What The Duck?!
The show with a mission to explore the mysteries of nature - especially the ones that make you go What the Duck?!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 171
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Hollywood lied to us: Cocaine Bear
In 1985, a real American black bear consumed a bunch of cocaine that'd been dropped from a plane into the forest, and died.
Nearly 40 years later Hollywood stepped in the rewrite the story. What wou…
00:25:16 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
Hollywood lied to us: Jurassic Park
Quick! Think of a ‘dinosaur movie’. Chances are Jurassic Park (1993) was first to mind.
Steven Spielberg’s genetic nightmare/theme park gone wrong classic is so iconic that it inspired a generati…
00:25:17 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
Summer: Sex is Weird: Ep 1- The world’s first d*ck pic
When you really think about it, sex to make babies is WEIRD! You take an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that links into a production line of eggs to assemble a perfect tiny being. It’s s…
00:25:16 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Summer: Minimalist animals
Could a legless lizard be 'minimalist of the year' for famous podcaster T. K. Coleman?
Ann Jones leads an unlikely gang of animal experts on a tidy dance through the philosophy of minimalism. There …
00:25:16 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Summer: Mother Nature does it better (ASMR edition)
ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) is a tingly sensation that can bring relaxation, and it's spawned a growing industry of videos online of whispering, tapping, mouth noises and soft speakin…
00:25:17 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Summer: Why do Quolls have spots?
Imagine you've just been cancelled for a controversial opinion about Taylor Swift's musical output, and you have to go to ground.
You can act like the Olsen twins, and hide behind big glasses and a …
00:25:16 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Summer: Butts- what are they good for?
Right now, you’re probably sitting on one of the most unique things about humans. One thing that separates us from the apes, from the birds, from EVERYTHING on earth. The thing that allows us to walk…
00:25:17 |
Fri 27 Dec 2024
Summer: How many animals REALLY live in your house?
How many species live around your house?
In the COVID lockdown of 2020, three housemates decided to count.
They thought there’d only be a handful, but the number kept rising and rising.
Could thei…
00:25:17 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
Hollywood lied to us: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a Christmas classic... but how much do we really know about reindeer?
In the last instalment of "Hollywood lied to us" for 2024, Ann Jones fact-checks the festive …
00:25:02 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Hollywood lied to us: The Lion King
The Lion King (1994), aka Hamlet with Cats, is an iconic family classic. But would The Lion King's portrayal of a pride make biologists proud?
Ann Jones presents “Hollywood lied to us” - a What The …
00:25:18 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
Hollywood lied to us: Groundhog Day
The movie is fictional but Groundhog Day (asking a groundhog for a long-term weather report) IS A REAL THING!
But wait, what even ARE groundhogs? AND do they have any qualifications in meteorology?…
00:25:17 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
Hollywood lied to us: The Little Mermaid
Yes, the Little Mermaid is an animated movie, but if it were real, where would this mermaid paradise be?
Is it plausible that Ursula the Octo-woman would have henchmen in the form of eels?
Ann Jo…
00:24:39 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Hollywood lied to us: Jaws
Jaws (1975) was a massive hit that also created a whole lot of fear, but does anything in the film really stand up to shark science? Do sharks stalk humans? Do they roar? What can they sense? There a…
00:24:59 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
Everything you wanted to know about Pigeons!
Did you know that pigeons make milk?
The pigeon gets a bad rap, but it is actually an incredible bird with a rich history.
It is related to the dodo and even played a role in the French Revolution…
00:25:17 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Glowing Animals
Are you high, or is that a sheep glowing?
Yep- sheep glow, but that's not all... when it comes to glowing the list of animals includes the platypus, dolphin teeth, bilby ears and Tasmanian Devil fee…
00:25:17 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
The ostrich-riding bushranger- John Francis Peggotty
There's a statue of an ostrich wearing a saddle in Meningie, South Australia.
The large bird statue is dedicated to the legend of "John Francis Peggotty", the Birdman of the Coorong.
He loved gold…
00:25:18 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Everything you need to know about flies
What makes a true fly and do we really need them?
As per usual the What the Duck?! team is elbow-deep in crap looking for a way out.
And the way out, is flies!
Featuring:
Dr Bryan Lessard, Ent…
00:25:18 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Killer whales vs boats
A group of Killer whales have been hassling boats around Spain over the last few years.
They've been nibbling the rudders and even sinking yachts, but why?
Has anyone considered that it might be r…
00:26:04 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Bumping, grinding and groaning - why do animals do it? Your questions answered.
Did you know that some squirrels, otters and goats are capable of autofellatio?
And ferrets, macaques and dolphins can use rocks, plants and other objects as sex toys?
Fresh off the back of the S…
00:25:16 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Sex is Weird: Ep 7- Do we need sex?
Sex comes at a cost, there’s energy, time, risks of predators, and diseases… so do we even need it?
Asexual organisms don’t seem to miss the dating scene, and yet here we are putting a whole lot of …
00:25:16 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
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