Dr. Frans de Waal is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is C.H. Candler Professor of primate behaviour in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also the director of the...
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Ep22 Megan Ross on animal care and welfare & conservation science, honesty and success stories
Dr. Megan Ross is a visionary institutional director focused on all strategic, operational, and programmatic initiatives at Lincoln Park Zoo (LPZ). She is also the first female zoo director in the 150-year history of...
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Ep21 Terry Maple on animal welfare at the hand of science
Terry Maple on animal welfare at the hand of scienceDr. Terry L. Maple is an animal behaviourist and wildlife conservationist known for his visionary leadership in revitalizing Zoo Atlanta as the director. Aside from...
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Ep20 Con Slobodchikoff into the world of animal languages
Con Slobodchikoff is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Northern Arizona University, and co-founder and CEO of Zoolingua, a company that is using artificial intelligence technology to decode animal communication. Also...
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Ep19 Saskia Verbruggen on the importance of training for positive animal welfare
Saskia Verbruggen is an experienced animal trainer from the Netherlands, with a long career training marine mammals as well as birds of prey. She founded her own consultancy company Animal Training Roundeurope.When...
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Ep18 Mirian Vilela on a vision for a better world, education, social transformation, and a global movement
In this episode Mirian Vilela guides us through the importance of sustainable development. She is originally from Brazil, but now she works in Costa Rica as the Executive Director of the Earth Charter International...
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Ep17 Mark Kingston Jones on enrichment and the importance of the individual
We are delighted to welcome Mark Kingston Jones on this next episode of the iBuzz podcast! Mark is a co-founder of Team Building With Bite, which aims to increase cohesion and animal welfare by having teams come...
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Ep16 Margo DeMello on human-animal studies, speaking for animals, and mourning animals
In this episode, we are joined by Margo DeMello (PhD, Cultural Anthropology, UC Davis), Assistant Professor at Carroll College in the Anthrozoology Program. Margo has also been an adjunct professor in the Canisius...
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Ep15 Jorg Massen on animal friendships, cognition, and enrichment
Jorg Massen, assistant professor of animal ecology at Utrecht University and editorial board member at Animals, joins us in this next episode of the iBuzz podcast. Jorg talks in-depth about a topic we can all...
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