Off Track
254 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsOff Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.
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Episodes
INTRODUCING — What The Duck?!
February 07, 2022 01:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBAustralia is full of weird plants and animals. And Dr Ann Jones is on speaking terms with most of them! Each week Ann explores the most unusual elements of our natural world — the ones that make you go What the Duck?! Like why do quolls have spots? Who farts (and who doesn't)? And how do snakes climb trees? Join Ann alongside experts and ordinary Aussies alike to solve mysteries, smash myths and uncover the bizarre truth about nature down under. ...
The end of the track
January 21, 2022 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBThe Off Track adventure has come to an end.
Antarctic blue whales and their amazing hums
January 14, 2022 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThe song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic - you feel them as much as you hear them.
Live long, little lizard [RE-ISSUE]
January 07, 2022 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBAfter 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner.
The bilby, the moon and the Birriliburu Rangers
December 31, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBA bilby dreaming story guides a mother with a sick child to an outback town. Decades later, the child returns to repay the favour and look after the bilby.
The Blythe Star sinks off Tasmania [RE-ISSUE]
December 24, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBWhile all ten crew members of the Blythe Star got out alive after she capsized, not all would survive the ordeal that followed.
Growls, grunts and currawong songs [Earworms from Planet earth XIX]
December 17, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBThis is Australia and the world, as heard by you, the listeners of Off Track.
Nature tells us who we are
December 10, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBNature can be sanctuary, as well as family and guide.
Sounds fishy [RE-ISSUE]
December 03, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBJust under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.
Any louder and that frog will explode [Part 2 RE-ISSUE]
November 26, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBIt's all very well recording frog sounds, but what are they trying to say?
Any louder and that frog will explode [Part 1 RE-ISSUE]
November 19, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBMurray Littlejohn first recorded the moaning frogs of WA on a device made from a gramophone mechanism in the early 1950s.
Fire, fire everywhere
November 12, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBHow can you appreciate the ecological importance of fire, but also fight fires with all your might?
Circling piranhas and a kangaroo fight [Incident Report 06]
November 05, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBJust when you thought it might be safe to get back out into nature, you get zapped back to reality.
From Darth Vader to Mardi Gras
October 29, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBCan you defend yourself against a predator more than 200 times your size with a costume change?
Slipping away in the South West
October 22, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBWhat's been dumped on our beaches and what's been taken away?
Making every bird count
October 15, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBWhy are the birds in our neighbourhoods changing?
The lone fisher
October 08, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBIn a tiny town called Windy, a woman seeks a life of isolation.
Kukenarup: Possibilities of place
October 01, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThis site of huge ecological significance has a violent history.
The river visitor making a splash
September 24, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBMelbourne's Yarra river has an unexpected inhabitant, and its bringing joy to people in the locked-down city and beyond.
Spineless swimmers and crawling crustaceans
September 17, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBIn the groundwater beneath the Nullabor, there are billions of tiny crustaceans crawling between the grains of sand.
Crickets and sprickets
September 10, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBMeet the tiny creatures who live in the earth beneath your feet
Slime in the city
September 03, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBTanya Latty kept a slime mould in her desk drawer at the University. And that got her thinking – are there other slime moulds living their best urban life in Sydney?
Ticked-off in Sydney
August 27, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBNorthern Sydneysiders might not like the sound of the latest research into tick hosts in their backyards.
Going home to a mice plague
August 20, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBWhen a final visit to the family farm is rudely interrupted by rodents
Hunting for hoots
August 13, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBIf you listen closely you might just hear something you've never heard before.
Owl with attitude [UPDATE]
August 06, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBLurking in the tall trees of our busy cities and suburbs is a powerful hunter.
And your bug can sing [RE-ISSUE]
July 30, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThe underwater sounds in this creek near Brisbane are like an eclectic jam session.
The butterfly and its goldilocks ant [RE-ISSUE]
July 23, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThe survival of one of the rarest butterflies in the world is entirely reliant on an ant.
In honour of moths
July 16, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBLet's study moths so we can celebrate them properly
Conserving small things on a big scale
July 09, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBIf invertebrates make up over 90% of animals on earth, why do they receive so little conservation funding?
Like a field of blue popcorn
July 02, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBDuring summer on top of Australia's highest mountain, fields of brilliant turquoise skyhoppers bloom.
The BFG of the insect world
June 25, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBWhat’s built like an armoured vehicle, but is super-dooper maternal, has a career as an architect AND is an environmentalist? You’d never guess that Australia’s burrowing cockroaches are so incredibly cute and complex.
Listening to the Natural World
June 18, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBIt's World Listening Day so we are taking a journey through sounds recorded by the audience and one of Australia's most successful nature sound recordists, Andrew Skeoch.
Do your friends make you smarter?
June 11, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBMagpies might be boosting their bird brains with friends.
The real magpies of Western Australia
June 04, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBWhen our favourite black and white birds bring the drama!
Sounds fishy
May 28, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBJust under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.
The point of zoos [RE-ISSUE]
May 21, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBAt the Bronx zoo in New York, Lynne Malcolm explores its potential as an agent for conservation and public education about the natural world.
Ethics, extinction and modern day zoos
May 14, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBWith often complex and cruel histories, can we trust zoos to have animals' best interests at heart?
A tiger, a tortoise and sounds of the zoo
May 07, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBYou might have heard an elephant trumpet but have you heard one fart?
Suction bogs and stealing eagles [Incident Report 05]
April 30, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBJust when you thought it was safe to get back out into nature, you get bitten on the eyeball and bog the car next to a crocodile infested river.
A majesty peculiar to the species [RE-ISSUE]
April 23, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThere is something about the Wedge-tailed Eagle which grips this man in the guts.
The other lyrebird and its anthems
April 16, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThe Albert's lyrebird has a tiny range, but an epic song repertoire.
Lyrebirds: Equality now! [RE-ISSUE]
April 09, 2021 19:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBFemale lyrebirds should be rock stars in their own right.
Lyrebirds: Lyre, lyre, dancefloor on fire [RE-ISSUE]
April 02, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBTriple Blue is a superb lyrebird stud muffin.
Lyrebirds - Repeat after me [Off Track Classic]
March 26, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBYou might think you know the story of the lyrebird. Think again. And then listen to this classic Off Track ear-bending series called 'Sex, lyres and audiotape.'
Lyrebirds: Repeat after me [RE-ISSUE]
March 26, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBYou might think you know the story of the lyrebird. Think again.
Traps, lies, and covered eyes
March 19, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBLyrebird deception just got deeper.
Woof-woof, boo-book [Earworms from Planet Earth XVIII]
March 12, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBEndangered animal sounds and scientists imitating them.
Will the Aussie bush really kill you?
March 05, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 23 MBVenomous trees and angry snakes - just what we need.
Drying without dying
February 26, 2021 18:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBUrban greening takes a tiny turn