<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Animal Turn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Animal Turn]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:26:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Howling and prowling celebrities: Bram the wolf and the role of media stories]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Here rests the wolf” reads a white sign with bold, black letters that a local Extinction Rebellion activist hammered into the sandy soil of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the Netherlands on the 17th of August 2025 when dozens of activists marched to protest against the hunt for Bram, a wolf recently declared a ‘safety risk’.  Despite wolves being a protected in the Netherlands, hunters were given permission to kill Bram and in December 2025 they were successful. This entry considers some of the...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/howling-and-prowling-celebrities-bram-the-wolf-and-the-role-of-media-stories</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f38378533c8cdf2db3a5ad</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_bbbc02d4d9ee4f0380da85edb6764bf3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living collections and the Moo-Deng phenomenon ]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are continuing this series looking at the relationships between animals, objects and museums with our next celebrity animal highlight. All of the highlights have been centred around particular kinds of museum spaces, that is, ethnographic or natural history museums. This has meant that so far we’ve mostly focused on animal-objects that have necessitated the animal dying for us to encounter them, because most specimens in these kinds of museums are no longer living (although of course we...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-collections-and-the-moo-deng-phenomenon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">686d2c7bf9ac2b19628db69d</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fa3429_0a53fab06a0e4359a53099e7827390cb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rosa Dyer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal Gaze on-XR: An encounter between humans and nonhuman animals, arriving from different timelines to see our present as tomorrow’s history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Animal Gaze on-XR is a virtual speculative archive exhibition based on the original narrative of the physical exhibition of the same name (Animal Gaze) held in Istanbul (Türkiye) in 2023. It features multimedia artworks (some digitized from physical art, and others created digitally) by eleven participating artists from Türkiye, Canada, the US and Germany. This collaboration between the Animal Gaze Project (AGP) and on-XR follows the same background story and conceptual limitations that...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/animal-gaze-on-xr-an-encounter-between-humans-and-nonhuman-animals-arriving-from-different-timelin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69eb4a5cd06bed7d1aa36072</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_1bb65013f71b4f9f90c77a0eac3cac1b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ece Nada</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Day of Attention: On Commemoration and Animal Testing]]></title><description><![CDATA[April 24 marks World Day for Laboratory Animals. Established in 1979 by the National Anti-Vivisection Society, it is celebrated annually with marches and events around the world that call for something both simple and difficult: that we confront a practice that many would prefer to ignore.]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-day-of-attention-on-commemoration-and-animal-testing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69eb2915d06bed7d1aa3166c</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:56:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_b277c318a4b24c91a426d783102f4038~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_857,h_841,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Carlo Salzani </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spectacular plumage and feather heists ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome back to the Animal Highlights! Today we are continuing our tour of the world of animals and museums. This episode moves us a bit away from animal-objects displayed in the public areas of museums, and instead we are moving “back-stage” to the world of natural history museum research collections.  I’ve chosen this topic because I think when we talk about museums some people have an image that the objects on display to the public represent most of what the museum has as a collection....]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectacular-plumage-and-feather-heists</link><guid isPermaLink="false">686be9f3f059c4d584dabe05</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:35:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_b0171de57526485da2eaf016f639ecca~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rosa Dyer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Munching moths and parasitoid wasps]]></title><description><![CDATA[So far we’ve focused on specific objects housed in museum collections which use animal bodies. Last episode, when we were discussing the life and afterlife of the Oxford dodo, we talked a little bit about the processes of degradation which museum objects often go through in their museum lives. Despite our best efforts, objects, particularly those made from organic materials, are often susceptible to processes of decay. This got me thinking more about what factors might cause animal objects to...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/munching-moths-and-parasitoid-wasps</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6866974a313711f211ed37c2</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fa3429_28350c7c300144bd943960ff85df4c4b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rosa Dyer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surplus Lives: When Conservation Has Too Many Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is something almost admirable about the clarity of the announcement: in March 2026, Zürich Zoo euthanized ten healthy gelada baboons . Not sick, not dying, not suffering – just inconveniently “too many.” The official explanation gestures toward “tensions in the group” and a “lack of space” elsewhere, as if the animals themselves had irresponsibly overbooked their accommodations. One might almost forget that every aspect of their existence – breeding, grouping, enclosure size – is...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/surplus-lives-when-conservation-has-too-many-animals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d641e989f9e676eca0af8e</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:01:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_5cd19b9695834822a9dc275b7f865bb4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Carlo Salzani </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragmented biography of the Oxford Dodo]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are taking a bit of a different direction with today’s animal-object, but I think you are going to find it exciting as it even includes a bit of an animal murder mystery element! In the previous episodes in this series I’ve mostly spoken about animal-objects on a species level. However, I’ve been a bit conscious while writing these episodes, (and this has been an ongoing question within my PhD research in general) that while a lot can be gained from thinking about the objects at a species...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fragmented-biography-of-the-oxford-dodo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68668f235312404dc7cda652</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_383069394772414544586f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rosa Dyer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parrots, frogs and colour-changing feathers ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome back to this series of Animal Highlights, where we are taking inspiration from animals in museums. This week we are thinking about how objects in museums can also be considered “multi-specied assemblages”. Multi-species ethnography is as approach that has fairly recently been developed in fields like anthropology. When applied specifically to museum collections, a multi-species approach allows us to think about objects not just as cultural artefacts, but as material representations of...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots-frogs-and-colour-changing-feathers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68651cc9b1175d679ccb5f0d</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:07:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fa3429_4cf718d03cc44dbea0ccbeda56cce636~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rosa Dyer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hummingbirds: Warrior birds and feathered jewels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the second episode of this Animal Highlights series where we are exploring the theme of animals, collecting and museums. I’m really excited about this week’s episode because we are focusing on one of my favourite animals, hummingbirds! These tiny, fierce birds are some of the most beautiful and iconic animals found in the Americas, and they understandably have been a focus of fascination, mythology and art for many cultures across the world. In this episode we talk about...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/hummingbirds-warrior-birds-and-feathered-jewels</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6863f7884983e8e660a02bf4</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:07:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fa3429_0e7ea389492c442f82a26b98059d38c1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rosa Dyer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Extinction of the Huia: Birds, Museums and Global Commodification ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to a new Animal Highlights series, where we are exploring relationships between animals, collecting and museums. A lot of this series is based on my doctoral research, which explores bird and human stories through feathered objects in museum collections. By focusing on objects in natural history and world culture museums throughout this series, Claudia and I will think about how certain animals, their bodies and afterlives have been collected, catalogued and encased for the viewing...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-extinction-of-the-huia-birds-museums-and-global-commodification</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6863b3dd2f82569b175bf161</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:38:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fa3429_c101d904ea56471d820e9ba14bcff678~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_735,h_920,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rosa Dyer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget Veganuary, Buy an Indulgence: How to Eat Meat, Pay Cash, and Call It Ethics]]></title><description><![CDATA[FarmKind’s  new campaign, charmingly titled  “ Forget Veganuary, ”  arrives with the air of a bold realist crashing an idealist party. The message is disarmingly soothing: relax, nobody is asking you to stop eating meat. Just keep doing what you’re doing, send some money to animal welfare charities, and voilà—moral crisis resolved. Veganism, we are told, is too demanding, too alienating, too pure. What we really need is a pragmatic compromise, one that allows us to care deeply about animals...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/forget-veganuary-buy-an-indulgence-how-to-eat-meat-pay-cash-and-call-it-ethics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69543d0f4158de223fa305b8</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:24:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_381cc7de97a644ac97b3083ec18cb757~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Carlo Salzani </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inclusive Understandings of Street Dogs and Health]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Season 7 of The Animal Turn podcast, focused on Animals and Health , the lives of free-roaming dogs in India was often used as a fulcrum around which to think about multispecies health and questions of justice. Many of the interviewees who appeared on the show challenged established conceptions of how humans and dogs interact and advocated for more inclusive understandings of how street dogs shape the geography, history, and ecology of Indian cities. Through analyzing British documents in...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/inclusive-understandings-of-street-dogs-and-health</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ffa6dfc6c41f853f1f35ad</guid><category><![CDATA[Episode Description]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:12:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_8f8480a1dc4b4fe3b6181f65713a45f8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Complex Relationship Between Humans and Baboons]]></title><description><![CDATA[In preparation for an upcoming episode on The Animal Turn , I have just finished reading The Lion’s Historian . This brilliant book by Sandra Swart traces the trajectories of animals’ histories in South Africa. She discusses the myths around lions, the extinction of the quagga, and the making of police dogs. In her final chapter, she discusses baboons and the long entanglement of human-baboon relations. Swart notes the tightly knit relations between humans and baboons in southern Africa....]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-loss-of-12</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6889e1e7785ea520b89bf99b</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:26:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_58dc9ddceb5e4b81b17edada14c5f974~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_665,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Claudia Hirtenfelder</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Matter of Leashed Concern: Dogs' Health with Jessica Pierce]]></title><description><![CDATA[What started out as a difficult conversation about the inevitability of a dog’s death gradually turned into a discussion on how dogs and humans can live better. In the last interview episode of season 7, Claudia talks with philosopher and bioethicist Jessica Pierce about their experiences of living with dogs and how to give meaning to multispecies cohabitation]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-matter-of-leashed-concern-dogs-health-with-jessica-pierce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">687f60f083d12f900615ce57</guid><category><![CDATA[Episode Description]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 05:01:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_74e1b230fa1a466d9fb43312dd622431~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Voice for Animals: The Social Movement that Provides Dignity and Compassion for Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suzana Gartner unpacks the contours of her recently published book "A Voice for Animals" ]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-voice-for-animals-the-social-movement-that-provides-dignity-and-compassion-for-animals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680b80b06be0a2b59f0907d5</guid><category><![CDATA[Books]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:41:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_56394138962b4d26a5b6f51b5f26d0d6~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_827,h_916,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Suzana Gartner</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jacksons' Debate: Shifting Speciesist Perspectives]]></title><description><![CDATA[In December 2024 I released a speculative fiction novella called   The Jacksons’ Debate , published by a THRIVE Publishing’s initiative,...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-jacksons-debate-shifting-speciesist-perspectives</link><guid isPermaLink="false">678ef3960837e35d1b7dc54a</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Books]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:11:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_183a710ea07d40baad2142a7926cba68~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_850,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marcus Vinicius Neves</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Ambivalent Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claudia reflects on The Animal Turn Merch Store: I have to admit in many ways this The Animal Turn Merch store is an ambivalent place for me]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/an-ambivalent-store</link><guid isPermaLink="false">674ff85acf5a08407170cea3</guid><category><![CDATA[Merch]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:50:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_936e2abb906f43caab7d61d36973f654~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Claudia Hirtenfelder</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild Boars' Nuclear Turf War]]></title><description><![CDATA[If I were to say  ‘mutant’, what would come to mind? Perhaps you imagine something scary from a science-fiction film, emerging from a...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/wild-boars-nuclear-turf-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66572fc5a9cf5c8ae9454131</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:40:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/59b5c0_84ce3507c5064e3f81f31b0833546a38~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_600,h_475,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Macaques as Nifty Neighbours]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last December, I had the opportunity to escape the cold, wet London winter and stay in Singapore for three weeks. One of the things that...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/metropolitan-macaques-as-nifty-neighbours</link><guid isPermaLink="false">665627b748196329c1a79976</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:20:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/59b5c0_dce2cd3a96bf4889bc70a7880741664d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>