Off Track

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INTRODUCING — What The Duck?! Feb 07, 2022

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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 go What the Duck?! Like why do quolls have spots? Who farts (and who doesn't)? And how do snakes climb trees? Join Ann alongside experts and ordinary Aussies alike to solve mysteries, smash myths and uncover the bizarre truth about nature down under.

The end of the track Jan 22, 2022

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The Off Track adventure has come to an end.

Antarctic blue whales and their amazing hums Jan 15, 2022

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The song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic - you feel them as much as you hear them.

Live long, little lizard [RE-ISSUE] Jan 08, 2022

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After 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner.

The bilby, the moon and the Birriliburu Rangers Jan 01, 2022

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A bilby dreaming story guides a mother with a sick child to an outback town. Decades later, the child returns to repay the favour and look after the bilby.

The Blythe Star sinks off Tasmania [RE-ISSUE] Dec 25, 2021

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While all ten crew members of the Blythe Star got out alive after she capsized, not all would survive the ordeal that followed.

Growls, grunts and currawong songs [Earworms from Planet earth XIX] Dec 18, 2021

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This is Australia and the world, as heard by you, the listeners of Off Track.

Nature tells us who we are Dec 11, 2021

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Nature can be sanctuary, as well as family and guide.

Sounds fishy [RE-ISSUE] Dec 04, 2021

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Just under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.