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 feet.

Recorded: 21 September 2023.

Featured:

• Unseen City by Nathanael Johnson.
• Urban pigeons losing toes due to human activities by Frédéric Jiguet et al.
• Pigeon Rescue Netherlands
• London Pigeon Stringfoot and Rescue
• Interesting Pigeons on The Animal Highlight

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• 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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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 geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia by Lauren H. Henson et al.
• How Indigenous knowledge is helping to protect Canada’s grizzlies by Chloe Berge on The National Geographic.
• How to Decolonize Conservation by Erica Gies in Hakai Magazine.
• Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
• The Controversial Ski Resort that Will Never Exist by Megan Michelson.
• Qat’muk by Ktunaxa Nation

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-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 th

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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 Balcombe
• Super Fly by Jonathan Balcombe
• Kontihnawa:ra: Atlantic Salmon on Stones
• Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky
• Collective Navigation can Facilitate Passage Through Human-Made Barriers by Homeward Migrating Pacific Salmon by Connie Okasaki et al
• Breeding with Farmed Fish is Changing the Life Cycle of Wild Salmon by Adam Vaughan
• Seaspiracy

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-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.

Support the podcast via:

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn
• Buzzsprout: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/

Sponsor:

Thank you to the sponsors of the fifth season of The Animal Turn podcast, “Animals and Biosecurity,” where this animal highlight was originally a

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