Endangered animal sounds and scientists imitating them.

Woof-woof, boo-book [Earworms from Planet Earth XVIII]

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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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.

INTRODUCING — What The Duck?!

The Off Track adventure has come to an end.

The end of the track

The song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic - you feel them as much as you hear them.

Antarctic blue whales and their amazing hums

After 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner.

Live long, little lizard [RE-ISSUE]

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.

Woof-woof, boo-book [Earworms from Planet Earth XVIII]

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