Queerly Natural

Learn all about the duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) from Ilana! This Australian animal shares traits with ducks and coconuts, but it's actually a mammal ready to paralyze it's foes at any moment.  Please take a minute and rate our show! If you like Queerly Natural, you can support us by contributing to our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/queerlynatural] or Ko-fi. [https://ko-fi.com/queerlynatural] You can also check out our new bookstore! [https://bookshop.org/shop/queerlynatural] Thank you so much for listening! For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website [https://www.queerlynatural.com/blog]. Timestamps Species introduction: 0:00 - 2:54 Description: 2:55 - 12:15 Habitat and ecology: 9:13 - 21:27 Reproduction and courtship: 21:28 - 23:14 Platypuses and people: 23:15 - 29:43 Conservation: 29:44 - 34:10 How it's queer: 36:15 - end Find Us Online Follow us @QueerlyNatural on Twitter [https://twitter.com/QueerlyNatural], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/QueerlyNatural], or Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/queerlynatural/] or check out our website. [https://www.queerlynatural.com/] About Us Queerly Natural was created by Ilana Z, Sage Roden, and Elizabeth Fuhrman. We are biologists fighting queerphobia, promoting underrepresented perspectives, teaching ecology, and helping queer people relate to the diverse organisms we live among on this beautiful planet! Our music is "Lo-Fi Music Guitar (Short Version)" by Migfus20 (https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/ [https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/]), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Join Ilana to learn all about lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria) from Sage. It (or should we say they?) is a charismatic photosynthetic organism that doesn't really fit labels.  For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website [https://www.queerlynatural.com/blog]. Please take a minute and rate our show! If you like Queerly Natural, you can support us by contributing to our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/queerlynatural] or Ko-fi. [https://ko-fi.com/queerlynatural] You can also check out our new bookstore! [https://bookshop.org/shop/queerlynatural] Thank you so much for listening! Timestamps Species introduction: 0:00 - 3:49 Description: 3:50 - 12:15 Habitat and ecology: 13:18 - 24:14 Conservation: 26:33 - 33:47 How it's queer: 35:25 - end Find Us Online Follow us @QueerlyNatural on Twitter [https://twitter.com/QueerlyNatural], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/QueerlyNatural], or Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/queerlynatural/] or check out our website. [https://www.queerlynatural.com/] About Us Queerly Natural was created by Ilana Z, Sage Roden, and Elizabeth Fuhrman. We are biologists fighting queerphobia, promoting underrepresented perspectives, teaching ecology, and helping queer people relate to the diverse organisms we live among on this beautiful planet! Our music is "Lo-Fi Music Guitar (Short Version)" by Migfus20 (https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/ [https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/]), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Join our hosts, two fruits, to learn all about one of the world's favorite fruits, the papaya (Carica papaya). Find out how the papaya breaks the norms of biological sex even among plants, who are already known to not follow "the rules." For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website [https://www.queerlynatural.com/blog]. Please take a minute and rate our show! If you like Queerly Natural, you can support us by contributing to our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/queerlynatural] or Ko-fi. [https://ko-fi.com/queerlynatural] You can also check out our new bookstore! [https://bookshop.org/shop/queerlynatural] Thank you so much for listening! Timestamps Species introduction: 0:00 - 3:21 Description: 3:22 - 9:01 Habitat and ecology/domestication: 9:02 - 19:23 How it's queer: 20:38 - end Find Us Online Follow us @QueerlyNatural on Twitter [https://twitter.com/QueerlyNatural], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/QueerlyNatural], or Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/queerlynatural/] or check out our website. [https://www.queerlynatural.com/] About Us Queerly Natural was created by Ilana Z, Sage Roden, and Elizabeth Fuhrman. We are biologists fighting queerphobia, promoting underrepresented perspectives, teaching ecology, and helping queer people relate to the diverse organisms we live among on this beautiful planet! Our music is "Lo-Fi Music Guitar (Short Version)" by Migfus20 (https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/ [https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/]), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Join Ilana to learn about the green frog (Lithobates clamitans) from Sage. Ilana will find out that the green frog is very frog, but not very green, and they're always ready for a fight. Sage answers the important questions like: are we turning the friggin' frogs gay, or have they been that way all along? Let's see what the research says. For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website [https://www.queerlynatural.com/blog]. Please take a minute and rate our show! If you like Queerly Natural, you can support us by contributing to our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/queerlynatural] or Ko-fi. [https://ko-fi.com/queerlynatural] Thank you so much for listening! Timestamps Species introduction: 0:00 - 5:15 Description: 5:16 - 11:55 Habitat and ecology: 11:56 - 17:16 Life cycle + reproduction: 17:17 - 22:40 How it's queer: 24:45 - end *** Content warning: homophobia and transphobia *** Find Us Online Follow us @QueerlyNatural on Twitter [https://twitter.com/QueerlyNatural], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/QueerlyNatural], or Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/queerlynatural/] or check out our website. [https://www.queerlynatural.com/] About Us Queerly Natural was created by Ilana Z, Sage Roden, and Elizabeth Fuhrman. We are biologists fighting queerphobia, promoting underrepresented perspectives, teaching ecology, and helping queer people relate to the diverse organisms we live among on this beautiful planet! Our music is "Lo-Fi Music Guitar (Short Version)" by Migfus20 (https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/ [https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/]), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Join Sage as Ilana teaches them about the side-blotched lizard, a very lizard-shaped lizard that is strangely good at rock, paper, scissors, even though they only know what one of those three nouns is (probably rock) For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website [https://www.queerlynatural.com/blog]. Please take a minute and rate our show! Thanks so much for listening! Timestamps Species introduction: 0:00 - 9:07 Description: 9:08 - 14:30 Habitat and ecology: 14:31 - 20:17 How it's queer: 21:20 - end *** content warning: description of anti-indigenous colonizer violence: 3:20 - 6:30 *** Find Us Online If you like Queerly Natural, you can support us by contributing to our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/queerlynatural] or Ko-fi, [https://ko-fi.com/queerlynatural] or by spreading the word! Follow us @QueerlyNatural on Twitter [https://twitter.com/QueerlyNatural], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/QueerlyNatural], or Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/queerlynatural/] or check out our website [https://www.queerlynatural.com/] About Us Queerly Natural was created by Ilana Z, Sage Roden, and Elizabeth Fuhrman. We are biologists fighting queerphobia, promoting underrepresented perspectives, teaching ecology, and helping queer people relate to the diverse organisms we live among on this beautiful planet! Our music is "Lo-Fi Music Guitar (Short Version)" by Migfus20 (https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/ [https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/578131/]), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.