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Kindred

The Kindred Podcast explores the intricate and interdependent relationship that humans have with animals and nature. Every episode presents compelling interviews and thought-provoking discussions with leading experts from diverse fields of study including scientists, conservationists, authors, and educators. From the world of science to cultural traditions and beyond, Kindred examines how humans can inspire a new awareness in order to reconnect us to the natural world. Hosted by Kate Coffin and

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00:57:58

Hyenas! | With Dr. Kay Holekamp, Behavioral Ecologist

Kindred ·

2025/10/28

In this week’s episode, we are diving into all things hyenas! Yep, we’re that excited. And to take us on this deep dive we have asked hyena expert and behavioral ecologist Dr. Kay Holekamp to educate us all about this amazing animal and talk to us about the 30 + years of research and data her team has been collecting. Dr. Holekamp is head of the Department of Integrative Biology and is director of the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program at Michigan State University.Dr. Holekamp is

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00:02:16

As She Rises | Season 4

Kindred ·

2025/10/21

As She Rises is back for its fourth season, hosted by Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist. This season, As She Rises is exploring rewilding—the practice of restoring ecosystems to their natural state. We’ll hear how communities are letting the land lead, and reimagining what it means to truly coexist with the natural world. Follow wherever you're listening to this so you never miss an episode!Show Notes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/as-she-rises/id1585244876🔎

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01:05:52

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring | With Deborah Blum,...

Kindred ·

2025/10/14

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Deborah Blum, environmental journalist, Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and science columnist. Let me explain why we have asked Deborah to join us. In 1962, American marine biologist, science writer, and conservationist Rachel Carson writes a pivotal book in our history, titled Silent Spring, which skillfully lays out the very real life scenario of how and where poisonous chemicals and controls, like DDT, were created and distributed by the US

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00:02:22

A New Season of Kindred Drops Oct 14!

Kindred ·

2025/10/11

Kindred is back, hosted by Kate Coffin and Jenn Asplundh. This season, we’re flipping the script on creatures everyone loves to hate — from hyenas and vultures to bats and possums — and showing why they’re fascinating, essential, and surprisingly lovable.Join us as we explore the hidden connections between humans, animals, and nature, and discover stories that will make you see the world in a whole new way. Follow Kindred wherever you listen to podcasts so you never miss an episode!Learn more, find

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01:00:44

Encore: 53. Killer Whales | A Conversation with...

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2025/10/07

Originally released July 23, 2024. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025.In this week’s episode, we travel to Denmark and speak with author and long time marine biologist Hanne Strager about the incredible and dynamic predator the killer whale, or orca if you prefer.Hanne specializes in marine wildlife, specifically killer whales, and has recently published her new book titled, The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas. We wanted to speak with Hanne because we are

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01:00:02

Encore: 48. Coastal Sea Wolves of Bella Bella | A...

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2025/09/23

Originally released May 14, 2024. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025.In this week’s conversation, we are speaking with William Housty, Associate Director of the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department in Bella Bella, British Columbia. The HIRMD are in charge of overseeing the management of all natural resources in the Heiltsuk territory, including the beautiful and captivating sea wolves. There is an air of magic and mystery about these sea swimming wolves that

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00:49:06

Encore: Brothers In the Wild

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2025/09/09

Originally released January 26, 2025. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025.In this exclusive drop Jenn and I talk to brothers Dave Aguirre (my actual husband :) and Geoff Aguirre all about their brotherly hike across England!Sisters interviewing brothers…what could go wrong?But really, this was so much fun and really warmed our cold winter hearts. It’s full of humor, sentiment, and even a little heartbreak. Three of my most favorite things.Thanks so much to Dave & Geoff for

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01:12:49

Encore: 47. A Grizzly Man | A Conversation with Bear...

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2025/08/26

Originally released April 30, 2024. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025.In this week's archived episode, we are spoke with Bear Biologist Chris Servheen. We finally got to meet our grizzly bear fears head-on and dispel all the misinformation that we have been wondering about for years! We were so lucky to have been able to speak with Chris, one of if not the leading bear biologists in this country. Chris has been working tirelessly for his entire career advocating for the

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00:43:14

Encore: Savages & Beasts

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2025/08/12

Originally released April 30, 2025. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2025.And guess who’s back? Our favorite Zoo historian and author, Nigel Rothfels! Yes, we dragged him back to congratulate him on the newly revised edition of his book Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo. If you haven’t heard our fun and fiery episode with Nigel, PLEASE go back and listen to our OG episode titled Zoos: Bad or Good? because we revisit some of the hot topics we covered and dig a little

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01:01:20

Cheetah Tracker | With Tim Hofmann, Canine Scat...

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2025/07/22

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Tim Hofmann, a certified dog trainer working with the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), running the Scat Detection Dog program. Since 2018, Tim has been leading the scat detection dog project for CCR where his expertise extends to field projects across Namibia and Angola, where he works with his dogs to detect and conserve rare wildlife species, like cheetahs and African wild dogs.Tim also holds a master’s degree in Nature Conservation Biology and is

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01:18:32

Leadership, Empowerment, & Rescue | With Awanookwe...

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2025/07/08

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Awanookwe Kingbird-Bratvold, founder of the animal rescue Awesiinyag (Animals) Are Loved. Awanookwe is Ojibwe from the Red Lake Nation in Northern Minnesota and has her masters in Education and is a professor in Indigenous Sustainability Studies at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. Awanookwe is also the CARE Center Senior Director for the Northern Tier. And if you know us, you know CARE or Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity, a BIPOC led

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01:26:54

Finding Our Place | With Carolyn Finney, Cultural...

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2025/06/24

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Carolyn Finney, a cultural geographer, storyteller, actor, lover of pop culture, and author. Carolyn has her Doctorate in geography and is the author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. She has also held positions at Wellesley College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Kentucky. We have often wondered what it means to have ‘a sense of place’ and what that means

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01:12:59

Super Cat Woman | With Sassee Walker, Cat Carer and...

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2025/06/10

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Sassee Walker, founder of the non profit cat rescue Sassee Cats operating in New York City, specifically Brooklyn and East New York areas. She also works full-time for NYC Health and Hospitals in their billing department. Sassee started working in cat rescue and welfare in 2011 so she’s been doing this for a long time. And she is another person out there, boots on the ground, walking the walk, and making a HUGE impact on the welfare of street cats in New

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01:22:04

Challenger Deep | With Dr. Dawn Wright, Oceanographer

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2025/05/27

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Dr. Dawn Wright, chief scientist at Esri, or Environmental Systems Research Institute and a specialist in marine geology, geography, and oceanography, and not least of all a deepsea diver. Dawn Wright also made history in 2022 when she became the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep, the oceans deepest and most unexplored place on Earth, an experience she goes into detail about in her new book, co-written with Esri Press, Mapping The Deep:

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00:49:02

Special Episode | With PennFuture, Environmental...

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2025/05/22

This is a Special Episode of Kindred, and we’re throwing it in mid-season because we have questions! Let me explain. Recently, the federal government has been eliminating or cutting federal programs and funding in context to conservation-from protection of wildlife and forest, to clean air and water acts. This has ignited many questions about the effects that the federal government is having on not only a national level, but on state and local levels as well. So, we want to know how we can take

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01:25:20

Healing With Dogs | With Oscar Rodriguez, K9 Trainer

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2025/05/13

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Oscar Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Underdogs K9 Training. Oscar’s training focuses on dog psychology and dog behavior and his professional services include dog walking, dog boarding, and working with dogs and their humans to navigate through behavioral issues and help owners understand dog psychology to better connect them to each other, and help their dogs grow in confidence and live their most happy and balanced life. Oscar shares his story of how he

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01:17:50

Book Club | Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural...

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2025/04/29

It’s time for our special edition of Kindred’s Book Club!In this season’s Book Club we are featuring Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels, by Ellen Ruppel Shell.Author Ellen Ruppel Shell is professor emeritus at Boston University, in the department of science journalism. Ellen has published many articles, reviews, and essays which have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, LA Times, Washington Post, and spent years as a contributing editor and correspondent for The

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01:24:32

Range Rider & The Lads | With Daniel Curry, Wolf...

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2025/04/15

In this week’s episode, we speak with Daniel Curry, Range Rider and founder of the non-profit Project Griph, an organisation focused on wildlife conflict mitigation. Through Daniel’s specialized methods executed on horseback, with a team of dogs, Daniel works to support ranchers and farmers who are in conflict with wolves. He is the buffer between large carnivores and cattle or sheep, like a shepherd and a cowboy rolled into one. And through humane and effective methods, Daniel works with people in

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00:10:42

We Are Back!

Kindred ·

2025/04/10

Welcome back to our Spring Season!We are so excited to start dropping a new season full of the most amazing guests!Look out for new episodes starting April 15th and make sure to follow us so you don’t miss any of the incredible conversations we have lined up for you. This season, we go deep from the bottom of our hearts to the bottom of our oceans.See you on Tuesdays!Lots of Love, Kate & Jenn🔎 Please find out more info and message us at: Website:

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00:49:20

Encore: The Flying Primates | A Conversation with...

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2025/04/08

Originally released August 15, 2023. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in April 2025.In this week’s episode, we speak with Dr. Mathias Osvath, Cognitive Zoologist at Lund University about all things corvids and specifically the raven. We’ve known how smart these birds are but, um, did not realize HOW smart! You will never look at a crow, magpie, jay, nutcracker, jackdaw, rook, or raven (all corvids) the same after listening to this conversation. Thank you to Dr. Osvath for taking a super

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