Q&A Shark Special: The Shark Matriarch, Overexcited Sharks and Baby Sharks Fending for Themselves
20/03/2026 | 20 mins.
On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Sarah is joined by special guest Shark Man Dan for a Shark Q+A special🦈💙🌊
🦈 Ever wondered if sharks are good mums? Turns out life as a baby shark is brutal. The moment they’re born, they’re on their own — just survival in the big blue. 😬🌊
👀 Do sharks ever hunt together? We dive into the surprising social side of these ocean predators… like how many sharks show respect to the biggest females. 👑
🏝️ And if you actually want to see sharks in the wild, where should you go? Plus the incredible sharks that can swim from the ocean hundreds of kilometres up rivers. 🚤🦈
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Shark Man Dan: Walking Sharks, Strange Species and Wild Ocean Stories
17/03/2026 | 48 mins.
This week on That’s Just Wild, Sarah is joined by special guest Shark Man Dan for a deep dive into the world of sharks… and the wild path that led Dan to dedicate his career to them. 🦈🌊🎥
🦈💙 Dan shares how he turned his love for sharks into a career — taking a very unconventional route to become one of the ocean’s biggest shark champions. 🏆
Meet Dan’s favourite shark, the epaulette shark — famous for its incredible ability to “walk” across reefs and out of rock pools to escape predators. 🪨🐚
🌊 Things get seriously intense as Dan and Sarah share one of their closest calls — caught in a powerful vortex current and later stranded out at sea in Japan without a boat. 🇯🇵🗾
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Q&A: Cheeky Octopuses, Chompy Geese and Spiders with Pet Frogs
13/03/2026 | 32 mins.
On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Steve and Sarah tackle more of your wildest questions!
💪🏽 Ever wondered what the bite force of a goose is? Steve reckons he might’ve bite-tested more animals than anyone else on Earth… and honestly, we believe him. 🌏😅
🕷️🕸️ Do wild animals ever keep other animals as pets? Meet the spiders that open their homes to frogs. 🐸🏠
🐜🐄 And we ask the big questions… what’s the most successful species in Earth’s history — and can animals actually hold a grudge? 😤
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Motherhood: Crab Spider Sacrifice, Panda Sibling Rivalry and the Frog That Turns Her Stomach into a Nursery
10/03/2026 | 35 mins.
This week on That’s Just Wild, Steve and Sarah are exploring motherhood in the animal kingdom… from the sweetest care to the most jaw-dropping survival strategies. 💛🐣
🐻❄️🐊 From polar bears to crocodilians carrying their babies gently in their mouths… to reptiles like leopard iguanas leaving their hatchlings in a protective pile of poo — motherhood in nature comes in many wild forms. 🥚💩
🕷️ Meet the ultimate self-sacrificing mum — the crab spider mother who lets her babies drink nutrients from her legs… before they eat the rest of her. 🕷️🦀
🐼 Not all mums can raise twins — giant panda mothers often choose one cub to care for, leaving the other behind in a tough twist of sibling rivalry.
🐸 Some mums go to incredible lengths — like the gastric-brooding frog that swallows her eggs, switches off her stomach, and protects them inside her body.
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Q&A: Dung Beetle Deadlifts, Orca Dialects and the Fight for Territory
06/03/2026 | 25 mins.
On this week’s That’s Just Wild Q+A, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts tackle more of your wildest questions!
Ever wondered if animals have accents? Sarah and Lizzie discuss if orcas really pass down their own unique calls and communication styles through generations. 🐋🎙️
From gorillas to leafcutter ants to dung beetles… who’s the true strength champion for their size in the animal kingdom? 💪🐜
And do all animals defend a territory— and what happens when that animal packs up and migrates? 🗺️🦅
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Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts bring you a wildly entertaining nature show filled with adventure, behind-the-scenes stories, and fascinating facts. Think: unexpected encounters, jaw-dropping science, and nature like you’ve never heard it before. Every Tuesday join adventurer, explorer and broadcaster Steve Backshall, wildlife biologist Lizzie Daly, and journalist Sarah Roberts as they dive deep into the wonders of the natural world. From braving Arctic extremes to swimming with sharks, each episode begins with a bold superlative—Flamboyant, Freezing, Venomous—and unfolds into their remarkable tales of the wild. Then, every Friday, it’s your turn. Our Q&A episodes tackle your most need-to-know nature questions—from how not to become bear food to how long is an elephant’s trunk? Because the world is wild, its wonders are endless—and we’re here to tell the stories that prove it.For ad-free listening and special episodes, support the podcast at thatsjustwild.com.Produced in the wild by Fresh Air. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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