Off Track

INTRODUCING — What The Duck?!

Australia 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 wo

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Antarctic blue whales and their amazing hums

The 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]

After 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

A 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]

While 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]

This is Australia and the world, as heard by you, the listeners of Off Track.

Nature tells us who we are

Nature can be sanctuary, as well as family and guide.

Sounds fishy [RE-ISSUE]

Just under the surface of the ocean, a cacophony of sound awaits.

Any louder and that frog will explode [Part 2 RE-ISSUE]

It'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]

Murray Littlejohn first recorded the moaning frogs of WA on a device made from a gramophone mechanism in the early 1950s.

Fire, fire everywhere

How 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]

Just 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

Can you defend yourself against a predator more than 200 times your size with a costume change?

Slipping away in the South West

What's been dumped on our beaches and what's been taken away?

Making every bird count

Why are the birds in our neighbourhoods changing?

The lone fisher

In a tiny town called Windy, a woman seeks a life of isolation.

Kukenarup: Possibilities of place

This site of huge ecological significance has a violent history.

The river visitor making a splash

Melbourne'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

In the groundwater beneath the Nullabor, there are billions of tiny crustaceans crawling between the grains of sand.