Episode 157: Emma Teni from The Australian Reptile Park: A mix of Poison and Venom: The Funnel Web Spider.

About this episode

This episode features Emma Tenni discussing the funnel web spider and her work with this species.

The One Hundred and Fifty Seventh episode incoming!!! Welcome to the world of poison and venom, With potentially a little more of the second. This series of episodes takes you into the world of some of our most unique species upon the planet and some extraordinary people alongside. For this episode we are alongside Emma Tenni who takes us into the world of the funnel web spider and the amazing work alongside this species she carries out. Please check out this episode and enjoy it as much as I had to record it. Enjoy the podcast episode and please follow ZOOKEEPING 101 through facebook and instagram to be the first to hear about new episodes.

People in this episode

Host: James Dennis

Guest: Emma Tenni

Topics covered

• poison
• venom
• funnel web spider
• reptiles
• species conservation

Keywords

• funnel web spider
• poison
• venom
• Australian Reptile Park
• species conservation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Australian Reptile Park

Books & works: ZOOKEEPING 101

Places: Australia

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