Synopsis
Separate stories: Venture Off Track as ABC Radio National heads outside. Off Track speaks for places beyond policy and politics: environments loved and lived in.
Episodes
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Nature Snack - a pied butcherbird practices its song.
09/12/2017 Duration: 07minThe sweet singing butcherbird has inspired symphonies, such is the clarity of its tone.
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Earworms from planet earth
10/11/2017 Duration: 28minWhat 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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Tasmania is the roadkill capital of the world
03/11/2017 Duration: 28minPossum, tawny frogmouth, platypus, turtle, quoll, endangered devil and raven. No animal is immune to death on Tasmanian roads where 32 animals die every hour. This episode of Off Track has been selected from the archives.
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Hit the frog and toad
27/10/2017 Duration: 28minIt 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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Gardening for the Dead
20/10/2017 Duration: 28minDoes 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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The princely snow leopard and its poo
13/10/2017 Duration: 28minPreserving 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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Sniffer spaniels get the doggone weeds
06/10/2017 Duration: 28minA 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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Ghost claws on a unicorn
30/09/2017 Duration: 28minFrom 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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Snooping on the sounds next door
23/09/2017 Duration: 09minPobblebonks 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.