S1E5: Dynamic Chickens

 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. 

 
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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: 3 May 2021.

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Transcript

00:00 - Introduction 

• This first season animals and the urban and is extracted from Season 3 of The Animal Turn Podcast.  
• In today’s highlight we are focusing on chickens. 
• Thank you to Catherine Oliver for being a great guest on The Animal Turn. 

01:20 – An excerpt about chickens

• I thought my father was God, edited by Paul Auster

 ““The Chicken: As I was walking down Stanton Street early one Sunday morning, I saw a chicken a few yards ahead of me. I was walking faster than the chicken, so I gradually caught up. By the time we approached Eighteenth Avenue, I was close behind. The chicken turned south on Eighteenth. At the fourth house along, it turned in at the walk, hopped up the front steps, and rapped sharply on the metal storm door with its beak. After a moment, the door opened and the chicken went in. (Linda Elegant, Portland, Oregon)”

02:19 – Facts about dog

• Chickens are really intelligent and live complex social lives
• They can remember north of 100 individual faces and have over 24 vocalizations. 
• Chickens are the closest living relative to the T-Rex.
• They enjoy dust baths and are excellent mothers.
• They can live to be 11 years old but are killed at roughly 40 days in industrial operations. 

03:19 – Credits 

• “A huge thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics for sponsoring The Animal Turn Podcast, where these clips were taken from. To Christiaan Mentz for editing this episode. Thank you also goes to Rebecca Shen for designing the Animal Highlight logo and episode art work.”

Show notes compiled by Claudia Hirtenfelder