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Zoology Ramblings
by Emma and Robi
Just two zoology course mates who love rambling about animals, conservation, the injustices of the world and everything in between!You can follow more of our weird and wonderful wildlife adventures on instagram: @emma_hodson_wildlife @robi_watkinson_wildlife
Episodes
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Episode 45: Skomer adventure, trilobite beetles, sea mice, wildcat updates, community shark conservation & good vulture news
Welcome to the forty fifth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi recount their recent wildlife adventure to Skomer Island, where they were dodging toads and bombarded by Manx Shearwaters. For their species of the week, they both pick weird invertebrates. Robi...
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Episode 44: Iberian lynx adventure & wildlife exploring kit
Welcome to the forty fourth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this unique episode, Robi and Emma record a podcast on location from a travel lodge in Malaga. They talk about their most recent wildlife adventure looking for wild Iberian lynx in Spain, including getting lost on a cheese...
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Episode 43 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Dartmoor pony cull, summer heat waves, Malaysian rail babbler, Javan magpie & Eurasian eagle owls
Welcome to the forty third episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Robi starts by talking about the unusual fake news claiming that the government is planning to cull 95% of the ponies on Dartmoor. Emma discusses the unprecedented global temperatures we've been experiencing…
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Episode 42: Sponge of death, wild Moo Deng, fragile wolf genomes, David Attenborough turns 100, tamarin trafficking & rediscovered marsupials
Welcome to the forty-second episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi return with busy updates, including Robi's recent fieldwork adventures in Africa and Emma's bittersweet time at work wrapping up a year-long programme with the Wildlife Champions she supports. For...
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Episode 41: Snot otters, giraffe weevils, guga hunt, toad patrols, forest elephant dung research, & Nepal pangolin conservation
Welcome to the forty-first episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi start by welcoming the newest Patreon members and sharing some exciting news about Robi's new research paper and Zoology Ramblings merch on Teemill. For their species of the week, Robi talks about...
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Episode 40 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Merch launch, mummified cheetahs, Chinese mitten crabs, death by sex, elk reintroduction
Welcome to the fortieth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi share some exciting news about the launch of their new merch range on Teemill, featuring beaver t-shirts, bison hoodies, stork tote bags, lynx jumpers and more. These have been designed by the awesome...
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Episode 39: 2025 wrap up, to Beave or Not To Beave, festive reindeer and Arctic foxes, wolves sequestering carbon, European Young Rewilders, polar bear hunting and snowy owls
Welcome to the thirty-ninth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi adopt a wintery, festive theme for this December episode. They start by looking back at their wildlife adventures from 2025. Robi also explores the question 'to Beave or Not To Beave?', when...
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Episode 38 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): build baby build, trees are older than sharks, BioShorts conference, Salt Creek tiger beetles, Yokozuna slickhead & European tree frog reintroduction
Welcome to the thirty-eighth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi comment on recent updates to the UK's Planning and Infrastructure Bill, and myth bust the idea that sharks are older than trees. Robi also shares some exciting news about presenting his masters...
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Episode 37: beaver economics, remembering Jane Goodall, nipple-skinned frog, water opossum, tuna in Cornwall, Exmoor pine martens, forgotten leopards & hopeful journalism
Welcome to the thirty-seventh episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi start with some news, with Robi talking about a farmer who's used beavers not only to stop flooding, but boost income on his farm. Emma offers a tribute to the wonderful Jane Goodall, looking…
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Episode 36 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): big gay beaver day, eDNA and sniffer dogs, Ethiopian wolves, antbed parrot moth & Scottish wildcat re-introduction
Welcome to the thirty-sixth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi talk about their recent meet up at the Ealing Beaver Project for a Big Gay Beaver Day. Robi also shares some exciting news of eDNA and sniffer dogs rediscovering lost Sumatran rhinos. Emma then...
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Episode 35: reviewing Attenborough's Oceans film, Aesculapian snakes, proboscis bats, ladybird swarms, dholes in Europe, biofluorescent marsupials & little kiwi rediscovered
Welcome to the thirty-fifth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi start with some news, including good news for spoonbills in Norfolk, and bat-friendly lighting in the Netherlands. Robi and Emma then review Attenborough's new Oceans film, sharing highlights as...
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Episode 34: (SPECIAL EPISODE): silver-backed chevrotain update, tool use in orca, Rhino Rewild initiative, basking sharks, Guam kingfisher & getting into zoology/conservation
Welcome to the thirty-fourth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this special episode, Emma and Robi answer their most commonly asked question: how did you get into zoology/conservation? Emma and Robi offer a personal dive into their professional pathways, looking at how they got into…
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Episode 33: Patreon launch, UK nature festivals, BioShorts publication, banana slugs, immortal jellyfish, state of Europe's carnivores, backwards bills, dire wolves & rewilding rehabilitation
Welcome to the thirty-third episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi share exciting news about the launch of the Zoology Ramblings Patreon, where listeners can support the podcast and gain early access to episodes as well as behind the scenes notes. Emma shares...
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Episode 32 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): adventures from Botswana and North America, the fluffiest of otters, sexy onagers and cheetah reintroduction to India
Welcome to the thirty-second episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! The podcast has a new intro tune, a big thank you and credits to the very talented Al Middleton for the epic jingle. In this episode, Emma and Robi share news about their recent travels. Emma shares the nature highlights from...
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Episode 31: vicuña poo, giant storks, tardigrades, backtracking on lynx, hedgehog monitoring, de-extinction of the thylacine & new African rhino conservation framework
Welcome to the thirty-first episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi share news about Czech beavers saving taxpayer time and money, Robi goes on a thought tangent about nature friendly farming in the UK and Emma talks about how vicuña poo can create biodiversity...
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Episode 30 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): free the nipple (and the beaver), mourning the sea cow louse, Vancouver sea wolves & Eurasian lynx reintroduction
Welcome to the thirtieth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi both share news about UK government legislation- one positive (the banning of insect-killing pesticides) and one negative (blocking beaver releases). Emma then talks about the coastal Vancouver sea...
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Episode 29: Rejected Orca Re-classification, Scottish Wildcat Update, Illegal Lynx Releases, L.A Wildfires and Positive Salmon News
Welcome to the twenty-ninth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week, Robi and Emma begin with some very exciting news - the global release of their feature length documentary "Rewilding a Nation" on WaterBear! (link to watch below). Robi provides an update on the decision to…
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Episode 28: sloth bears, spade-toothed whales, Nepal tiger conservation, African leadership in conservation & South African sea birds
Welcome to the twenty-eighth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week, Robi and Emma join you from opposite sides of the world, with Emma in Nepal and Robi in South Africa. Emma recounts some of her exciting wildlife sightings, including the illusive sloth bear and Bengal Tiger. Emma...
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Episode 27: unfinished boar business, graveyard badgers, orca taxonomy, pickle slugs, the beauty in local, restore nature now, golden jackals and clam cancer
Welcome to the twenty-seventh episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! Thanks for your patience in the gap between episodes. This week, we share some lovely adventures with wild boar and badgers in graveyards when Robi and Emma met up in person. Robi then delves into deep taxonomy of orcas,...
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Episode 26 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Aotearoan wildlife & pine marten reintroductions
Welcome to the twenty-sixth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This is a Rewilding Deep Dive episode, so we begin with some conservation news, followed by our species of the week, and then the Rewilding Deep Dive! For the species of the week, both hosts picked Aotearoan species, including...
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Episode 25: brown hyenas and American crayfish, great white fear mongering, community optimism, lethal owl control & celebrating female rangers
Welcome to the twenty-fifth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week we begin by sharing some quick nature and conservation news, and then onto the species of the week! This time, Robi talks about the fascinating brown hyenas and how they might (or might not) actually be living members...
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Episode 24 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): weird tree shrimps, jawless fish, and the reintroduction of the European bison
Welcome to the twenty-fourth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This is the first of a new episode structure for the ZR podcast: most episodes will follow the normal structure - News, Species of the Week, Local Conservation Story, Global Conservation Story - but every other episode, we…
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Episode 23: nature is queer, Iberian lynx, whistling dogs, big cats in the UK and the Festival of Nature
Welcome to the twenty-third episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week, for the news section, the dynamic duo got together to speak at a Pride Community Campfire that Emma hosted for the Avon Wildlife Trust, followed by a wonderful conversation about the innate queerness of nature...
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Episode 22: the Funeral for Nature, bat hawks, hoatzins, sexy snakes and deer taxonomy, badger culling (again), AI footprints, night club crocodiles & Star Wars gibbons
Welcome to the twenty-second episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! We begin this episode with a poignant discussion of Emma’s attendance of the Funeral of Nature in Bath, and a more light-hearted discussion of Robi’s recent sightings of the rare bat hawks in the Okavango Delta! For our…
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Episode 21: Cape Town re-union, African penguins, new species in 2023, beaver updates and rewilding in Swedish Lapland
Welcome to the twenty-first episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! The dynamic duo shares some exciting updates about their recently released Rewilding A Nation documentary, Robi’s leopard research in Namibia and what the 2024 programme of the Avon Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife Champions project…
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Episode 20: wildlife champions, ninja leopards, "frogging", Rosebank and time-wizard beavers
Welcome to the twentieth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Robi talks about his MSc work in Namibia/South Africa, on a project comparing different methods for surveying for leopard density, and Emma speaks about her work supporting local communities taking action for…
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Episode 19: sexually-deceptive orchids, ejaculating beetles, bridges for howler monkeys, leopards in Nepal and the elephant in the room
Welcome to the nineteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, the dynamic duo touch base as Robi embarks on an exciting new journey in Cape Town and Emma joins The Avon Wildlife Trust! For our species of the week, the pair chat about howler monkeys in Costa Rica and...
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Episode 18: bottlenose dolphins and black storks, Truss going backwards, cheetahs returning to India, the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre and the lions of the Gir Forest
Welcome to the eighteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This episode is recorded “in the field”, from Emma’s field site in New Quay, Wales! In the news section, we chat about the UK government’s miserable record on environmental laws and the biodiversity crises. For the species of the...
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Episode 17: springhares and finfoots, bison reintroductions and EU nature laws, the Beenome Project and rewilding
Welcome to the seventeenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In our species of the week section, the gang chat about the weird and wonderful biofluorescent springhares of Southern Africa, and the obscure African finfoot! For our local conservation section the dynamic duo delve into the...
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Episode 16 (SPECIAL EPISODE): our research, South Africa field course and South African reserve management
Welcome to the sixteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode Robi and Emma give an update as to their own research (otter and mink spatial modelling for Robi, Galapagos tortoise parasite research for Emma), as well as discussing their recent expedition in South Africa’s...
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Episode 15: COP26, a new shark species, hog badgers, potoos, rhino breeding programmes and tuskless elephants
Welcome to the fifteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! For the news section the dynamic duo talk about COP26, and whether it is going far enough to tackle the climate crisis and highlight a new species of shark. For the animals of the week, Emma discusses the bizarre and wonderful hog...
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Episode 14: legal status for beavers, hope for tunas, Nile crocodiles, reticulated sirens, futuristic seed coatings and jaguar recovery in the USA
Welcome to the fourteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma talks about the recent decision by the British Government to possibly give beavers native species status and legal protection, and Robi chats about some hope for tuna species despite dwindling populations of...
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Episode 13: short-eared dogs, little black tapirs, vaquita updates and Rice's whale on the brink
Welcome to the thirteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, our animals of the weeks include the shadowy short-eared dog and the cryptic little black tapir, which may or may not be a new species. The dynamic duo then delve deeper into some wider conservation stories,...
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Episode 12: Spotify Next Wave Initiative, filming wild beavers, lost river martins of Thailand and crazy cicadas
Welcome to the twelfth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In episode 12, Robi and Emma reveal very exciting news - The Zoology Ramblings Podcast has been selected as one of Spotify’s 8 winners of the Next Wave Initiative! We are so thrilled to have been selected alongside 7 other amazing...
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Episode 11: tayra, monito del monte, zoonotic diseases, African elephants, Welsh beavers and white storks
Welcome to the eleventh episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In episode 11, Robi and Emma ramble first about their species of the week: the enigmatic tayra of Central and South America, and the tiny monito del monte, a South American marsupial lost on a sea of time! Then for our global...
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Episode 10: Sunda Island tigers, Laysan albatrosses, eagle owls in Britain, Cumbria coal mines and coral gardening
Welcome to the tenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! For the species of the week, Robi talks about the Sunda Islands tigers (with a rambling tangent into tiger taxonomy and palaeontology!), and Emma discusses the Laysan albatross (and in particular one individual, named Wisdom) and…
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Episode 9 (PART 2): Ebo forest conservation, and invasive American mink in Britain
Welcome to the ninth episode (part 2) of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode the hosts talk about the Ebo forest in Cameroon and the incredible biodiversity of life it contains, as well as it’s threats and the pioneering individuals trying to conserve it. For the local conservation...
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Episode 9 (PART 1): hot pink slugs, alien-like antelopes and the illegal ivory trade
Welcome to the ninth episode (part 1) of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This episode has been split into two parts because of it’s length. In part 1, we touch on the species of the week, including neon-pink slugs which live atop a mountain in Australia, as well as the hirola, an alien-looking...
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Episode 8 (SHORTS): the plight of the pangolin
Welcome to the eighth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this special Episode Short, the dynamic duo go into a deep dissection of the illegal pangolin trade, and discuss the threats which both the Asian and African pangolins are facing. The team highlight amazing conservationists and...
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Episode 7 (SHORTS): Orca in Scotland
Welcome to the seventh episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this special Episode Short, the dynamic duo go into a deep dive into the remarkable Orcinus orca, the Blackfish, the Killer Whale. They chat about their distribution, their complex social structures, and the global threats they...
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Episode 6 (SPECIAL EPISODE): prehistoric cave bears and Ethiopian geladas
Welcome to the sixth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! Robi and Emma have been busy with the launch of The Biome Project, an exciting new wildlife filmmaking adventure! So this episode is a Special Episode, where the gang do a deep focus on just two species: the enormous and sadly extinct...
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Episode 5: Mexican hairy dwarf porcupines, mysterious beaked whales, Bolivian bushfires, Sumatran rhinos and beavers in Britain
Welcome to the fifth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This time, the dynamic duo are setting up a new podcast structure! Part one will be the species of the week, part 2 will be global conservation topics, and part 3 will be the local (UK) conservation section. For the species of the…
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Episode 4: primal cows, waterbears, Tasmanian devils and the smallest cetacean in the world
Welcome to the fourth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! For the species of the week, Emma and Robi chat about the aurochs, Bos primigenius, the primal cow, the ancestor of the cattle we know today, and also the tardigrade (AKA the waterbear), a virtually indestructible tiny critter which...
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Episode 3: white-tailed & Washington's eagles, pine marten conservation and the shark finning crisis
Welcome to the third episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! For the species of the week, Emma and Robi chat about the cryptic Washington’s eagle, a bird that may never have existed, and then the white-tailed sea eagle, a bird which definitely DOES exist, because Robi and Emma have tracked them...
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Episode 2: mobula rays, High Arctic camels, the illegal pangolin trade, silver- backed chevrotains and curlews in crisis!
Welcome to the second episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! For the species of the week, Emma and Robi discuss the incredible leaping mobula rays and the lost camels of the American High Arctic! For the conservation section, the dynamic duo take a deep dive into the thriving illegal trade in...
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Episode 1: American sloths, Australia ghost bats, African canned hunting and British badger culling
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! For the species of the week, Emma and Robi delve into the fascinating world of the sloths, those strange Xenarthrans of the Americans, as well as the cryptic and carnivorous ghost bat of Australia! The dynamic duo also touch on a...
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Just two zoology course mates who love rambling about animals, conservation, the injustices of the world and everything in between!You can follow more of our weird and wonderful wildlife adventures on instagram: @emma_hodson_wildlife @robi_watkinson_wildlife
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