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In this episode Amanda Bunten-Walberg gives details into the diversity of mosquito worlds, meals, and physiologies. She focuses on mosquitos who rely on blood to live, unpacking some of the strategies and tactics they use to secure a meal. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Epidemiological Dividual with Christs Lynteris on The Animal Turn.
• Superfly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insectsby Jonthan Balcombe
• Mosquitoby Richard Jones.
• Mosquitos sound clips from Free Sound (662969) and Pixabay (105770)

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.

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Amanda Bunten-Walberg tells us about the incredible diversity of crabs as well as some of their social and physiological characteristics. She focuses on the Green Crab, a species whose adaptability has often also meant they are labelled as invasive. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Feral and Invasive Species with Lauren van Patter on The Animal Turn.
• Crabby Cynthia Chris.
• Crabs: A Global Natural History by Peter Davie.

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.

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In this episode Amanda Bunten-Walberg tells Claudia all about bats, animals who have historically been persecuted as threats to biosecurity. Hoping to challenge this reductive way of understanding bats, Amanda talks about flying foxes, large fruit bats, noting how incredibly social and relatable they are. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Bioethics with Jeff Sebo on The Animal Turn.
• Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose
• Bat by Tessa Laird.

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.

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Amanda Bunten-Walberg joins Claudia to discuss animals and biosecurity. In the first episode of the season she talks about turkeys, animals who are often implicated in biosecurity threats but who – when given the opportunity – live richly textured lives. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Sonic Specimen with Rachel Mundy on The Animal Turn.
• More than a Meal by Karen Davis
• The Secret Lives of Turkeys by Alan Krakauer
• The Wild Turkey by A.W. Schorger
• VINE Sanctuary
• Facebook post about Mama-T

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.

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• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn
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Thank you to the sponsors of the fifth season of The Animal Turn podcast, “Animals and Biosecurity,” where this animal highlight was originally aired 21 September 2022. They are:

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Hannah Hunter unpacks the seismic and infrasonic communication of elephants who produce and listen to sounds beyond human ranges. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Grad Review with Bailey Hilgren and Hannah Hunter on The Animal Turn.
• Silent Thunder: in the presence of elephants by Katharine Payne.
• How Elephants Listen…With Their Feet by PBS.
• The Secret Lives of Elephants by Caitlin O'Connell.
• The elephant listening project at Cornell.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host
• Hannah Hunter, 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.

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• Thank you to the sponsors of the fourth season of The Animal Turn podcast, “Animals and Sound,” where this animal highlight was originally aired 2 May 2022. They are

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In this this episode Hannah Hunter discusses how orb weaver spiders and ogre faced spiders make use of impressive sonic strategies to hunt. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Time in the Field with Denise Herzing on The Animal Turn.
• Outsourced hearing in an orb-weaving spider that uses its web as an auditory sensor by Jian Zhou et al.
• Ogre-Faced, Net-Casting Spiders Use Auditory Cues to Detect Airborne Prey by Jay A. Stafstrom et al.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host
• Hannah Hunter, 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.

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• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn
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Thank you to the sponsors of the fourth season of The Animal Turn podcast, “Animals and Sound,” where this animal highlight was originally aired 23 March 2022

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In this this episode Hannah Hunter unpacks some cool detail about butterflies sonic communication. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Sonic Specimen with Rachel Mundy on The Animal Turn.
• Sound Production and Hearing the Blue Cracker Butterfly by Jayne Yack et al.
• Bat Communication with Gloriana Chaverri on The Animal Turn.
• The Sound of Millions of Monarch Butterflies by Phil Torres and the Jungle Diaries

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host
• Hannah Hunter, 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.

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• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TheAnimalTurn
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theanimalturn
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• Thank you to the sponsors of the fourth season of The Animal Turn podcast, “Animals and Sound,” where this animal highlight was originally aired 10 March 2022.

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In this this episode Hannah Hunter tells us about pistol shrimps, one of the loudest and most powerful animals in the ocean. This season is all about “Animals and Sound” and was extracted from Season 4 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• S4E07: Republic of Noise with Jeremy Gordon on The Animal Turn.
• The Noisiest Guys on the Planet by Jana Winderen
• Project Power, a film with Jamie Foxx

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host
• Hannah Hunter, 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 fourth season of The Animal Turn podcast, “Animals and Sound,” where this animal highlight was originally aired 9 February 2022.

The Animal Highlight is a spinoff and sister podcast to the award winning show, the Animal Turn Podcast.

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