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Girl, so confusing!

What The Duck?!

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Female lab mice have been bred to be passive and breed with ease. 

But, in the wild they're feisty and even pugnacious.

How much of our biological understanding of the world is based on misogyny?

Featuring:

  • Lucy Cooke, Zoologist and author of Bitch A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal.
  • Professor Arthur Georges, University of Canberra.
  • Professor Catherine Dulac, Harvard University.

Production:

  • Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
  • Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
  • Additional mastering:  Ann-Marie Debettencor.

This episode of What the Duck?! was originally broadcast in July 2023 and was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

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