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Off Track - Separate stories podcast

Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.

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25:16

Flora fatale, the plants with a thirst for blood...

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2020/03/06

With an aggressive mass-murder-then-compost strategy, these tiny plants are the most heinous of herbs.

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25:18

Ravenous star-shaped mouths

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2020/02/28

Sea urchins are making a meal of south-eastern Australia’s rocky reefs and kelp forests. Can they be stopped?

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25:17

Sea urchin solo in a coral reef choir [re-issue]

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2020/02/21

Under the sea it isn’t all relaxing whale noise. The sound of the reef creatures is actually more like a percussive static with some grinding teeth on rock thrown in.

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25:15

And your bug can sing

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2020/02/14

The underwater sounds in this creek near Brisbane are like an eclectic jam session. There are sweet beetles (that sing), lonely bugs (on percussion), fishy grunters (think Jay-Z) and a punk-rocking rakali that just trashes the joint. This musical soundscape is the PhD homeland of eco-acoustician Emilia Decker.

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25:15

Grandmother tree, the fire and me

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2020/02/07

Vanessa thought 'it's ok, the people are safe... It's ok, the house is safe...' But nothing prepared her for returning home.

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25:15

Yackandandah's angel of the bush [UPDATE]

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2020/01/31

Glenda Elliott can't say no to an animal in need - she wants to save them all. A few years back when fire ripped through Kangaloola Wildlife Shelter, she and the animals hid in a mineshaft. This show aired in 2018 and we've been back in touch with Glenda for an update following the bushfires of 2019-20.

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25:17

The burning bush is talking

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2020/01/24

Just before the fire hit, the trees' leaves turned red and fell to the ground, and it left Adrian wondering - did they know they were just about to burn?

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25:20

The bilby, the moon and the Birriliburu Rangers

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2020/01/17

A bilby dreaming story guides a mother with a sick child to an outback town. Decades later, the child returns to repay the favour and look after the bilby.For RN Summer we're bringing you Off Track highlights from 2019.

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25:19

Where giants nest

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2020/01/10

Albatross expert Dr Jaimie Cleeland listens to the gurgles and bellows of albatross as they nest on a tiny Atlantic island called Gough.For RN Summer we're bringing you Off Track highlights from 2019.

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25:17

Gone fish — pygmy perch pushed too far

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2020/01/03

The tiny Yarra pygmy perch has been pushed to extinction in the Murray Darling Basin. Now, all hopes for its return are focussed on a couple of farm dams.For RN Summer we're bringing you Off Track highlights from 2019.

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25:15

Cockies wheelie love bin day

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2019/12/27

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are opening wheelie bins and turning trash into treasure.For RN Summer we're bringing you Off Track highlights from 2019.

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25:17

Barbara York Main — Australia's spider woman

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2019/12/20

She studied the world's oldest spider and championed their home at a time when both the environment and women were given no fighting chance — Dr Barbara Anne York Main OAM.For RN Summer we're bringing you Off Track highlights from 2019.

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25:15

Earworms from planet earth XI

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2019/12/13

Birds sing at a mining camp, cicadas grind the gears of locals and mysterious sounds are identified. Listen to the sounds of Australia as recorded by the Off Track audience.

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25:15

This is Mark

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2019/12/06

This is Mark: a life-size, custom-made inflatable whale. And he needs to be saved.

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25:16

Virtual reality, second nature

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2019/11/29

Off Track presents the new ABC podcast 'GOOD GAME: how games play us' attempting to answer a BIG question: There's nothing like taking a walk out and about in nature — or is there?

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25:15

Trapped in the dry

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2019/11/22

What happens to the animals of the Kimberley when the big wet just doesn't arrive?

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25:19

Karajarri calling

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2019/11/15

Over the course of the week, three pairs of shoes bite the dust, soles detached from uppers in the 45 degree heat, one microphone's glue melts and there are about a billion bush flies drinking from sweaty backs. But despite the heat, Karajarri country has a draw towards it stronger than the pull of the sun.

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25:15

Amphibian hullabaloo and other frog noises

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2019/11/08

Frogs don't just croak, they moan and groan, sing, whine, whizz and sound like dripping taps and this is an episode of pure adoration for the calls of Australia's frogs.

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25:18

Big cats in the bush [RE-ISSUE]

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2019/11/01

Rumours of pumas and leopards roaming the Australian bush have been around for more than a century. There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence but to date no definitive proof. Join in the search for a mythical cat in this re-issue of a classic Off Track.

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25:15

Tiny crayfish out of water

Off Track - Separate stories podcast ·

2019/10/25

It's only as big as a tea bag, plays dead if you pick it up, and landowners don't even know they have an endangered animal in their backyard.

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