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
The Sage-grouse dance
Female sage-grouse birds have decided that they want to see a weird sexy dance when deciding on a mate.
Ann Jones explores the creativity of female choice in the animal world in this episode of What…
00:25:16 |
Fri 10 May 2024
Hyenas and lab mice - does sex matter?
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?
F…
00:25:16 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Shells with stories to tell
There's a whole world of mystery, and quite a bit of maths, inside the humble sea shell.
Forget ancestry searches online, shells can tell you the history of the world!
Featuring:
Amy Prendergast,…
00:25:16 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
The merits of menopause. End of. Period.
There's only a handful of animals on earth that go through menopause, where females get to hang up the ovaries and enjoy a change of life.
So, why have we (humans, chimps and some toothed whales) es…
00:25:14 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Extreme traps in nature
We will all go to trouble to get a good meal, but some animals take it to the extreme.
Some build architectural masterpieces to entrap their prey, or use body parts as lures.
But what is your cat d…
00:25:16 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Phantasmic Mr Fox
Despite spending years and millions of dollars, the Tasmanian Fox Eradication team never, not once, not ever, spotted a live fox on the Apple Isle.
While their efforts yielded zero foxes, it spawned…
00:25:17 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
What the [sheeping] flock?
You have a lot to thank sheep for. Yes, sheep.
More than just wool and meat — sheep have played a part in the development of contraception and reproduction in humans.
It's not as dodgy as it sounds…
00:25:16 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Purely for pleasure
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 C…
00:25:18 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Face your fear of snakes
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,…
00:25:19 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Animals with extreme minimalist mindsets
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 08 Mar 2024
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…
00:25:19 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
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 23 Feb 2024
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…
00:25:21 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
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…
00:25:00 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Space race- the animal edition
Fruit flies, guinea pigs, frogs, monkeys, turtles, cats and dogs… all sorts of animals have been to space.
Find out who made small steps for mankind before we could even spacewalk as Ann goes throug…
00:25:17 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
SUMMER - Silence of the vultures
An ornithologist, a veterinarian and a religious devotee must find the serial killer before every last vulture in India is dead.
The episode was first published on the 2nd of September 2023.
Featu…
00:25:06 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
SUMMER - Are Naked Mole-rats the weirdest animals on earth?
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 y…
00:25:06 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
SUMMER - The ostrich-riding bushranger
He loved gold, so he robbed stagecoaches in South Australia and used an ostrich as a getaway car. OR DID HE?!
This episode was first published on the 11th of February 2023.
Featuring:
Denice Ma…
00:25:06 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
SUMMER- Kneel before the eel
For thousands of years eels have made people rich and powerful, literally. Now it's time to pay it back.
This episode was originally published on the 18th of March 2023.
Featuring:
Dr. John Wya…
00:25:05 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
SUMMER- Birds, bees and a wang wang with a problem.
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.
This is a repeat of an episode…
00:25:06 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
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