Filthy Animals
An ecology podcast for grown-ups.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
S2E6 - A Game of Cucks
Content Warning: none
In this month's Filthy Animals, Rachel tests the strength of monogamous bonds in the animal kingdom by seeing what the data says about their infidelity. As it turns out, even in…
S2E5 - The Dog That Never Died
Content Warning: Discussion of cancer and related illnesses
Cancer is scary. A transmissible, STI-based cancer is even scarier. Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor (CTVT) is the oldest, most prolific…
S2E4 - The Queerness of Fish
Content Warning: This is a pretty wholesome episode. No fear, dear listener!
In honor of Pride Month, Rachel is taking us beneath the waves and beyond the binary into the fascinatingly queer world of…
S2E3 - Lekking for Love
Content Warning: explicit language, descriptions of sex, pretty wholesome episode honestly
Dancing, fighting, spreading sweet-smelling pheromones… all in the name of love. Lekking is a strange behavi…
S2E2 - Catnip (Don't make it weird.)
Content Warning: Drug use, including recreational drugs. Moral panics. Sexual references. Spoiler: ((it's not the cats))
Nicole's Sources:
- Shi, X., et al. Repellency of Novel Catnip Oils Against the…
S2E1 - RANKED: Love (The Dangerous and The Dumb)
Content Warning: cannibalism, suicide, coercive/violent sexual behavior, death during pregnancy, partner death, drowning, necrophilia
(start the episode at 36:12 to avoid our discussion of all of the…
S1E9 - Bees Do It Sweeter
Content Warning: Discussions about sexual acts and copulation rituals in bees, including some graphic "traumatic mating events." :) "It can't always be roses." - Nicole Brown, 2024
THIS IS OUR LAST E…
S1E8 - Boom, Boom, Babies
The miracle of life is straightforward and simple, right? Sperm. Egg. BOOM. Babies. That's what they taught us in science school!
In actuality, it's much more complicated, as pregnancy and childbirth…
S1E7 - The Pantry of Nightmares: The Eastern Mole's Guide to Prepping Like a Psychopath
Content Warning: Body horror, existential dread, "nature is metal" prey-predator interactions. This Halloween episode is about predators who stash their prey for later... alive.
Nicole's Sources:
S1E6 - Let's Talk About (Not) Sex
Content Warning: References to sex and nonviable pregnancies.
Spending every moment of waking life trying to get laid has its downsides, and for some organisms, the business of reproduction is just t…
S1E5 - Koala Chlamydia
Content Warning: graphic descriptions of STIs, death, some sprinkling of thinking too much about how much of a horror bodies are.
Koalas are well known for being disease ridden (at least in our circl…
S1E4 - Antechinus Sex Machines
Content Warning: graphic descriptions of sex, violent acts
Turns out lots of animals just wait around till maturity and then turn into horny little guys. The genus Antechinus is no exception as males…
S1E3 - Horny Wonders (Plants)
Content Warning: This episode is WEIRDLY explicit for an episode about plants. Contains explicit discussions about sex, sexual acts, and genitalia.
Nicole's Notable Sources:
- Heiduk, A., Brake, I., T…
S1E2 - Eyeballs Deep (Butterflies)
Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia, mild body horror
Rachel's Sources:
S1E1 - Sex as Social Grease (Bonobos)
Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia
Allan's Sources:
- De Waal, Franz. Bonobos: The Forgotten Ape. 1st ed., published 1997.
- De Waal, Franz. “Bonobo Sex and Society”, Scientific …
Filthy Animals Premiers April 25
Filthy Animals is an ecology podcast for adults. Episodes may contain strong language and graphic descriptions of natural phenomena. A more detailed list of content warnings is included in each episo…