Filthy Animals

S2E8 - A Truly Rotten Episode

Content Warning: heavy discussion of death, decomposition, and impolite body functions. I believe it was Imhotep in 1999's The Mummy who said "Death is only the beginnin

S2E7 - Let's Hang Out and Talk Balls

Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia Allan's Sources: Coming soon! +++ More of Our Work +++ Website Facebook TikTok Twitch Bluesky +++ Contact U

S2E6 - A Game of Cucks

Content Warning: none In this month's Filthy Animals, Rachel tests the strength of monogamous bonds in the animal kingdom by seeing what the data says about their infide

S2E5 - The Dog That Never Died

Content Warning: Discussion of cancer and related illnesses Cancer is scary. A transmissible, STI-based cancer is even scarier. Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor (CTVT

S2E4 - The Queerness of Fish

Content Warning: This is a pretty wholesome episode. No fear, dear listener! In honor of Pride Month, Rachel is taking us beneath the waves and beyond the binary into th

S2E3 - Lekking for Love

Content Warning: explicit language, descriptions of sex, pretty wholesome episode honestly Dancing, fighting, spreading sweet-smelling pheromones… all in the name of lov

S2E2 - Catnip (Don't make it weird.)

Content Warning: Drug use, including recreational drugs. Moral panics. Sexual references. Spoiler: ((it's not the cats)) What is catnip, what's its effect on cats, and i

S2E1 - RANKED: Love (The Dangerous and The Dumb)

Content Warning: cannibalism, suicide, coercive/violent sexual behavior, death during pregnancy, partner death, drowning, necrophilia (start the episode at 36:12 to avoi

S1E9 - Bees Do It Sweeter

Content Warning: Discussions about sexual acts and copulation rituals in bees, including some graphic "traumatic mating events." :) "It can't always be roses." - Nicole B

S1E8 - Boom, Boom, Babies

The miracle of life is straightforward and simple, right? Sperm. Egg. BOOM. Babies. That's what they taught us in science school! In actuality, it's much more complicate

S1E7 - The Pantry of Nightmares: The Eastern Mole's Guide to Prepping Like a Psychopath

Content Warning: Body horror, existential dread, "nature is metal" prey-predator interactions. This Halloween episode is about predators who stash their prey for later...

S1E6 - Let's Talk About (Not) Sex

Content Warning: References to sex and nonviable pregnancies. Spending every moment of waking life trying to get laid has its downsides, and for some organisms, the busi

S1E5 - Koala Chlamydia

Content Warning: graphic descriptions of STIs, death, some sprinkling of thinking too much about how much of a horror bodies are. Koalas are well known for being disease

S1E4 - Antechinus Sex Machines

Content Warning: graphic descriptions of sex, violent acts Turns out lots of animals just wait around till maturity and then turn into horny little guys. The genus Antec

S1E3 - Horny Wonders (Plants)

Content Warning: This episode is WEIRDLY explicit for an episode about plants. Contains explicit discussions about sex, sexual acts, and genitalia. Nicole's Notable Sour

S1E2 - Eyeballs Deep (Butterflies)

Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia, mild body horror Rachel's Sources: Arikawa, K. 2001. Hindsight of Butterflies: The Papilio butterfly has lig

S1E1 - Sex as Social Grease (Bonobos)

Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia Allan's Sources: De Waal, Franz. Bonobos: The Forgotten Ape. 1st ed., published 1997. De Waal, Franz. “Bonobo

Filthy Animals Premiers April 25

Filthy Animals is an ecology podcast for adults. Episodes may contain strong language and graphic descriptions of natural phenomena. A more detailed list of content warni