Wildlife Health Talks

#95 Maureen and the Rethinking of the City Rat (USA)

What if the most hated animal in your city is really just a very small coyote? Dr. Maureen Murray runs the Chicago Rat Project at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Insti

#94 Dave, Duct Tape, Helicopters and Elk: Wildlife Medicine in the 1970s (USA)

When Dr. Dave Jessup finished vet school in 1976, there was no such thing as a wildlife vet job. Within a year he became the first wildlife veterinarian ever hired by the

#93 Amelie and the Taming of a Lyssavirus Panic (Germany)

When a Daubenton's bat tested positive for a rabies-related virus at a kindergarten in central Germany, the story moved faster than the facts. Headlines screamed "ra

#92 Jacopo and the art of wild bear anaesthesia (Norway/UK)

Every GPS collar, every blood sample, every dataset built on a wild mammal begins the same way: a dart, and a vet standing over an unconscious animal hoping nothing goes

#91 Randy and the blast from WDA's past (USA)

For most of this week at the WDA conference in Chicago, Dr. Randy Zarnke has been the one holding the microphone. He is the reason the WDA History Project exists, having

#90 Billy Karesh and how the One Health term was born (USA)

The term One Health didn't come out of a strategy meeting or a peer-reviewed paper. It came out of an interview with a journalist who wouldn't drop a question.

#89 'Waking Up the Snake' with Anne Poelina (Australia)

Who could believe a blue-tongued lizard can teach you how to be a good human being? Professor Anne Poelina can, and by the end of this episode you might too. For Interna

#88 Maria Teresa and a single drop of finch blood (Mexico & USA)

What if the birds you walked past this morning were quietly fighting off bacteria that have been devastating poultry farms for decades, and you'd never know, because

#87 Arman and the wild birds of Iran

In Iran, there is no established path for a veterinary student who wants to work with wildlife. So Arman Nourishirazi and his teammates built one. Based in Ahvaz, in the

#86 Cody and Trichinella in Canada's Arctic North

What happens when a parasite learns to survive the deep freeze? In this episode, host Cat Vendl talks with parasitologist Cody Malone about Trichinella, the tiny worm beh

#85 Elizabeth and the Blood Feeding Network (Mexico)

How do you find out which animals a mosquito has been biting? You start by thinking like one. In this episode, biologist Elizabeth Linares Alcántara takes us to a public

#84 Genevieve and the Wider Lens of Queer Ecology (USA)

Genevieve Barnett spends their nights caring for one of the world's most misunderstood animals. From Night Flight Rehabilitation, the bat rehab NGO they founded in C

#83 Sabrina and the Turtles of the Holy Shrine (Bangladesh)

This episode takes us to Bangladesh, a first for the podcast, where Dr. Sabrina Ferdous is doing wildlife health research in one of the most unusual field sites you'

#82 Briana and the Social Media Epidemic (USA)

Every day at Project Wildlife in San Diego, Briana Eisan sees the consequences of a scroll: baby raccoons scooped up by well-meaning strangers, people reaching bare-hande

#81 Sharon and Wildlife on the Edge (Kenya)

Northern Kenya is one of Africa's most biodiverse landscapes, and one of its most demanding places to be a wildlife vet. Dr. Sharon Mulindi, senior veterinary office

#80 Wendi, Slow Lorises and lived One Health in Indonesia

What happens when a wildlife vet who spent years nursing slow lorises back to health walks into a live animal market, not to rescue animals, but to sit down with the vend

#79 Justorien and the Fight for Madagascar's Lemurs

Dr. Justorien Rambeloniaina grew up in northeastern Madagascar watching lemurs captured and killed, not yet knowing they were among the world's most endangered prima

#78 Conversations with Women of Wildlife (A Panel Discussion on the occasion of International Women's Day)

Six women. Five continents. Decades of experience spanning wildlife veterinary practice, disease research, government policy, and international conservation. Recorded for

#77 Steve and Some Good Gnus in Southern Africa

What if the very fences built to protect livestock have been quietly driving one of Africa's greatest wildlife crises? Professor Steve Osofsky, one of the architects

#76 Andrew and the Future of Wildlife Hospitals (Australia)

What if the key to saving more wildlife isn't treating more animals, but preventing them from ending up in hospitals in the first place? In this episode, host Dr. Ca