Hello, world! Have you ever asked yourself if humans are the only animals who have best friends? Are you curious if any other species has a democratic government? Do you wonder if the creatures who eat poop enjoy the taste?
If you have, then this is the podcast for you.
Join your hosts, Gordie and Stephen, as they bring you the fascinating answers to the world's silliest nature questions. Each episode they'll interview real-life plant/animal experts and uncover bizarre behaviour, obscure facts, and incredible stories in their search for the truth. They won't stop until they get to the very bottom of these nature mysteries.
And maybe, just maybe, we'll all learn a bit about what it means to be human along the way.
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Gordie Lucius, Stephen Robinson, Jacob Duarte Spiel
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15 Jun 2025
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22 Apr 2025
What's the deal with eggs? (they're incredible)
Whether it’s Easter or paying $9 per dozen, eggs are in the news. But what do we really know about these delicious breakfast orbs? How did they evolve? Why do they exist? Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
The more we thought about it, the more we realized that eggs are weird. Really weird. Think about it, most animals lay SOME kind of egg. Why did they all decide to go with that? Did they have a meeting about it? If so, why weren’t mammals invited?
To find out, we interviewed Dr. Ashley Ferguson, a palaeontologist who specializes in dinosaur nests and studies the evolution of eggs. Dr. Ferguson knows more about eggs than a breakfast chef and we were so lucky she was available to answer all our weird egg questions.
You can follow Frick, I Love Nature on Instagram, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@FrickILoveNature) & TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@frickilovenature_?lang=en). You can follow our nature newsletter here.
4 Apr 2025
Can a shark live for 450 years?
We all want to live good, long lives, but it’s not just about diet and exercise. Some animals simply live longer than others. It’s just how things are: cats live longer than mice, humans live longer than deer, bears live longer than salmon.
But why? And how? And most importnatly, could I you live forever?
People have spent their entire careers trying to answer these seemingly simple questions. We don’t have all the answers yet, but the ones we do have go right to the heart of life itself.
In this episode, we interview Dr. Pierre Blier, a researcher at Université du Québec à Rimouski who studies the evolution of animal energy metabolism, mitochondria, and aging. Dr. Blier has spent most of his career trying to untangle the knot of how and why aging happens. With over 200 published papers, his work has been fundamental to our understanding. Very few people on Earth understand aging as well as him.
Also, he knows a lot about one specific kind of clam.
Want to know more? Then listen now!
You can follow Frick, I Love Nature on Instagram, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@FrickILoveNature) & TikTok. You can follow our nature newsletter here.
13 Feb 2025
Does my dog like the taste of poo?
Poop is a part of life. Animals, plants, and even bacteria need to eliminate waste to survive. But what about the animals that eat poop to survive? Why would nature make them do something so gross? And, most importantly…
Do animals actually enjoy eating poo?
At Frick, we’ve been pondering this question for years. It’s a complicated topic, touching on not just the sense of taste, but also on the very nature of how animals see the world. In this episode, we finally get a chance to answer it with the help of a world-renowned expert.
We interviewed Dr. Paul Moore, the head of the Laboratory for Sensory Ecology at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Moore has spent decades studying the intricate relationships between taste, smell, and perception. Nobody knows more about what animals think and feel than Dr. Moore.
And he’s going to talk to us about eating poop.
You can follow Frick, I Love Nature on Instagram, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@FrickILoveNature) & TikTok. You can follow our nature newsletter here.
22 Jan 2025
Do Ants Vote?
Ants build structures. Ants wage war. Ants even do agriculture. But ants also live in large, organized colonies that experience challenges, disagreements, and even natural disasters. This begs the question:
Do ants vote?
Seriously, are humans the only ones to figure this out (kinda)? Do ants have their own form of democracy? Do other animals? Is there an ant George Washington?
We interview Dr. Aaron Fairweather, an entomologist specializing in ants, to find out more about our 20 quadrillion closest friends (that's how many ants there are on earth. Crazy, right?).
Want more nature facts from Aaron? You can find them on Bluesky, X (https://x.com/entobird), or email them at fairweaa@uoguelph.ca
And you can follow Frick, I Love Nature on Instagram, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@FrickILoveNature) & TikTok. You can follow our nature newsletter here.
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YouTube views
812,127
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
15 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100
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Social presence
97
YouTube
86
Engagement
51
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