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Nature's Most Wanted: Can my dog inherit my house
In 2002 Gigoo became the world's wealthiest chicken when her owner left her £10 million in his will.
How does a chook even open a bank account?
Within …
2 months, 1 week ago
Nature's Most Wanted: Wild, but not free
A lost monkey in an Ikea carpark is an illegally traded pet, so does he have a legal owner?
When it comes to animal ownership, courts turn to Roman-er…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Nature's Most Wanted: Trunk and disorderly
How much booze does it take to intoxicate an elephant?
The answer isn't as much as you might expect, because not all guts are created equal when it co…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Nature's Most Wanted: Fowl play with real-life angry birds
Forget feathered friends — these are our feathered foes.
They can wield knives, get involved in the world of organised crime and drug dealing, and eve…
3 months ago
Nature's Most Wanted: Murder (but not crows)
The fear of being eaten by an animal is so visceral that a mass psychosis, featuring a monkey man, once swept across Delhi.
But in the event of an act…
3 months, 1 week ago
Nature's Most Wanted: Cat burglars and robber duckies
Leonardo da Pinchy is a literal cat burglar with more than 350 pieces of evidence against him — evidence that's easy to confirm because when he steal…
3 months, 1 week ago
Nature’s Most Wanted: Odour in the court
Pigs tried for murder, weevils expelled from heaven and how a bloke dressed as an executed French monkey became mayor of an English town.
Topsy the el…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
INTRODUCING: Nature's Most Wanted
Dr Ann Jones is bringing true crime and natural history together with Nature's Most Wanted, a new series from What the Duck!? investigating when anim…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Invasive species: a science comedy debate
Join What the Duck?! at a science comedy debate called Sci Fight.
Sci Fight brings scientists and comedians together to examine serious topics in a si…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why snakes remain deadly even after they're dead
At first, you might think it is a plot from a zombie movie: that undead animals are coming for you.
But it turns out that Australia's animals aren't j…
4 months ago