Podcast Episodes

Girl, so confusing!

Female lab mice have been bred to be passive and breed with ease. 

But, in the wild they're feisty and even pugnacious.

How much of our biological unde…

1 year, 3 months ago

How we really feel about eels

Eels are mysterious and have a fascinating history. 

People in pre-medieval England used them to pay rent. Early 17th-century maps featured 'eel ships…

1 year, 3 months ago

Why do animals have penises?

When it comes to sexual organs, the penis is really ‘out there.’  Name another organ that can change its form AND function in a matter of seconds! 

Th…

1 year, 4 months ago

Hollywood lied to us: Babe

Aussie classic Babe turns 30 this year, and its story of the little pig that achieves his dream of being a sheep dog is still as uplifting as the day…

1 year, 4 months ago

Hollywood lied to us: The Birds

If you have a fear of getting swooped by magpies, mobbed by seagulls or blinded by crows, perhaps Alfred Hitchcock is to blame.

His 1963 horror classi…

1 year, 4 months ago

Hollywood lied to us: Antz

Remember that 1998 film Antz? The one about an ant named Z?

The one where the ants had nightmare-inducing human teeth? The one we probably have to bla…

1 year, 4 months ago

Hollywood lied to us: Cocaine Bear

In 1985, a real American black bear consumed a bunch of cocaine that'd been dropped from a plane into the forest, and died.

Nearly 40 years later Holl…

1 year, 5 months ago

Hollywood lied to us: Jurassic Park

Quick! Think of a ‘dinosaur movie’. Chances are Jurassic Park (1993) was first to mind.   

Steven Spielberg’s genetic nightmare/theme park gone wrong …

1 year, 5 months ago

Summer: Sex is Weird: Ep 1- The world’s first d*ck pic

When you really think about it, sex to make babies is WEIRD! You take an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that links into a production lin…

1 year, 5 months ago

Summer: Minimalist animals

Could a legless lizard be 'minimalist of the year' for famous podcaster T. K. Coleman?

Ann Jones leads an unlikely gang of animal experts on a tidy da…

1 year, 5 months ago