Vanishing Treasures with Katherine Rundell

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What can we do to help save the most vulnerable animals? Sharon McMahon is joined by #1 NYT Best-Selling author Katherine Rundell to talk about extraordinary animals like the Greenland shark which can live to be over 600 years old, or the American Wood frog that freezes in the winter, and kickstarts its own heart in the spring. Katherine shares stories about animals you’ve probably never heard of, the challenges they face, and the urgent need for preservation and mindful coexistence with the natural world. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome, delighted to have you with me today. My guest is Catherine Rundle. And oh my gosh,
0:10.7	this conversation is just the sound of Catherine's voice. You're going to love it.
0:16.5	Catherine is the author of Vanishing Treasures. And this is a conversation about one of my favorite topics.
0:24.6	Animals!
0:26.0	Why can't I have just an all-animal podcast?
0:28.6	I ask you.
0:29.4	I'm wondering why not.
0:30.9	Today's episode is just a delight.
0:33.1	So let's dive in.
0:35.1	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:36.8	And here's where it gets interesting. Thank you for being here.
0:41.6	Thank you so much for having me. It's such a delight. We are chatting from across the pond,
0:47.2	as some people say. And when I first saw your book, it was like an immediate ad to cart for me. Anybody who has been
0:55.8	listening to me for any period of time knows that I love animals. And, you know, I could have like a
1:01.6	whole podcast just related to animals. But your book, Vanishing Treasures, Beestuary of Extraordinary
1:09.0	Endangered Creatures caught my eye right away. And it has this sort of like, in addition to talking about animals, it has this sort of fanciful whimsy aspect to it. And I'm curious about how you even conceptualized writing a book of this nature.
1:27.3	So it began a long time ago. I grew up partly in
1:31.5	Zimbabwe and I was very lucky to have a childhood very intimately engaged with living things.
1:38.8	You know, snakes in the garden and scorpions under the rocks and occasionally in your shoe and
1:43.3	monkeys down by the
1:45.0	shopping centre. But I used to go back to visit some of my family who still lived there. And
1:50.9	while I was there, I went to see at Wildlife Reserve a pangolin. And it was truly a kind of kudafuge.
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