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.
Podcasting since 2024 • 29 episodes
The Animal Highlight
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S4E1: Stringed Pigeons
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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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18:31
S3E8: Harmed Bears
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
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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15:41
S3E7: Navigating Salmon
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 aire...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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16:29
S3E6: Lily and Lizzie
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
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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13:08
S3E5: Resourceful, Respectable Rats
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 wh...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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15:19
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