Off Track

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.

The song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic - you feel them as much as you hear them.

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.

This is Australia and the world, as heard by you, the listeners of Off Track.

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

Murray Littlejohn first recorded the moaning frogs of WA on a device made from a gramophone mechanism in the early 1950s.

Just when you thought it might be safe to get back out into nature, you get zapped back to reality.

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

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

Melbourne's Yarra river has an unexpected inhabitant, and its bringing joy to people in the locked-down city and beyond.

Meet the tiny creatures who live in the earth beneath your feet

Northern Sydneysiders might not like the sound of the latest research into tick hosts in their backyards.

If you listen closely you might just hear something you've never heard before.