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Life is strange, naturally you want to hear about it. Strange by Nature is your guide to the strange, weird and unbelievable side of nature. Professional naturalists present weekly curated stories about just how strange nature can get.
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Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
This week, Kirk takes us back to the end of the dinosaur age and how the asteroid impact may have set up just the right conditions to create the world's first farmers. Ants, it turns out, beat humans to the idea of agriculture by about 65 million years.
Rachel then takes us to one of the most remote islands in the world, Nightingale Island, to hear about the amazing effort going to to save the endemic Wilkins's Bunting. It is a monumental task that included saving forests by raising and introducing killer wasps.
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9 months ago
Iirc science people have been training wildlife not to eat cane toads by using small amounts of cane toad meat dosed to make them mildly sick and having animals eat it
9 months ago
The conversation about introducing stuff to an environment reminds me how I live in the part of Aus that has cane toads (I don’t remember enough but I think there has been some interesting work done by people and adaptations by animals in regards to dealing with cane toads actually)