S3E2: Flying Foxes

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 (www.theanimalt...) .
Featured:
• Bioethics with Jeff Sebo (www.theanimalt...) on The Animal Turn.
• Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril (edinburghunive...) by Deborah Bird Rose
• Bat (press.uchicago...) by Tessa Laird.
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• 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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[@PaulG.x]

Good work
Save the bats
Videos of the behaviours mentioned in this talk can be searched for in UA-cam.
"Baby bat massage" "bat belly dipping" "bat steals milk bottle" etc

[@theanimalturn]

Thanks for the tip Paul!