80 episodes
Get Out Alive: An Animal Attack Podcast Ashley Bray
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4.3 • 112 Ratings
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Hosted by forensic wildlife biologist Ashley Bray, Get Out Alive aims to have honest conversations about intense human-wildlife conflicts, especially those resulting in attacks. She is often joined by friends, experts, authors, and even attack survivors themselves. Join her every other week as she tells stories of animal attacks, why they happen, and how we can all avoid them.
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Ep. 77: Surviving Bear Encounters (feat. Daryl Ratajczak)
When is it time to scare them off, and when is it time to back off? Should you really fight black bears back, and play dead with a grizzly? What are the best practices while camping in bear country? Bear expert Daryl Ratajczak is on this week to answer all these questions for us and more.
Daryl has years of experience in rehabbing black bears, working as a wildlife biologist for the state of Tennessee, and giving educational talks and programs about bears through his company Wildlife For You. You can follow Wildlife For You on Facebook here. -
Ep. 76: India's Big 3 (Feat. Mathen "Rajeev" Mathew)
I had the pleasure of speaking with wildlife researcher and human-wildlife conflict specialist, Mathen "Rajeev" Mathew, about the animals he studies that cause some of the most dramatic conflicts in India: Tigers, leopards and elephants. I was stunned by how many attacks occur by each of these animals a year, and we dive into why these attacks and deaths happen. Just be warned, it does get graphic.
If you'd like to learn more about the illegal wildlife trade, check out the documentary I mentioned up top, Sea of Shadows.Support the Show.Support the show for free by leaving a 5-star review wherever you're listening, or on GoodPods or Podchaser (where we can respond to your comments).
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, check out our website GetOutAlivePodcast.com and join us on Patreon (where you can now follow us for free)!
Support the show by shopping at www.getoutalivepodcast.com/shop
You can find Ashley @TheAngryOlogist on Twitter -
Ep. 75: What It Takes To Stop Exotic Pet Abuse
In this Part 2 to our Episode 74, we start with a horror story of a similar 'organization' to Single Vision Inc. and the horrors that caused their end, then we go over how we can all be better consumers of this type of content.
Be sure to check out our website getoutalivepodcast.com
You can find Sophiane at @HonkIfURHoary on Twitter.Support the Show.Support the show for free by leaving a 5-star review wherever you're listening, or on GoodPods or Podchaser (where we can respond to your comments).
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, check out our website GetOutAlivePodcast.com and join us on Patreon (where you can now follow us for free)!
Support the show by shopping at www.getoutalivepodcast.com/shop
You can find Ashley @TheAngryOlogist on Twitter -
Ep. 74: The Truth Behind the Screen
What's really going on behind the scenes in all those 'cute' videos of people interacting with their pet jaguars, tigers, leopards, and bears? Can people really get that kind of social media content without ever being injured? And are the animals really taken care of?
In Part 1 of this episode, I sit down with wildlife ecologist and science communicator Sophiane Nacer (@HonkIfURHoary) to go over the extensive research she did on Single Vision Inc., the 'organization' behind the popular TikTok accounts SingleVision and SafariSammie. We go over some of the abuse going on behind the scenes, and in Part 2 (which is available now on Patreon) we go over some criminal charges lingering over the organization and some deaths caused by a very similar 'organization'.
You can read Sophiane's original Twitter thread here.Support the Show.Support the show for free by leaving a 5-star review wherever you're listening, or on GoodPods or Podchaser (where we can respond to your comments).
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, check out our website GetOutAlivePodcast.com and join us on Patreon (where you can now follow us for free)!
Support the show by shopping at www.getoutalivepodcast.com/shop
You can find Ashley @TheAngryOlogist on Twitter -
Ep. 73: When Owning Exotic Pets Goes Wrong
~Trigger warning: Child neglect/suffering~
On this episode we're joined by Margie (one of the artists who has designed our Save The Bees sticker and Orca Merch on our website's shop) to talk about all the dangers of owning an exotic pet. You can find her @HeyMissMargie on Instagram or Etsy.
Relevant Previous Episodes:
Ep. 14: Travis the pet Chimpanzee
Ep. 37: The Zanesville Massacre
Links Mentioned In Episode:
The Elephant In the Living Room documentary
Click here to learn more about the Big Cat Public Safety Act
Michigan State University Animal Legal & Historical Center website
Support the Show.Support the show for free by leaving a 5-star review wherever you're listening, or on GoodPods or Podchaser (where we can respond to your comments).
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, check out our website GetOutAlivePodcast.com and join us on Patreon (where you can now follow us for free)!
Support the show by shopping at www.getoutalivepodcast.com/shop
You can find Ashley @TheAngryOlogist on Twitter -
Ep. 72: Timothy Treadwell: Grizzly Man
Timothy Treadwell (aka Grizzly Man) was renowned for his extremely close relationships with the brown bears in Katmai National Park. He spent 13 summers living amongst the bears, and in his last 5 years got over 100 hours of footage of the bears and red foxes in the park. But his close relationship with the bears ultimately led to a fatal attack on him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard.
You can watch the documentary Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog on Amazon for free here.
If you'd like to learn more about bears, check out bearwise.org.
You can find the official incident report on the death of Timothy and Amie by the Department of the Interior here.Support the Show.Support the show for free by leaving a 5-star review wherever you're listening, or on GoodPods or Podchaser (where we can respond to your comments).
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, check out our website GetOutAlivePodcast.com and join us on Patreon (where you can now follow us for free)!
Support the show by shopping at www.getoutalivepodcast.com/shop
You can find Ashley @TheAngryOlogist on Twitter
Customer Reviews
Interesting
Nick really needs to stop using the F bomb every other word
My fav pod
This is by far my favorite podcast! I wait every other week for the new upload. I do really miss Nick, half of the reason I listen is because listening to Ashley and Nick feels like chatting with friends. Ashley is so incredibly educated about the biology of animals and comes to every episode extremely prepared and eager. Nick is just there for the ride which I absolutely love.
Great Podcast!
Informative and entertaining! The interviews with experts sets this podcast apart from other animal attack podcasts. The hosts are really good at highlighting their guests and not talking over them. I was interested in the early episodes on animal attack stories but the more recent episodes on broader issues have been my favorites!
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