Interview on how we treat animals differently aired on TVL

On Tuesday this week (October 27th) I was interviewed by the Norwegian TV channel TVL, on why we treat different animals differently (such as eating some but not others). The interview, which was conducted (online) by journalists Vemund Sødal and Hanna Pettersen and lasted 7-8 minutes, aired the same evening, in the programme TVL magasinet (subscription required).

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Interviewed by TVL for evening programme

Interviewed by TVL for evening program

Today I was interviewed (online) by TVL about how we treat animals. The interview will air tonight around 8 p.m. in the programme TVL-magasinet. The journalists interviewing me were Vemund Sødal and Hanna Pettersen.

30 posts for 2025 registered in Nasjonalt Vitenarkiv (NVA)

I have now finished registering publications and academic activities in Nasjonalt Vitenarkiv (NVA), which has replaced Current Research Information System in Norway (CRIStin). For 2025 I registered 30 posts, which is a quite normal number of posts for me per year. Altogether, since 2012, I am registered with 417 posts, cf. my profile. Registrations for 2025 include 4 scientific conference presentations, 2 chronicles, 3 journal articles, 3 book chapters, 1 book review, 1 TV interview, and 1 encyclopedia article, among other entries.

Interview on wolf hunting featured on NRK TV´s Dagsrevyen

The NRK news story "Er ulvejakt moralsk riktig? Vi spurte filosofene" (Is wolf hunting morally right? We asked the philosophers), which was published today and involved an interview with me and with Erica von Essen, was featured in Dagsrevyen, NRK 1´s main news broadcast (TV) tonight.

TV/radio interview on legal killing of wildlife aired October 8th 2019

On October 8th 2019 I was interviewed live in the NRK program "Dagsnytt 18", which airs on national TV (NRK2) and is also broadcast on national radio (NRK P2). The segment was called "Flere småfugler kan skytes" (More small birds may be shot). Representing University of Stavanger and Norway´s Council for animal ethics, I was interviewed by Gry Elisabeth Veiby along with Christian Steel (SABIMA).

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"Wolf play" clip featured in Discovery documentary aired this Spring

Excerpts of my video clip "Wolf play", which has to date been seen some 59.000 times on YouTube, were featured in a documentary series that aired on Discovery Channel this Spring. The excerpts, recorded by me during field work involving socialised wolves in Polar Zoo in 2010, appears in episode 7 of the series Deadly dilemmas, produced by London-based October Films, in the timespan 19.56-20.02 and then again 22.01-22.06. I am acknowledged ("Archives": Morten Tønnessen ...) ca. 22.19-22.22. Series producer is Paul Connolly.

The video clip from the wolf play video is part of a dilemma which involves being lost in wilderness and having to choose between joining a pride of lions or a pack of wolves in order to survive.