

What The Duck?!
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The show with a mission to explore the mysteries of nature - especially the ones that make you go What the Duck?!
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Aug 26, 2022 • 30min
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.

Aug 19, 2022 • 0sec
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 misconceptions about trees.

Aug 12, 2022 • 25min
Why is my tree weeping?
The duckie inbox has been swamped with tree mysteries.

Aug 5, 2022 • 25min
Could you eat an animal that does it in the missionary position?
Ann revisits the release site of a bunch of (almost extinct) Murray Crayfish to find out the crays have been completing sexy rhythmic gymnastics in the mud on the bottom of the murray river.

Jul 29, 2022 • 25min
Stinging Science
He makes things sting him on purpose. WHY.

Jul 22, 2022 • 25min
The bird-eating centipede
It’s like a serial killer movie, a classic horror film. There are huge fangs, a segmented body, a remote location, the ocean bashes against cliffs, you’re all alone and there’s no one to help. The first bodies that turn up are of the children... of petrels.

Jul 15, 2022 • 25min
Become the Cuckoo
How does a cuckoo know it's a cuckoo?

Jul 8, 2022 • 25min
Animals that mine
So... what do you do when a crocodile and a shark end up in your mine pit? AT THE SAME TIME.

Jul 1, 2022 • 25min
Does it fart?
Farts can be a matter of life or death, but not in the way that you're thinking. This is SERIOUS.

Jun 24, 2022 • 25min
Little Penguins
Promiscuous penguins, climate change and penguin first aid.