Welcome to the Zoology Ramblings podcast! Join conservation biologists and wildlife filmmakers Robi Watkinson and Emma Hodson as they ramble away about zoology, the pressing conservation issues of our times, the global climate and biodiversity crises, wildlife taxonomy, and everything in between! Robi and Emma met during their undergraduate studies and the Zoology Ramblings podcast grew from their infectious love for the wild world! The podcast was one of the recipients of the “Spotify Next ...
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Darren Naish and John Conway talk all things tetrapod, and some things not.
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Episode 37: beaver economics, remembering Jane Goodall, nipple-skinned frog, water opossum, tuna in Cornwall, Exmoor pine martens, forgotten leopards & hopeful journalism
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1:13:38Welcome to the thirty-seventh episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi start with some news, with Robi talking about a farmer who's used beavers not only to stop flooding, but boost income on his farm. Emma offers a tribute to the wonderful Jane Goodall, looking back at her legacy. For his species of the week, Robi t…
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Episode 36 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): big gay beaver day, eDNA and sniffer dogs, Ethiopian wolves, antbed parrot moth & Scottish wildcat re-introduction
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1:22:57Welcome to the thirty-sixth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi talk about their recent meet up at the Ealing Beaver Project for a Big Gay Beaver Day. Robi also shares some exciting news of eDNA and sniffer dogs rediscovering lost Sumatran rhinos. Emma then talks about the Ethiopian wolves for her species of the…
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Episode 35: reviewing Attenborough's Oceans film, Aesculapian snakes, proboscis bats, ladybird swarms, dholes in Europe, biofluorescent marsupials & little kiwi rediscovered
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1:20:26Welcome to the thirty-fifth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi start with some news, including good news for spoonbills in Norfolk, and bat-friendly lighting in the Netherlands. Robi and Emma then review Attenborough's new Oceans film, sharing highlights as well as differing opinions about the effectiveness of …
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Episode 34: (SPECIAL EPISODE): silver-backed chevrotain update, tool use in orca, Rhino Rewild initiative, basking sharks, Guam kingfisher & getting into zoology/conservation
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1:50:07Welcome to the thirty-fourth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this special episode, Emma and Robi answer their most commonly asked question: how did you get into zoology/conservation? Emma and Robi offer a personal dive into their professional pathways, looking at how they got into the jobs they are in now, outlining the challenges of t…
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Episode 33: Patreon launch, UK nature festivals, BioShorts publication, banana slugs, immortal jellyfish, state of Europe's carnivores, backwards bills, dire wolves & rewilding rehabilitation
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1:45:58Welcome to the thirty-third episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi share exciting news about the launch of the Zoology Ramblings Patreon, where listeners can support the podcast and gain early access to episodes as well as behind the scenes notes. Emma shares updates from recent UK nature festivals and Robi also sh…
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Episode 32 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): adventures from Botswana and North America, the fluffiest of otters, sexy onagers and cheetah reintroduction to India
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1:28:01Welcome to the thirty-second episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! The podcast has a new intro tune, a big thank you and credits to the very talented Al Middleton for the epic jingle. In this episode, Emma and Robi share news about their recent travels. Emma shares the nature highlights from her recent trip to North America and Robi shares his …
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Episode 31: vicuña poo, giant storks, tardigrades, backtracking on lynx, hedgehog monitoring, de-extinction of the thylacine & new African rhino conservation framework
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1:34:32Welcome to the thirty-first episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi share news about Czech beavers saving taxpayer time and money, Robi goes on a thought tangent about nature friendly farming in the UK and Emma talks about how vicuña poo can create biodiversity hotspots as glaciers retreat. Emma and Robi's animals o…
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Episode 30 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): free the nipple (and the beaver), mourning the sea cow louse, Vancouver sea wolves & Eurasian lynx reintroduction
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1:26:24Welcome to the thirtieth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma and Robi both share news about UK government legislation- one positive (the banning of insect-killing pesticides) and one negative (blocking beaver releases). Emma then talks about the coastal Vancouver sea wolves, while Robi mourns the loss of the extinct sea …
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Episode 29: Rejected Orca Re-classification, Scottish Wildcat Update, Illegal Lynx Releases, L.A Wildfires and Positive Salmon News
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1:03:49Welcome to the twenty-ninth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week, Robi and Emma begin with some very exciting news - the global release of their feature length documentary "Rewilding a Nation" on WaterBear! (link to watch below). Robi provides an update on the decision to reclassify orca into different species and gives an ode to the…
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Recorded LIVE at TetZooCon 2024. The audience laughter is real!Oleh John Conway & Darren Naish
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Episode 28: sloth bears, spade-toothed whales, Nepal tiger conservation, African leadership in conservation & South African sea birds
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1:12:06Welcome to the twenty-eighth episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week, Robi and Emma join you from opposite sides of the world, with Emma in Nepal and Robi in South Africa. Emma recounts some of her exciting wildlife sightings, including the illusive sloth bear and Bengal Tiger. Emma later delves into tiger conservation in Nepal, with so…
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Episode 27: unfinished boar business, graveyard badgers, orca taxonomy, pickle slugs, the beauty in local, restore nature now, golden jackals and clam cancer
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1:22:28Welcome to the twenty-seventh episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast! Thanks for your patience in the gap between episodes. This week, we share some lovely adventures with wild boar and badgers in graveyards when Robi and Emma met up in person. Robi then delves into deep taxonomy of orcas, unpacking the two new proposed species of this majestic c…
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Episode 26 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Aotearoan wildlife & pine marten reintroductions
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1:00:04Welcome to the twenty-sixth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This is a Rewilding Deep Dive episode, so we begin with some conservation news, followed by our species of the week, and then the Rewilding Deep Dive! For the species of the week, both hosts picked Aotearoan species, including the weird and wonderful kakapo parrot and the tuatara…
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Episode 25: brown hyenas and American crayfish, great white fear mongering, community optimism, lethal owl control & celebrating female rangers
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58:50Welcome to the twenty-fifth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week we begin by sharing some quick nature and conservation news, and then onto the species of the week! This time, Robi talks about the fascinating brown hyenas and how they might (or might not) actually be living members of an extinct genus - taxonomy nerds, this one’s for…
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In this long awaited episode, TetZooCon, and dogmen, dogmen, dogmen, and… badgerman.Oleh John Conway & Darren Naish
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Episode 24 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): weird tree shrimps, jawless fish, and the reintroduction of the European bison
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1:12:10Welcome to the twenty-fourth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This is the first of a new episode structure for the ZR podcast: most episodes will follow the normal structure - News, Species of the Week, Local Conservation Story, Global Conservation Story - but every other episode, we will be doing a “Deep Dive” into a potential species rei…
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Episode 23: nature is queer, Iberian lynx, whistling dogs, big cats in the UK and the Festival of Nature
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1:21:46Welcome to the twenty-third episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This week, for the news section, the dynamic duo got together to speak at a Pride Community Campfire that Emma hosted for the Avon Wildlife Trust, followed by a wonderful conversation about the innate queerness of nature featuring lesbian bonobos and elephant orgies … as you do! …
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Episode 22: the Funeral for Nature, bat hawks, hoatzins, sexy snakes and deer taxonomy, badger culling (again), AI footprints, night club crocodiles & Star Wars gibbons
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1:24:08Welcome to the twenty-second episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! We begin this episode with a poignant discussion of Emma’s attendance of the Funeral of Nature in Bath, and a more light-hearted discussion of Robi’s recent sightings of the rare bat hawks in the Okavango Delta! For our species of the week, the dynamic duo discuss the weird, cow…
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Episode 21: Cape Town re-union, African penguins, new species in 2023, beaver updates and rewilding in Swedish Lapland
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48:12Welcome to the twenty-first episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! The dynamic duo shares some exciting updates about their recently released Rewilding A Nation documentary, Robi’s leopard research in Namibia and what the 2024 programme of the Avon Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife Champions project has in store! For species of the week, Emma and Robi c…
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In this bumper episode, Darren has lots of news from the world of Darren (but sadly no fat-bottomed rodents), TetZooCon, and Mosasaurs!Oleh John Conway and Darren Naish
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Episode 20: wildlife champions, ninja leopards, "frogging", Rosebank and time-wizard beavers
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49:03Welcome to the twentieth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Robi talks about his MSc work in Namibia/South Africa, on a project comparing different methods for surveying for leopard density, and Emma speaks about her work supporting local communities taking action for nature in Avon! The hosts take a moment to reflect on key…
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Our long-awaited second episode on Mesozoic marine reptiles — the saga continues with Triassic Weirdos, which is a term you shouldn’t use. Also with some ranting about certain birds are dinosaurs deniers (again).Oleh John Conway and Darren Naish
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Listen for great secret surprise!Oleh John Conway and Darren Naish
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Crocs, crocodiles, crocodyles, crocodylomorphs, crocodylomorphoformes,and non-crocodylilian crocodylomorphoformes!Oleh John Conway & Darren Naish
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… of getting through all the Mesozoic marine reptiles in less than an hour. Tune in to the next episode for the thrilling conclusion… possibly.Oleh John Conway and Darren Naish
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In this episode: frogs. And for those who don’t like frogs: frogs.Oleh John Conway and Darren Naish
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In this episode, spinosaur brains, ankylosaur throats, and scythes or reapers or claws or something.Oleh John Conway and Darren Naish
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Episode 19: sexually-deceptive orchids, ejaculating beetles, bridges for howler monkeys, leopards in Nepal and the elephant in the room
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49:21Welcome to the nineteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, the dynamic duo touch base as Robi embarks on an exciting new journey in Cape Town and Emma joins The Avon Wildlife Trust! For our species of the week, the pair chat about howler monkeys in Costa Rica and ejaculating beetles pollinating sexually-deceptive orchids. …
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This week on the podcats, we talk about wild cats, specifically big cats and small big cats in urban and suburban areas.Oleh John Conway & Darren Naish
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Darren and John return! … to discuss the books Mesozoic Art, A History of Painting (With Dinosaurs) and bringing back the Dodo.Oleh John Conway & Darren Naish
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Episode 18: bottlenose dolphins and black storks, Truss going backwards, cheetahs returning to India, the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre and the lions of the Gir Forest
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1:10:55Welcome to the eighteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! This episode is recorded “in the field”, from Emma’s field site in New Quay, Wales! In the news section, we chat about the UK government’s miserable record on environmental laws and the biodiversity crises. For the species of the week, Emma talks about her current study species, th…
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Recent excavations in the vicinity of John’s hard disk have yielded a fossilised podcast from the Late 2021 period. Enjoy the retro stylings!Oleh John Conway & Darren Naish
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Episode 17: springhares and finfoots, bison reintroductions and EU nature laws, the Beenome Project and rewilding
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47:03Welcome to the seventeenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In our species of the week section, the gang chat about the weird and wonderful biofluorescent springhares of Southern Africa, and the obscure African finfoot! For our local conservation section the dynamic duo delve into the reintroduction of the European bison to the UK and upli…
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Episode 16 (SPECIAL EPISODE): our research, South Africa field course and South African reserve management
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44:31Welcome to the sixteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode Robi and Emma give an update as to their own research (otter and mink spatial modelling for Robi, Galapagos tortoise parasite research for Emma), as well as discussing their recent expedition in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Continuing on this theme, the dyna…
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Episode 15: COP26, a new shark species, hog badgers, potoos, rhino breeding programmes and tuskless elephants
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46:41Welcome to the fifteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! For the news section the dynamic duo talk about COP26, and whether it is going far enough to tackle the climate crisis and highlight a new species of shark. For the animals of the week, Emma discusses the bizarre and wonderful hog badger and Robi talks about the terrifying (and epic…
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Episode 14: legal status for beavers, hope for tunas, Nile crocodiles, reticulated sirens, futuristic seed coatings and jaguar recovery in the USA
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57:45Welcome to the fourteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, Emma talks about the recent decision by the British Government to possibly give beavers native species status and legal protection, and Robi chats about some hope for tuna species despite dwindling populations of other marine species. For the animals of the week, t…
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Episode 13: short-eared dogs, little black tapirs, vaquita updates and Rice's whale on the brink
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1:11:50Welcome to the thirteenth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In this episode, our animals of the weeks include the shadowy short-eared dog and the cryptic little black tapir, which may or may not be a new species. The dynamic duo then delve deeper into some wider conservation stories, including a sad update about the status of vaquitas in Ba…
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Episode 12: Spotify Next Wave Initiative, filming wild beavers, lost river martins of Thailand and crazy cicadas
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44:28Welcome to the twelfth episode of The Zoology Ramblings Podcast! In episode 12, Robi and Emma reveal very exciting news - The Zoology Ramblings Podcast has been selected as one of Spotify’s 8 winners of the Next Wave Initiative! We are so thrilled to have been selected alongside 7 other amazing podcasts which cover some very important and pressing …
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