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S7E1: Multispecies Health with Guillem Rubio-Ramon and Krithika Srinivasan

The Animal Turn 5 November 2024

Guillem Rubio-Ramon and Krithika Srinivasan join Claudia to kick of Season 7 which is focused on “multispecies health.” They discuss human-dog relations and how multispecies health involves components of care, indifference and violence.  Date Recorded: 7 June 2024.  Guillem Rubio-Ramonis a Research Associate in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. His …continue

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S4E6: Metropolitan Macaques

The Animal Turn 5 November 2024

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 DouglasCatastrophic extinctions follow …continue

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Bonus: Exploring Dog Cognition with Alexandra Horowitz

The Animal Turn 3 November 2024

Claudia talks to scientist and author, Alexandra Horowitz about dogs’ cognition. They discuss everything from dogs’ sense of smell and capacity to play to how anthropomorphisms sometimes skew human understandings of what dogs are doing.  Date Recorded: 15 August 2024  Alexandra Horowitz heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, where she …continue

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S4E5: Entangled Sea Turtles

The Animal Turn 28 October 2024

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 ben entangled with the politics of plastic. Recorded: 27 November 2023.  Featured: Dave the DiverSea Turtle with straw in nostril Credits:Claudia …continue

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S4E4 – Engineering Fiddler Crabs

The Animal Turn 21 October 2024

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 …continue

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S4E3 – Pre-Emptive House Finches

The Animal Turn 14 October 2024

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 breathesLively Cities by Maan Barua.Killer Cities by Nigel Thrift.An …continue

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Bonus: Animals in Media

The Animal Turn 9 October 2024

Bonus: Animals in MediaTogether with Arukah Animal International, The Animal Turn co-hosted a panel discussion focused on “Animals in Media”. Using a video about animalized hierarchies in contagion films as a prompt, Claire Parkinson, Susan McHugh, and Tobias Linné engaged in an open-ended about media, representation, power, and activism. Date …continue