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Wild Stories
by Elliot Connor
Weekly audio tales exploring the forgotten history and science of our fellow animals, told by experts, hosted by wildlife filmmaker and conservationist Elliot Connor. New episodes every Wednesday forever. Please follow and leave a review. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Wild Stories Series 3 Coming Soon
Thanks for tuning in to Wild Stories Season 2! I'm taking a short break then will be back bigger, bolder and weirder with Season 3 in a few months. Here's a peek!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Eight Armed Underwater Sports Divas
Do octopuses play football or basketball? This and other essential questions will be raised in this week's episode as I chat with the fantabulous Dr Jennifer Mather about her 50 years of finding out incredible things about octopuses (and spin off on a tangent about octopus gambling). Hosted on...
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How Pleb Hyenas Become Queens
Hyenas are smart. They put young women in charge. But they're also classist bastards. On this episode, the fantastic Dr Eli Strauss shares the secret that allows just a few enterprising low-born hyenas to beat the odds, rise up and take the crown in this game of clans. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Stealing Kiwi Eggs to Save Them
When sheep and rabbits made the British introduce stoats to New Zealand, millions of kiwi got munched. This is the story of the sneaky conservation heist - Operation Nest Egg - bringing them back from the brink recounted by the wonderful Lindsey Gray. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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Eavesdropping on Elephants
This week on Wild Stories we're joined by the insect researcher who discovered how elephants talk - Caitlin O'Connell Rodwell. I learnt how Botswana doubled its elephants whilst populations across Africa were halved, the reason pregnant ellies are brutally booted out of herds and how a Hawaaian…
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The Half Acorn Paradox
When is half an acorn better than a whole one? The great Dr Karen Munroe joins the show to fill us in on one of the most chaotically fascinating squirrel-acorn-forest studies ever conducted, nut evolution and the scientific value of hoovers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Saving the Underpants Bird
We shot them into oblivion for stealing our pants. But thanks to this week's guest, the incredible Dr Mike Pienkowski, red kites have made themselves a comeback. This is the story of how it happened, and why it changed one nation's outlook on conservation forever. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Easter Special - How Wombats Do Cube-Shaped Poos
It's Easter and because eating chocolate is irresponsible we're doing an episode about the closest thing: wombat poos. This isn't an animal celebrity individual like our normal specials. This is a whole species fallen from grace, robbed of the spotlight. But one man and his robots are clawing...
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How The British Made Crocodiles Evil
Once upon a time in Belize people worshipped crocodiles, swam alongside them, treated them as family. Then within two generations the nation turned against them and almost wiped them out. This is the story of how a greedy empire with an eye for gossip obliterated an entire country's wildlife…
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The Secret Sound that Hedgehogs Hear
Hedgehog numbers in the UK have fallen from 30 million to less than 1 million since mid-last century. Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen is fixing that. She followed them around for a year peering into people's gardens to see where they went. She dissected hundreds peeled off roads to learn how long they...
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Series 2 Teaser Trailer
Thank you everyone for your messages during the break! I've moved halfway around the world, taken up a new job and created some amazing films but now I'm back at the desk with more than a dozen fresh episodes of Wild Stories already lined up to share with you all. These are some of my favourite...
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Uncut - It's Hard to Sex a Porcupine
Ex-zookeeper and wildlife creator Jordan Veasley a.k.a. Jungle Jordan swings by to reveal the chillest animals, why so many people think giraffes lay eggs, what okapis smell like and of course the challenges of sexing porcupines! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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New Year Special - A Giraffe in Paris
Happy 2026! To kick off a year of incredible stories here's the tale of the baby giraffe that walked to Paris and changed history forever. My favourite, Zarafa. And joining us on this cross-continental romp, special guest Heather Sharkey. Thanks for listening everyone! Hosted on Acast. See...
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Uncut - Good Fish, Beardy Fish, Bastard Fish
Tom Hird a.k.a Blowfish, presenter of Netflix's latest wildlife reality show smash hit All the Sharks and the world's ONLY heavy metal marine biologisy stops by to chat diving hydrothermal vents, the hazards of shark chumming and the most bastardly fish on the planet. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Saving 500 Invisible Species
Australia hasn't yet described 1/4 of its native bees. So how do we find and conserve them? Dr Kit Prendergast joins the podcast to fill us in on this crazy unexplored world of science, of insects lost and rediscovered, and the favourite bees she's discovered. Hosted on Acast. See…
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Uncut - The Red Shanked Wrecking Ball Langur
Ethical wildlife travel guru, monkey saviour and influencer Connie Needham swings by to chat African vs. Asian elephants, hedgehog adjectives and the evolutionary benefits of being a rascal. But how on Earth did I make her say 'Eupleridae'? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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The Value of Ant Poo
What do headless ants do? It's the worst job in the colony, but saves millions of lives. And humans do it too. Professor Adam Hart joins as guest to tell the story of how he discovered mutant waste collector ants in Panama and to finally reveal the value of ant poo! Hosted on Acast. See...
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Uncut - Binturong Pee Smell
Zookeeper, podcaster and all-round animal nerd Rick Schwartz calls in to the show to discuss raising meerkats, the intelligence of fossa and what binturong pee smells like. But did I get him to say 'hectocotylus'? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Hairy Rhino Problem
They're the last survivor of a genus 20 million years old and about to go extinct because of an argument. John Payne joins the podcast to tell the story of Sumatran rhinos from being skinned for Chinese armour to fire-breathing fables to the 40-year-old debate that screwed it all up. But is there...
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What A Bat Sees
The Mayan bat God Camazotz was a nasty piece of work. But there's a more terrifying myth (for bats at least): that bats can't see. In this episode, Swedish scientist Johan Eklöf tells the story of how he used moth lollipops to prove bats hunt with their eyes as well as their ears. Hosted on…
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Uncut - Hagfish at a Dinner Party
Top nature YouTuber and deep sea savant Leo Richard hops on to chat hagfish table manners, giant sharks and whether unlocking immortality would doom the planet. But did I get him to say 'octopodes'? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The President That Saved The Bison
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. Hosted on Acast....
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Uncut - A Platypus Bacon and Egg Sandwich
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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Why Hot Bees Get Fed Honey
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... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What We Learn From Whale Snot
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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An Army of Tadpoles That Can't Grow Old
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Spiders That Like Sock Smell
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Lemur's Secret Murder Finger
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Launch Special - The Baby Rhino That Sailed Around Africa
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Weekly audio tales exploring the forgotten history and science of our fellow animals, told by experts, hosted by wildlife filmmaker and conservationist Elliot Connor. New episodes every Wednesday forever. Please follow and leave a review. Thanks!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Weekly audio tales exploring the forgotten history and science of our fellow animals, told by experts, hosted by wildlife filmmaker and conservationist Elliot Connor. New episodes every Wednesday forever. Please follow and leave a review. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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