Wild Stories

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wild Stories is coming soon, with new episodes every Wednesday. Make sure to follow and turn on automatic downloads so you don't miss an episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.