The Podcast Aquatic
by Tennessee Aquarium
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Nature's Most Devious Tricksters and Treatsters
Nature's Most Devious Tricksters and Treatsters
About this podcast
The official podcast of the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gain new insights into the animals — even the human kind — living and working in one of the world's largest freshwater-focused aquariums!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 83 episodes
- Nature's Most Devious Tricksters and Treatsters · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 5With Halloween just a few days away, we’re pretty much at peak spooky season. At the Aquarium, that’s code for ODDtober, our celebration of nature’s weird and wonderful side. At…
- Mic Droplet: Invasion Of The Joro Spiders! · 17 minEcologically, it's always problematic when a species ends up in a place it doesn't belong. Lately, plenty of people in the Southeast are experiencing an added "ick" factor after…
- Tales from the CROC POD! · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 4Whether you're talking crocodiles, cayman, alligators or gharials, crocodilians are some of Earth's most successfully designed species. With armored bodies, incredible bite force…
- Telling BIG Fish Stories · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 3Generally speaking, the exhibits at the Tennessee Aquarium are designed to replicate a single, distinct ecosystem, from the species residing there to the vegetation that helps…
- A Six-Story Celebration · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 2In 1996, the Tennessee Aquarium opened the first major expansion to its campus on Chattanooga's downtown riverfront. This new building showcased every kind of sea life…
- How the Heckin' HECK Do You Find Endangered Fish? · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 1By their very nature, endangered animals are a difficult target for scientists to research. They tend to be few in number — naturally — and the populations that exist have…
- Season 2 Finale: A Jolly Good Fellowship · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 23Being selected for an internship or fellowship is a career milestone for many students and recent graduates, but it can also be a bit of a double-edged sword. Ideally, these…
- Grand Moth Talkin' · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 22Despite outnumbering them (in species diversity) by a factor of almost ten to one, moths are the quintessential under-appreciated insect. To most people, they're an almost-spooky…
- A Quick Drop-in with Oscar the Sea Turtle · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 21In the Aquarium gift shop years ago, there was once a sea turtle stuffed animal for sale that looked a little ... different. He didn't have all of his flippers, and his shell was…
- A First-class Freshwater Filmmaker (feat. Jeremy Monroe) · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 20When most people think about wildlife and nature documentaries, there are places that naturally spring to mind: the Great Barrier Reef, the Amazon Rainforest, the African…
- Surprise, It's a Baby Lemur! · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 19There’s no point in arguing that the arrival of a baby animal at an aquarium or zoo isn’t cause for celebration. Many, MANY new generations of animals have been born at the…
- We Really Caved On This One ... · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 18From the shadow play of Plato's allegories and the trials of Beowulf to paintings adorning the walls of caverns in Lascaux, France, mankind has long been fascinated (if also a…
- It's Shell Time, Baby! · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 17Since opening its doors in 1992, the Aquarium has shone a bright spotlight on the world's 300+ species of turtles. In the decades since, our experts have had much success…
- A Dace By Any Other Name · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 16In life, there are many ways that your legacy can outlive you, but one of the most common — if no less flattering — is to have someone, or something, named in your honor. In…
- Biggest Continent, Biggest Screen · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 15When you consider how many species and places that have been the focus of films and series by the legendary documentarians of BBC's Natural History Unit, it's frankly astonishing…
- Raising Fish Babbies · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 14Being a new parent is hard. Infants are small, fragile and, in most respects, completely incapable of caring for themselves. Raising them is a difficult — sometimes…
- A Well-tended Twilight · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 13More than 13,000 residents live at the Tennessee Aquarium, and because of the dedicated work of our caretaking and veterinary teams, many of them have far exceeded their species’…
- Seeing Eye to Aye-Aye With Primatologist Dr. Tim Eppley · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 12From leaping lemurs and 1,000+ species of orchids and hedgehog- and poison dart frog-likes, Madagascar is home to a splendiferous collection of life, the vast majority of which…
- Lifestyles Of The Enriched And Fur-mous · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 9In the zoo and aquarium world, creating true-to-wild habitats is critically important, but simply building these miniature worlds for our residents isn’t good enough. After all…
- How We're "Building" A Reef · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 8Excitement continues to mount on our campus as we anticipate the March 7 opening of our all-new Scuttlebutt Reef gallery. In the previous episode of the show, we took a…
