Ochre Sea Star : The Keystone Experiment
The Wild Episode : Ochre Sea Star : The Keystone Experiment
Remipede : How to be Perplexing
Remipedes! Upside-down-swimming, venom-injecting, cave-dwelling amazingness. Some of the strangest crustaceans ever discovered, living in some of the strangest places the world has to offer.
Myrmeconema : Gliding Ants and Red Berries
Ants that can glide and Myrmeconema, a parasitic nematode that can change the appearance and behaviour of its host. What happens when the two of them meet?
Sumatran Rhino : Sunset Song
The story of the amazing Sumatran Rhino, closing living relative of the extinct Woolly Rhinoceros: its extraordinary voice and its journey through the twilight of the natural world.
Cookiecutter Shark : A Bright Shark in a Dark Ocean
The Cookiecutter Shark is famous for its gruesomely efficient parasitic attacks on whales, seals and big fish. But that is only a part of the story when it comes to this extraordinary, and extraordinarily bright, shark ...
Giant Barrel Sponge : Methuselah on the Reef
The Giant Barrel Sponge: one of the simpler animals on Earth yet grows to enormous size over a crazily long life (we're talking maybe thousands of years!), exerts a big influence on reef ecosystems and, unlike a great many animals in our oceans, seems to be thriving ...
Aldabra Giant Tortoise : The One and Only
The Aldabra Giant Tortoise is an amazing survivor of a lost time - very recently lost - when giant tortoises dominated many of the islands in the Indian Ocean. Aldabra Atoll is the only place in the world you can still see great herds of tens of thousands of these huge reptiles.
Phrynus longipes : The Whip Spider in the Cave
The Whip Spider Phrynus longipes is not a spider but one of the craziest-looking arachnids on Earth. They're also territorial and cannibalistic, so how do they manage to survive at super high densities in Caribbean caves without eating each other?
Glacier Lanternfish : The Scatterers
Back from a brief illness-induced delay with an episode on the GLACIER LANTERNFISH. Part of maybe the biggest and most under-appreciated concentration of animal life on the planet, which we can't really see, not easily anyway, except when we use sound ...
Matabele Ant : The Raid
The Matabele Ant conducts large-scale raids against its only prey: termites. And the way it does it is amazing, with elements that might remind us of reconnaissance, generals, signalling, tactics, even battlefield medical services.
Train Millipede : The Eight Year Itch
Happy New Year to all Wild Episode listeners! We're starting 2024 with the story of the Japanese Train Millipede, which might seem a humble sort of critter but not only has a history of defeating the Japanese railway system - that history reveals a fundamental truth about its life that makes it almost, but not quite, unique in the animal kingdom ...
Leopard : The Cat in the City
The history of leopards in cities goes back a bit further than you might think - and now as in the past, having a big predator in your neighbourhood brings problems, but maybe also brings some benefits, because of how, and what, urban leopards hunt ...
