What The Duck?!

Australia's most underrated animal: Winner!


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Listen back to the What the Duck?! special broadcast with Dr Ann Jones and Cassie McCullagh.

After 65,000 votes, Australia has spoken — the rakali has been crowned Australia's most underrated native animal!

Raking in a whopping 20 per cent of the votes cast, the water rat was well out in front.

Here are the results:

  1. 1.Rakali
  2. 2.Palm cockatoo
  3. 3.Giant cuttlefish
  4. 4.Dugong
  5. 5.Marsupial mole
  6. 6.Turtle frog
  7. 7.Velvet worm
  8. 8.Great desert skink
  9. 9.Ghost bat
  10. 10.Short-finned eel

You can also read more on the ABC News blog from the countdown:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/wildlife-blog-15-august-2025/105651126

Featuring:

  • Professor Euan Ritchie, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at Deakin University
  • Jacinta Bowler, ABC Science Reporter
  • Dr Kirsti Abbott, head of science at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
  • Professor Nicki Mitchell, UWA
  • Jonathan Webb, ABC Science Editor
  • Dr Mark Norman, Chief Scientist Parks Victoria
  • Dr Christina N Zdenek, ecologist with People for Wildlife
  • Professor Peter Banks, University of Sydney

Production:

  • Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer
  • Rebecca McLaren, Producer
  • James Bullen, Producer
  • Hamish Camilleri, Sound Engineer
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