Welcome to episode 24 of Zoology Ramblings!

This week, Robi and I share exciting news of having met up recently in the UK, with Robi speaking at a Pride Community Campfire that I hosted with my colleagues. This leads onto a wonderful conservation about the innate queerness of nature featuring lesbian bonobos and elephant orgies.

For our animals of the week, Robi talks about good news for the Iberian lynx and I talk about the unusual whistling dogs: Dholes.

Robi then delves into the recent news story of big cat DNA found in the UK, and we discuss whether this evidence is enough to prove that big cats are living here. I then end the podcast by talking about the UK's festival of nature, which is a yearly festival in Bristol and Bath that celebrates local actions being taken for nature.

We look forward to bringing you more regular content as we set up a more regular podcast recording schedule!

As ever, thanks to Allie for the lovely piano interlude and thanks to you amazing listeners for sticking with us on our long rambles.

We hope you enjoy our latest ramble,

Emma and Robi

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Welcome to episode 23 of Zoology Ramblings! Sporadic and rambling as ever, Robi and I finally get round to recording another Zoology Ramblings episode.

We fill you in on some life updates, including a very moving experience I had attending the Funeral for Nature in Bath. Robi shares some of his highlights from his recent trip to the Okavango Delta, including the legendary bat hawks!!

We then delve into our species of the week, where I talk about the weird cow-stomached Hoatzin birds (thanks to Solomon for the suggestion) and Robi welcomes two newly described species (Pudu and an anaconda).

We then get a tad political as we share our frustrations about the latest bovine tuberculosis consultation, which ignores science, puts badgers in the firing line and fails to put farmers and cattle first. Robi lightens the mood with an exciting update of a recent WildTrack workshop he attended, looking at how AI and footprint tracking are being used in conservation.

To end this very long podcast, we bond over satellite tagging crocodiles (a niche moment that brought Robi and I together). Robi then gets to nerd out on Skywalker gibbons.

As ever, thanks to Allie for the lovely piano interlude and thanks to you lovely listeners for sticking with us on our long rambles.

We hope you enjoy our latest ramble,

Emma and Robi

To see what we're up to elsewhere check us out on:

@emma_hodson_wildlife

@robi_watkinson_wildlife

Welcome to the 21st episode of the Zoology Ramblings Podcast, where Robi and I are actually together in the same place after over a year!

We share some exciting updates about our recently released Rewilding A Nation documentary, Robi's leopard research for his masters thesis and what 2024 of the Wildlife Champions Programme has in store. We talk about some new species discovered in 2023, and I get very excited about seeing the wonderful Cape Pengiuns! As ever, I go on a tangent about some exciting new beaver releases in the UK, and Robi gets festive talking about Swedish Lapland and the rewilding projects happening there.

A very happy new year from Robi and I, thank you so much for being on this Zoology Ramblings journey with us and we can't wait to continue that throughout 2024.

Feel free to reach out to us on social media- we're always happy to chat!

@robi_watkinson_wildlife

@emma_hodson_wildlife