Episodes 18
Avg. Duration 53m
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since Apr 2024
Latest Episode Oct 2025

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Monthly
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Episodic
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100%
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About This Podcast

Filthy Animals is a sex, drugs, and ecology podcast for grown-ups. Every month, science educators discuss the unusual adult activities of the natural world that your high school science teacher was too embarrassed to talk about. This podcast features hosts Rachel Roth, Nicole Brown, and Allan Saylor of Kansas-based nonprofit Grassland Groupies.

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Recent Episodes

S2E8 S2E8 - A Truly Rotten Episode

Oct 23, 2025 51m

Content Warning: heavy discussion of death, decomposition, and impolite body functions. I believe it was Imhotep in 1999's The Mummy who said "Death is only the beginning...", and he was right! Not…

S2E7 S2E7 - Let's Hang Out and Talk Balls

Sep 25, 2025 52m

Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia Allan's Sources: Coming soon! +++ More of Our Work +++ Website Facebook TikTok Twitch Bluesky +++ Contact Us +++ Text/Call:…

S2E6 S2E6 - A Game of Cucks

Aug 28, 2025 1h 1m

Content Warning: none In this month's Filthy Animals, Rachel tests the strength of monogamous bonds in the animal kingdom by seeing what the data says about their infidelity. As it turns out, even in…

S2E5 S2E5 - The Dog That Never Died

Jul 24, 2025 49m

Content Warning: Discussion of cancer and related illnesses Cancer is scary. A transmissible, STI-based cancer is even scarier. Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor (CTVT) is the oldest, most…

S2E4 S2E4 - The Queerness of Fish

Jun 26, 2025 55m

Content Warning: This is a pretty wholesome episode. No fear, dear listener! In honor of Pride Month, Rachel is taking us beneath the waves and beyond the binary into the fascinatingly queer world of…

S2E3 S2E3 - Lekking for Love

May 22, 2025 50m

Content Warning: explicit language, descriptions of sex, pretty wholesome episode honestly Dancing, fighting, spreading sweet-smelling pheromones… all in the name of love. Lekking is a strange…

S2E2 S2E2 - Catnip (Don't make it weird.)

Apr 24, 2025 42m

Content Warning: Drug use, including recreational drugs. Moral panics. Sexual references. Spoiler: ((it's not the cats)) What is catnip, what's its effect on cats, and is it really cats getting horny…

S2E1 S2E1 - RANKED: Love (The Dangerous and The Dumb)

Mar 27, 2025 1h 15m

Content Warning: cannibalism, suicide, coercive/violent sexual behavior, death during pregnancy, partner death, drowning, necrophilia (start the episode at 36:12 to avoid our discussion of all of the…

S1E9 S1E9 - Bees Do It Sweeter

Dec 19, 2024 47m

Content Warning: Discussions about sexual acts and copulation rituals in bees, including some graphic "traumatic mating events." :) "It can't always be roses." - Nicole Brown, 2024 THIS IS OUR LAST…

S1E8 S1E8 - Boom, Boom, Babies

Nov 28, 2024 1h 1m

The miracle of life is straightforward and simple, right? Sperm. Egg. BOOM. Babies. That's what they taught us in science school! In actuality, it's much more complicated, as pregnancy and childbirth…

S1E7 S1E7 - The Pantry of Nightmares: The Eastern Mole's Guide to Prepping Like a Psychopath

Oct 31, 2024 48m

Content Warning: Body horror, existential dread, "nature is metal" prey-predator interactions. This Halloween episode is about predators who stash their prey for later... alive. Nicole's…

S1E6 S1E6 - Let's Talk About (Not) Sex

Oct 03, 2024 1h 2m

Content Warning: References to sex and nonviable pregnancies. Spending every moment of waking life trying to get laid has its downsides, and for some organisms, the business of reproduction is just…

S1E5 S1E5 - Koala Chlamydia

Aug 22, 2024 56m

Content Warning: graphic descriptions of STIs, death, some sprinkling of thinking too much about how much of a horror bodies are. Koalas are well known for being disease ridden (at least in our…

S1E4 S1E4 - Antechinus Sex Machines

Jul 25, 2024 43m

Content Warning: graphic descriptions of sex, violent acts Turns out lots of animals just wait around till maturity and then turn into horny little guys. The genus Antechinus is no exception as males…

S1E3 S1E3 - Horny Wonders (Plants)

Jun 27, 2024 57m

Content Warning: This episode is WEIRDLY explicit for an episode about plants. Contains explicit discussions about sex, sexual acts, and genitalia. Nicole's Notable Sources: Heiduk, A., Brake, I.,…

S1E2 S1E2 - Eyeballs Deep (Butterflies)

May 23, 2024 56m

Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia, mild body horror Rachel's Sources: Arikawa, K. 2001. Hindsight of Butterflies: The Papilio butterfly has light sensitivity in the…

S1E1 S1E1 - Sex as Social Grease (Bonobos)

Apr 25, 2024 50m

Content Warning: descriptions of sexual acts and genitalia Allan's Sources: De Waal, Franz. Bonobos: The Forgotten Ape. 1st ed., published 1997. De Waal, Franz. “Bonobo Sex and Society”, Scientific…

Filthy Animals Premiers April 25

Apr 03, 2024 0m Trailer

Filthy Animals is an ecology podcast for adults. Episodes may contain strong language and graphic descriptions of natural phenomena. A more detailed list of content warnings is included in each…

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