The Zoology Ramblings Podcast
Episodes
Episode 41: Snot otters, giraffe weevils, guga hunt, toad patrols, forest elephant dung research, & Nepal pangolin conservation
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 40 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Merch launch, mummified cheetahs, Chinese mitten crabs, death by sex, elk reintroduction
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ne...
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
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 38 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): build baby build, trees are older than sharks, BioShorts conference, Salt Creek tiger beetles, Yokozuna slickhead & European tree frog reintroduction
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Planni...
Episode 37: beaver economics, remembering Jane Goodall, nipple-skinned frog, water opossum, tuna in Cornwall, Exmoor pine martens, forgotten leopards & hopeful journalism
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 36 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): big gay beaver day, eDNA and sniffer dogs, Ethiopian wolves, antbed parrot moth & Scottish wildcat re-introduction
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Bea...
Episode 35: reviewing Attenborough's Oceans film, Aesculapian snakes, proboscis bats, ladybird swarms, dholes in Europe, biofluorescent marsupials & little kiwi rediscovered
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 spo...
Episode 34: (SPECIAL EPISODE): silver-backed chevrotain update, tool use in orca, Rhino Rewild initiative, basking sharks, Guam kingfisher & getting into zoology/conservation
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the thirty-fourth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this special episode, Emma and Robi answer their most commonly asked questio...
Episode 33: Patreon launch, UK nature festivals, BioShorts publication, banana slugs, immortal jellyfish, state of Europe's carnivores, backwards bills, dire wolves & rewilding rehabilitation
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Zoolo...
Episode 32 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): adventures from Botswana and North America, the fluffiest of otters, sexy onagers and cheetah reintroduction to India
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 talent...
Episode 31: vicuña poo, giant storks, tardigrades, backtracking on lynx, hedgehog monitoring, de-extinction of the thylacine & new African rhino conservation framework
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the thirty-first episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi share news about Czech beavers saving taxpayer ti...
Episode 30 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): free the nipple (and the beaver), mourning the sea cow louse, Vancouver sea wolves & Eurasian lynx reintroduction
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the thirtieth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi both share news about UK government legislation- one...
Episode 29: Rejected Orca Re-classification, Scottish Wildcat Update, Illegal Lynx Releases, L.A Wildfires and Positive Salmon News
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the twenty-ninth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week, Robi and Emma begin with some very exciting news - the global releas...
Episode 28: sloth bears, spade-toothed whales, Nepal tiger conservation, African leadership in conservation & South African sea birds
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Episode 27: unfinished boar business, graveyard badgers, orca taxonomy, pickle slugs, the beauty in local, restore nature now, golden jackals and clam cancer
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 26 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Aotearoan wildlife & pine marten reintroductions
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 25: brown hyenas and American crayfish, great white fear mongering, community optimism, lethal owl control & celebrating female rangers
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 24 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): weird tree shrimps, jawless fish, and the reintroduction of the European bison
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 23: nature is queer, Iberian lynx, whistling dogs, big cats in the UK and the Festival of Nature
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Prid...
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
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 21: Cape Town re-union, African penguins, new species in 2023, beaver updates and rewilding in Swedish Lapland
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the twenty-first episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! The dynamic duo shares some exciting updates about their recently released Rewil...
Episode 20: wildlife champions, ninja leopards, "frogging", Rosebank and time-wizard beavers
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 proje...
Episode 19: sexually-deceptive orchids, ejaculating beetles, bridges for howler monkeys, leopards in Nepal and the elephant in the room
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 jou...
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
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 17: springhares and finfoots, bison reintroductions and EU nature laws, the Beenome Project and rewilding
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 bi...
Episode 16 (SPECIAL EPISODE): our research, South Africa field course and South African reserve management
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 min...
Episode 15: COP26, a new shark species, hog badgers, potoos, rhino breeding programmes and tuskless elephants
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 14: legal status for beavers, hope for tunas, Nile crocodiles, reticulated sirens, futuristic seed coatings and jaguar recovery in the USA
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the fourteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma talks about the recent decision by the British Government to...
Episode 13: short-eared dogs, little black tapirs, vaquita updates and Rice's whale on the brink
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 12: Spotify Next Wave Initiative, filming wild beavers, lost river martins of Thailand and crazy cicadas
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the twelfth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In episode 12, Robi and Emma reveal very exciting news - The Zoology Ramblings Podca...
Episode 11: tayra, monito del monte, zoonotic diseases, African elephants, Welsh beavers and white storks
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 enigm...
Episode 10: Sunda Island tigers, Laysan albatrosses, eagle owls in Britain, Cumbria coal mines and coral gardening
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 9 (PART 2): Ebo forest conservation, and invasive American mink in Britain
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 incred...
Episode 9 (PART 1): hot pink slugs, alien-like antelopes and the illegal ivory trade
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 8 (SHORTS): the plight of the pangolin
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 7 (SHORTS): Orca in Scotland
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 remarkabl...
Episode 6 (SPECIAL EPISODE): prehistoric cave bears and Ethiopian geladas
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 wild...
Episode 5: Mexican hairy dwarf porcupines, mysterious beaked whales, Bolivian bushfires, Sumatran rhinos and beavers in Britain
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 4: primal cows, waterbears, Tasmanian devils and the smallest cetacean in the world
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 3: white-tailed & Washington's eagles, pine marten conservation and the shark finning crisis
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 2: mobula rays, High Arctic camels, the illegal pangolin trade, silver- backed chevrotains and curlews in crisis!
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Episode 1: American sloths, Australia ghost bats, African canned hunting and British badger culling
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...