There is a video going around social media at the moment that has many people scratching their heads in disbelief. It’s a video of a Flashing Tilefish, Hoplolatilus chlupatyi, rapidly changing colours in the blink of an eye. youtu.be/BnuBvBB1v_k

Something very weird goes on in mating assemblies of the White-barred Acraea butterfly - males and females swap roles. Why? And what can it tell us about a secret force of Nature shaping whole populations of insects? #nature #insects #butterflies #zoology thewildepisode.libsyn.com/white-barred-a…

Caecilians are probably my favourite amphibians. Yellow is probably my favourite colour. So ... the extremely yellow, extremely cool São Tomé Caecilian! #nature #wildlife #amphibians thewildepisode.libsyn.com/so-tom-caecili…

Happening tonight! Check out this special interactive smalltooth #sawfish presentation for FREE Palm Harbor Library. More details at palmharbormuseum.com.

Catastrophic loss of marine mammals in Chile

The Mediterranean Monk Seal has had almost everything thrown at it - by us and by Nature - and survived, just, in part by changing its own behaviour. At some point, probably in the last century or two, it went into hiding. #nature #wildlife #seals thewildepisode.libsyn.com/mediterranean-…

The tentacled snake. A snake with tentacles! What's not to like? The best bit, though, is how those tentacles contribute to underwater prey capture behaviour of remarkable, subtle complexity and sophistication. #zoology #wildlife #snakes #herpetology thewildepisode.libsyn.com/tentacled-snak…

The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.

The most exhilarating wildlife experience I’ve spectated. My mind is beyond blown. Strongly considering adding Jaguar to the list of diving mammals I’d like to study after seeing this apnoea 🤔🤔🤔 🐆🐆🐆 Cristín🐢

For those kind enough to ask - and everyone else! - Wild Episode will be back next week. With an episode about the most ecologically significant animal I've ever covered, as it happens.

Just to say, since Bluesky is now free and open to all, I do have an account there - a general account rather than podcast-specific, but I will probably put the odd bit of Wild Episode-related stuff there now and again.

A while back, Twitter/X disabled automatic posting of podcast episodes. Awesome. Just for the sake of completeness, here come links to recent episodes. (I know it's biased against links too, but what can you do?) First, Antarctic Krill : Maximum Swarm thewildepisode.com/2023/11/01/ant…

How high, how deep, how dangerous, and how individually distinctive is a gannet’s dive? Northern Gannet : Deep Impact. thewildepisode.com/2023/11/16/nor…

What connects feasting Japanese fish, a swimming pool in southern France and Alexander the Great’s encounter with the Gordian Knot? Paragordius tricuspidatus : The Phantom Thread thewildepisode.com/2023/11/30/par…

Sharing your city with a large predator brings problems, but maybe there’s an upside, because of how, and what, urban leopards are hunting … Leopard : The Cat in the City thewildepisode.com/2023/12/13/leo…

The Japanese Train Millipede has a surprising history of interactions with the country’s railway system, interactions which reveal it to be almost unique in the way its life is governed by a ticking clock. Train Millipede : The Eight Year Itch thewildepisode.com/2024/01/11/tra…

The inevitable fate of a male Yellow-footed Antechinus is a very, very unusual one in the world of mammals ... Yellow-Footed Antechinus : Paying the Hormonal Price thewildepisode.com/2024/02/01/yel…

Life cycle of the giant owl butterfly 📹 insecthaus_adi x.com/Visionaledge/s…

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