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The Wild Episode

Brian Ruckley

Science

Frequency: 1 episode/24d. Total Eps: 127

A Collection of Wonders and Curiosities from the Animal Kingdom. Zoology, natural history and sometimes human history too. Amazing stories about amazing wildlife.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - nature
20/08/2026
#80
🇩🇪 Germany - nature
20/08/2026
#58
🇺🇸 USA - nature
20/08/2026
#87
🇬🇧 Great Britain - nature
19/08/2026
#61
🇩🇪 Germany - nature
19/08/2026
#85
🇺🇸 USA - nature
19/08/2026
#84
🇬🇧 Great Britain - nature
18/08/2026
#43
🇺🇸 USA - nature
18/08/2026
#91
🇬🇧 Great Britain - nature
17/08/2026
#30
🇺🇸 USA - nature
17/08/2026
#81

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http://thewildepisode.com/email-and-social-media/
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http://audionautix.com/
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https://www.facebook.com/thewildepisode
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https://twitter.com/WildEpisode
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Score global : 79%

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Remipede : How to be Perplexing

Season 1 · Episode 102

Thursday, September 19, 2024 • Duration 32:25

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.

Show notes, with photos, video and links to lots more information, are available at thewildepisode.com

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Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

Modified versions of: Short Song 030223, Short Song 022723 and Short Song 022523 by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0 ; cinematic suspense series episode 004 and lost place atmospheres 001 by Sascha Ende, CC BY 4.0.

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Leopard : The Cat in the City

Season 1 · Episode 91

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 • Duration 32:09

The leopard is the most flexible, adaptable big cat in the world, with a surprisingly long history of visiting urban areas. Today, as in the past, sharing your city with a large predator brings problems, but maybe there's an upside, because of how, and what, urban leopards are hunting ...

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Show notes, with photos, video and links to lots more information, are available at thewildepisode.com

Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

Modified versions of: $50 to Breathe, I Refuse to Accept That There's Nothing I Can Do About It and Thanks for Trying to Rescue Me But You've Made Things Worse by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 3.0

Paragordius tricuspidatus : The Phantom Thread

Season 1 · Episode 90

Thursday, November 30, 2023 • Duration 34:06

What connects feasting Japanese fish, a swimming pool in southern France and Alexander the Great's encounter with the Gordian Knot? The extraordinary horsehair worm Paragordius tricuspidatus, a simple animal capable of astonishing things ...

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Show notes, with photos, video and links to lots more information, are available at thewildepisode.com

Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

Modified versions of: Cave and Wild bird by Gurdonark, CC BY 4.0; Blooming Flower by Lee Rosevere, CC BY 4.0

Northern Gannet : Deep Impact

Season 1 · Episode 89

Thursday, November 16, 2023 • Duration 31:15

Northern Gannets are famous for one thing above all else: plunge diving after fish. So, an episode that's a bit of a deep dive into ... diving! How high, how deep, how dangerous, and how individually distinctive is a gannet's dive?

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Show notes, with photos, video and links to lots more information, are available at thewildepisode.com

Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

Modified versions of: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy, Path to the Hidden Gate, Midnight in the Monastery and Elegy for a Family by Justin Allan Arnold. CC BY 4.0.

Gannet colony recording by dobroide , .

Antarctic Krill : Maximum Swarm

Season 1 · Episode 88

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 • Duration 32:32

The Antarctic Krill is one of the most numerous animals on Earth, probably responsible for the biggest single species aggregations you can find nowadays. So numerous, in fact, that its surprising connection to Antarctic sea ice is just one of the ways it's bound into global climatic systems, carbon cycling and flows of energy and matter ...

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Show notes, with photos, video and links to lots more information, are available at thewildepisode.com

Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

Modified versions of: Ambient Dream, Nightmare Designs and Dark Awakening by malictusmusic, CC BY 4.0

SCP-x2x and Symmetry by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com),

Tentacled Snake : J Stands For Death

Season 1 · Episode 87

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 • Duration 29:19

The tentacled snake is one of the most unmistakable snakes in the world. And the story of how its tentacles connect to its extraordinary hunting strategy involves two letters: 'J' and 'C'.

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Show notes, with photos, video and links to lots more information, are available at thewildepisode.com

Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

Modified versions of: New Year's Loops by Correspondence, CC BY 3.0, Wants To Know by Bodysurfer, CC BY 3.0, Piano Soundtrack 1 by Gurdonark, CC BY 3.0

Mediterranean Monk Seal : The Seal in Hiding

Season 1 · Episode 86

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 • Duration 34:21

The Mediterranean Monk Seal is probably the rarest pinniped in the world. It's had almost everything thrown at it - by us and by Nature - and survived, just, in part by changing its own behaviour. At some point, left with no alternative, it went into hiding.

Subscribe to the show to make sure you don't miss any future Wild Episodes, and e-mail your comments, corrections, suggestions or feedback to help make those future episodes better!

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To support the show, please share on social media, rate and review in your podcast app! Thank you.

Show notes, with photos, video and links to lots more information, are available at thewildepisode.com

Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

Modified versions of: Realization, Breath and On A Blimp by Kirk Osamayo, CC BY 4.0. Bittersweet and Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin Macleod, CC BY 3.0.

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