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What The Duck?!

The show with a mission to explore the mysteries of nature - especially the ones that make you go What the Duck?!

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25:16

Who's your Daddy?

What The Duck?! ·

2023/09/08

You probably have a daddy-long-legs in your house right now.But when is having a weird housemate in the corner ACTUALLY a good thing? Dr Ann Jones investigates. Featuring:Dr Samantha Nixon, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr Lizzy Lowe, Invertebrates Australia.Thanks also to Dr Bernhard Huber, Arachnid Curator at Museum Koenig. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Additional mastering: Hamish Camilleri.This episode of What the

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05:22

POD EXTRA: Johnny Cash and the Condor fire

What The Duck?! ·

2023/09/02

An extra special, podcast only, five-minute story for you!A bird that stands over a metre tall hardly seems like it'd bow down to a rock star, but Johnny Cash played a burning role in the near-extinction of Californian Condors.Featuring:Dr. Maggie Watson, Zoologist at Charles Sturt University Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

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25:16

Silence of the vultures

What The Duck?! ·

2023/09/01

An ornithologist, a veterinarian and a religious devotee must find the serial killer before every last vulture in India is dead.Featuring:Dr Campbell Murn, Head of Conservation at Hawk Conservancy Trust and University of Reading, UK.Dr Kishor Rithe, Interim Director, Bombay Natural History Society. Dr Andrea Santangeli, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain.Dr Percy Avari, Mumbai Vetinarary College. Sherally Munshi, Georgetown. Vulture sounds provided by Nikita

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25:16

Do worms dream?

What The Duck?! ·

2023/07/28

We get a bit philosophical and try to find out that if animals do dream, will we ever be able to know what they’re dreaming about?Featuring:Cassie, Claire and Pidgey the Parrot. Associate Professor Nicole Lovato, Flinders University. Associate Professor John Lesku, La Trobe University. Professor David Pena Guzman, author of ‘Animal Dreaming’ and San Francisco State University. Professor Sidarta Ribeiro, neuroscientist at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Dr Shauni

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25:16

Sleep like a log

What The Duck?! ·

2023/07/21

Birds can fly while half their brain is sleeping and some spiders sleep dangling on a silk thread, but what about worms. Do worms sleep?Featuring:Associate Professor John Lesku, La Trobe University. Dr Shauni Omond, @shauniomond.sleepsci on Instagram, La Trobe University. Professor Niels Rattenborg, Research leader on Avian Sleep, Max Planck Institute. Dr Daniela Roessler, University of Konstanz. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.This episode

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25:16

Why don't you act like a girl?

What The Duck?! ·

2023/07/14

Boob-shaping hiccups are very sexy in the sage grouse world, but whose chesticles are in charge?Featuring:Lucy Cooke, Zoologist and author of Bitch A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal.Professor Gail L Patricelli, University of California, Davis. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Additional mastering: John Jacobs.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

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25:16

Bitch! Who is really in charge?

What The Duck?! ·

2023/07/07

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 understanding of the world is based on misogyny?Featuring:Lucy Cooke, Zoologist and author of Bitch A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal.Professor Arthur Georges, University of Canberra.Professor Catherine Dulac, Harvard University.Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Additional

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25:16

Birds, bees and a wang wang with a problem.

What The Duck?! ·

2023/03/31

A tiny penis, a 12-hour annual fertilisation window, picky females and strawberry bubble bath – these are just a few of the issues that pop up when making a panda cub.Featuring:Chad Crittle, Acting Assistant Curator for Carnivores and Ungulates at Zoos SA.Mr Li Zhang, Consul, Head of Bilateral Section at the Chinese Consulate-General in Adelaide.Dr Meghan Martin Wintle, Director, Conservation Ecologist at PDX Wildlife.This is the last show of season 2 of What The Duck but Season 3

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30:00

Shells with stories to tell

What The Duck?! ·

2023/03/24

Forget ancestry searches online. Shells can tell you the history of the world.Featuring:Amy Prendergast, University of Melbourne.Jann Vendetti, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Dr Paul Butler, Researcher at the University of Exeter.

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30:00

Kneel before the eel

What The Duck?! ·

2023/03/17

For thousands of years eels have made people rich and powerful, literally. Now it's time to pay it back. Featuring:Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, Historian Cornell University. Erin Rose, Budj Bim World Heritage Executive Officer at Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.Braydon Saunders, Tour Guide Coordinator at Budj Bim Cultural Landscape Tourism.Tyson Lovett-Murray, Budj Bim World Heritage Ranger at Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.Wayne

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30:00

Purely for pleasure

What The Duck?! ·

2023/03/10

For years we've barely even talked about the human clitoris let alone the fact that snakes have TWO. This program has adult themes.Featuring:Belinda Smith, ABC Science Online Reporter. Lucy Cooke, Author and Film maker.Megan Folwell, University of Adelaide.Dr Jenna Crowe-Riddell, La Trobe University.Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Additional mastering: Angie GrantThis episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and

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30:00

Are Naked Mole-rats the weirdest animals on earth?

What The Duck?! ·

2023/03/03

They look like... 'sabre-toothed sausages', they can barely see, they live for a really long time and have a queen who oppresses them.Find out all about the Naked Mole-rat this week and let us know your weirdest animal on earth suggestions at whattheduck@abc.net.au.Featuring:Dr Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.Adjunct Professor Rochelle Buffenstein, University of Illinois at Chicago.Extra information: Professor Gary R. Lewin, Max Delbrück Center for

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30:00

Craig Vs Snakes

What The Duck?! ·

2023/02/24

Would you meet a stranger in a park with a pile of snakes? Comedian, Craig Quartermaine, took the risk in an attempt to overcome his fears!Featuring:Craig Quartermaine, Comedian. Sandy Dickinson, Urban Reptiles.Jonathan Wright, Announcer voice. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Joel Werner, Script Editor. Field recording: Dylan PrinsAdditional mastering: Angie GrantWould you meet a stranger in a park with a pile of snakes? Comedian Craig

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30:00

Animals in Space

What The Duck?! ·

2023/02/17

Who made small steps for man before man could even space walk?Featuring:James Foley, Author and Illustrator.Kerrie Dougherty OAM, Senior Heritage and Outreach Officer, Australian Space Agency.Emeritus Professor John P. Gluck, University of New Mexico and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.Michael Coggan, News Voice. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Joel Werner, Script Editor. Additional mastering: Matthew Crawford.This episode

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30:00

The ostrich-riding bushranger

What The Duck?! ·

2023/02/10

He loved gold, so he robbed stage coaches in South Australia and used an ostrich as a getaway car. OR DID HE?! Welcome to the first episode of 'What The Duck?!' Season 2.Featuring:Denice Mason, teacher and Meningie resident.Associate Professor Rohan Clarke, Monash University and co-author of the Australian Bird Guide.Jacob Fiebig, Meningie resident and composer of "The ballad of John Peggotty". Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Joel Werner, Script

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30:00

Spider murder methods

What The Duck?! ·

2022/12/16

The show with a mission to explore the mysteries of nature.

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30:00

The politics of being a cow

What The Duck?! ·

2022/12/09

If you think that cow politics is just about the live export business, you are wrong.Cows have politics of their own – machinations to sort out who is the leader and who will be led. Featuring:Dr Rebecca Doyle, Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne.Joe Gelonisi - the voice of cow facts. Derek Klingenberg, cattle trombonist.Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung

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30:00

Inside a cow pat

What The Duck?! ·

2022/12/02

Here’s a field guide you probably don’t have — “Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia".

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30:00

Hitchhikers guide to ecology

What The Duck?! ·

2022/11/25

Grabbing a lift can go from bad to worse when your uber drops you outside your evolutionary niche. FEATURINGDr Matt Greenlees, Sydney University.Arthur White, NSW frog and tadpole study group.David Chapple, Monash University.Dr Maggie Watson, Charles Sturt University. Dr Robert Streit, Reef Function Hub at James Cook University.Voice of the Internet: Nikolai Beilharz. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Joel Werner, Script Editor. Additional

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30:00

Field guide to car ecology

What The Duck?! ·

2022/11/18

Ever wondered about the spiders in your car mirror? How they got there and ‘where the duck’ they’re going? FEATURINGDr Ken Walker, Senior Curator of Entomology, Museums Victoria Research Institute. Dr Laurent Keller, University of LausanneProduction:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Joel Werner, Script Editor. Additional mastering: Angela Grant.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.

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