A Higher Learning Rewind: Animal Welfare and the Return of Animal Games

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Van and Rachel are joined by Chris Draper of the Performing Animal Welfare Society to discuss providing sanctuary and care for former performance animals (0:00), before welcoming Dr. Lauren Howard to talk about her role as director of veterinary services for the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (23:34). Then, Animal Games makes it’s long anticipated return to the podcast (49:05). Hosts: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Guests: Dr. Chris Draper and Dr. Lauren Howard Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, guys, we've been having an ongoing discussion here about animals.
0:07.3	You guys know how much I love animals.
0:09.3	I might be considered the world's foremost animal lover.
0:12.6	But there are questions that arise when you're a lover of animals.
0:16.7	What's okay?
0:17.4	What is it?
0:18.9	Some people say, it's great to have zoos where you can go learn about animals. Others say let the animals go. Some people say it's great to have circuses where you can go and see animals form. Others say no, cruel, bad. We had a conversation here on a podcast about zoos, about circuses,
0:38.6	about all different types of things,
0:39.9	but we realize we don't know
0:40.9	what the hell we're talking about.
0:41.8	So we brought in somebody who does.
0:43.5	Chris Draper,
0:44.1	who's the chief operations officer
0:46.0	of performing animal welfare society.
0:49.9	Performing animal welfare society
0:51.1	is better known as Paws.
0:52.3	What cute name.
0:53.7	Paws is dedicated to the protection of performing animals to providing sanctuary to
0:57.5	abused, abandon, and retired captive wildlife to enforcing the best standards of care for
1:03.3	all captive wildlife to the preservation, shall say, of wild species and their habitat
1:09.3	and to promoting public education
1:10.9	about captive wildlife issues. Chris joins us today on higher learning. Thank you for joining us,
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