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Field guide to car ecology
Ever wondered about the spiders in your car mirror? How they got there and ‘where the duck’ they’re going?
FEATURING
Dr Ken Walker, Senior Curator of…
3 years, 4 months ago
How to speak Cicada
The 'sound of summer' is actually thousands of blokes screaming 'PICK ME' at the top of their screaming cicada voices.
3 years, 4 months ago
Never skip leg day
A millipede has a thousand legs right? WRONG!
FEATURING
Dr Juanita Rodriguez, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO.
Dr Bruno Alves Buzatto, Flin…
3 years, 4 months ago
Animals on acid
It turns out self medicating and herbal remedies are not exclusive to humans…
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Dr Kevin Feeney, Central Washington University.
Adjunct Professo…
3 years, 5 months ago
The big bad wolf – have we got it wrong?
How far from reality are the folk stories about wolves and dogs? We’re going right back to Aesop’s fables with zoologist and author Jo Wimpenny.
List…
3 years, 5 months ago
It DOES fart!
The world's oldest fart is frozen in amber, and it is the source of the world's oldest fart joke.
Listen to part one (Does it Fart?!) here.
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D…
3 years, 5 months ago
What's in your freezer?
Move the peas over to find that Australian freezers have seals, kangaroo penises and the DNA of 'the Chanel of goats.'
FEATURING:
Dr Natalie Warburton,…
3 years, 5 months ago
It's still brown and sticky!
There are so many sticky things in nature, but what's the nature of their stickiness? Ann puts on her spider-woman gloves to find out.
FEATURING:
Ella …
3 years, 6 months ago
What's brown and sticky?
If you ever wanted to be able to stick to walls like spider man, then listen to this.
3 years, 6 months ago
The flies have it
As per usual the What the Duck?! team is elbow-deep in crap looking for a way out. And the way out, is flies.
FEATURING:
Dr Bryan Lessard, Entomologis…
3 years, 6 months ago