The Critter Shed

Collie Ennis & Colette Kinsella for Red Hare Media•www.podpage.com

If you like learning about the weird and wonderful side of nature - about things like spider sex, venom-packing frogs, or mind-controlling parasites, and more - then this is the podcast for you! Oh, and it's in a shed.

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Parasite Puppeteers

So, you think you have free will, right? Well, have we got news for you! As it turns out, many of our actions - from what we wear, to how we drive, or even to our business skills - may be controlled by microscopic parasites. Today in the shed Collie Ennis and Colette Kinsella chat with passionate parasitologist Maureen Williams of Trinity College Dublin about fungi that control their hosts like puppets on a string, crustaceans that bite off and replace their hosts' tongues, and parasitic wasps t...

Feb 12, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Nipples No Nipples

A milky session in the critter shed where Colette and Collie find out how some animals nourish their young without nipples - from lactating spiders and frogs who feed their tadpoles in the treetops, to sharks whose young fight to the death in utero. You’d be a right tit to miss this one. The Critter Shed. A podcast with legs… and without nipples. Produced by Red Hare Media. Music: Podington Bear - Curious Podington Bear - Firefly Podington Bear - Bell Club Further reading: Lactating spiders: htt...

Jan 29, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Spider Ridin'

"Ridin'" is an Irish colloquial term for "sex". Science research associate Collie Ennis and audio producer Colette Kinsella meet in the critter shed to talk about the saucy (and sad) world of spider sex, where your first act of procreation might be your last. We also find out what it feels like to fall victim to a venom-packing tarantula, and why spiders are your friends (no, really, they are). A podcast with legs. In a shed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jan 15, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1

The Critter Shed - podcast trailer

If you like learning about the weird and wonderful side of nature - about things like spider sex, venom-toting frogs, mind-controlling parasites, and more - then this is the podcast for you! Coming at you fortnightly from 15th January 2019. Oh, and it's in a shed. With Collie Ennis and Colette Kinsella. Produced by Red Hare Media. http://podcast.thecrittershed.net/ Subscribe where you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jan 02, 2019•1 min

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