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ABSTRACTThe contemporary era’s awareness of the sentience of multiple species results in an acknowledgement that both humans and nonhuman animals are important contributors to social action. Consequently, the happenings that occur when humans and nonhuman animals entangle require unpacking in research. Such entanglements occurring at a park duck pond are the focus of this paper. The paper emerges from a study that was animalcentric in its approach to looking at human leisure as a multispecies practice. Hence, it engaged with the notion that leisure activities involve interweaving interests of sentient human and nonhuman participants. One global example of this, which is under-researched in the leisure field, is the practice of feeding nonhuman animals at public park ponds and other waterways. This paper presents insights drawn from observational research of the multispecies entanglements occurring at a duck pond in Dunedin, New Zealand. Via an inductive approach to analysing the fieldwork data, thoughts of power in the entanglements are considered. The paper highlights how the multispecies leisure entanglements between humans, ducks, and pigeons contain nuanced power dynamics. It has implications for the development of animalcentric appreciations of animal entanglements in leisure that spread far beyond the context of this paper. |
