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What a title hey? Apologies for this episode being a few days late, we're both still getting a handle on keeping this podcast running while now working full-time!  But enough of that, it's time for Episode 18! Our guest on this episode, Dr Emily Roycroft, was supposed to be studying the family tree of eight species of extinct Australian rodents. She then realised one wasn't actually extinct. Listen in to hear that story, and whether this mouse will go extinct for the SECOND time.  Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Emil on Twitter: twitter.com/emily_roycroft Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Shark Bay Mouse. LAWLER.

Season 2 is heerrreee!  Sorry for the delay! Gabe ended up getting and starting a new job since our last episode. So, to preserve what's left of his sanity, we thought it'd be best to push the start of our new episodes back by a week. But Episode #17 is worth the wait! We're bickering about bettongs with Caitlin Weatherstone. We talk about why the northern bettong is balancing so close to the edge of extinction when other bettongs seem to be managing okay, hear hairy stories about being evacuated in a tiny helicopter during a 10-minute gap in the tropical rain, and learn about how Alex actually helped Caitlin try to discover unknown bettong populations a couple years ago! And no we aren't going to start the episodes back at #1 again. Partly because it'd get confusing, but also because saying we have 17 episodes sounds way cooler.  And sorry some of the audio from me (G) sounds a little funky - had a tech breakdown and had to use our backup recording! Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Caitlin   on Instagram: instagram.com/wildsearch/ Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Northern bettong. STEPHANIE TODD/JCU/WWF-AUS.

Our final update episode before we start Season 2!   This Life On The Brink update features biodiversity ranger Denis Stojanovic and the Haast southern brown kiwi. The Haast population of southern brown kiwis is a unique group of kiwis that only numbers around 500. Denis has major updates for us on how the recent breeding season has gone for this tiny population of threatened birds, and some corrections to the voice-overs we made over our original interview for Episode 3! Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com  Follow Dennis Stojanovic on Instagram instagram.com/viv.fox Theme Music by Kyle Morley  Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Episode Cover Image: Denis the kiwi-wrangler.

Another update on one of our first-ever stories, and this one's a big one!!  Episode 15 of Life On The Brink features the regent honeyeater and Dr Ross Crates. While Alex was away, Ross patched in (on Christmas Eve - what a legend!!) to give Gabriel a rundown on what had happened since we last touched base. He mentioned some big news that was on the horizon for early 2022. Listen in to hear what happened next!  Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com  Follow Dr Ross Crates on Twitter https://twitter.com/CratesRoss Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Episode Cover Image: Regent honeyeater. ROSS CRATES, PhD.

SURPRISE STORY UPDATE! Episode 14 of Life On The Brink features Dr Daniella Teixeira and the glossy black cockatoo (again!!) Daniella has been busy since we last talked to her in what turned out to be the first ever episode of Life On The Brink. Listen in to hear about new data showing how the 2019/20 bushfires impacted the very rare glossy black cockatoos of Kangaroo Island, the new population of birds Daniella has switched her focus to, and what you can do to save glossy black cockatoos in mainland Australia.  We'll have a couple more story updates coming your way throughout the next few weeks as we gear up for Season 2 of Life On The Brink! Follow Life On The Brink  on Instagram instagram.com/@lifeonthebrinkpodcast and our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com  Follow Daniella  on Instagram instagram.com/daniellalteixeira and her website: www.daniellateixeira.com/ Follow The Black Cockatoo Project on Instagram instagram.com/@blackcockatooproject Music by Kyle Morley Production by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Episode Feature Image: Glossy black cockatoos. MICHAELA SHERWOOD VIA THE GLOSSY BLACK CONSERVANCY.

Lions #2 electric boogaloo you're carbon credits are due!  (Alex said we had to say that, sorry) It's Episode 13 of Life On The Brink, featuring LIONS. Didn't we already do lions? Yes we did... deal with it. But also this episode is very different from our first lion episode. Last time we focused on the tree-climbing lions of Uganda, this time we're focusing on the equally unique lions in Kenya known for their maneless males! In the episode, our over-achieving guest Dr James Allan talks about what it's like to grow up with a family that owns a safari company in a national park the size of Switzerland, we hear about the research he was involved in that influenced international conservation policy, and we talk with James about his new project - a company dedicated to capturing carbon AND saving threatened animals at the same time! Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Life On The Brink   on Twitter: twitter.com/jamesecology Find Koobi Carbon via their website: koobicarbon.com Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Man-eating maneless male lions (ones from the railway James mentions in the episode) from Tsavo, Kenya. Currently full of stuffing instead of human as they stand on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA. JEFFREY JUNG.

We're back in New Zealand for Episode 12 of Life On The Brink!!  And this time, it's all for the tuatara! Some call it a "living fossil", others say they have a mystical third eye, but what we do know is there are a lot less of them than there used to be. In the episode, we run the tuatara rumours past our guest PhD Candidate Sarah Lamar and ask her why she researched the speed of their sperm in the name of conservation! Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Life On The Brink on Twitter: twitter.com/SphenodonSarah Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: A tuatara. SARAH LAMAR.

This is our third ever bonus episode!!! Last week's episode introduced us to Deborah Santos de Azevedo the incredible great hammerhead researcher who works with stressed-out sharks. She also happens to be a member of Minorities in Shark Science (MISS) an awesome organisation looking to build diversity in marine research and support minorities in the field. So this episode focuses on Deb's experiences as a Brazillian immigrant making her way into the wild world of shark science and her message that you aren't alone and if you work hard enough you can work with hammerheads too! Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: @lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Deb on Twitter: @diverdebb and Instagram: @deborahsazevedo Follow MISS on Twitter and Instagram: @MISS_Elasmo Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme Music by Kyle Morley

What could possibly out a 6-metre hammerhead? Humans, of course. This is Episode 11 of Life On The Brink, and the third installment of our little four-part series on elasmobranchs, featuring the Great Hammerhead shark. In the episode we get into how to measure a shark's stress levels, what it's like breaking into the shark science field, and ask our guest Deborah  Santos de Azevedo deep questions like 'Why do hammerheads have hammer heads?'. Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Deb on Twitter: @diverdebb Produced by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Theme music by Kyle Morley

It's our second ever bonus episode! Last week's full episode with manta biologist Asia Haines left a lot of cool stuff on the cutting room floor, including a story about when the organisation she works with (Project Manta) tracked a manta ray down a highway! She also talked through how absolutely anyone can help Project Manta discover more about manta rays through the power of belly photos. Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast  and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com  Follow Project Manta on Facebook: facebook.com/ProjectMANTA Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Album Images: Tracking map of the tag mentioned in the episode & a photo of the tag. PROJECT MANTA.

Welcome to the first of four episodes on ELASMOBRANCHS (rays & sharks)! Over the next month, we've got two full episodes and two little bonus episodes headed your way. We know we only just started out fortnightly schedule but we just can't help ourselves!! Episode 10 of Life On The Brink is all about the world of the ocean's wanderers: MANTA RAYS! We're focussing on the reef manta ray, the slightly less massive of the two manta ray species. Our guide through their big blue world is Asia Haines, a manta biologist who works with the citizen-science group Project Manta to understand the manta ray populations along Australia's east coast. She talks about the world's only pink manta ray, why no one has ever seen a manta ray give birth in the wild, and what it's like to swim belly-to-belly with a wild manta ray. Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Project Manta on Facebook: facebook.com/ProjectMANTA Produced by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Inspector Clouseau, the only pink manta ray in the world. ASIA HAINES.

...is tigers are wonderful things! However we can't verify whether their tops are actually made of rubber nor their bottoms made out of springs.  Episode 9 of Life On The Brink is full of tiger talk and more Tigger from Winnie-the-Pooh references! Hear how hard it is to count one of the world's most elusive big cats, and how Arjun once came face-to-face with a wild tiger in a 15-minute standoff. This episode is a big one, full of stories, ways anyone can help conserve tigers, and high-brow questions like 'Where did the tiger actually get its stripes?!'. Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Arjun on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArjunGswamy Produced by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Wild bengal tiger.