Flowers are disgusting, filthy, badasses

Quackery and Catfishing. Fake news doesn’t only happen on the human internet. Welcome to nature’s dark web.

We didn’t TRY to make a spooky and disturbing episode... we just wanted to talk about plants with DUCK in the title. But oh boy, these flowers are savage!  One of them has become internet famous for a detox that could literally kill you. Another catfishes its pollinators by pretending to be (and even feeling like) the ‘private’ parts of a female fly!  Nature isn’t safe from this algorithm.

Featuring:

Tim Entwisle – Author, The Sceptical Botanist. Former CEO of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne

Katherine Isoardi - Associate Professor, University of Queensland. Senior Staff Specialist Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist

Julie Radford - Threatened Species expert

Gareth Prosser – Professional Voice Over Artist whose wife roped him in

Production:

Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer

Sarah Prosser, Producer

Mastering Engineer, Harvey O’Sullivan

This episode of What the Duck was produced on the land of the Wadawarrung people.