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
Man vs quoll
Between 1831 and 1916 there were 111 published reports of quolls eating human corpses. What. The. Duck?!
00:25:17 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
Aesop's Animals
What is the science behind the famous fables like the tortoise and the hare?
00:25:16 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Wearing the skins of your enemies
Sometimes it’s not enough to liquify your enemies and drink them through a straw. Sometimes you have to wear their skins as you hunt down their friends and families.
00:25:15 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
Salty extremophiles
This place is so extreme that NASA sends scientists to test equipment for Mars missions. And yet, Australia's salty lakes are full of life.
00:25:16 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Snakes and Ladders
How does a snake climb a pole? It's not like they have a ladder... or arms.
00:25:17 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
The kookaburra that conquered Hollywood
Yes, that was a kookaburra at the start of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. But WHY?
00:25:16 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Tits, boobies and hooters
Why is it that bird names seem so… childishly misogynistic?
00:25:17 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Are you really better than a bum-licking ant?
Humans totally were the first farmers, right?! Think again.
00:25:16 |
Fri 11 Feb 2022
Eat sh*t and prosper
Evolution has resulted in a million ways that animals succeed on this earth, we just didn’t realise so many of them involved eating your own poo.
00:25:16 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
Duck the Ripper
Ripper the musk duck had many bad habits – chief among them was attacking the keepers and then swearing under his breath. But was Ripper really angry, or was his swearing a symptom of something much …
00:25:16 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
INTRODUCING — What The Duck?!
Australia is full of weird plants and animals. And Dr Ann Jones is on speaking terms with most of them! Each week Ann explores the most unusual elements of our natural world — the ones that make you …
00:02:40 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
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