PODCAST · science
Off Track
by ABC
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.
Episodes
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INTRODUCING — What The Duck?!
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...
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The end of the track
The Off Track adventure has come to an end.
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Antarctic blue whales and their amazing hums
The song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic - you feel them as much as you hear them.
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Live long, little lizard [RE-ISSUE]
After 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner.
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The bilby, the moon and the Birriliburu Rangers
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.
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The Blythe Star sinks off Tasmania [RE-ISSUE]
While all ten crew members of the Blythe Star got out alive after she capsized, not all would survive the ordeal that followed.
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Growls, grunts and currawong songs [Earworms from Planet earth XIX]
This is Australia and the world, as heard by you, the listeners of Off Track.
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Nature tells us who we are
Nature can be sanctuary, as well as family and guide.
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Sounds fishy [RE-ISSUE]
Just under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.
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Any louder and that frog will explode [Part 2 RE-ISSUE]
It's all very well recording frog sounds, but what are they trying to say?
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Any louder and that frog will explode [Part 1 RE-ISSUE]
Murray Littlejohn first recorded the moaning frogs of WA on a device made from a gramophone mechanism in the early 1950s.
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Fire, fire everywhere
How can you appreciate the ecological importance of fire, but also fight fires with all your might?
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Circling piranhas and a kangaroo fight [Incident Report 06]
Just when you thought it might be safe to get back out into nature, you get zapped back to reality.
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From Darth Vader to Mardi Gras
Can you defend yourself against a predator more than 200 times your size with a costume change?
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Slipping away in the South West
What's been dumped on our beaches and what's been taken away?
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Making every bird count
Why are the birds in our neighbourhoods changing?
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The lone fisher
In a tiny town called Windy, a woman seeks a life of isolation.
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Kukenarup: Possibilities of place
This site of huge ecological significance has a violent history.
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The river visitor making a splash
Melbourne's Yarra river has an unexpected inhabitant, and its bringing joy to people in the locked-down city and beyond.
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Spineless swimmers and crawling crustaceans
In the groundwater beneath the Nullabor, there are billions of tiny crustaceans crawling between the grains of sand.
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Crickets and sprickets
Meet the tiny creatures who live in the earth beneath your feet
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Slime in the city
Tanya Latty kept a slime mould in her desk drawer at the University. And that got her thinking – are there other slime moulds living their best urban life in Sydney?
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Ticked-off in Sydney
Northern Sydneysiders might not like the sound of the latest research into tick hosts in their backyards.
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Going home to a mice plague
When a final visit to the family farm is rudely interrupted by rodents
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Hunting for hoots
If you listen closely you might just hear something you've never heard before.
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Owl with attitude [UPDATE]
Lurking in the tall trees of our busy cities and suburbs is a powerful hunter.
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The butterfly and its goldilocks ant [RE-ISSUE]
The survival of one of the rarest butterflies in the world is entirely reliant on an ant.
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In honour of moths
Let's study moths so we can celebrate them properly
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Conserving small things on a big scale
If invertebrates make up over 90% of animals on earth, why do they receive so little conservation funding?
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Like a field of blue popcorn
During summer on top of Australia's highest mountain, fields of brilliant turquoise skyhoppers bloom.
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The BFG of the insect world
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.
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Listening to the Natural World
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.
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Do your friends make you smarter?
Magpies might be boosting their bird brains with friends.
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The real magpies of Western Australia
When our favourite black and white birds bring the drama!
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Sounds fishy
Just under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.
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The point of zoos [RE-ISSUE]
At the Bronx zoo in New York, Lynne Malcolm explores its potential as an agent for conservation and public education about the natural world.
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Ethics, extinction and modern day zoos
With often complex and cruel histories, can we trust zoos to have animals' best interests at heart?
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A tiger, a tortoise and sounds of the zoo
You might have heard an elephant trumpet but have you heard one fart?
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Suction bogs and stealing eagles [Incident Report 05]
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.
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A majesty peculiar to the species [RE-ISSUE]
There is something about the Wedge-tailed Eagle which grips this man in the guts.
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The other lyrebird and its anthems
The Albert's lyrebird has a tiny range, but an epic song repertoire.
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Lyrebirds: Equality now! [RE-ISSUE]
Female lyrebirds should be rock stars in their own right.
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Lyrebirds: Lyre, lyre, dancefloor on fire [RE-ISSUE]
Triple Blue is a superb lyrebird stud muffin.
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Lyrebirds: Repeat after me [RE-ISSUE]
You might think you know the story of the lyrebird. Think again.
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Traps, lies, and covered eyes
Lyrebird deception just got deeper.
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Woof-woof, boo-book [Earworms from Planet Earth XVIII]
Endangered animal sounds and scientists imitating them.
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Will the Aussie bush really kill you?
Venomous trees and angry snakes - just what we need.
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Drying without dying
Urban greening takes a tiny turn
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Are we 'burning in ignorance'?
In South West WA, there are concerns that prescribed burning is negatively impacting an internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot.
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It's not a koala bear, it's a koala boom
We've all heard the stories of the koala on the brink of extinction, but in parts of Victoria, is the exact opposite – the koalas are booming and it’s all our fault.
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Off Track currently has 246 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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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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