The Wild Episode

A Podcast of Wonders and Curiosities from the Animal Kingdom

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The Wild Episode now has a substack (sure any link'll get throttled, but address is at the foot of the image below!). A place to get some wildlife content that'll brighten your day and if you support the show there you'll get even more, incl bonus episodes! Bargain!

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@JWentomologist That's amazing scenes. Very cool footage.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Life cycle of the giant owl butterfly

📹 insecthaus_adi
https://t.co/YptcxHHoY8

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The inevitable fate of a male Yellow-footed Antechinus is a very, very unusual one in the world of mammals ...

Yellow-Footed Antechinus : Paying the Hormonal Price

https://t.co/enBQ4AStPr

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The Japanese Train Millipede has a surprising history of interactions with the country’s railway system, interactions which reveal it to be almost unique in the way its life is governed by a ticking clock.

Train Millipede : The Eight Year Itch

https://t.co/FYPFlogPEm

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Sharing your city with a large predator brings problems, but maybe there’s an upside, because of how, and what, urban leopards are hunting …

Leopard : The Cat in the City

https://t.co/xDLDwGH8zy

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What connects feasting Japanese fish, a swimming pool in southern France and Alexander the Great’s encounter with the Gordian Knot?

Paragordius tricuspidatus : The Phantom Thread

https://t.co/6WXMMT2GuK

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How high, how deep, how dangerous, and how individually distinctive is a gannet’s dive?

Northern Gannet : Deep Impact.

https://t.co/kJvf0FDjtS

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A while back, Twitter/X disabled automatic posting of podcast episodes. Awesome. Just for the sake of completeness, here come links to recent episodes. (I know it's biased against links too, but what can you do?)

First, Antarctic Krill : Maximum Swarm

https://t.co/AG40Hci15d

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Just to say, since Bluesky is now free and open to all, I do have an account there - a general account rather than podcast-specific, but I will probably put the odd bit of Wild Episode-related stuff there now and again.

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For those kind enough to ask - and everyone else! - Wild Episode will be back next week. With an episode about the most ecologically significant animal I've ever covered, as it happens.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.

[J. Chris McKnight @JChrisMcKnight2]

The most exhilarating wildlife experience I’ve spectated. My mind is beyond blown. Strongly considering adding Jaguar to the list of diving mammals I’d like to study after seeing this apnoea 🤔🤔🤔 🐆🐆🐆 @cristinlambert

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The tentacled snake. A snake with tentacles! What's not to like? The best bit, though, is how those tentacles contribute to underwater prey capture behaviour of remarkable, subtle complexity and sophistication. #zoology #wildlife #snakes #herpetology https://t.co/qwOZQga7Bk

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@ownworstanemone Thanks. And yes, I do try and keep the taxonomic variety ticking over, and yes, next episode is a group that's not shown up so far this year, so bird is a good guess ... but no, not a bird. Close but no cigar.

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The Mediterranean Monk Seal has had almost everything thrown at it - by us and by Nature - and survived, just, in part by changing its own behaviour. At some point, probably in the last century or two, it went into hiding. #nature #wildlife #seals https://t.co/pAdXOgIr0q

[Alex Lees @Alexander_Lees]

Catastrophic loss of marine mammals in Chile

[SawfishConservation @sawfishconserv]

Happening tonight! Check out this special interactive smalltooth #sawfish presentation for FREE @PalmHarborLib. More details at https://t.co/6sQBkvjEc7.

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Caecilians are probably my favourite amphibians. Yellow is probably my favourite colour. So ... the extremely yellow, extremely cool São Tomé Caecilian! #nature #wildlife #amphibians https://t.co/QmwAy5LTiC