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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.
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An ornithologist, a veterinarian and a religious devotee must find the serial killer before every last vulture in India is dead.
Featuring:
Vulture sounds provided by Nikita Mathur, India.
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This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
We get a bit philosophical and try to find out that if animals do dream, will we ever be able to know what they’re dreaming about?
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This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
Birds can fly while half their brain is sleeping and some spiders sleep dangling on a silk thread, but what about worms. Do worms sleep?
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This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
Boob-shaping hiccups are very sexy in the sage grouse world, but whose chesticles are in charge?
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This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
Female lab mice have been bred to be passive and breed with ease. But, in the wild they're feisty and even pugnacious. How much of our biological understanding of the world is based on misogyny?
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A tiny penis, a 12-hour annual fertilisation window, picky females and strawberry bubble bath – these are just a few of the issues that pop up when making a panda cub.
Featuring:
Chad Crittle, Acting Assistant Curator for Carnivores and Ungulates at Zoos SA.
Mr Li Zhang, Consul, Head of Bilateral Section at the Chinese Consulate-General in Adelaide.
Dr Meghan Martin Wintle, Director, Conservation Ecologist at PDX Wildlife.
This is the last show of season 2 of What The Duck but Season 3 is on its way! The best way to stay in touch is to follow or subscribe and turn notifications on.
Forget ancestry searches online. Shells can tell you the history of the world.
Featuring:
Amy Prendergast, University of Melbourne.
Jann Vendetti, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Dr Paul Butler, Researcher at the University of Exeter.
For thousands of years eels have made people rich and powerful, literally. Now it's time to pay it back.
Featuring:
Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, Historian Cornell University.
Erin Rose, Budj Bim World Heritage Executive Officer at Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
Braydon Saunders, Tour Guide Coordinator at Budj Bim Cultural Landscape Tourism.
Tyson Lovett-Murray, Budj Bim World Heritage Ranger at Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
Wayne Koster, Research Scientist at the Arthur Rylah Institute, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victorian Government.
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This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Gunditjmara, Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
For years we've barely even talked about the human clitoris let alone the fact that snakes have TWO.
This program has adult themes.
Featuring:
Belinda Smith, ABC Science Online Reporter.
Lucy Cooke, Author and Film maker.
Megan Folwell, University of Adelaide.
Dr Jenna Crowe-Riddell, La Trobe University.
Production:
This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
They look like... 'sabre-toothed sausages', they can barely see, they live for a really long time and have a queen who oppresses them.
Find out all about the Naked Mole-rat this week and let us know your weirdest animal on earth suggestions at whattheduck@abc.net.au.
Featuring:
Dr Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.
Adjunct Professor Rochelle Buffenstein, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Extra information: Professor Gary R. Lewin, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.
Production:
This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
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