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What is Look At Me?
Remember The Wild is proud to have teamed up with the Australian Conservation Foundation and Guardian Australia for a second series of Look At Me, launching 10 March, 2022.
Each week, we’ll bring you a new episode featuring some of Australia’s lesser-known, but no-less-fascinating wildlife – like superpowered sea slugs, a butterfly that has groupies, and a marsupial mouse with a bizarre sex life.
Listen on the Guardian website, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app. Just search for Look At Me.
Season 2 Episodes:
Season 2 | Episode 1
The ants keeping an endangered butterfly alive
Imagine outsourcing childcare to a nest of ants? This may not be the best idea for humans but a certain insect is making it work. Now the Eltham copper butterfly’s amazing use of surrogate ant parents has attracted human fans who are using a song to try to save it from extinction…
Season 2 | Episode 2
The gym junkie of the sky
Imagine flying thousands of kilometres to avoid getting cold. Meet the bird that starts its migration journey at a Siberian bush doof and ends up on the mudflats of eastern Australia. In this episode of Look at Me, we hitch a ride with the eastern curlew and meet the zoologist who learnt to fly a plane so she could track their flight path…
Season 2 | Episode 3
The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus
This marsupial mouse enters its first mating season with a thirty-fold increase in testosterone. It copulates at a frenetic rate, only to collapse afterwards, dying from its exertions. But now climate change is posing a much more serious threat to the species than sex…
Season 2 | Episode 4
The tenacious bird abandoning its young in a giant thermal mound
In some of the most harsh habitat in Australia, you’ll find what looks like giant piles of dirt. But dig deeper and you’ll find the eggs of the malleefowl, buried in leaf litter and sand at the exact depth needed to keep them warm until they hatch and are left to fend for themselves, newborn birds fighting to survive…
Season 2 | Episode 5
The scientist who dedicated her life to the mysterious springtail
In the 1950s Dr Penelope Greenslade became one of the few women to study at Cambridge University. She then travelled to Solomon Islands where her love affair with the springtail began, a tiny acrobatic animal that you’ll find almost everywhere in Australia but have probably never recognised…
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