Set around specific themes, The Animal Highlight offers glimpses into the wonderful and complex worlds of animals. This is a spinoff of The Animal Turn Podcast, a podcast that unpacks important concepts in animal studies.
A wild bird disappears for 140 years, then returns to one of the most urbanised places on Earth, not by accident, but because a city changes its mind about what nature is allowed to be. That’s the story we’re starting with as we launch a Singapore-focused season with landscape designer and artist Rebecca Shen, whose CAF-funded Atlas Animalia project maps the real, messy relationships between animals and urban life. Featured: Rebecca's Hornbill MapSingapore Hornbill ProjectDevoted ...
4 May 2026
S6E8: A Review of Museum Collections and Objects
Herre de Bondt and Rebecca Shen are back on the show to discuss Rosa Dyer’s season “Animal Collections/’Objects”. We delve into some of the key themes and tensions to emerge in the season including questions of value, colonization, ethics, and practices of preservation. We revisit a season that follows birds, bodies, and objects across museums and beyond, asking how ethics, beauty, and decay shape what gets collected, displayed, and believed. The talk moves from drawers of parrots to a living...
27 Apr 2026
S6E7: Moo Deng – Questioning if Zoos are Living Collections
Rosa questions whether zoos could be thought of as “living collections” that objectifying animals in ways that are similar to the animal objects one finds in a museum or archive. She considers the internet sensation Moo Deng and asks whether her fame as achieved much in the way of the conservation goals for pygmy hippos. Meet Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo taking the internet by storm by The Today Show. Credits: Recorded: 3 June 2025Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer,...
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9,881
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5.0 / 5
4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100
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94
YouTube
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