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HabiChat: Kultarr

2023/8/8
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Welcome to HabiChat, a podcast miniseries exploring ecosystems and the animals which live in them. Join *Cosmos *journalists as they talk to experts about the who’s who, and where’s where, of mammals in Australia. 

In this episode, Cosmos journalists Matthew Ward Agius and Jacinta Bowler talk to Cameron Dodd, a PhD student at the University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum, about the kultarr).

They discuss the arid environments) these little-known mammals live in, the difficulties of studying such tiny, fast, and aggressive predators in the wild, a gruesome story from out in the field in the Simpson Desert, and more.