Our guest this week is Davita Coronel, a PhD student at Deakin University with an interest in cultural relationships with animals on colonised lands. Her work explores what it takes to learn to live with flying-foxes in an anthropocentric and settler-colonial society.  Topics include: How Davita chose her PhD topic of a feminist and Indigneous ethics of care for living with flying foxes.What research questions she brought to this project.What her data gathering process included and what some of her experiences were. What the central findings of her project were.The kinds of theorising around care she engaged with in analysing her findings. And what these approaches to care can offer vegan philosophies and activism in the settler colonial context of Australia.  Useful links:Friends of Bats and Bushcare: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1848562278748974/Friends of Bats and Bushcare: https://www.parkconnect.vic.gov.au/Volunteer/group_details_public/?id=d7d85384-dc4b-e711-813b-e0071b676d01Getting to Know Microbats in Melbourne - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/getting-know-microbats-melbourne Animals and Colonialism - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202203061300/animals-and-colonialismAnimal Voices - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202112261300/animal-voicesLife Upside Down - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202110311300/life-upside-down-bat-chat Music played: Seen by Mi-Kaisha Stressed Out by Ziggy RamoDon’t you worry by Electric Fields  Freedom of Species' Spotify playlist can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3TJQujKYjGFoFP6LhBbaTS Image credit: Davita Coronel