What is it like to be an animal?
This month we’re re-running an episode from 2021 which asks, ‘What’s it like to be an animal?’
This month we’re re-running an episode from 2021 which asks, ‘What’s it like to be an animal?’
Tuesday 2 May 2023 | 30 minutes 21 seconds
Since this episode was recorded the UK Animal Welfare Act 2022 has become law. This extends animal welfare protections to animals such as octopuses, lobsters and crabs - a direct result of the findings of LSE academic Dr Jonathan Birch – featured in this episode - that animals are sentient. They have the capacity to experience pain, distress or harm.
For this episode, James Rattee travels to the local park to find out how smart dogs are, he’ll hear about a campaign arguing that chimpanzees are animals deserving of their own rights and, finally, he’ll ask whether insects and other invertebrates have feelings.