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Critter of the Week: Bush lawyer / Tātarāmoa
Despite its English name, bush lawyer doesn't settle disputes in the back country. Tataramoa (which literally means 'a heap of prickles') hides its many medicinal properties behind a viscous tangle of… Audio
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Critter of the Week: The Kitefin Shark
This week's critter lives in the twilight zone of the world's largest ecosystem and is the largest glow-in-the-dark vertebrate in the world. The kitefin shark is a powerful and solitary hunter. Audio
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Critter of the Week: Cave Diplurans
This weeks' critters are pale, ghostly, long-bodied invertebrates you've probably never heard of, Cave Diplurans. Audio
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Critter of the Week: Barrel shrimp
This week's critter has been dubbed a 'monster in a barrel' and a 'sinister squatter.' The barrel shrimp, makes its home out of transparent sea creatures like salps and jellyfish by eating out their… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Marine caddisflies
Caddisflies are common to healthy streams and waterways but how not many people know that we also boast some of the only marine caddisflies in the world! Audio
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Critter of the Week: Taiko/black petrel
This week's critter is the taiko or black petrel - a vulnerable seabird that only breeds on Aotea and Hauturu-o-toi. Because they spend so long out at sea, taiko have developed a superpower! They can… Audio
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Critter of the Week: the Kiwi tick
Audio 23 Sep 2022We're talking ticks this week on Critter of the Week - specifically, the endangered kiwi tick, Ixodes anatis. Audio
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Critter of the Week: the Kowhai moth
This week's critter celebrates the blossoming kowhai that mark the start of spring, the kowhai moth (Uresiphita maorialis). Audio
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Printing a new batch and new design of critter t-shirts
We have a new design and run of Critter of the Week T-shirts available! They're made in collaboration with NZ company Joyya and one of its owners Jeff Ward joins Jesse. Audio
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The Week in Detail: Museums, Mittens and the Mill
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
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Our Changing World – The New Zealand Fungarium
The New Zealand Fungarium is a collection of over 100,000 dried specimens of fungi kept in a carefully climate-controlled room.
Claire Concannon visits Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research in Auckland… Audio
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Critter of the Week: The blue-eyed triplefin
This week's critter is the blue-eyed triplefin - a beautiful little fish with bright blue eyes and candy cane stripes on its body. Audio
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Critter of the Week: The elephant weevil
The Elephant weevil, Rhynchodes ursus, is a stumpy little insect covered in velvety-orange fuzz that uses its bulbous rostrum (snout) to lay eggs in native trees. Although the weevil larvae spend… Audio
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Critter of the Week: The tutae kehua
They say once you've smelt this week's critter, you'll never forget it. We're talking about the basket fungus, Ileodictyon cibarium, which appears after Autumn rains. It has about 35 Maori names… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Blue shark
Blue sharks are curious predators found in open oceans throughout the world with the largest numbers here in the Pacific. Audio
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Critter of the Week
This week's critter is the plumose anemone. We're back under the sea this week looking at the plumose anemone, Mimetridium cryptum. It might look like an ethereal underwater ghost flower, but its… Audio
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Critter of the Week: troglobitic planthopper
This week's critter is a rare species of planthopper that lives in a cave in Mohua Golden Bay. We don't know much about this mysterious, cave-dwelling insect except that it's almost blind and has… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Strepsiptera
Nicola Toki introduces Jesse to the order of twisted-wing insects known as Strepsiptera; twisted in name, twisted in nature. Audio
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Critter of the Week: The gregarious squat lobster
You might have seen this week's critter swarming in the summer, painting the seas and beaches red. We're talking about the gregarious squat lobster (Munida gregaria). Audio
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The battling beetle
With their antler-like mandibles, Helm's stag beetles often get stuck in to one another. But they are fighting a bigger battle too - against predators and habitat loss. PhD student Luna Thomas is… Audio
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Our Changing World - Looking for stag beetles
Our Changing World takes a trip to Rakiura Stewart Island with PhD student Luna Thomas to search for the endemic Helm’s Stag Beetle. Audio
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Critter of the Week: Avatar Moth
The Avatar moth takes its name from the 2009 blockbuster movie about a peaceful species who live on an alien moon. But the Avatar moth isn't blue or alien - it's a rare and endangered species of… Audio
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Critter of the Week: The Hairy Kelp Fly
This week's critter loves stinky seaweed - the rottener, the better! The hairy kelp fly (Chaetocoelopa littoralis) feeds, mates, and breeds in the wrack zone of our beaches, putting up with harsh… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Resurrection lichen
This week's critter is a true vagabond - it lives its life blowing around in hot, dry lands, going wherever the wind takes it. Famous (amongst lichenologists) for its powers of resurrection, the… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Manawatawhi kaikomako
The Manawatawhi kaikomako was once the world's rarest tree - there is still only one living wild tree. Nowadays, the tree is a conservation success story - a combination of matauranga Maori and… Audio