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Hosted by Elliot Connor · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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Weekly audio tales exploring the forgotten history and science of our fellow animals, told by experts, hosted by wildlife filmmaker and conservationist Elliot Connor. New episodes every Wednesday forever. Please follow and leave a review. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Elliot Connor hosts Wild Stories, a science show with 30 episodes published.
Thanks for tuning in to Wild Stories Season 2! I'm taking a short break then will be back bigger, bolder and weirder with Season 3 in a few months. Here's a peek!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat
Thanks for tuning in to Wild Stories Season 2! I'm taking a short break then will be back bigger, bolder and weirder with Season 3 in a few months. Here's a peek!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat
Do octopuses play football or basketball? This and other essential questions will be raised in this week's episode as I chat with the fantabulous Dr Jennifer Mather about her 50 years of finding out incredible things abo
Hyenas are smart. They put young women in charge. But they're also classist bastards. On this episode, the fantastic Dr Eli Strauss shares the secret that allows just a few enterprising low-born hyenas to beat the odds,
When sheep and rabbits made the British introduce stoats to New Zealand, millions of kiwi got munched. This is the story of the sneaky conservation heist - Operation Nest Egg - bringing them back from the brink recounted
This week on Wild Stories we're joined by the insect researcher who discovered how elephants talk - Caitlin O'Connell Rodwell. I learnt how Botswana doubled its elephants whilst populations across Africa were halved, the
When is half an acorn better than a whole one? The great Dr Karen Munroe joins the show to fill us in on one of the most chaotically fascinating squirrel-acorn-forest studies ever conducted, nut evolution and the scienti
We shot them into oblivion for stealing our pants. But thanks to this week's guest, the incredible Dr Mike Pienkowski, red kites have made themselves a comeback. This is the story of how it happened, and why it changed o
It's Easter and because eating chocolate is irresponsible we're doing an episode about the closest thing: wombat poos. This isn't an animal celebrity individual like our normal specials. This is a whole species fallen fr
Once upon a time in Belize people worshipped crocodiles, swam alongside them, treated them as family. Then within two generations the nation turned against them and almost wiped them out. This is the story of how a greed
Hedgehog numbers in the UK have fallen from 30 million to less than 1 million since mid-last century. Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen is fixing that. She followed them around for a year peering into people's gardens to see wher
Thank you everyone for your messages during the break! I've moved halfway around the world, taken up a new job and created some amazing films but now I'm back at the desk with more than a dozen fresh episodes of Wild Sto
Ex-zookeeper and wildlife creator Jordan Veasley a.k.a. Jungle Jordan swings by to reveal the chillest animals, why so many people think giraffes lay eggs, what okapis smell like and of course the challenges of sexing po
Happy 2026! To kick off a year of incredible stories here's the tale of the baby giraffe that walked to Paris and changed history forever. My favourite, Zarafa. And joining us on this cross-continental romp, special gues
Tom Hird a.k.a Blowfish, presenter of Netflix's latest wildlife reality show smash hit All the Sharks and the world's ONLY heavy metal marine biologisy stops by to chat diving hydrothermal vents, the hazards of shark chu
Australia hasn't yet described 1/4 of its native bees. So how do we find and conserve them? Dr Kit Prendergast joins the podcast to fill us in on this crazy unexplored world of science, of insects lost and rediscovered,
Ethical wildlife travel guru, monkey saviour and influencer Connie Needham swings by to chat African vs. Asian elephants, hedgehog adjectives and the evolutionary benefits of being a rascal. But how on Earth did I make h
What do headless ants do? It's the worst job in the colony, but saves millions of lives. And humans do it too. Professor Adam Hart joins as guest to tell the story of how he discovered mutant waste collector ants in Pana
Zookeeper, podcaster and all-round animal nerd Rick Schwartz calls in to the show to discuss raising meerkats, the intelligence of fossa and what binturong pee smells like. But did I get him to say 'hectocotylus'? Hosted
They're the last survivor of a genus 20 million years old and about to go extinct because of an argument. John Payne joins the podcast to tell the story of Sumatran rhinos from being skinned for Chinese armour to fire-br
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Wild Stories is hosted by Elliot Connor. The show is categorised under science (nature) and has published 30 episodes.
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