That's Just Wild

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve, Sarah and Lizzie tackle more of your wildest questions one last time, as the show wraps up — going out with a curious bang (and probably a few weird facts for good measure). 💥🐾✨ 🌊 Ever noticed how things seem to vanish into the distance underwater? We explore whether marine animals see the same murky limits we do — or if life beneath the surface has evolve...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve, Sarah and Lizzie dive headfirst into the wonderfully weird and surprisingly soggy side of the natural world 💧💧💧 🐜 Honey ants take food storage to another level — with a special cast that swells up with nectar until they’re completely immobile, hanging from the nest ceiling like living reservoirs, ready to feed the colony when times get tough. 🍯 🧪 Hagfish...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Lizzie tackle more of your wildest questions! 🐦 Mesmerising murmurations & the “rule of 7”… how do starlings move as one without crashing mid-air? We unpack the simple behavioural rules behind those hypnotic sky dances — and why each bird only needs to track a handful of neighbours. 🌅✨ 🐛 Ever seen gulls doing a strange little “worm dance”? We get in...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve, Sarah and Lizzie, drift into the drowsiest corners of the natural world 🌙😴 🛌 Sleep is risky business, so animals have evolved some seriously creative solutions. From extreme sleepers to near-insomniacs, the animal kingdom does things wildly differently 🐾 Discover sloths dozing high in branches too flimsy for predators to reach 🦥🌿, African pixie frogs tha...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Lizzie tackle more of your wildest questions! 🐒 Seriously smart chimps, artistic animals & nature’s creative side… from painting primates to musical whales and masterpiece-making bowerbird—but are they really making “art” like we do? 🎨🐋 🐦 Can different bird species “talk” to each other? We dive into the surprising world of shared alarm calls—how rob...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve, Sarah and Lizzie dive into the natural systems that keep our planet running — the hidden forces connecting oceans, weather, and life itself 🌍✨ 🌊 The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt keeps our planet in motion — a vast, globe-spanning current system circulating water, heat, and nutrients across the seas… quietly shaping climates and life on Earth. 🌦️ From swirling...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Lizzie tackle more of your wildest questions! 🦣 Do animals support their young with disabilities? From African wild dogs to elephants and chimpanzees, we explore the surprisingly compassionate side of the animal kingdom. ❤️🌍 🦒 Ever wondered why giraffes have such ridiculously long necks—and who else is in the long-neck club? From swans and ostriches to a...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Lizzie dare to explore natural world’s toughest survivors — the creatures that refuse to die, defy the odds, and redefine what it means to be truly invincible 💪 🦎 Olms lurk in dark cave systems with the incredible ability to regenerate lost limbs and even organs — and can live for over a century… while planarian worms take things even further, rebuilding...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Lizzie tackle more of your wildest questions! 🐍 Ever thought about owning a corn snake… and then realised how big the commitment actually is? We get into exotic pets and what it really means to care for them. 🤔 🦘 What’s the point of marsupials — and is there such a thing as a “useless” animal? From pouches to egg-layers, we explore the strange paths of e...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Lizzie roll up their sleeves to share some of nature’s most ingenious architects 🏗️🐝 🦫 Could the world’s biggest beaver dam really dwarf the Hoover Dam? From booming “beaver cities” to their surprising comeback (and even “beaver bombing”), these furry engineers are reshaping landscapes. 🌿 🌾 Social weaver birds build giant tree-top apartment blocks packe...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah tackle more of your wildest questions! 🦚 What is the real purpose of sexual dimorphism? From strutting, show-off peacocks to enormous male seals and tiny females, plus the bizarre love life of the anglerfish. 🤯🌊 🐬 Dolphins aren’t always the friendly faces we think they are… what really goes on during mating season, and just how dark can their beha...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah are seriously chatty as they discuss some of nature’s most outrageous communicators📞📢🔊… 🦜 From the red-eyed vireo, the tiny “preacher bird” that somehow belts out a staggering 22,197 songs in just 10 hours (yes, really!), to the white bellbird, whose call is so loud it’s basically like standing next to the speakers at a rock concert… except it’s s...

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve and Sarah tackle more of your wildest questions!  🐆 How close should you really get to a snow leopard? Steve shares a heart-stopping near miss with one of the most elusive predators on Earth. 😳🏔️ 🌵 How do animals survive in the harshest places on the planet — and what happens when apex predators like dingoes and Tasmanian devils are brought back t...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah are exploring into the surprising world of animal memory. 🧠 🐿️ 🌰From squirrels with a near-perfect mental map of their buried snacks to goldfish that can remember far more than you’d think… 🧠🐠 🐘 Meet the matriarchs of the animal kingdom — elephants whose incredible memories may hold the secret to longer lives, thanks to the rare and remarkable “g...

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Sarah is joined by special guest Shark Man Dan for a Shark Q+A special🦈💙🌊 🦈 Ever wondered if sharks are good mums? Turns out life as a baby shark is brutal. The moment they’re born, they’re on their own — just survival in the big blue. 😬🌊 👀 Do sharks ever hunt together? We dive into the surprising social side of these ocean predators… like how many shark...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Sarah is joined by special guest Shark Man Dan for a deep dive into the world of sharks… and the wild path that led Dan to dedicate his career to them. 🦈🌊🎥 🦈💙 Dan shares how he turned his love for sharks into a career — taking a very unconventional route to become one of the ocean’s biggest shark champions. 🏆 Meet Dan’s favourite shark, the epaulette shark — fa...

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve and Sarah tackle more of your wildest questions! 💪🏽 Ever wondered what the bite force of a goose is? Steve reckons he might’ve bite-tested more animals than anyone else on Earth… and honestly, we believe him. 🌏😅 🕷️🕸️ Do wild animals ever keep other animals as pets? Meet the spiders that open their homes to frogs. 🐸🏠 🐜🐄 And we ask the big questions...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah are exploring motherhood in the animal kingdom… from the sweetest care to the most jaw-dropping survival strategies. 💛🐣 🐻‍❄️🐊 From polar bears to crocodilians carrying their babies gently in their mouths… to reptiles like leopard iguanas leaving their hatchlings in a protective pile of poo — motherhood in nature comes in many wild forms. 🥚💩 🕷️ M...

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions! Ever wondered if animals have accents? Sarah and Lizzie discuss if orcas really pass down their own unique calls and communication styles through generations. 🐋🎙️ From gorillas to leafcutter ants to dung beetles… who’s the true strength champion for their size in the animal kingdom? 💪🐜 And...

This week on That’s Just Wild Lizzie and Sarah are racing into all things speedy... blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speedy. And Sarah's got a new book! https://linktr.ee/Wild_Apprentice ⚡👀 🕷️ Meet the flattie spider — whipping around its prey in a spin so fast it holds the title for the quickest terrestrial twirl on Earth. 😵‍💫🕸️ 🦅 🦅 We spotlight the peregrine falcon, the fastest animal on Earth, zo...

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve Backshall and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions! Scorpions that can survive underwater thanks to their wild “book lungs.” Animals reaching heighests hieghts.. from Vultures spotted by an airliner at cruising altitude to Spiders kite-flying to the edge of the stratosphere. And the gloriously named golden-butted leaf-eared mouse. And yes…...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah are going Ancient… seriously ancient. 🦖⏳ 🌊 From the deep cold, dark waters where life moves slowly and lives ridiculously long... where some Glass sponges have survived 17,000 years.🧽🔎 Meeting Ming the giant clam — 507 years old that was already alive when Leonardo da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa.🐚🖼️ 🦈 We trace ancient lineages: Sharks crui...

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly, and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions! 🦈 Why are some orcas obsessed with shark liver — and what’s the story behind pods wearing salmon as actual hats? 🐋🐟 (Yes. Salmon hats.) 🦁 Why don’t big cats bother with tiny snacks? When you’re a lion or tiger, why ignore small prey and go all-in on the big prey? 🧠 And d...

This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve, Lizzie, and Sarah dive heart-first into the wildest, weirdest, and most jaw-dropping hearts in the animal kingdom.❤️❤ 🐟 How many hearts is too many? From fish and reptiles to squid with multiple hearts, the animal kingdom might suprise you! 🩺 Meet the zebrafish that can regenerate it's heart… and the frogs that literally stop theirs to survive freezing tempe...

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly, and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions! Ever wondered why a snake might suddenly throw up its lunch? 🐍🤢 🐝 Why are honey badgers called honey badgers… and how did they become fearless, beehive-raiding machines?🦡🍯 🏙️ And how can you spot the fastest bird on the planet hiding in plain sight — yes, even in the mid...