S3E5: Resourceful, Respectable Rats

The Animal Highlight

In this animal highlight Amanda talks about one of the most tested on animals in the world, rats. She discusses how rats have been used in labs and the standardization of their experiences. She contrasts that with the rich lifeworlds of rats who live freely and in multispecies communities. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

Featured:

• Epidemiological Dividual with Christs Lynteris on The Animal Turn.
• Animal Testing and its Alternatives with Thomas Hartung on The Animal Turn.
• Pleasurable Kingdomby Jonthan Balcombe
• Rat by Jonathan Burt.
• Rats! Being Social Requires Empathy by Leesa Fawcett.
• Lady Bird Animal Sanctuary
• Pests in the Cityby Dawn Day Biehler

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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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Revisiting Rats (00:01:18)

3. Adopting Rats (00:07:54)

4. Credits (00:14:32)