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Off Track

ABC•www.abc.net.au

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Off 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?!

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 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....

Feb 07, 2022•26 min

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 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....

Feb 07, 2022•26 min

The end of the track

The Off Track adventure has come to an end.

Jan 21, 2022•25 min

The end of the track

The Off Track adventure has come to an end.

Jan 21, 2022•25 min

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.

Jan 14, 2022•25 min

Live long, little lizard [RE-ISSUE]

After 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner.

Jan 07, 2022•25 min

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.

Dec 31, 2021•25 min

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.

Dec 24, 2021•25 min

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.

Dec 17, 2021•25 min

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.

Dec 17, 2021•25 min

Nature tells us who we are

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

Dec 10, 2021•25 min

Nature tells us who we are

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

Dec 10, 2021•25 min

Sounds fishy [RE-ISSUE]

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

Dec 03, 2021•25 min

Sounds fishy [RE-ISSUE]

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

Dec 03, 2021•25 min

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?

Nov 26, 2021•25 min

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?

Nov 26, 2021•25 min

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.

Nov 19, 2021•25 min

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.

Nov 19, 2021•25 min

Fire, fire everywhere

How can you appreciate the ecological importance of fire, but also fight fires with all your might?

Nov 12, 2021•25 min

Fire, fire everywhere

How can you appreciate the ecological importance of fire, but also fight fires with all your might?

Nov 12, 2021•25 min

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.

Nov 05, 2021•25 min

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.

Nov 05, 2021•25 min

From Darth Vader to Mardi Gras

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

Oct 29, 2021•25 min

From Darth Vader to Mardi Gras

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

Oct 29, 2021•25 min

Slipping away in the South West

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

Oct 22, 2021•25 min

Slipping away in the South West

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

Oct 22, 2021•25 min

Making every bird count

Why are the birds in our neighbourhoods changing?

Oct 15, 2021•25 min

Making every bird count

Why are the birds in our neighbourhoods changing?

Oct 15, 2021•25 min

The lone fisher

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

Oct 08, 2021•25 min

The lone fisher

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

Oct 08, 2021•25 min

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