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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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Would you meet a stranger in a park with a pile of snakes?
Comedian, Craig Quartermaine, took the risk in an attempt to overcome his fears!
Featuring:
Craig Quartermaine, Comedian.
Sandy Dickinson, Urban Reptiles.
Jonathan Wright, Announcer voice.
Production:
Would you meet a stranger in a park with a pile of snakes?
Comedian Craig Quartermaine, took the risk in an attempt to overcome his fears.
Featuring:
Craig Quartermaine, Comedian.
Sandy Dickinson, Urban Reptiles.
Jonathan Wright, Announcer voice.
Production:
This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung, Yuggera, Turrbal and Kaurna people.
Who made small steps for man before man could even space walk?
Featuring:
James Foley, Author and Illustrator.
Kerrie Dougherty OAM, Senior Heritage and Outreach Officer, Australian Space Agency.
Emeritus Professor John P. Gluck, University of New Mexico and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.
Michael Coggan, News Voice.
Production:
This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
He loved gold, so he robbed stage coaches in South Australia and used an ostrich as a getaway car. OR DID HE?!
Welcome to the first episode of 'What The Duck?!' Season 2.
Featuring:
Denice Mason, teacher and Meningie resident.
Associate Professor Rohan Clarke, Monash University and co-author of the Australian Bird Guide.
Jacob Fiebig, Meningie resident and composer of "The ballad of John Peggotty".
Production:
This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung, Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna people.
Gravity defying ninja skills, being able to hear even if you don't have ears, working together to gang up on huge prey. Spiders are murder machines.
This is the final episode of Season 1 What the Duck?!
Stay subscribed for Season 2 coming on Feb 11th, 2023.
Featuring:
Dr Kate Umbers, Western Sydney University.
Dr Alfonso Aceves-Aparicio, University Hamburg.
Dr Jay Stafstrom, Cornell University.
Dr Lena Grinsted, University of Portsmouth.
Production:
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.
If you think that cow politics is just about the live export business, you are wrong.
Cows have politics of their own – machinations to sort out who is the leader and who will be led.
Featuring:
Dr Rebecca Doyle, Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne.
Joe Gelonisi - the voice of cow facts.
Derek Klingenberg, cattle trombonist.
Production:
Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and the Kaurna people.
Here’s a field guide you probably don’t have — “Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia".
Grabbing a lift can go from bad to worse when your uber drops you outside your evolutionary niche.
FEATURING
Dr Matt Greenlees, Sydney University.
Arthur White, NSW frog and tadpole study group.
David Chapple, Monash University.
Dr Maggie Watson, Charles Sturt University.
Dr Robert Streit, Reef Function Hub at James Cook University.
Voice of the Internet: Nikolai Beilharz.
Production:
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.
Ever wondered about the spiders in your car mirror? How they got there and ‘where the duck’ they’re going?
FEATURING
Dr Ken Walker, Senior Curator of Entomology, Museums Victoria Research Institute.
Dr Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne
Production:
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.
The 'sound of summer' is actually thousands of blokes screaming 'PICK ME' at the top of their screaming cicada voices.
A millipede has a thousand legs right? WRONG!
FEATURING
Dr 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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