Off Track

During summer on top of Australia's highest mountain, fields of brilliant turquoise skyhoppers bloom.

What’s built like an armoured vehicle, but is super-dooper maternal, has a career as an architect AND is an environmentalist? You’d never guess that Australia’s burrowing cockroaches are so incredibly cute and complex.

It's World Listening Day so we are taking a journey through sounds recorded by the audience and one of Australia's most successful nature sound recordists, Andrew Skeoch.

Magpies might be boosting their bird brains with friends.

When our favourite black and white birds bring the drama!

Just under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.

At the Bronx zoo in New York, Lynne Malcolm explores its potential as an agent for conservation and public education about the natural world.

With often complex and cruel histories, can we trust zoos to have animals' best interests at heart?

You might have heard an elephant trumpet but have you heard one fart?

Just when you thought it was safe to get back out into nature, you get bitten on the eyeball and bog the car next to a crocodile infested river.