Zoology Ramblings

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Nature #104

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 Wave Initiative, 2021”, and they also co-founded The Biome Project, an educational filmmaking platform.

Recent Episodes
  • Episode 30 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Free the nipple (and the beaver), Mourning the Sea Cow Louse, Vancouver Sea Wolves & Eurasian Lynx Reintroduction
    Feb 24, 2025 – 01:26:24
  • Episode 29: Rejected Orca Re-classification, Scottish Wildcat Update, Illegal Lynx Releases, L.A Wildfires and Positive Salmon News
    Jan 31, 2025 – 01:03:49
  • Episode 28: Sloth bears, Spade-Toothed Whales, Nepal Tiger Conservation, African Leadership in Conservation & South African Sea Birds
    Dec 27, 2024 – 01:12:06
  • Episode 27: Unfinished boar business, graveyard badgers, orca taxonomy, pickle slugs, the beauty in local, restore nature now, golden jackals and clam cancer
    Dec 15, 2024 – 01:22:28
  • Episode 26 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): Aotearoan wildlife & pine marten reintroductions
    Aug 26, 2024 – 01:00:04
  • Episode 25: brown hyenas and American crayfish, great white fear mongering, community optimism, lethal owl control & celebrating female rangers
    Aug 14, 2024 – 00:58:50
  • Episode 24 (REWILDING DEEP DIVE): weird tree shrimps, jawless fish, and the reintroduction of the European bison
    Jul 25, 2024 – 01:12:10
  • Episode 23: nature is queer, Iberian lynx, whistling dogs, big cats in the UK and the Festival of Nature
    Jul 15, 2024 – 01:21:46
  • 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
    May 14, 2024 – 01:24:08
  • Episode 21: Cape Town re-union, African penguins, new species in 2023, beaver updates and rewilding in Swedish Lapland
    Jan 6, 2024 – 00:48:12
  • Episode 20: wildlife champions, ninja leopards, "frogging", Rosebank and time-wizard beavers
    Nov 13, 2023 – 00:49:03
  • Episode 19: sexually-deceptive orchids, ejaculating beetles, bridges for howler monkeys, leopards in Nepal and the elephant in the room
    Feb 22, 2023 – 00:49:21
  • 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
    Oct 14, 2022 – 01:10:55
  • Episode 17: Springhares and finfoots, bison reintroductions and EU nature laws, the Beenome Project and rewilding
    Jul 15, 2022 – 00:47:03
  • Episode 16 (SPECIAL EPISODE): Our research, South Africa field course and South African reserve management
    May 26, 2022 – 00:44:31
  • Episode 15: COP26, a new shark species, hog badgers, potoos, rhino breeding programmes and tuskless elephants
    Nov 6, 2021 – 00:46:41
  • Episode 14: legal status for beavers, hope for tunas, Nile crocodiles, reticulated sirens, futuristic seed coatings and jaguar recovery in the USA
    Sep 30, 2021 – 00:57:45
  • Episode 13: short-eared dogs, little black tapirs, vaquita updates and Rice's whale on the brink
    Aug 1, 2021 – 01:11:50
  • Episode 12: Spotify Next Wave Initiative, filming wild beavers, lost river martins of Thailand and crazy cicadas
    May 25, 2021 – 00:44:28
  • Episode 11: tayra, monito del monte, zoonotic diseases, African elephants, Welsh beavers and white storks
    Apr 18, 2021 – 01:24:21
  • Episode 10: Sunda Island tigers, Laysan albatrosses, eagle owls in Britain, Cumbria coal mines and coral gardening
    Mar 17, 2021 – 01:23:40
  • Episode 9 (PART 2): Ebo forest conservation, and invasive American mink in Britain
    Feb 13, 2021 – 00:26:58
  • Episode 9 (PART 1): hot pink slugs, alien-like antelopes and the illegal ivory trade
    Feb 13, 2021 – 00:50:04
  • Episode 8 (SHORTS): The plight of the pangolin
    Dec 23, 2020 – 00:24:09
  • Episode 7 (SHORTS): Orca in Scotland
    Dec 16, 2020 – 00:32:48
  • Episode 6 (SPECIAL EPISODE): prehistoric cave bears and Ethiopian geladas
    Nov 21, 2020 – 00:45:11
  • Episode 5: Mexican hairy dwarf porcupines, mysterious beaked whales, Bolivian bushfires, Sumatran rhinos and beavers in Britain
    Nov 7, 2020 – 00:54:55
  • Episode 4: Primal cows, waterbears, Tasmanian devils and the smallest cetacean in the world
    Oct 8, 2020 – 00:49:01
  • Episode 3: White-tailed and Washington's eagles, pine marten conservation and the shark finning crisis
    Oct 7, 2020 – 00:57:38
  • Episode 2: Mobula rays, High Arctic camels, the illegal pangolin trade, silver- backed chevrotains and curlews in crisis!
    Sep 10, 2020 – 00:51:03
  • Episode 1: American sloths, Australia ghost bats, African canned hunting and British badger culling
    Sep 10, 2020 – 00:58:15
Recent Reviews
  • BeeChaotic
    I love this! Also, a suggestion.
    As a young Zoology nerd, I love this! I have one request, since this is such an awesome podcast and I love these two. I don’t really think this will be seen, but can you cover Thylacines? They’re commonly known as Tasmanian Tigers, and I love it! I could give you a crap ton of information about them if you want! :D
  • Kiera T.
    Review
    This podcast is amazing!! They go so in depth on each species, and I always stay interested. I love the banter between the two of you.
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