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
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…
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Fri 03 Mar 2023
Craig Vs 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 Dic…
00:30:00 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Animals in Space
Who made small steps for man before man could even space walk?
Featuring:
James Foley, Author and Illustrator.
Kerrie Dougherty OAM, Senior Heritage and Outreach Officer, Australian Space Agency.
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00:30:00 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
The ostrich-riding bushranger
He loved gold, so he robbed stage coaches in South Australia and used an ostrich as a getaway car. OR DID HE?!
Welcome to the first episode of 'What The Duck?!' Season 2.
Featuring:
Denice Mason,…
00:30:00 |
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Spider murder methods
Gravity defying ninja skills, being able to hear even if you don't have ears, working together to gang up on huge prey. Spiders are murder machines.
This is the final episode of Season 1 What the D…
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Fri 16 Dec 2022
The politics of being a cow
If you think that cow politics is just about the live export business, you are wrong.
Cows have politics of their own – machinations to sort out who is the leader and who will be led.
Featuring…
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Fri 09 Dec 2022
Inside a cow pat
Here’s a field guide you probably don’t have — “Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia".
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Fri 02 Dec 2022
Hitchhikers guide to ecology
Grabbing a lift can go from bad to worse when your uber drops you outside your evolutionary niche.
FEATURING
Dr Matt Greenlees, Sydney University.
Arthur White, NSW frog and tadpole study grou…
00:30:00 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Field guide to car ecology
Ever wondered about the spiders in your car mirror? How they got there and ‘where the duck’ they’re going?
FEATURING
Dr Ken Walker, Senior Curator of Entomology, Museums Victoria Research Inst…
00:30:00 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
How to speak Cicada
The 'sound of summer' is actually thousands of blokes screaming 'PICK ME' at the top of their screaming cicada voices.
00:30:00 |
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Never skip leg day
A millipede has a thousand legs right? WRONG!
FEATURING
Dr Juanita Rodriguez, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO.
Dr Bruno Alves Buzatto, Flinders University.
Luis Villazon, Science …
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Fri 04 Nov 2022
Animals on acid
It turns out self medicating and herbal remedies are not exclusive to humans…
FEATURING
Dr Kevin Feeney, Central Washington University.
Adjunct Professor Michael Huffman, University of Kyoto.
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00:30:00 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
The big bad wolf – have we got it wrong?
How far from reality are the folk stories about wolves and dogs? We’re going right back to Aesop’s fables with zoologist and author Jo Wimpenny.
Listen to part one (Aesop’s animals) here:
F…
00:26:15 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
It DOES fart!
The world's oldest fart is frozen in amber, and it is the source of the world's oldest fart joke.
Listen to part one (Does it Fart?!) here.
FEATURING
Dani Rabaiotti, Author of Does it Fart? an…
00:30:00 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
What's in your freezer?
Move the peas over to find that Australian freezers have seals, kangaroo penises and the DNA of 'the Chanel of goats.'
FEATURING:
Dr Natalie Warburton, Murdoch University.
Dr Jillian Garvey, L…
00:30:00 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
It's still brown and sticky!
There are so many sticky things in nature, but what's the nature of their stickiness? Ann puts on her spider-woman gloves to find out.
FEATURING:
Ella Tyler, wife of the late Prof Mike Tyler.
Prof…
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Fri 30 Sep 2022
What's brown and sticky?
If you ever wanted to be able to stick to walls like spider man, then listen to this.
00:30:00 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
The flies have it
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, Entomologist, Author of Eyes on Flies.
PRODUCT…
00:30:00 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
A short break for What the Duck?!
What the Duck?! is taking a short break so instead you'll be hearing Radio New Zealand’s 'Our Changing World' on the radio for the next three weeks.
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Fri 26 Aug 2022
Trees call out fake news
Sawing through tree myths with Arborists Maja and Sam.
No matter how good your job is, there’s always something that really cheeses you off, and Maja and Sam are SICK TO DEATH of all your misconcept…
Fri 19 Aug 2022
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