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Queerly Natural is a science-based exploration into the diversity of sexuality, sex, and gender in the natural world. Join three young biologists as they chat about the huge array of LGBTQIA+ diversity among animals, plants, fungi and more. People may tell you that being queer is unnatural, but we’re here to show you that it queerly is. Join us each month as we make tons of terrible puns and generally have a nerdy good time. Check out our website or Patreon for more details.
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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 or Ko-fi. You can a…
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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. Please take a minute and rate our show! If you like Queerly Natural, you can support us…
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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. Please take a minute …
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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 …
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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. Please take a minute and rate our show! Th…
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Sage teaches Ilana about the bowhead whale, a large hard-headed maritime mammal. Please take a minute and rate our show! It will make a world of difference in getting our show out there for more people to know about. Thanks so much for listening! Timestamps Species intro and taxonomy: Start - 6:49 Description: 6:50 - 13:44 Ecology and reproduction:…
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Join Sage and Ilana as they learn about the queerness of the honeybee from guest Sreelakshmi Suresh! Sreelakshmi tells us all about the lives of honeybees and their unique way of determining biological sex. For more information, take a look at our website. Please take a minute and rate our show! It will make a world of difference in getting our sho…
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Join Sage as Ilana teaches them about the striped maple, a shrubby tree that does some pretty queer things on its deathbed. For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website. Please take a minute and rate our show! It will make a world of difference in getting our show out there for more people to know about.…
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Join Sage in an informative look at the life of the white-throated sparrow, a very small borb that is abundant throughout North America. For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website. Please take a minute and rate our show! It will make a world of difference in getting our show out there for more people t…
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Sage teaches Ilana about the common cockchafer, or Melolontha melolontha, an adorable insect with a ciminal record (they did crimes and they be gay). Intro: 2:50-6:40 Description: 6:41-16:29 Habitat and lifecycle: 16:30-24:06 Human impact: 24:07-34:21 Why it's queer: 35:51-end Trigger warnings: discussion of homophobia, graphic description of sex, …
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Ilana teaches Sage about the bucktooth Parrotfish (Sparisoma radians). Somethings fishy here and its very queer. Intro: 00:00 - 3:57 Physical description: 3:58 - 13:10 Habitat and ecology: 15:37 - 18:18 Culture and family structure: 18:19 - 20:30 Human impact: 20:31 - 23:23 Midway current events (Trigger Warning mentions of gun violence and queerph…
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Hannah teaches Ilana about the most abundant carniverous large mammal on the African continent, the Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta). Join us in learning just how queer these funny friends are. Content Warning: discussion of sex, sexual organs and erections from 40:38 to 44:30. For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcri…
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Ilana teaches Elizabeth and Hannah about fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), a flower native to multiple countries in the Northern hemisphere. We talk about its many names, ecology and and its temporal sex changes. Join us on our first dive into the wonderful world of plants! For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcrip…
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Hannah, Elizabeth and Ilana, explore the discovery, appearance, ecology and queerness of the common vampire bat from Central and South America. Content Warning: talk of explicit sex acts 34:12 - 34:59 For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website. Please take a minute and rate our show! It will make a wor…
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Elizabeth, alongside Ilana and Hannah, explores the discovery, appearance, ecology and queerness of the small and quick scaled lizard found in the southeastern US and northern Mexico. Hint: she's one of many! For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website. Please take a minute and rate our show! It will ma…
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Hannah teaches Elizabeth and Ilana about fungal basics and then the discovery, appearance, ecology and queerness of the pale-gilled shelf fungus found on decaying wood around the world. Hint: they take biological sexes to the next level and beyond! For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website. Please tel…
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Elizabeth shares with Ilana and Hannah her knowledge about the discovery, appearance, ecology and queerness of the dark-bodied waterfowl native to Australia and New Zealand. Hint: they’re definitely #parentinggoals! For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website. Please take a minute and rate our show! It …
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Ilana teaches Elizabeth and Hannah about the discovery, appearance, ecology and queerness of the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus), a fluorescent fish found along the west coast of North America. Hint: for a little foreshadowing, their other common name is the California singing fish! For more information, take a look at our sources in the e…
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Hannah walks Ilana and Elizabeth through the discovery, appearance, ecology and queerness of the bonobo (Pan paniscus), a dark-haired ape found in the Congo Basin. Hint: for a little foreshadowing, take a look at that genus name! For more information, take a look at our sources in the episode transcript on our website. Please take a minute and rate…
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Ilana, Hannah and Elizabeth explain the concept of the show, its structure, and fun plans for future episodes. The pilot episode will release at 7 am EST on Friday August 20!By Elizabeth Fuhrman, Hannah Roden, Ilana Zeitzer
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