Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.
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Sunday 10 Dec 2017
The sweet singing butcherbird has inspired symphonies, such is the clarity of its tone.
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Saturday 11 Nov 2017
What does your world sound like? We asked, and you sent us earworms from planet earth. Close your eyes and take a trip.
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Saturday 4 Nov 2017
Possum, tawny frogmouth, platypus, turtle, quoll, endangered devil and raven. No animal is immune to death on Tasmanian roads where 32 animals die every hour.
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Saturday 28 Oct 2017
It was thought that cane toads couldn't survive, and certainly couldn't breed as far south as Sydney. That thought was spectacularly wrong.
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Saturday 21 Oct 2017
Does the decomposition of our loved ones make the soil unsuitable for some plants? And why do grave sites sink? This program has been drawn from the Off Track archives.
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Saturday 14 Oct 2017
Preserving species that are both rare and elusive has led an Australian whale specialist to the Himalayas to search for big cat poo.
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Saturday 7 Oct 2017
A daisy which flowers in bursts of yellow and orange is threatening Australia's environment and agriculture. Luckily two spaniels stand in its way.
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Saturday 30 Sep 2017
From the murky waters of the Murray River emerges a rare monster with an underbelly of red berries and claws of ghostly white.
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Saturday 23 Sep 2017
Pobblebonks outside a prison, cockies screaming bloody murder, a new holland honeyeater and a mystery frog.
These sounds have been submitted from people all around the world - listen to what's happening in their backyard.
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Saturday 16 Sep 2017
These frogs are all closely related in the evolutionary sense, but they sound completely different. Can you hear evolution?
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Saturday 9 Sep 2017
When calling in a group, frogs share both frequencies and time. The result is frog music.
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Saturday 2 Sep 2017
The inland pobblebonk is a beefy frog with a beefy song.
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Saturday 26 Aug 2017
It's actually a legitimate scientific question.
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Saturday 19 Aug 2017
What is a chubby gungan and what does it sound like?
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