That's Just Wild

This week, on That's Just Wild, we revisit our favourite moments from 2025: Hypnotising a shark by turning it upside down? 🦈Does Sarah have parasites? 🦠Why we need to protect ugly animals... Plus, THAT banana slug story. 🍌📝 Leave us a review to let us know what you think — every comment means a lot to the whole team! 💚🔔 Make sure you follow That’s Just Wild wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode!Go to thatsjustwild.com to get ad-free listening, special deep-dive episodes and exclusive That's Just Wild goodies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas from all of us at That's Just Wild! 🎅Steve Backshall has a secret he's been burning (or should I say, freezing?!) to let you all in on...Plus, a rerun of our first ever episode: Freezing 🥶What do you get when a polar bear mates with a grizzly 🐻‍❄️A walrus starts making music 🎶And a scientist decides to freeze themselves on purpose?! 👨‍🔬❄️A wild podcast episode!Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly, and Sarah Roberts talk snow blindness, getting deliberately hypothermic in the name of science, and the mashup that is the Pizzly Bear (or Grolar Bear, depending which way round it goes). Plus: walrus songs, narwhals, questionable taxidermy, and even a surprisingly useful penis bone.Follow wherever you get your podcasts so that you never miss an episode.The walrus chiming clip was recorded by Diane Calamar Okonek, and posted to Instagram by wildlife photographer Acacia Johnson.Go to thatsjustwild.com to get ad-free listening, special deep-dive episodes and exclusive That's Just Wild goodies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly, and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions! 🎙️🌍👩‍🍳 Are there any chefs in the animal world that prepare food simply for taste?🦇 Why do bats not fall off the ceiling when hibernating?🐟 And how on earth did fish start breathing air?📝 Leave us a review to let us know what you think — every comment means a lot to the whole team! 💚🔔 Make sure you follow That’s Just Wild wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode!Go to thatsjustwild.com to get ad-free listening, special deep-dive episodes and exclusive That's Just Wild goodies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on That’s Just Wild, Lizzie and Sarah go deep, discussing the wild world of the deep, dark ocean 🌊🦑And Steve sends us a message from Indonesia 🇮🇩, where he’s filming the latest season of Deadly 60 🎥🐍The clever ways that manta rays use the depths of the ocean to help them navigate 🧭Octopus Gardens discovered by deep-sea submarines 🐙🚢And are whale falls one of the greatest sights in the natural world? 🐳💀🌍📝 Leave us a review to let us know what you think — every comment means a lot to the whole team!🔔 Make sure you follow That’s Just Wild wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episodeGo to thatsjustwild.com to get ad-free listening, special deep-dive episodes and exclusive That's Just Wild goodies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly, and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions! 🎙️🌍What are the animal sounds we can’t hear — and how might they be connected to our understanding of the supernatural? 🐘👻Which animals act most like they’re in a soap opera? (There’s a lot of scandalous behaviour in the animal kingdom!) 🎥🎭And how do squirrels remember where they hid their nuts? 🌰 🐿️📝 Leave us a review to let us know what you think — every comment means a lot to the whole team!🔔 Make sure you follow That’s Just Wild wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode!Go to thatsjustwild.com to get ad-free listening, special deep-dive episodes and exclusive That's Just Wild goodies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.