It's the most shocking animal genocide in history and start of the a worldwide conservation movement that saved countless species. This week, American conservation icon Keith Aune joins to regale us with the story of how the West's iconic bison herds escaped extinction by a hair.

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Kicking off our new raw uncut conversation show, aye-ayeologist Adam Hartstone-Rose returns to discuss how you make a platypus bacon and egg sandwich, extinct animals we can't believe we missed out on, and the island he'd hide on if he was on the run.

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You'd think we'd already figured out everything about bees. But Jürgen's discovered two new bee professions: heater and gas station bees. He's also figured out what a bee sees (or doesn't see!) when it flies at speed. Here's the story...

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A whale's nose is not where you think. And Dr Vanessa Pirotta should know. She came up with a special drone to steal their snot. If that's snot a story worth listening to, whale, you're wrong.

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There's a plague of toads sweeping Australia. They outnumber people ten to one. But Dr Rick Shine has a solution straight out of Jurassic Park to stop them in their tracks. He's rewriting their DNA.

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New Zealand's Dr Fiona Cross tells a tale of two spiders: one that outsmarted its researchers and another that's mysteriously drawn to our smelly socks.

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Apparently if an aye aye points at you, you're going to die. So lemur researcher Dr Adam Hartstone-Rose is probably doomed. But he did discover a new finger on the world's second weirdest primate.

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In this special bonus episode, author-historian Jillian Forsberg joins to regale us with the story of the very first animal celebrity, who sailed around the Cape to meet kings and emperors, then vanished after death.

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