Wild Stories
Episodes
Eight Armed Underwater Sports Divas
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Do octopuses play football or basketball? This and other essential questions will be raised in this week's episode as I chat with the fantabulous Dr J...
How Pleb Hyenas Become Queens
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hyenas are smart. They put young women in charge. But they're also classist bastards. On this episode, the fantastic Dr Eli Strauss shares the secret ...
Stealing Kiwi Eggs to Save Them
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When sheep and rabbits made the British introduce stoats to New Zealand, millions of kiwi got munched. This is the story of the sneaky conservation he...
Eavesdropping on Elephants
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Wild Stories we're joined by the insect researcher who discovered how elephants talk - Caitlin O'Connell Rodwell. I learnt how Botswana d...
The Half Acorn Paradox
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When is half an acorn better than a whole one? The great Dr Karen Munroe joins the show to fill us in on one of the most chaotically fascinating squir...
Saving the Underpants Bird
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We shot them into oblivion for stealing our pants. But thanks to this week's guest, the incredible Dr Mike Pienkowski, red kites have made themselves ...
Easter Special - How Wombats Do Cube-Shaped Poos
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's Easter and because eating chocolate is irresponsible we're doing an episode about the closest thing: wombat poos. This isn't an animal celebrity ...
How The British Made Crocodiles Evil
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time in Belize people worshipped crocodiles, swam alongside them, treated them as family. Then within two generations the nation turned ag...
The Secret Sound that Hedgehogs Hear
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hedgehog numbers in the UK have fallen from 30 million to less than 1 million since mid-last century. Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen is fixing that. She fol...
Wild Stories Returns on Wednesday
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you everyone for your messages during the break! I've moved halfway around the world, taken up a new job and created some amazing films but now ...
Uncut - It's Hard to Sex a Porcupine
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ex-zookeeper and wildlife creator Jordan Veasley a.k.a. Jungle Jordan swings by to reveal the chillest animals, why so many people think giraffes lay ...
New Year Special - A Giraffe in Paris
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 2026! To kick off a year of incredible stories here's the tale of the baby giraffe that walked to Paris and changed history forever. My favourit...
Uncut - Good Fish, Beardy Fish, Bastard Fish
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hird a.k.a Blowfish, presenter of Netflix's latest wildlife reality show smash hit All the Sharks and the world's ONLY heavy metal marine biologis...
Saving 500 Invisible Species
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia hasn't yet described 1/4 of its native bees. So how do we find and conserve them? Dr Kit Prendergast joins the podcast to fill us in on this...
Uncut - The Red Shanked Wrecking Ball Langur
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ethical wildlife travel guru, monkey saviour and influencer Connie Needham swings by to chat African vs. Asian elephants, hedgehog adjectives and the ...
The Value of Ant Poo
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do headless ants do? It's the worst job in the colony, but saves millions of lives. And humans do it too. Professor Adam Hart joins as guest to t...
Uncut - Binturong Pee Smell
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zookeeper, podcaster and all-round animal nerd Rick Schwartz calls in to the show to discuss raising meerkats, the intelligence of fossa and what bint...
The Hairy Rhino Problem
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They're the last survivor of a genus 20 million years old and about to go extinct because of an argument. John Payne joins the podcast to tell the sto...
What A Bat Sees
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Mayan bat God Camazotz was a nasty piece of work. But there's a more terrifying myth (for bats at least): that bats can't see. In this episode, Sw...
Uncut - Hagfish at a Dinner Party
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Top nature YouTuber and deep sea savant Leo Richard hops on to chat hagfish table manners, giant sharks and whether unlocking immortality would doom t...
The President That Saved The Bison
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the most shocking animal genocide in history and start of the a worldwide conservation movement that saved countless species. This week, American...
Uncut - A Platypus Bacon and Egg Sandwich
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off our new raw uncut conversation show, aye-ayeologist Adam Hartstone-Rose returns to discuss how you make a platypus bacon and egg sandwich,...
Why Hot Bees Get Fed Honey
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You'd think we'd already figured out everything about bees. But Jürgen's discovered two new bee professions: heater and gas station bees. He's also f...
What We Learn From Whale Snot
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A whale's nose is not where you think. And Dr Vanessa Pirotta should know. She came up with a special drone to steal their snot. If that's snot a stor...
An Army of Tadpoles That Can't Grow Old
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Spiders That Like Sock Smell
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 sock...
A Lemur's Secret Murder Finger
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Launch Special - The Baby Rhino That Sailed Around Africa
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode, author-historian Jillian Forsberg joins to regale us with the story of the very first animal celebrity, who sailed arou...
Teaser Trailer
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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