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
Who's a good girl?
Ann Jones does a DNA test to see if she is a dog!
This is the final episode for Season 5 of What the Duck?! We will be back in February with new episodes.
Featuring:
Skyla Seltzer, What The Duck?! …
00:25:16 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Is the pigeon the weirdest animal on earth?
It is related to the dodo, makes milk and even played a role in the French Revolution. Surely this bird deserves some recognition?
Featuring:
Rosemary Mosco, Science writer and author of 'The Po…
00:26:04 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
Can you speak fish?
Someone get a translator app because the fish are ready to speak.
Featuring:
Lauren Hawkins, Centre for Marine Science and Technology at Curtin University.
Dr Aaron Rice, Research Scientist a…
00:25:16 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
Nature's vibrators
They make THEMSELVES scream.
Featuring:
Dr. Perry Beasley Hall, Adelaide University.
Ernesto Caliari Pinheiro, Acoustic biologist, Brazil.
Professor Mario Vallejo-Marin, University of Uppsala…
00:25:46 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Mike-owl Jackson, Gorillaz and The Pussycat Dolls- are animals musical?
Can animals create, or even enjoy music? Ann rips through the animal kingdom to check out the musical talent of some likely and unlikely animals.
Featuring:
Dr. Stuart Watson, University of Zurich.…
00:25:47 |
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Glow your own way
Are you high, or is that a sheep glowing?
Featuring:
Linda Reinhold, Zoologist at James Cook University.
Professor Simon Lewis, Curtin University.
Dr. Kenny Travouillon, Western Australian Museum. …
00:25:16 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
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…
00:25:16 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Petrel heads in love
They smell like a squid in a wool jumper, they sound like a duck on helium, and devoted 'Petrel Heads' travel thousands of kilometres just to hear them moan.
Featuring:
Peter Vaughan, Monash Unive…
00:25:16 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Feeling crabby
Have the crabs been lying to us? There are true crabs, false crabs, and even shame-faced crabs which implies that some of them, at least, are guilty.
Featuring:
Dr Rachael King, SA Museum.
Profes…
00:25:15 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Who's your Daddy?
You probably have a daddy-long-legs in your house right now.
But when is having a weird housemate in the corner ACTUALLY a good thing? Dr Ann Jones investigates.
Featuring:
Dr Samantha Nixon, Uni…
00:25:16 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
POD EXTRA: Johnny Cash and the Condor fire
An extra special, podcast only, five-minute story for you!
A bird that stands over a metre tall hardly seems like it'd bow down to a rock star, but Johnny Cash played a burning role in the near-exti…
00:05:22 |
Sat 02 Sep 2023
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.
Featuring:
Dr Campbell Murn, Head of Conservation at Hawk Conservancy…
00:25:16 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Do worms dream?
We get a bit philosophical and try to find out that if animals do dream, will we ever be able to know what they’re dreaming about?
Featuring:
Cassie, Claire and Pidgey the Parrot.
Associate Profess…
00:25:16 |
Fri 28 Jul 2023
Sleep like a log
Birds can fly while half their brain is sleeping and some spiders sleep dangling on a silk thread, but what about worms. Do worms sleep?
Featuring:
Associate Professor John Lesku, La Trobe Universit…
00:25:16 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Why don't you act like a girl?
Boob-shaping hiccups are very sexy in the sage grouse world, but whose chesticles are in charge?
Featuring:
Lucy Cooke, Zoologist and author of Bitch A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and t…
00:25:16 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Bitch! Who is really in charge?
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?
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00:25:16 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
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.
Featuring:
Chad Crittle, A…
00:25:16 |
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Shells with stories to tell
Forget ancestry searches online. Shells can tell you the history of the world.
Featuring:
Amy Prendergast, University of Melbourne.
Jann Vendetti, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. …
00:30:00 |
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Kneel before the eel
For thousands of years eels have made people rich and powerful, literally. Now it's time to pay it back.
Featuring:
Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, Historian Cornell University.
Erin Rose, Budj Bim …
00:30:00 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
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.
Luc…
00:30:00 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
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