Formosa Fauna

About Formosa Fauna

Spend 20 minutes feeding your mind with knowledge about the animal kingdom so you can become smarter than all of your friends! Formosa Fauna aims to entertainingly educate listeners about animals both in Taiwan and abroad while also inspiring them to take action and get involved. Formosa Fauna hopes to connect the world through humanity’s innate curiosity for the unknown and love for animals. Join Tristan Hilderbrand for Formosa Fauna on Fridays! If you have a story or photo you want featured on this program, send it: - by email to Tristan@rti.org.tw, or... - by post to: Formosa Fauna, Radio Taiwan International No. 55, Bei-an Road Zhongshan District, Taipei 10462 TAIWAN (R.O.C.) Tristan is also on Instagram (@yakitorisutan) and YouTube (Tristan H. 崔璀璨).

Publisher

Tristan Hilderbrand,Rti

Category

government · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jul 2024

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

100 of 123 episodes have a transcript.

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   16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Cockroaches are 300 million years old, but sharks are 450 million years old | Ep120

   Host Tristan Shaw interviews Dr. John Smith, a marine biologist, about the ancient history of sharks and how to survive a shark encounter.

2. 

   9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Iceland, Norway, and Japan the only remaining whaling countries in the world | Ep119

   Host Tristan Chen interviews experts about the future of whaling in Iceland, Norway, and Japan, exploring the implications for marine conservation.

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   2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Taiwan: once a 'coral kingdom' | Ep118

   Host Tristan Chen explores Taiwan's rich coral reef biodiversity, revealing its status as a global 'coral kingdom' and the importance of these underwater ecosystems.

Inside a recent episode

Cockroaches are 300 million years old, but sharks are 450 million years old | Ep120

Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] For starters, Dr. Helen Scales says in her book Around the Ocean and 80 Fish, walking sharks show that not all sharks have to keep swimming in order to breathe. They lie on their bellies and snooze throughout the day, pumping water over their gills. Then, at night, they get active, with the habit of walking across the seabed, wriggling like a salamander, and using their paddle-shaped fins as rudimentary legs. Walking sharks have the ability to hold their breath for more than one hour at a time, allowing them to move between tide pools that get cut off as the sea retreats and feast on stranded fish, crustaceans, and worms that have no way of escaping. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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