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?!
Episodes
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Apr 15, 2022 • 25min
A girl walks in the woods
After receiving a heartbreaking email, Ann goes on a mission to prove that ‘girls DO like spiders.’
Apr 8, 2022 • 25min
How to catch an Emu
Taking on an Emu is 100% a mind game.
Apr 1, 2022 • 25min
Man vs quoll
Between 1831 and 1916 there were 111 published reports of quolls eating human corpses. What. The. Duck?!
Mar 25, 2022 • 25min
Aesop's Animals
What is the science behind the famous fables like the tortoise and the hare?
Mar 18, 2022 • 25min
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.
Mar 11, 2022 • 25min
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.
Mar 4, 2022 • 25min
Snakes and Ladders
How does a snake climb a pole? It's not like they have a ladder... or arms.
Feb 25, 2022 • 25min
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?
Feb 18, 2022 • 25min
Tits, boobies and hooters
Why is it that bird names seem so… childishly misogynistic?
Feb 11, 2022 • 25min
Are you really better than a bum-licking ant?
Humans totally were the first farmers, right?! Think again.
