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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
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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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• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/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 31 October 2022. They are:

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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.

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 aired 16 August 2022. They are:

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

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