Podcast · Tech & Science
by ABC · English · Tech & Science
Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.
7 Feb 2022 · 26 min
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.
14 Jan 2022 · 25 min
The song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic - you feel them as much as you hear them.
7 Jan 2022 · 25 min
After 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner.
31 Dec 2021 · 25 min
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.
24 Dec 2021 · 25 min
While all ten crew members of the Blythe Star got out alive after she capsized, not all would survive the ordeal that followed.
17 Dec 2021 · 25 min
This is Australia and the world, as heard by you, the listeners of Off Track.
3 Dec 2021 · 25 min
Just under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.
26 Nov 2021 · 25 min
It's all very well recording frog sounds, but what are they trying to say?
19 Nov 2021 · 25 min
Murray Littlejohn first recorded the moaning frogs of WA on a device made from a gramophone mechanism in the early 1950s.
12 Nov 2021 · 25 min
How can you appreciate the ecological importance of fire, but also fight fires with all your might?
5 Nov 2021 · 25 min
Just when you thought it might be safe to get back out into nature, you get zapped back to reality.
29 Oct 2021 · 25 min
Can you defend yourself against a predator more than 200 times your size with a costume change?
22 Oct 2021 · 25 min
What's been dumped on our beaches and what's been taken away?
1 Oct 2021 · 25 min
This site of huge ecological significance has a violent history.
24 Sep 2021 · 25 min
Melbourne's Yarra river has an unexpected inhabitant, and its bringing joy to people in the locked-down city and beyond.
17 Sep 2021 · 25 min
In the groundwater beneath the Nullabor, there are billions of tiny crustaceans crawling between the grains of sand.
10 Sep 2021 · 25 min
Meet the tiny creatures who live in the earth beneath your feet
3 Sep 2021 · 25 min
Tanya Latty kept a slime mould in her desk drawer at the University. And that got her thinking – are there other slime moulds living their best urban life in Sydney?
27 Aug 2021 · 25 min
Northern Sydneysiders might not like the sound of the latest research into tick hosts in their backyards.
20 Aug 2021 · 25 min
When a final visit to the family farm is rudely interrupted by rodents
13 Aug 2021 · 25 min
If you listen closely you might just hear something you've never heard before.
6 Aug 2021 · 25 min
Lurking in the tall trees of our busy cities and suburbs is a powerful hunter.
30 Jul 2021 · 25 min
The underwater sounds in this creek near Brisbane are like an eclectic jam session.
23 Jul 2021 · 25 min
The survival of one of the rarest butterflies in the world is entirely reliant on an ant.
9 Jul 2021 · 25 min
If invertebrates make up over 90% of animals on earth, why do they receive so little conservation funding?
Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.
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