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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
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