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After 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner.
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Off Track
ABC · Tech & Science · English
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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7 Feb 2022 · 26 min
INTRODUCING — What The Duck?!
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.
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14 Jan 2022 · 25 min
Antarctic blue whales and their amazing hums
The song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic - you feel them as much as you hear them.
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31 Dec 2021 · 25 min
The bilby, the moon and the Birriliburu Rangers
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.
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24 Dec 2021 · 25 min
The Blythe Star sinks off Tasmania [RE-ISSUE]
While all ten crew members of the Blythe Star got out alive after she capsized, not all would survive the ordeal that followed.
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17 Dec 2021 · 25 min
Growls, grunts and currawong songs [Earworms from Planet earth XIX]
This is Australia and the world, as heard by you, the listeners of Off Track.
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3 Dec 2021 · 25 min
Sounds fishy [RE-ISSUE]
Just under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.
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