#182 - Susan Orlean on ON ANIMALS

New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Susan Orlean chats with Trey Elling about ON ANIMALS. Questions include:

• Why does she feel a lifelong connection with animals? (01:10)
• Why is she most interested in animals that straddle the line between domesticated and wild? (03:03)
• How does someone get comfortable enough with a lion to keep it as a pet? (14:54)
• What impresses her most about mules? (19:32)
• Why are rabbits the only animals we keep as pets and also readily eat? (25:12)