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Feral by Design

Feral by Design is a podcast stealing nature’s smartest strategies for our everyday chaos. Short, playful episodes grounded in real science, told through messy, self-deprecating stories. Some dive into real-world examples, others explore fresh frameworks inspired by nature. It"s Biomimicry with the door left open: smart ideas from nature, made relatable, practical, and surprisingly fun. Nature owns the patent - we get to copy it.

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All Episodes

14:00

S2E03 Deadly Reflections: The Spider Design Solution

Feral by Design ·

2026/02/23

Nature has notes. Apparently, she delivers them in person. This week, Pia explores the "invisible" communication gap between human architecture and the natural world. From a stunned Kingfisher on her porch tiles to the critically endangered Swift Parrot fighting an extinction spiral in our cities, the stakes of our glass-heavy design choices have never been higher. How do we speak a language birds can actually read? From the "system reboot" behaviour of concussed birds to a 100-million-year-o...

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14:44

S2E02 Scratching the Wrong Itch: Wombats, mange and...

Feral by Design ·

2026/02/09

This episode came from noticing a place biomimicry could quietly change the way I work, thanks to a wombat called Chardonnay. I've treated wombats with mange in the wild. Every few days, we hike in, pour medicine on the animal, hike back out. Weeks of this. And sometimes months later, the mange is back. And the cycle begins again. Because the mites don't just live on the wombat. They survive in the burrow. Treat the host, ignore the habitat, and reinfection undoes everything. One day, driving...

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16:58

S2Ep01: Between the Flags

Feral by Design ·

2026/01/26

A swim that went wrong. A lifesaver’s eyes locked on mine. And a question I couldn’t shake. Most safety systems are built for calm moments, but danger rarely shows up when we’re calm. At the beach, water reorganises itself minute by minute, yet the signals we rely on stay exactly the same. This episode explores what happens when static signals try to manage moving risk - and what nature does differently. From surf flags to cuttlefish, it’s about sensing change, signalling st...

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1:25

Dopa Drop #12 — Quokkas

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/22

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:32

Dopa Drop #11 - Wave

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/21

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:29

Dopa Drop #10 — Magical creature

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/20

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:34

Dopa Drop #9 — Cuttlefish

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/19

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:58

Dopa Drop #8 — Manta Ray

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/18

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:51

Dopa Drop #7 — Regifting

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/17

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:37

Dopa Drop #6 — Octopus

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/16

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:55

Dopa Drop #5 — Crab

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/15

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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8:05

Ep10 - Snowflake Melting Moments (Christmas Special)

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/15

The second episode in the Feral Festive Special drifts into unexpected territory: snowflakes. This episode isn’t biomimicry — snowflakes don’t behave — but the pattern they form, shaped by whatever air they fall through, is the part we’re playing with today. December has its own weather system: family dynamics, big tables, small tables, solo days, first holidays after loss, chaotic joy, quiet overwhelm — often all within the same week. And for some reason, we keep trying to control the ...

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0:39

Dopa Drop #4 — Lyrebird

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/14

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:48

Dopa Drop #3 — Peacock

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/13

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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0:35

Dopa Drop #2 — Blue-Tongued Lizard

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/12

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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1:58

Dopa Drop #1 — Hermit Crab

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/12

A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so the style shifts on purpose. Not a biomimicry episode — just quick, nature-tinted perspective for the days when December does December. If one of these gives you a lift, please share it with someone else in December mode. 🎧 feralbydesign.com | @feralbydesignpod | Created and

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8:53

Ep09 - The Raw Prawn (Christmas Special)

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/08

Part 1 of the Feral Festive Special: the prawn. Yes, really. This festive run goes rogue - nature-inspired, not biomimicry - a deliberately Feral detour for December's chaos. We're diving into the prawn's soft-shell phase: that blink-and-you-miss-it moment where they ditch their old shell, stretch like hell, and grow before anyone notices. Chaotic. Unprotected. Maximum transformation. Tell me that's not peak December energy. If you're rolling into the end of the year feeling overcooked, under...

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11:15

Ep08 - Reality Bites: How Meerkats Make Learning Stick

Feral by Design ·

2025/12/01

Ever taken a course, nailed the theory… and then fallen apart the moment it gets real? Same. And it turns out the fix lives in the Kalahari. In this episode, Pia heads into meerkat country to uncover a quietly brilliant system for learning that actually sticks under pressure - not just in your head, but in your bones. No hacks. No feel-good fluff. Just nature-tested design principles for building capability in the real world, without the chaos or the panic. From small “reality bites” to why p...

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10:57

Ep07 - The Mussel Cup: Here for a Good Time, Not a...

Feral by Design ·

2025/11/24

Ever felt that tiny stab of guilt when you toss a takeaway coffee cup into the bin, even when you’re trying to do the right thing? In this episode, Pia takes that everyday eco-anxiety somewhere unexpected: underwater, to the mussel - a creature that quietly solves problems we’ve been wrestling with for decades. From its renewable anchor threads comes a provocative idea for a different kind of cup altogether. Not disposable. Not forever. But something in between: a retiring cup, designed to a...

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12:06

Ep06 - Swooped: What Magpies Know About Handling...

Feral by Design ·

2025/11/17

Ever been swooped by a magpie? Turns out, you weren’t being attacked — you were being communicated with. And you probably missed the whole conversation. Magpies avoid real fighting through communication — using graduated conflict signals to regulate tension and maintain social balance. They’ve mastered something we humans rarely do: tiered cues, pattern-based memory, and conflict used as maintenance rather than meltdown. In this episode, Pia uses biomimicry to explore how we can handle tensio...

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