About the People and Nature Podcast

About the People and Nature Podcast

Remember The Wild
On September 29, 2022

In this episode we get to know our host, Chris, and learn about the aims of the People and Nature Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xo8jwxRh0nrTbwobULgW8?si=f1dcc1adf746473a

The underwater punk straight out of the realm of science fiction

The underwater punk straight out of the realm of science fiction

Remember The Wild
On September 29, 2022

In this final episode of Look at Me, we dive into the ocean’s to discover a creature that is perhaps the most bizarre animal Rae has ever seen. This dazzling group of sea slugs adapts

The scientist who dedicated her life to the mysterious springtail

The scientist who dedicated her life to the mysterious springtail

Remember The Wild
On September 29, 2022

In the 1950s Dr Penelope Greenslade became one of the few women to study at Cambridge University. She then travelled to Solomon Islands where her love affair with the springtail began, a tiny acrobatic animal

The tenacious bird abandoning its young in a giant thermal mound

The tenacious bird abandoning its young in a giant thermal mound

Remember The Wild
On September 29, 2022

In some of the most harsh habitat in Australia, you’ll find what looks like giant piles of dirt. But dig deeper and you’ll find the eggs of the malleefowl, buried in leaf litter and sand

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About the People and Nature Podcast

About the People and Nature Podcast

In this episode we get to know our host, Chris, and learn about the aims of the People and Nature Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xo8jwxRh0nrTbwobULgW8?si=f1dcc1adf746473a

The underwater punk straight out of the realm of science fiction

The underwater punk straight out of the realm of science fiction

In this final episode of Look at Me, we dive into the ocean’s to discover a creature that is perhaps the most bizarre animal Rae has ever seen. This dazzling

The scientist who dedicated her life to the mysterious springtail

The scientist who dedicated her life to the mysterious springtail

In the 1950s Dr Penelope Greenslade became one of the few women to study at Cambridge University. She then travelled to Solomon Islands where her love affair with the springtail

The tenacious bird abandoning its young in a giant thermal mound

The tenacious bird abandoning its young in a giant thermal mound

In some of the most harsh habitat in Australia, you’ll find what looks like giant piles of dirt. But dig deeper and you’ll find the eggs of the malleefowl, buried

The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

This marsupial mouse enters its first mating season with a thirty-fold increase in testosterone. It copulates at a frenetic rate, only to collapse afterwards, dying from its exertions. But now

The gym junkie of the sky

The gym junkie of the sky

Imagine flying thousands of kilometres to avoid getting cold. Meet the bird that starts its migration journey at a Siberian bush doof and ends up on the mudflats of eastern

The ants keeping an endangered butterfly alive

The ants keeping an endangered butterfly alive

Imagine outsourcing childcare to a nest of ants? This may not be the best idea for humans but a certain insect is making it work. Now the Eltham copper butterfly’s

Introducing Look at Me season 2

Introducing Look at Me season 2

When it comes to Australian native animals, everyone thinks about koalas and kangaroos and drop bears and wombats. But what about the creepy ones? What about the niche ones? The

Our rare tiny marsupial, hanging on in the mountains

Our rare tiny marsupial, hanging on in the mountains

When we think of the effects of climate change it’s easy to focus on rising sea levels – but what about the changes happening much higher up? At Mount Hotham

The 3-metre worm you will never have seen

The 3-metre worm you will never have seen

Eastern Victoria is home to a strange creature that few have seen and even fewer have researched. You may be able to hear its gurgles under the ground but the