Motherhood: Crab Spider Sacrifice, Panda Sibling Rivalry and the Frog That Turns Her Stomach into a Nursery
2026/03/10 | 35 mins.
This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah are exploring motherhood in the animal kingdom… from the sweetest care to the most jaw-dropping survival strategies. 💛🐣
🐻❄️🐊 From polar bears to crocodilians carrying their babies gently in their mouths… to reptiles like leopard iguanas leaving their hatchlings in a protective pile of poo — motherhood in nature comes in many wild forms. 🥚💩
🕷️ Meet the ultimate self-sacrificing mum — the crab spider mother who lets her babies drink nutrients from her legs… before they eat the rest of her. 🕷️🦀
🐼 Not all mums can raise twins — giant panda mothers often choose one cub to care for, leaving the other behind in a tough twist of sibling rivalry.
🐸 Some mums go to incredible lengths — like the gastric-brooding frog that swallows her eggs, switches off her stomach, and protects them inside her body.
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Q&A: Dung Beetle Deadlifts, Orca Dialects and the Fight for Territory
2026/03/06 | 25 mins.
On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions!
Ever wondered if animals have accents? Sarah and Lizzie discuss if orcas really pass down their own unique calls and communication styles through generations. 🐋🎙️
From gorillas to leafcutter ants to dung beetles… who’s the true strength champion for their size in the animal kingdom? 💪🐜
And do all animals defend a territory— and what happens when that animal packs up and migrates? 🗺️🦅
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Speedy: Flattie spider spinners, Mummified cheetahs and the fastest animal on earth
2026/03/03 | 43 mins.
This week on That’s Just Wild Lizzie and Sarah are racing into all things speedy... blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speedy.
And Sarah's got a new book! https://linktr.ee/Wild_Apprentice
⚡👀 🕷️ Meet the flattie spider — whipping around its prey in a spin so fast it holds the title for the quickest terrestrial twirl on Earth. 😵💫🕸️
🦅 🦅 We spotlight the peregrine falcon, the fastest animal on Earth, zooming through the sky in an incredible super-speed dive.
🚄 🇯🇵And nature inspiring transport engineering — Japan’s bullet train modeled on the kingfisher’s beak to slice through air in near silence. 👑🎣
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Q&A: Stratosphere Spiders, Underwater Scorpions and Vultures flying with Airplanes
2026/02/27 | 24 mins.
On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve Backshall and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions!
Scorpions that can survive underwater thanks to their wild “book lungs.”
Animals reaching heighests hieghts.. from Vultures spotted by an airliner at cruising altitude to Spiders kite-flying to the edge of the stratosphere.
And the gloriously named golden-butted leaf-eared mouse. And yes… the Echidna’s four-headed penis...
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Ancient: Velvet Worm Veterans, Self-cloning Shrubs and a 507-Year-Old Ocean Icon
2026/02/24 | 34 mins.
This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah are going Ancient… seriously ancient. 🦖⏳
🌊 From the deep cold, dark waters where life moves slowly and lives ridiculously long... where some Glass sponges have survived 17,000 years.🧽🔎
Meeting Ming the giant clam — 507 years old that was already alive when Leonardo da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa.🐚🖼️
🦈 We trace ancient lineages: Sharks cruising our oceans for 400 million years, Horseshoe crabs older than dinosaurs and Velvet worms predating flies and mosquitoes.🪱🧲🦀
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Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts bring you a wildly entertaining nature show filled with adventure, behind-the-scenes stories, and fascinating facts. Think: unexpected encounters, jaw-dropping science, and nature like you’ve never heard it before. Every Tuesday join adventurer, explorer and broadcaster Steve Backshall, wildlife biologist Lizzie Daly, and journalist Sarah Roberts as they dive deep into the wonders of the natural world. From braving Arctic extremes to swimming with sharks, each episode begins with a bold superlative—Flamboyant, Freezing, Venomous—and unfolds into their remarkable tales of the wild. Then, every Friday, it’s your turn. Our Q&A episodes tackle your most need-to-know nature questions—from how not to become bear food to how long is an elephant’s trunk? Because the world is wild, its wonders are endless—and we’re here to tell the stories that prove it.For ad-free listening and special episodes, support the podcast at thatsjustwild.com.Produced in the wild by Fresh Air. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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