In this episode Rosa focuses on the Oxford Dodo, attempting to trace the life history of a bird whose only trace is a fragile head and foot in the Oxford University of Natural History. She unpacks some of the competing routes the bird might have taken – from being hunted and shipped from Mauritius to being kept in an urban menagerie. She also follows the afterlife of the museum object itself once again raising questions about the interconnections between power, possession, and knowledge. 

• Pitt Rivers Museum
• Oxford University Natural History Museum
• Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
• The Tradescants
• Murder most fowl: Oxford dodo 'shot in the back of the head'

 Credits:

• Recorded: 16 January 2024
• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Rosa Dyer, script writer, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, episode artwork and logo
• Gordon Clarke, bed music
• Other sound effects from Alice in wonderland Soundtrack, Epidemic Sound, Pixabay
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Rosa traces a Munduruku feather cap from Brazil to the museum case and discuss how tapirage was a process used to turned green parrots  feathers a blazing yellow by using frog toxins, dyes and time. Beauty and pain sit side by side as we weigh Indigenous innovation, care and the cost to animals.

• Pitt Rivers Museum

Credits:

• Recorded: 9 November 2023 Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Rosa Dyer, script writer, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, episode artwork and logo
• Gordon Clarke, bed music
• Other sound effects from BBC Sound Effects, Pixabay, Epidemic Sound
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In this Animal Highlight, fellow Virginia Thomas discusses the European Wild Cat and their entangled relationships with domesticated cats. She notes how the interbreeding between these two species has conservationists worried and has resulted in a range of, oftentimes, violent interventions into their animals’ lives.

Recorded: 12 October 2023 

 Featured: 

• S5E3: Feral and Invasive Species with Lauren van Patter on The Animal Turn.
• S6E4: Violence with Dinesh Wadiwel on The Animal Turn. 
• Scottish ‘Highland Tiger’ wildcat more endangered than Asian cousin on the BBC.
• Giraffe Marius slaughtered in Copenhagen Zoo, fed to lions on Euronews. 
• The Violent Conservation of the European Wildcat by Virginia Thomas

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, BBC, Euronews. 
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Virginia Thomas tells us about a red-tailed hawk named Pale Male who sparked controversy and admiration when he built his nest on a luxury Fifth Avenue apartment building in New York City. Pale Male is a celebrity whose story illuminates questions about animal habitat rights in urban environments.

Recorded: 12 October 2023 

 Featured: 

• Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Hal Herzog.
• S6E3: Moral Imagination and Habitat Rights with Steve Cooke on The Animal Turn.
• The Legend of Pale Male, a documentary.
• Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman.
• The Tale of Male by Jeanette Winter.
• Recognizing Pale Male by Virginia Thomas.

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, Legend of Pale Male Trailer
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Virginia Thomas introduces the red maguey worm; a caterpillar often mistakenly called the "tequila worm.” She explores their biology and ethical implications of using these metamorphosing creatures as novelty ‘items’ in alcoholic beverages.

Recorded: 18 September 2023 

 Featured: 

• Cosmopolitanism with Angie Pepper on The Animal Turn.
• Perdido Street Station by China Melville.
• The Life Cycle of Butterflies and Moths by Butterfly Conservation.
• Cosmopolitan 'Worms' by Virginia Thomas.

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, Pixabay, Internet Archive
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In this Animal Highlight, fellow Virginia Thomas focuses on the domestic dog and the ways in which they might be thought of as citizens. She thinks about some of dogs' history and discusses the work of Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka. 

Recorded: 18 September 2023 

 Featured: 

• Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rightsby Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka.
• Biosecurity with Steve Hinchliffe on The Animal Turn.
• Politics with Will Kymlicka on The Animal Turn.
• Cosmopolitanism with Angie Pepper on The Animal Turn.
• Canine Good Citizen with the American Kennel Club. 
• The biopolitics of animal being and welfare by Krithika Srinivasan.
• Domesticated Dogs as Citizens by Virginia Thomas.

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script writer, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects
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The last episode of Season 4 is a review of the season “Animals and Waste.” Herre de Bondt, Rebecca Shen, and Claudia Hirtenfelder touch on some of the common themes to emerge in the season. These include how animals are valued as well as the mobility and accumulation of waste. 

Recorded: 14 August 2024. 

Herre de Bondt has done research on rats in Amsterdam, crows in Tokyo, and gulls in The Hague. His work has now brought him to London where his PhD project is concerned with urban bird feeding practices. From hanging up fatballs for chirpy robins to tossing seed to flocks of ‘flying rats’, Herre is determined to investigate the inherently multispecies practice of bird feeding. He is particularly interested in the ways non-human animals inform and shape the contemporary city in collaboration with – and in defiance of – humans. You can connect with Herre via Twitter (@HerreBondt). 

Rebecca Shen is a landscape designer and researcher as well as an Assistant Content Producer and Designer at The Animal Turn. Rebecca is inspired by design as pursuits of worldmaking, especially to advance interspecies justice and collectivity during times of challenge. She graduated with a Master in Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2023, where she completed her design thesis, Sanctuary State: California’s Cowscape in Transition, which envisions the transformation of an 800-acre industrial “cattle” feedlot into a cow sanctuary, a site for interspecies confrontation, healing, and codesigning. Through her design work, Rebecca explores human-animal relationships in the built environment, ecological restoration, and regenerative food systems. You can find out more about Rebecca on her website or connect with her via email at beccshen@gmail.com. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this Highlight, Herre looks at how nuclear waste has impacted the lives of wild boars living in Japan. More specifically, he discusses how, following the 2011 triple disaster, boars responded to the departure of humans from the Fukushima area and how the animals are being impacted by their slow return.  

Recorded: 15 May 2024. 

 Featured: 

• Evaluation of DNA damage and stress in wildlife chronically exposed to low-dose, low-dose rate radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident by Kelly Cunningham et al.
• Fukushima Daiichi Accident on The World Nuclear Association. 
• Rewilding of Fukushima's human evacuation zone by Phillip C Lyons et al. 
• Disproportionately High Contributions of 60 Year Old Weapons-137Cs Explain the Persistence of Radioactive Contamination in Bavarian Wild Boars by Felix Stäger et al. 
• Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents’ Plans to Return Home on The New York Times. 
• The dogs of Chernobyl: Demographic insights into populations inhabiting the nuclear exclusion zone by Gabriella J. Spatola et al. 
• Rare look at the wildlife thriving in North Korea's DMZ on The Natural History Museum. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this episode Herre de Bondt discusses Singapore’s metropolitan macaques and how they use the city and its waste as a valuable resource that is not only important for their survival but contributes to the design of the city.

Recorded: 15 May 2024.

 Featured: 

• Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
• Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore by Barry W. Brook et al. 
• Characterizing human–macaque interactions in Singapore by Agustín Fuentes et al. 
• Macaque–human interactions and the societal perceptions of macaques in Singapore by John Chih Mun Sha et al. 
• Macaque too smart for anti-pilferage bin on The Dire Straits. 
• Macaquess high rise robbery on Tik Tok. 
• Waste is not “matter out of place” by Max Liboiron
• Monkeys at Northshore Drive on You Tube. 
• Waste, environmental politics and dis/engaged publics by Myra J Hird

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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When it comes to talking about waste and its impacts on animals it is hard to not think about plastic. In this episode, Herre de Bondt tells us how sea turtles have been entangled with the politics of plastic.

Recorded: 27 November 2023. 

 Featured: 

• Dave the Diver
• Sea Turtle with straw in nostril

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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Fiddler crabs, with their one giant claw, are considered ecosystem engineers in mangrove environments. Herre de Bondt gives us a glimpse into the world of these incredible crustaceans.

Recorded: 27 November 2023. 

 Featured: 

• Fiddler Crabs by Jochen Zeil et al. 
• Burrow-Morphological Characters of the Fiddler Crab and Ecological Correlates in a Lagoonal Beach on Pulau Hantu, Singapore by Shirley S. L. Lim and C. H. Diong.
• Effects of Fiddler Crab Burrows on Sediment Properties in the Mangrove Mudflats of Sungai Sepang, Malaysiaby Mohammad Mokhtari et al. 
• Contrasting Effects of Two Burrowing Crabs on Sediment Composition and Transport in Estuarine Environments by F. Botto and O. Iribarne.
• State of the World’s Mangroves by the Nature Conservancy. 
• Bigger is Better by National Geographic. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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House finches in Mexico City use discarded cigarette butts in the lining of their nests to fend of parasites, Herre de Bondt tells us more abut this interesting behaviour and some of its potentially worrisome impacts.

Recorded: 30 October 2023. 

 Featured: 

• All that breathes
• Lively Cities by Maan Barua.
• Killer Cities by Nigel Thrift.
• An experimental demonstration that house finches add cigarette butts in response to ectoparasites by Monserrat Suárez-Rodríguez, Constantino Macías Garcia. 
• Interacting effects of aromatic plants and female age on nest-dwelling ectoparasites and blood-sucking flies in avian nests by G Tomás et al. 
• Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe? By Monserrat Suárez-Rodríguez, Isabel López-Rull and Constantino Macías Garcia
• Smoking and Lung Cancer by Tonya Walser et al. 
• There is no such a thing as a free cigarette; lining nests with discarded butts brings short-term benefits, but causes toxic damage by M. Suárez-Rodríguez, C. Macías Garcia
• Mexico tightens ban on smoking in public places by Will Grant on the BBC

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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Using a feather fan as her base, Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. The object brings into focus the differences between indigenous mythologies and western ideas of hummingbirds and what the impacts of global trade were on how we understand them today. 

• Pitt Rivers Museum
• How hummingbird and vulture mediate between life and death in Latin America by Nicole Sault 
• The disguise of the hummingbird: on the natural history of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex Montero Sobrevilla 
•  The Hummingbird Warrior by Ze Frank 
• Animals and Experience on The Animal Turn. 
• Compassionate Conservation with Daniel Ramp on The Animal Turn
• Sonic Methods with Jonathan Prior on The Animal Turn

Credits:

• Recorded: 9 November 2023 
• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Rosa Dyer, script writer, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, episode artwork and logo
• Gordon Clarke, bed music
• Other sound effects from Freesound, Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive
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Wormeries are becoming increasingly popular in cities so in this episode Herre de Bondt considers a creature at the center of this trend, worms, and how their lives are entwined with practices of composting.

Recorded: 2 October 2023. 

 Featured: 

• Vermicomposting makes your garden grow on Homegrown
• Earthworms are more important than pandas (if you want to save the planet) by Sarah Johnson.
• Waste recycling: Utilization of coffee grounds and kitchen waste in vermicomposting by A.J. Adi and Z.M Moor. 
• Technical and user evaluation of a novel worm-based, on-site sanitation system in rural India by Claire Furlong et al. 
• Reactor performance and pathogen removal during wastewater treatment by vermifiltration by  Arora Sudipti Arora and A.A. Kazmi
• Urban Metabolism with Catherine Oliver on The Animal Turn.
• Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts by Daniel Boffey on The Guardian 
• Animal waste work. The case of urban sewage management in Sweden by Tora Holmberg. 
• Defending Animals by Kendra Coulter.
• Feeding the worms by Danusha Laméris. 

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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Herre de Bondt joins the show as a co-host of Season 4 of the Animal Highlight to discuss the intricate relationships of animals and waste. He kicks off the season looking at pigeons considering how urban waste impacts them, particularly their feet.

Recorded: 21 September 2023.

 Featured: 

• Unseen City by Nathanael Johnson.
• Urban pigeons losing toes due to human activities by Frédéric Jiguet et al. 
• Pigeon Rescue Netherlands
• London Pigeon Stringfoot and Rescue
• Interesting Pigeons on The Animal Highlight 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host 
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this highlight Amanda talks about jellyfish and the many ways in which they are thought to be transgressive potential threats to biosecurity. Amanda reminds us to try and thinking sensitively about creatures who seem vastly different to us and to also be amazed by the feats they can accomplish. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Jellyfish by Peter Williams; 
• March of the Jellies by Tamar Stelling; 
• Comparative genomics of mortal and immortal cnidarians novel keys behind rejuvenation by Maria Pascal-Torner; 
• Aging and longevity in the simplest animals and the quest for immortality by Ronald S. Petralia et al; 
• Immortal jellyfish genes identified that may explain their long lives by Jason Dinh; and 
• It’s all in the (Jellyfish) Family by Kalila Morsink.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this animal highlight Amanda talks about pangolins, one of the most trafficked animals in the world. She speaks about some of her concerns with One health flattening complexities before talking a bit about Stevie, a pangolin saved in South Africa. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Nicole Shukin, Animal Capital
• Stevie in a video on the Dodo rescued from the illegal wildlife trade
• Zimbabwe and Pangolins photoshoot
•  Helping to Save Pangolins from Extinction by Siew Choo, Sara Platto and W.S. Challender
• Coronavirus lockdowns increase poaching in Asia, Africa on AP News
• COVID-19 - A Blessing for Pangolins? on The Guardian
• What is a pangolin? on Save Pangolins. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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Thank you to the sponsors of the fifth season of The Animal Turn podcast, “Animals and Biosecurity,” where this animal highlight was originally aired 1 December 2022. They are: Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) and the

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 In this episode Amanda unpacks how brown bears in Ukraine and grizzly bears in Canada have been impacted by conflict and war. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast. 

Featured: 

• Bear by Robert E. Bieder 
• How are endangered bears escaping the Russian invasion of Ukraine? By Ben Anthony on Euro News. 
• Ukraine War: Situation and Support for Animals by Four Paws. 
• Bear Sanctuary Domazhyr 
• Grizzly Times Podcast. 
• Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia by Lauren H. Henson et al. 
• How Indigenous knowledge is helping to protect Canada’s grizzlies by Chloe Berge on The National Geographic. 
• How to Decolonize Conservation by Erica Gies in Hakai Magazine. 
• Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang 
• The Controversial Ski Resort that Will Never Exist by Megan Michelson. 
•  Qat’muk by Ktunaxa Nation 

Credits: 

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork) 
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer 

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Salmon are increasingly intensively farmed and implicated in biosecurity concerns, but they are also animals with amazing biological and social worlds who can achieve incredible feats pf strength and navigation. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Politics of Domestication with Chi Mao Wang on The Animal Turn.
• Shoalmates with Jonathan Balcombe on The Animal Turn. 
• What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe
• Super Fly by Jonathan Balcombe
• Kontihnawa:ra: Atlantic Salmon on Stones 
• Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky 
• Collective Navigation can Facilitate Passage Through Human-Made Barriers by Homeward Migrating Pacific Salmon by Connie Okasaki et al 
• Breeding with Farmed Fish is Changing the Life Cycle of Wild Salmon by Adam Vaughan
• Seaspiracy

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
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Amanda Bunten-Wahlberg considers the Lily and Lizzie, two pigs who were rescued from Smithfield farms and subsequently caught in the middle of a biosecurity drama. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Animal Farm Activism with Camille Labchuk on The Animal Turn.
• Luvin Arms Sanctuary
• The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigsby Lyall Watson.
• Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus by Lori Marino and Christina M Colvin.  
• Baby Pig Saved from Factory Farm is so Spoiled Now by Claire Elizabeth Alberts 
• Activists Acquitted in Trial for Taking Piglets from Smithfield Foods by Marina Bolotnikova 
• The Smithfield Piglet Case: Factory Farms and Civil Disobedience by Rachel Robison-Greene 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this animal highlight Amanda talks about one of the most tested on animals in the world, rats. She discusses how rats have been used in labs and the standardization of their experiences. She contrasts that with the rich lifeworlds of rats who live freely and in multispecies communities. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Epidemiological Dividual with Christs Lynteris on The Animal Turn.
• Animal Testing and its Alternatives with Thomas Hartung on The Animal Turn. 
• Pleasurable Kingdomby Jonthan Balcombe 
• Rat by Jonathan Burt. 
• Rats! Being Social Requires Empathy by Leesa Fawcett.
• Lady Bird Animal Sanctuary 
• Pests in the Cityby Dawn Day Biehler

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this episode Amanda Bunten-Walberg gives details into the diversity of mosquito worlds, meals, and physiologies. She focuses on mosquitos who rely on blood to live, unpacking some of the strategies and tactics they use to secure a meal. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Epidemiological Dividual with Christs Lynteris on The Animal Turn.
• Superfly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insectsby Jonthan Balcombe 
• Mosquitoby Richard Jones. 
• Mosquitos sound clips from Free Sound (662969) and Pixabay (105770)

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

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Amanda Bunten-Walberg tells us about the incredible diversity of crabs as well as some of their social and physiological characteristics. She focuses on the Green Crab, a species whose adaptability has often also meant they are labelled as invasive. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Feral and Invasive Species with Lauren van Patter on The Animal Turn.
• Crabby Cynthia Chris.
• Crabs: A Global Natural History by Peter Davie.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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We start Season 6 "Museum Collections/Objects" with Rosa Dyer looking at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. Rosa uses the museum object to ask questions about how different knowledge systems value animals. 

• Pitt Rivers Museum
• Sonic Specimen with Rachel Mundy on The Animal Turn. 
• The 1848 lithograph by John Gould 
• Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller J.G. Keulemans
• Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett
• 'Te Karanga a te Huia | The Call of the Huia', Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision by Sarah Johnston. 
• Huia come Home by Jay Ruka. 

Credits:

• Recorded: 7 November 2023 
• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Rosa Dyer, script writer, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, episode artwork and logo
• Gordon Clarke, bed music
• Other sound effects from BBC Sound Effects, Pixabay, and Epidemic Sound
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In this episode Amanda Bunten-Walberg tells Claudia all about bats, animals who have historically been persecuted as threats to biosecurity. Hoping to challenge this reductive way of understanding bats, Amanda talks about flying foxes, large fruit bats, noting how incredibly social and relatable they are. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Bioethics with Jeff Sebo on The Animal Turn.
• Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose 
• Bat by Tessa Laird.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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Amanda Bunten-Walberg joins Claudia to discuss animals and biosecurity. In the first episode of the season she talks about turkeys, animals who are often implicated in biosecurity threats but who – when given the opportunity – live richly textured lives. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Sonic Specimen with Rachel Mundy on The Animal Turn.
• More than a Meal by Karen Davis
• The Secret Lives of Turkeys by Alan Krakauer
• The Wild Turkey by A.W. Schorger
• VINE Sanctuary 
• Facebook post about Mama-T 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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Hannah Hunter unpacks the seismic and infrasonic communication of elephants who produce and listen to sounds beyond human ranges. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Grad Review with Bailey Hilgren and Hannah Hunter on The Animal Turn.
• Silent Thunder: in the presence of elephants by Katharine Payne. 
• How Elephants Listen…With Their Feet by PBS. 
• The Secret Lives of Elephants by Caitlin O'Connell.
• The elephant listening project at Cornell.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this this episode Hannah Hunter discusses how orb weaver spiders and ogre faced spiders make use of impressive sonic strategies to hunt. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Time in the Field with Denise Herzing on The Animal Turn.
• Outsourced hearing in an orb-weaving spider that uses its web as an auditory sensor by Jian Zhou et al. 
• Ogre-Faced, Net-Casting Spiders Use Auditory Cues to Detect Airborne Prey by Jay A. Stafstrom et al. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this this episode Hannah Hunter unpacks some cool detail about butterflies sonic communication. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Sonic Specimen with Rachel Mundy on The Animal Turn.
• Sound Production and Hearing the Blue Cracker Butterfly  by Jayne Yack et al.
• Bat Communication with Gloriana Chaverri on The Animal Turn.
• The Sound of Millions of Monarch Butterflies by Phil Torres and the Jungle Diaries

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this this episode Hannah Hunter tells us about pistol shrimps, one of the loudest and most powerful animals in the ocean. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• S4E07: Republic of Noise with Jeremy Gordon on The Animal Turn.
• The Noisiest Guys on the Planet by Jana Winderen
• Project Power, a film with Jamie Foxx 

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this this episode we talk about dolphins, some of the sounds they make, and their sophisticated means of communication. This season Hannah Hunter joins Claudia as the co-host of The Animal Highlight, teaching us all about “Animals and Sound.” This season was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast. 

 Featured: 

• S4E05: Voice with Eva Meijer on The Animal Turn.

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this this episode we talk about coyotes. Also known as song dogs and tricksters, coyotes have impressive vocal repertoires. This season Hannah Hunter joins Claudia as the co-host of The Animal Highlight, teaching us all about “Animals and Sound.” This season was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast. 

 Featured: 

• S4E05: Animal Music with Martin Ullrich on The Animal Turn.
• (Re)Storying the More-Than-Human City: Urban Coyotes in Canada by Lauren van Patter. 
• Coyote vocalizations: A lexicon and comparisons with other canids by Philip N. Lehner. 
• Chorus Howling by Wolves: Acoustic Structure, Pack Size, and the Beau Geste Effect by Fred Harrington. 
• Do You Hear What I Hear? Human Perception of Coyote Group Size by Kyle Brewster et al. 

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this this episode we talk about ivory-billed woodpeckers and how a 1935 recording of them raises questions about whether they are extinct. This season Hannah Hunter joins Claudia as the co-host of The Animal Highlight, teaching us all about “Animals and Sound.” This season was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast. 

 Featured: 

• S4E04: Sound Archives with Cheryl Tipp on The Animal Turn.
• Recording of the Ivory Bill Woodpecker by Arthur Allen.
• Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge by Hannah Hunter.
• “The Woodpecker” by Gerard Gorman.

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this this episode we talk about indri lemurs and their interesting sounds and rhythms. In this season Hannah Hunter joins Claudia as the co-host of The Animal Highlight, teaching us all about “Animals and Sound.” This season was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast. 

 Featured: 

• Bioacoustics with Mickey Vallee on The Animal Turn. 
• Indri Lemur sound recording by  Mark H. Barsamian and Macaulay Library at the Cornell lab of Ornithology. 
• Giant Lemurs are the First Mammals beside us found to use Rhythm by Jack Tamisiea. 

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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Fierce, controversial, and caught between worlds—Heck cattle embody the complex intersection of dark history and modern conservation. This final episode of Season 5 of the Animal Highlight explores how these bovines were deliberately bred by Nazi zoologists in the 1920s and now find themselves at the center of rewilding debates across Europe.

Recorded: 14 December 2023 

 Featured: 

• Season 6 Grad Review on The Animal Turn
• The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 by Kathryn Gillespie 
• From “Nazi Cows” to Cosmopolitan “Ecological Engineers” by Jamie Lorimer and Clemens Driessen
• Conceptualizing the multispecies triadby Andrea Petitt 
• American Cows in Antarctica by Elizabeth Leane and Hanne Nielsen

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, xeno canto: https://xeno-canto.org/species/milvus-milvus  
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In this this episode we talk about bark beetles who navigate ultrasonic worlds and tell us something about the internal soundscapes of trees.  In this season Hannah Hunter joins Claudia as the co-host of The Animal Highlight, teaching us all about “Animals and Sound.” This season was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast. 

 Featured: 

• S4E02: Sonic Methods with Jonathan Prior on The Animal Turn
• “The sound of light in trees” By David Dunn

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this season Hannah Hunter joins Claudia as the co-host of The Animal Highlight, teaching us all about “Animals and Sound.” This season was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast. In this this episode we talk about nightingales, who have been described as ‘illegally loud.’ 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Hannah Hunter, co-host
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this final episode, Claudia briefly talks about an animal who has been implied throughout the season, humans.  The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.” 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In this episode, Claudia Hirtenfelder talks about ants and the numerous ways they build, urbanize, and collaborate. The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.” 

 Featured: 

• Secret Megalopolis of Ants Uncovered
• Michelle Westerlaken on The Animal Turn. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
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In episode eight, Claudia Hirtenfelder talks about squirrels and how they use deception and their incredible memories to bury and find nuts across urban spaces. The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.” 

 Featured: 

• The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States by Etienne Benson.
• Backyard Squirrel Maze 1.0 – Ninja Warrior Course by Mark Rober.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 20 April 2021.

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In episode seven, Claudia Hirtenfelder talks about leopards, a predator who is increasingly found in urban areas. The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.” 

 Featured: 

• Leopards stalking and hunting pigs on the outskirts of Bombay by BBC
• Urban Leopard Search by National Geographic
• Crooked Cats Beastly Encounters in the  Anthropocene by Nayanika Mathur
• The Animal Turn "Animal Highlights (Animals and The Urban)" Playlist on Youtube. 

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 20 April 2021.

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In episode six, Claudia Hirtenfelder makes an argument for why cows should be thought of as urban animals who have varied experiences.The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.” 

 Featured: 

• The afterlives of the lively commodity: Life-worlds, death-worlds, rotting-worlds by Kathryn Gillespie
• Floating Farm Rotterdam
• The Union Stock Yards
• Ankole
• Cow plays with Pilates ball by Kinder World
• The Animal Turn "Animal Highlights (Animals and The Urban)" Playlist on Youtube. 

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

 Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 28 April 2021.

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 In episode five, Claudia Hirtenfelder reads an excerpt about urban chickens and reflects on how dynamic and complex they are. The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.”

 Featured: 

• I thought my father was God, edited by Paul Auster.
• The Animal Turn "Animal Highlights (Animals and The Urban)" Playlist on Youtube. 

 Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

 
Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 3 May 2021.

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In episode four, Claudia Hirtenfelder reads an excerpt about dogs from Alexandra Horowitz’s “On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation” which marvels at dog’s smelling capacities and how it shapes their experiences of an urban block. The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.”  

 Featured: 

• Pests in the City by Dawn Day Biehler 
• On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation by Alexandra Horowitz
• The Animal Turn "Animal Highlights (Animals and The Urban)" Playlist on Youtube. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

 Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 31 March 2021.

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 In episode three, Claudia Hirtenfelder reads an excerpt about rats from Dawn Day Biehler’s “Pests in the City.”  The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.” 

 Featured: 

• Pests in the City by Dawn Day Biehler 
• The Animal Turn "Animal Highlights (Animals and The Urban)" Playlist on Youtube. 

Team Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

Sound Credits:

• Book page turning, Freesound.org
• Rat smelling, Freesound.org
• Dog barking, Freesound.org
• Scurrying, Happy PonyTail
• Gnawing wood, Animal Net
• Sound of walking up creaking steps, Freesound.org
• Bucket tipping over and light switching on, recorded by Christiaan Mentz 

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• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
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Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 29 March 2021.

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Virginia explores how the recovery of red kites in Britain has been shaped by international efforts and cross-border collaborations between governments and NGOs. Thinking about these birds, Virginia raises questions and concerns about translocation, culture, and species conservation. 

Recorded: 14 December 2023

 Featured: 

• International Relations with Andrea Schapper on The Animal Turn
• Natural England
• Royal Society for Protection of Birds  
• Animal Culture with Carl Safinaon The Animal Turn
• Bears on Displayat Queen’s University

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, xeno canto: https://xeno-canto.org/species/milvus-milvus  
• Learn more about the team here. 

Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
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 In episode two, Claudia Hirtenfelder talks a little about pigeons fascinating histories and physiologies. The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.” 

 Featured: 

• Why Cities have so many pigeons by Insider Science
• 3 Odd Facts about Pigeons by SciShow
• National Geographic: Pigeon Genius by National Geographic
• The Global Pigeon by Colin Jerolmack
• The Animal Turn "Animal Highlights (Animals and The Urban)" Playlist on Youtube. 

Team Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here. 

Sound Credits: 

• Pigeons cooing and bird flapping sounds, Freesound.org 
• Bird pecking sounds, Freesound.org 
• Why cities have so many pigeons, Insider Science
• Pigeon Genius, National Geographic

Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 15 March 2021

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 The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast. Season 1 is focused on “Animals and The Urban.”  In episode one, Claudia Hirtenfelder gives a brief highlight of crows offering some snippets into what makes them amazing.

Featured: 

• TED Talks - The Amazing Intelligence of Crows.
• Wild crows inhabiting the city use it to their advantage - David Attenborough - BBC wildlife
• The Animal Turn "Animal Highlights (Animals and The Urban)" Playlist on Youtube. 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host.
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer.
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork).
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer.
• Learn more about the team here. 

Support the podcast via:

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

Sponsor:

• Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics sponsored the season of The Animal Turn Podcast where these highlights were originally aired. Originally Aired/Recorded: 1 March 2021.

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Virginia tells us how grey wolves are reclaiming territories across Europe and North America through a process known as auto-rewilding—autonomously returning to lands from which humans once drove them out. This powerful expression of nonhuman agency challenges our conventional approach to wildlife management and invites us to reconsider what coexistence means in the Anthropocene.

Recorded: 22 November 2023 

 Featured: 

• S6E8: Re-Animalization with Krithika Srinivasan on The Animal Turn
• Re-animalising wellbeing: Multispecies justice after development by Krithika Srinivasan
• Respecting Nature’s Autonomy in Relationship with Humanity by Ned Hettinger

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, We Animals Media, NBC News Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbsuGGWUrM 
• Learn more about the team here. 

Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

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In this Animal Highlight, fellow Virginia Thomas uses one of Jo-Anne McArthur’s images as her inspiration. She compares and contrasts the lives of mink kept for fur with those of wild mink before reflecting on some of the ethical and environmental concerns that emerge from using mink for fur.

Recorded: 12 October 2023 

 Featured: 

• S6E7: Animal Photojournalism with Jo-Anne McArthur on The Animal Turn. 
• We Animals Media
• Covid Outbreaks On Mink Farms Stir Controversy Among Scientists on NBC News NOW
• American Mink and the Cost of Fur by Virginia Thomas. 

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, We Animals Media, NBC News Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbsuGGWUrM 
• Learn more about the team here. 

Support the podcast via: 

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn 
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn 
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/ 

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