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The Animal Highlight
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.
The Animal Highlight
Latest Episodes
S7E4: Koi Fish and Captivity
We follow koi fish from garden ponds to the global ornamental fish trade in Singapore, and we consider the impacts of treating these animals as “living jewels.” The episode discusses the social lives and vulnerability of Koi and raises bigger q...
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S7E3: The Territorial Claims of Singapore’s Otters
In this episode we trace the conservation success story of Singapore’s otters and how their territorial claims to urban space raise important questions about ethics in a city shaped by people. We follow the Otter Wars, the role of citizen scien...
S7E2: Opportunistic Monitor Lizards in the City
A lizard who looks like a small dinosaur steps out of the water a few metres from a footpath, and suddenly “urban nature” stops being an abstract idea. We’re talking about Singapore’s Asian water monitor, one of the island’s largest terrestrial...
S7E1: Hornbills in a Garden City
A wild bird disappears for 140 years, then returns to one of the most urbanised places on Earth, not by accident, but because a city changes its mind about what nature is allowed to be. That’s the story we’re starting with as we launch a Singap...
S6E8: A Review of Museum Collections and Objects
Herre de Bondt and Rebecca Shen are back on the show to discuss Rosa Dyer’s season “Animal Collections/’Objects”. We delve into some of the key themes and tensions to emerge in the season including questions of value, colonization, ethics, and ...
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