Have you ever seen a statue of a cat waving at you from a shop window? Sometimes they're white or gold and their paw goes up and down as if to say 'come here and check out my cool store!' The Maneki-neko is a lucky symbol in Japan, right across Asia and the world; all because of the tale of a cat, a big storm and a Japanese warrior.

The Luckiest Cat

Meet Buttercup, the most famous sloth in the world. This Costa Rican superstar has been on TV shows and has become the face of slick sloth merchandise. But did you know sloths were once thought of as horrible, dirty and lazy?

Superstar Sloth

Buzzing bees equal friendship in the tiny European nation of Lithuania. In fact, when you call someone your best friend in Lithuanian you say my 'bee friend'. And it's all because of honey — yummy yummy get in my tummy honey!

Buzzing bee BFFs

Vultures have a bad reputation as scavengers because they don't hunt or kill their own food, they just wait for some other animal to do it for them. But vultures are actually really important. They eat all the food that no one else wants, particularly tasty maggot-filled treats. Ewww. In fact, long ago in Mongolia, vultures even helped people get to their next life and be less afraid of death.

Helpful Vultures

In East Timor crocodiles aren't seen as big scary animals that will try and take a bite out of your butt, they're thought of as family. It's all because of a really, really, old crocodile called Lafaek who changed the island of Timor forever.

Crocodile Cousins

Pull on your khaki pants and get ready for an adventure, because Animal Sound Safari is back with more weird and wacky episodes! We’re lazing over to Costa Rica to meet the most famous sloth in the world, flying to Mongolia to discover how vultures help dead people and buzzing to Lithuania to learn about bee BFFs. The first episode will hit your feeds on April 1st. And that’s no joke!

INTRODUCING - Animal Sound Safari Series 2

In Kenya, there’s a superstition that owls are evil birds bringing illness and death. But one loved up owl couple is helping change that by showing 'OWL' you need is love.

Owl (you need is) Love

There's a rooster almost everywhere you look in Portugal. Ceramic roosters on front doors, posters of roosters in shops, toys, tea towels and table cloths. But why?

Lifesaving Roosters

In Saudi Arabia, camels are fashionable beauty pageant contestants. With millions of dollars in prize money up-for-grabs, sometimes their humans cheat to try and win big.

Beauty Pageant Camels

Tibetan legend has it that teeny tiny mice, floating on boats made of yak poo, defeated a human army. Find out how they did it!

Warrior Mice

Animal Sound Safari takes your ears around the world to discover the weird and wacky histories us humans have with animals. Each episode is jam-packed with cool stories, kooky facts and ‘pawsome’ puns. From celebrity sloths in Costa Rica to greyhounds going to war in Germany, hop on board with Animal Sound Safari.

Meet the yak-poo-boat riding warrior mice of Tibet

There was once a famous and powerful king who loved his dogs so much he was buried next to them. Meet King Frederick the Great of Prussia and his beloved greyhound Biche. Find out how Biche started the saying, 'dogs are man’s best friend'.

Man's Best Friend

All Aboard! Animal Sound Safari takes your ears around the world to discover amazing animal stories. Like, how Tibetan mice saved a kingdom and how a German greyhound gave us the saying ‘dog’s are man’s best friend’. Animal Sound Safari gives you an all-access pass to travel the globe and have everything you know about animals, turned upside-down. Subscribe now so you’re the first to hear Animal Sound Safari on September 7.

All Aboard! Animal Sound Safari takes your ears around the world to discover amazing animal stories. Like, how Tibetan mice saved a kingdom and how a German greyhound gave us the saying ‘dog’s are man’s best friend’. Animal Sound Safari gives you an all-access pass to travel the globe and have everything you know about animals, turned upside-down. <br>Subscribe now so you’re the first to hear Animal Sound Safari on September 7.

INTRODUCING - Animal Sound Safari

Animals Rock🥳🤩👏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💘💘💘💕💕💕🤍🤍💙🤍💛💛💞💞💕💕💘💓❣️💘💕🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

great 👍

Animal Sound Safari

What is this?
1 quote, 3 ideas & 1 question from a carefully curated podcast episode.
Every Monday & Wednesday.

Want a 3rd insight and episode every week? Email me at curation@owltail.com.

OwlTail

OwlTail 1-3-1

The best podcast episodes on non-current politics. Covering topics such as universal basic income, democracy, poverty & justice and more. For anyone interested in learning more about politics that affect that world, not just now, but in the longer term. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!