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The Animal Highlight

Claudia Hirtenfelder

Set around specific themes, The Animal Highlight offers glimpses into the wonderful and complex worlds of animals. This is a spinoff of The Animal Turn Podcast, a podcast that unpacks important concepts in animal studies.

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15:41

S3E8: Harmed Bears

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/09/03

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 geogra...

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16:29

S3E7: Navigating Salmon

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/08/20

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 BalcombeSuper Fly by Jonathan BalcombeK...

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13:08

S3E6: Lily and Lizzie

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/08/13

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 SanctuaryThe Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigsby Lyall Watson.Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus ...

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15:19

S3E5: Resourceful Rats

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/08/06

Send us a Text Message.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 ...

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14:52

S3E4: Masterful Mosquitos

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/07/23

Send us a Text Message.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 Jo...

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S3E3: Manifold Crabs

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/07/16

Send us a Text Message.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...

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12:55

S3E2: Flying Foxes

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/07/09

Send us a Text Message.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 Exuberanc...

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S3E1: Textured Turkeys

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/07/02

Send us a Text Message.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 DavisThe Secret Lives of Turkeys by Alan Krakau...

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10:21

S2E10: Seismic Elephants

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/05/28

Send us a Text Message.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 ...

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11:26

S2E9: Sonic Spiders

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/05/21

Send us a Text Message.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 Auditor...

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11:14

S2E8: Aural Butterflies

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/05/14

Send us a Text Message.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 Tor...

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7:47

S2E7 - Powerful Pistol Shrimp

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/05/07

Send us a Text Message.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 WinderenProject Power, a film with Jamie Foxx Credits:Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host Hannah Hunt...

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S2E6: Deciphering Dolphins

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/04/30

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S2E5: Amplified Coyotes

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/04/23

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S2E4: Recorded Ivory-billed Woodpeckers

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2024/04/16

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S2E3: Rhythmic Indri Lemurs

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/04/09

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S2E2: Ultrasonic Bark Beetles

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/04/05

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S2E1 - Noisy Nightingales

The Animal Highlight ·

2024/04/02

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S1E10 - Implied Humans

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2024/03/29

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S1E9 - Urban Ants

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2024/03/29

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