Are you high, or is that a sheep glowing?

Featuring:

• Linda Reinhold, Zoologist at James Cook University.
• Professor Simon Lewis, Curtin University. 
• Dr. Kenny Travouillon, Western Australian Museum. 
• Caitlin Grieve, Hillend Dorsets.

A group of Killer whales have been hassling boats around Spain over the last few years. 

They've been nibbling the rudders and even sinking yachts, but why?

Has anyone considered that it might be revenge?  How dangerous are Orcas anyway? 

Featuring:

• Martin Evans, UK Sailor.
• Professor Peter Keegan, History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. 
• Dr Rebeca Wellard, Curtin University.
• Dr Luke Rendell, University of St Andrews, Scotland. 
• Anna Selbmann, University of Iceland.

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
• Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
• Additional mastering:  Hamish Camilleri.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

They smell like a squid in a wool jumper, they sound like a duck on helium, and devoted 'Petrel Heads' travel thousands of kilometres just to hear them moan.  

Featuring:

• Peter Vaughan, Monash University. 
• Stephen Totterman, Northern NSW Naturalist and seabird enthusiast.
• Rolenas Tavue Baereleo, Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation, Government of Vanuatu.  

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
• Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
• Additional mastering:  Hamish Camilleri.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

Have the crabs been lying to us? There are true crabs, false crabs, and even shame-faced crabs which implies that some of them, at least, are guilty.

Featuring:

Dr Rachael King, SA Museum. 

Professor Judith Weis, Rutgers University, Newark. 

Dr Annabel Dorrenstein, University of Western Sydney.

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
• Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
• Additional mastering:  Hamish Camilleri.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

You probably have a daddy-long-legs in your house right now.

But when is having a weird housemate in the corner ACTUALLY a good thing? Dr Ann Jones investigates.  

Featuring:

• Dr Samantha Nixon, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). 
• Dr Lizzy Lowe, Invertebrates Australia.

Thanks also to Dr Bernhard Huber, Arachnid Curator at Museum Koenig.  

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
• Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
• Additional mastering:  Hamish Camilleri.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

An extra special, podcast only, five-minute story for you!

A bird that stands over a metre tall hardly seems like it'd bow down to a rock star, but Johnny Cash played a burning role in the near-extinction of Californian Condors.

Featuring:

Dr. Maggie Watson, Zoologist at Charles Sturt University 

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

An ornithologist, a veterinarian and a religious devotee must find the serial killer before every last vulture in India is dead.

Featuring:

• Dr Campbell Murn, Head of Conservation at Hawk Conservancy Trust and University of Reading, UK.
• Dr Kishor Rithe, Interim Director, Bombay Natural History Society. 
• Dr Andrea Santangeli, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain.
• Dr Percy Avari, Mumbai Vetinarary College. 
• Sherally Munshi, Georgetown. 

Vulture sounds provided by Nikita Mathur, India. 

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
• Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
• Additional mastering:  Hamish Camilleri.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

We get a bit philosophical and try to find out that if animals do dream, will we ever be able to know what they’re dreaming about?

Featuring:

• Cassie, Claire and Pidgey the Parrot. 
• Associate Professor Nicole Lovato, Flinders University. 
• Associate Professor John Lesku, La Trobe University. 
• Professor David Pena Guzman, author of ‘Animal Dreaming’ and San Francisco State University.  
• Professor Sidarta Ribeiro, neuroscientist at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. 
• Dr Shauni Omond, @wormgirl on Instagram, La Trobe University.  
• Professor Niels Rattenborg, Research leader on Avian Sleep, Max Planck Institute. 

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
• Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
• Additional mastering:  Hamish Camilleri.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

Birds can fly while half their brain is sleeping and some spiders sleep dangling on a silk thread, but what about worms. Do worms sleep?

Featuring:

• Associate Professor John Lesku, La Trobe University. 
• Dr Shauni Omond, @shauniomond.sleepsci on Instagram, La Trobe University.  
• Professor Niels Rattenborg, Research leader on Avian Sleep, Max Planck Institute. 
• Dr Daniela Roessler, University of Konstanz. 

Production:

• Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
• Petria Ladgrove, Producer.

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.