The Deal With Animals with Marika S. Bell

Jan 27 2025 127 ep. 47 mins 9
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Humans interact with animals every day of our lives: diet, wildlife, clothes and even medicines, are all intersections we often don’t think about. 

This is a podcast about the interactions and connections between humans and non-human animals.

Our mission is to make research more accessible to the public while sharing the voices and lived experience of our human connection with animals.

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