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Colugo : Glide Path
Season 1 Episode 69
Colugos (often called, entirely inaccurately, flying lemurs) - there are two officially recognised species at the moment - are more dramatically and …
4 years, 4 months ago
Wasp Mantidfly : Spider's Bane
Season 1 Episode 68
First in a series of listener-suggested shows! The Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea) is a stunning little insect with some amazing stuff going on.…
4 years, 5 months ago
Great Slaty Woodpecker : The Haunted Bird
Season 1 Episode 67
The Great Slaty Woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus) is probably the biggest woodpecker in the world. A spectacular inhabitant of Asian forests th…
4 years, 6 months ago
Greater Argonaut : The Aquarium of Jeanne Villepreux-Power
Season 1 Episode 66
The Greater Argonaut (Argonauta argo) is a very unusual octopus, that travels the oceans in an exquisite papery case. And many of its secrets were un…
4 years, 6 months ago
Stoplight Loosejaw : Jaws Sees Red
Season 1 Episode 65
The Stoplight Loosejaw (Malacosteus niger) is a pretty extraordinary fish: a jet-black denizen of the twilight zone, armed with some of the strangest…
4 years, 8 months ago
Giant Hummingbird : Life At The Limit
Season 1 Episode 64
The Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) is, by a long way, the biggest hummingbird in the world. It's about twice the size of the next biggest humming…
4 years, 8 months ago
Death's-Head Hawkmoth : The Mad King's Moth
Season 1 Episode 63
The African Death's-Head Hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) is a big, striking moth loaded with grim symbolism and superstition. But we're mostly interest…
4 years, 9 months ago
Armadillo Lizard : The Armoured Ouroboros
Season 1 Episode 62
The Armadillo Lizard has a fantastic scientific name - Ouroborus cataphractus - which connects it to ancient mystical symbolism and ancient heavy cav…
4 years, 9 months ago
Crab Nemertean : The Egg Thief
Season 1 Episode 61
The Nemertean egg predator Carcinonemertes errans may be the most patient, persistent and committed predator ever covered on the podcast. A tiny mari…
4 years, 10 months ago
Black-Headed Duck : The Cuckoo Duck
Season 1 Episode 60
The Black-Headed Duck is the only duck that's a brood parasite: it lays its eggs in the nests of other species. But unlike every other bird in the wo…
4 years, 10 months ago