What The Duck?!

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Nov 18, 2022 • 30min

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?  FEATURINGDr Ken Walker, Senior Curator of Entomology, Museums Victoria Research Institute. Dr Laurent Keller, University of LausanneProduction:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Joel Werner, Script Editor. Additional mastering: Angela Grant.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
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Nov 11, 2022 • 30min

How to speak Cicada

The 'sound of summer' is actually thousands of blokes screaming 'PICK ME' at the top of their screaming cicada voices.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 30min

Never skip leg day

A millipede has a thousand legs right? WRONG!FEATURINGDr Juanita Rodriguez, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO.Dr Bruno Alves Buzatto, Flinders University.Luis Villazon, Science Educator UK. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Additional mastering: Angela Grant.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
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Oct 28, 2022 • 30min

Animals on acid

It turns out self medicating and herbal remedies are not exclusive to humans…FEATURINGDr Kevin Feeney, Central Washington University.Adjunct Professor Michael Huffman, University of Kyoto.Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison, Newcastle University UK.Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Nick Kilvert, Presenter/ Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
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Oct 21, 2022 • 26min

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: FEATURINGDr Jo Wimpenny- Zoologist and AuthorProduction:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
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Oct 14, 2022 • 30min

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.FEATURINGDani Rabaiotti, Author of Does it Fart? and Zoological Society of London.Dr Nick Gales, Former Head of Australian Antarctic Division.Prof Dave Watson, Charles Sturt University. Prof Jeffrey Stillwell, Adjunct Monash UniDr Adam Munn, Biologist. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Jo Khan, Producer.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
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Oct 7, 2022 • 30min

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, La Trobe University. Dr Nicola Rivers, Monash University.Dianne Hakof, Hospital Manger Animal Health Department Zoos SAPRODUCTION:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
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Sep 30, 2022 • 30min

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 Andrew Smith, Biology, Ithaca College.Prof George Murrell, Director Orthopaedic Research Institute, St George Hospital, NSW.PRODUCTION:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 30min

What's brown and sticky?

If you ever wanted to be able to stick to walls like spider man, then listen to this. 
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Sep 16, 2022 • 30min

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. PRODUCTION:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Joel Werner, Script Editing.This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.

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