HeyJaredWhat The Duck?!
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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- 12
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- Sep 11, 2026
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Tits, boobies and hooters (opens the original)
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Why is it that bird names seem so… childishly misogynistic? Featuring: Professor Andrew Cockburn, bird watcher and word batcher, ANU Jeannie Gray, Author, Australian Bird Names: Origins and Meanings. Ian Fraser, Author, Australia Bird Names: Origins and Meanings. Stephen Downes, the brains behind @Parrotoftheday social media accounts Stephen Moss, Author, Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names. Nola Turner-Jensen, Culture Inclusion Specialist and Wiradjuri Historian Dr Ayesha Tulloch, R
Can you speak fish? (opens the original)
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Someone get a translator app because the fish are ready to speak. FEATURING: Lauren Hawkins - Centre for Marine Science and Technology at Curtin University. Dr Aaron Rice - Research Scientist at Cornell University. FEATURED SOUNDS : Thanks to Aaron and Lauren for providing sounds as well as Professor Robert McCauley and the Centre for Marine Science and Technology at Curtin University. PRODUCTION: Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer Petria Ladgrove, Producer Additional mastering: Hamish Camilleri Th
Hitchhikers guide to ecology (opens the original)
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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 masteri
G.O.A.T AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWER (opens the original)
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Does Australia have a BEST wildflower? Hang on... what even is a flower? Dr Ann Jones and Belinda Smith count down the top 10 best wildflowers as voted by YOU in a special live show, The Hour of Flower. FEATURING: Tim Entwisle – Author, The Sceptical Botanist. Former CEO of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne Chantelle Doyle - Research Associate, Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW Kingsley Dixon - Professor, School of Biological Sciences,
Flowers are disgusting, filthy, badasses (opens the original)
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Quackery and Catfishing. Fake news doesn’t only happen on the human internet. Welcome to nature’s dark web. We didn’t TRY to make a spooky and disturbing episode... we just wanted to talk about plants with DUCK in the title. But oh boy, these flowers are savage! One of them has become internet famous for a detox that could literally kill you. Another catfishes its pollinators by pretending to be (and even feeling like) the ‘private’ parts of a female fly! Nature isn’t safe from this algorithm. F
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