2 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,299 Oh 3 00:00:46,210 --> 00:00:50,369 Kingdom let's meet tonight's menagerie the questing phil jupiter's 4 00:00:51,649 --> 00:01:38,260 Quartet of quadrupeds a moose in a quarry copter again in quentin tarantino's jacuzzi 5 00:01:38,739 --> 00:01:50,930 I love this. What is blue and sounds like a whale? 6 00:02:06,719 --> 00:02:15,780 So the whole door is it a sad dolphin dolphins we care about yeah, we care about them 7 00:02:15,780 --> 00:02:17,780 What does the whale sound like? 8 00:02:22,099 --> 00:02:28,819 They're really soothing. So, you know, they have those tapes to help you get to sleep. Yeah, steve. How far away are you 1500 miles? 9 00:02:29,539 --> 00:02:33,330 That's the saddest out of clear 10 00:02:35,250 --> 00:02:39,810 Blue you sound like a whale 11 00:02:41,009 --> 00:02:45,330 There was a genius comic called linda smith and one of her best jokes when she said 12 00:02:45,569 --> 00:02:51,569 I bought one of those tapes of whale music and I thought really soothing turned out to be a dolphin tribute band 13 00:02:52,050 --> 00:02:59,949 Oh, so we don't know what it means it could be soothing to us, but they're saying i'm choking on the plastic 14 00:03:02,270 --> 00:03:08,189 Can I just remind everybody that this season is the letter q q something so so the queen 15 00:03:10,590 --> 00:03:15,409 What is blue and sounds like a whale quail? Yes a blue quail 16 00:03:27,199 --> 00:03:30,319 We're just trying to upset in what is orange and sounds like the parrot 17 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,840 What is orange a carrot? Oh, sorry 18 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:44,240 Well lives in sub-saharan africa. It's one of about 40 species of quail world white actually only the males are blue 19 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:46,719 Gales, they're brown with buff 20 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,960 underparts 21 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,199 Does this love the word buff? Yes, I don't even know what the plural of quail is quail eye 22 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,080 No, it's quail 23 00:03:56,639 --> 00:04:00,240 It's always worth having a go with yeah, isn't it quail eye for the straight guy 24 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,240 Yeah 25 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,120 That's a program i'd like to see 26 00:04:06,639 --> 00:04:12,000 What did quail teach us about sex in space, do you suppose they sent quails up to space? 27 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,680 Yes, they could in fact be called the very first extraterrestrial life form. Okay. I'm going to take a mad guess 28 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:21,040 Yep, they taught us how to be caring lovers 29 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:26,800 They sent the eggs up they did send the eggs up they are the very first vertebrates to be born in space 30 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,360 They went up into the mere space station in 1990 part of the russian program 31 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,800 They wanted to find out if quail would be a good food source for a long-term mission 32 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,879 So eight of them hatched out of that lot, but they couldn't cope with zero gravity 33 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:41,839 They simply couldn't latch on and feed themselves at all 34 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,639 So this is the sweetest thing the cosmonauts had to stop every two hours and feed the quail and in the end 35 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,720 They invented a little jacket 36 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,040 That harnessed them to the feeder 37 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,120 I'm feeling in this 38 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,759 What they discovered was it completely removes their sex drive what yes entirely going up into space 39 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:08,240 The female stopped ovulating the males had reduced testosterone levels and both sexes exhibited an absolute apathy to mating 40 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,839 This means my girlfriend's been to space 41 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,480 I'd be all right if sandra bullet drifted by in her underwear and i'll be 42 00:05:23,439 --> 00:05:25,759 Oh, yes, i knew she'd be here 43 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,279 Sorry i'm having trouble concentrating 44 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:36,639 But there seems to be a great deal of interest in the sex life of quail so this is one of my favorite studies 45 00:05:36,879 --> 00:05:43,360 So the university of kentucky in 2011 they received a massive grant from the national institute of health to study 46 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:48,079 What the effect of cocaine is on the sex drive of the japanese quail? 47 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:50,079 Well 48 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,240 Everyone's just deep frying everything 49 00:05:54,319 --> 00:06:00,240 Here's the thing that will surprise you apparently the cocaine was linked to increased risky sexual behavior 50 00:06:03,490 --> 00:06:05,490 Well i'll say where's my drugs 51 00:06:07,250 --> 00:06:12,769 So old british words for quail they used to be called butt for butt but for but they get better wet my lips 52 00:06:14,529 --> 00:06:16,529 And quick midic 53 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:20,529 There's another medieval phrase for quail which is cocaine whore 54 00:06:23,089 --> 00:06:25,009 They all refer to the sounds that they make in fact 55 00:06:25,089 --> 00:06:29,410 So does the word quail itself it comes from the medieval latin name for them, which was quackula 56 00:06:29,569 --> 00:06:33,970 So it's supposed to be the sound shall we have a listen and see if we think it sounds like any of those things 57 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:42,670 Got any care got any care 58 00:06:42,670 --> 00:06:46,430 Love this alan. I have a fact that is just for you. Okay, the male japanese quail 59 00:06:46,430 --> 00:06:48,829 They have a gland above their sex organ 60 00:06:51,389 --> 00:06:55,389 It's a liquid containing it has some of the same enzymes and proteins that you get in egg white 61 00:06:55,790 --> 00:06:59,569 And they whip this into a stiff foam using their sphincter 62 00:07:02,509 --> 00:07:04,509 Imagine you're beating like this 63 00:07:05,230 --> 00:07:11,870 And then I ever take Japanese quail meringue and then they deposit into the female after the sperm like a dessert 64 00:07:14,670 --> 00:07:17,149 Is it like clay to make sure it doesn't come back out 65 00:07:17,870 --> 00:07:19,870 Okay, yes, yes 66 00:07:20,829 --> 00:07:25,790 There seems to be some advantage, but we don't know what it is other than I think fun 67 00:07:27,949 --> 00:07:32,029 We've talked a lot about the male quail there's something interesting about the females they're attracted to losers 68 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:38,829 University in ontario they did some research 69 00:07:38,829 --> 00:07:41,389 so what they did they had two male quail in a box with a 70 00:07:41,709 --> 00:07:47,470 Plexiglass divided down the middle and they fought by trying to peg each other through the glass and they had a female quail 71 00:07:47,949 --> 00:07:50,750 Watch this and when she was placed in with the two males 72 00:07:50,829 --> 00:07:56,930 She preferred the loser the one who had shown the least progression. Perhaps it didn't show what he could do with his whipping sphincter 73 00:07:58,910 --> 00:08:03,230 He lost the pecking but she was checking the sphincter and she was like look at the whip on that. Yes, please 74 00:08:05,069 --> 00:08:09,790 She's also possible she's hoping that the male quail is not going to be aggressive towards her. Yeah exactly. Yeah now 75 00:08:10,189 --> 00:08:14,910 What's the most numerous undomesticated bird in the world? 76 00:08:17,470 --> 00:08:22,269 Wait, that's what i'm gonna say. Does that mean he's right? No he's wrong. Oh, he's wrong. It means he's wrong. It means he's wrong 77 00:08:22,269 --> 00:08:24,269 Okay, we'll hear that a lot when alan speaks 78 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:33,519 Chicken 79 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:35,519 So i'm going to give you a clue 80 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:39,700 This is uh, one of the ways to kill it. This is a piece of dynamite. Okay 81 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:45,039 Um, uh the roadrunner 82 00:08:52,860 --> 00:08:57,740 Is it does it live in britain? No, so deliso is in with the best chance of knowing this as there are lots of 83 00:08:57,740 --> 00:09:01,100 These in malawi. Oh, okay. Yes, it's weaver birds 84 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:04,700 Weaver bird is what we call 85 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:06,700 You're absolutely right. It's called the red-billed quail 86 00:09:12,690 --> 00:09:15,889 They should not be according these things they are a menace, okay 87 00:09:16,850 --> 00:09:22,210 These things are like the bane of farmers. They like flock and they eat like everything 88 00:09:22,769 --> 00:09:28,850 They're like feathered locusts. That's exactly it. Yes, there are approximately one and a half billion of these birds 89 00:09:28,850 --> 00:09:34,610 So to put that into some kind of context the uk's most numerous bird is the red there are 8.6 million breeding pairs 90 00:09:34,850 --> 00:09:37,970 They come in flocks of two million birds 91 00:09:38,610 --> 00:09:43,330 And each bird eats roughly half its own body weight a day. Are they going to eat that elephant? 92 00:09:45,490 --> 00:09:50,929 Well, they're going to eat the weight of an elephant they can consume 20 tons a day one flock so they can absolutely decimate 93 00:09:51,309 --> 00:09:53,889 Agriculture it is an extraordinary thing and getting rid of them 94 00:09:53,970 --> 00:09:58,450 They're like people go through the field with like drums trying to chase them away 95 00:09:58,610 --> 00:10:01,090 We don't have dynamite. That seems like a better plan 96 00:10:02,769 --> 00:10:04,769 The drums are like we might get dynamite 97 00:10:06,529 --> 00:10:09,570 We're seriously thinking about it we don't have the budget 98 00:10:11,330 --> 00:10:13,250 It's all right if you don't have the money for dynamite 99 00:10:13,250 --> 00:10:16,610 So you just try and go into the field to scare them but they're incredibly mobile and they'll just go on to the 100 00:10:16,610 --> 00:10:19,169 Next field and they do have wings don't they? Yeah, i'm afraid 101 00:10:20,610 --> 00:10:26,210 But they've tried napalm they've tried pathogens they've tried electronic devices dynamite firebombing what about kindness, you know a little bit of luck 102 00:10:27,169 --> 00:10:32,159 Well full of smarties and they all go over there no one thinks 103 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,039 Or just a million cats 104 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:42,320 Can you imagine the poor pilot who you know, he wants to see action in the army and they send him to 105 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:44,559 To fire bomb a bunch of birds 106 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,600 About 50 million are killed in south africa alone every single year 107 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:54,320 But they have very few natural predators and the females produce about nine offspring a year 108 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:56,559 So they're able to just keep replenishing themselves 109 00:10:57,039 --> 00:11:01,440 I have to say this is not the only animal that farmers use dynamite on 110 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:06,320 I love this story in the austrian province of ralberg in 2018. Oh god 111 00:11:08,879 --> 00:11:10,879 Not daisy 112 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:16,480 They banned the practice of blowing up dead cows 113 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Yeah, is that how they'd make a stew 114 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:21,840 Oh 115 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,159 So what it is is that area is a very alpine area 116 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:26,879 It's right on the swiss border and when a cow dies 117 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:27,919 You've got to get rid of it 118 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:30,960 But it can die by falling down a precipice or being struck by lightning or something 119 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:36,480 But it's really difficult to get rid of the remains and so they were having to helicopter the dead cows out 120 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:45,600 That costs a thousand dollars a trip so some farmers were blowing them up. It's 32 to blow up 121 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:50,480 Oh 122 00:11:53,250 --> 00:11:55,809 Do you know why they've stopped doing it it's birds against the law now to do it 123 00:11:55,889 --> 00:11:59,250 Do you know why well it might spread diseases surely contamination of the groundwater 124 00:11:59,330 --> 00:12:01,889 But the other thing which I really like is it was putting tourists off 125 00:12:03,970 --> 00:12:09,250 What shall we do today let's just blow it up I can't be asking a helicopter what fun 126 00:12:09,490 --> 00:12:12,769 What is happening over there in austria? We're making some cheese with hogs 127 00:12:14,850 --> 00:12:17,809 We are hearing the banging and there is meat landing on my roof no 128 00:12:18,769 --> 00:12:22,850 Oh, it's no just carry on with your cheese 129 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:36,909 Who's started waking up earlier in order to get more selfies? 130 00:12:38,509 --> 00:12:40,029 Is it uh 131 00:12:40,029 --> 00:12:46,830 Teenagers teenagers. No, they're all these young pop stars the kadashians and stuff who've got selfies 132 00:12:47,950 --> 00:12:57,889 Buzz for saying kim kardashian. Yeah, because we thought it was predictable that somebody at some point 133 00:12:59,809 --> 00:13:01,009 Oh 134 00:13:01,009 --> 00:13:03,169 Don't get crossed Danny 135 00:13:03,169 --> 00:13:07,730 It's fine. Remember we're in queue and we're doing you animals chew animals 136 00:13:08,210 --> 00:13:09,169 quail 137 00:13:09,169 --> 00:13:10,610 uh 138 00:13:10,610 --> 00:13:12,529 Queen koala 139 00:13:12,529 --> 00:13:18,289 Okay, you are in the right part of the world a queen kangaroo. Uh, you are in the right part of the world 140 00:13:18,370 --> 00:13:20,370 It is the world 141 00:13:22,610 --> 00:13:24,610 Yes, no australia 142 00:13:25,409 --> 00:13:26,929 Happy one from australia 143 00:13:26,929 --> 00:13:30,450 I mean that when you take when you take a picture it looks like he's smiling and people keep taking pictures 144 00:13:30,450 --> 00:13:36,210 And it looks like he's poking his head in smiley. It is the world's happiest animal quagga quagga. Yes, absolutely 145 00:13:36,210 --> 00:13:38,049 Right very well. Have you seen one? What? 146 00:13:39,730 --> 00:13:50,720 Lived mostly on a little tiny island called rot nest just off perth just off the coast of western australia. That's a great photo 147 00:13:51,279 --> 00:13:53,759 I don't trust it. That's like a person in a suit 148 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,840 Have you seen the rest of the peloton 149 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:08,539 I lost the guys completely 150 00:14:10,539 --> 00:14:14,700 So the quokka is an aboriginal word and the dutch sailors initially mistook them for giant rats 151 00:14:14,779 --> 00:14:20,379 So that's why the island is called rot nest and there are more than seven thousand four hundred quokka selfies 152 00:14:20,779 --> 00:14:22,779 Which were posted on social media in 2018 153 00:14:23,259 --> 00:14:25,259 Helped by the fact that people like roger federer 154 00:14:25,340 --> 00:14:30,779 Uh, the tennis player and margo robbie the actress both did them. There's roger federer with the quokka and apparently 155 00:14:30,860 --> 00:14:32,860 Who are you ah-ing roger federer or the quokkas? 156 00:14:36,460 --> 00:14:38,460 They're all on push bikes as well 157 00:14:39,899 --> 00:14:45,740 Here's the sweetest thing about them. They're nocturnal but those that are on rot nest are now staying awake during the day 158 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:49,419 In order to spend time with the tourists 159 00:14:50,779 --> 00:14:55,259 And the ones who are on the bit of the island that's highly developed for tourism are doing better 160 00:14:55,740 --> 00:15:00,940 Than the ones in the less disturbed habitats. Yeah, here's the thing that's slightly going to put you off the clock 161 00:15:00,940 --> 00:15:03,259 Oh does it shit in your face? 162 00:15:04,220 --> 00:15:11,039 All right, it's got a gland that makes a stew that you have sex with 163 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,080 Do not eat their pavlovas 164 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:15,759 And not great parents 165 00:15:15,759 --> 00:15:21,039 so when the female quokka becomes aware of a predator the first thing she does is she ejects the joey from her pouch and 166 00:15:21,039 --> 00:15:26,399 The infant lies on the ground making a sort of hissing noise and this distraction allows the mother to escape and leave the predator 167 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,559 I mean you say bad parent, but in a way she's she's smart, isn't she? 168 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:34,240 Yeah 169 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:40,480 Animals do do that, don't they? Well, gray kangaroos do it swamp wallabies. So there are lots of other they're called cockettes the female 170 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:46,350 And the quokkets is the bad I want to see 171 00:15:47,629 --> 00:15:52,750 Quokkas get their beauty sleep at night now so they can always look their best for a daytime selfie 172 00:15:52,990 --> 00:15:58,990 But selfies are dangerous. Oh, yes, they are many people die doing selfies also like I was given advice 173 00:15:59,710 --> 00:16:04,750 By comedian who said oh if a fan comes and they they recognize you and they're excited 174 00:16:05,230 --> 00:16:08,830 Maybe you you should say oh do you want to selfie because sometimes they're too shy 175 00:16:09,309 --> 00:16:14,110 And I followed this advice. Yes, and in noddingham a woman was like, oh, I I recognize you 176 00:16:14,110 --> 00:16:18,350 I was like, oh hi, and I said, uh, do you want to selfie and she said no, you're not the eiffel tower 177 00:16:24,460 --> 00:16:32,379 Sticking with australian marsupials a quoll is a squirrel sized marsupial. Okay. Let us imagine that you're heisting a baby 178 00:16:33,179 --> 00:16:38,539 Australia and a mob of quolls turn up. What are you going to offer them straight away? You give them a tinny 179 00:16:40,940 --> 00:16:42,940 Then you're asking if they're vego 180 00:16:44,779 --> 00:16:48,379 They're not vegetarian, but why do we have to offer them anything we didn't invite them 181 00:16:48,940 --> 00:16:51,980 Now we're catering for everyone who turns up. Yes, so there is a reason 182 00:16:52,779 --> 00:16:58,779 Why you want them to eat something because they're cuter than you. Oh, no, no that which is cuter than you 183 00:17:00,139 --> 00:17:02,139 Don't think that's a nature's rule 184 00:17:03,740 --> 00:17:08,940 What's a barbecue thing another barbecue thing burgers sausages sausages, okay sausages is what you need to offer them 185 00:17:09,019 --> 00:17:13,500 What kind of sausages do you think you might offer a quoll vegetarian sausages? 186 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:18,380 Okay, the reason we need to do this is to save them from extinction 187 00:17:18,940 --> 00:17:22,460 Is the real reason they should have said that when they turned up. Yeah, so 188 00:17:23,339 --> 00:17:25,980 We're being extinct feed us because I was like get out of here 189 00:17:26,779 --> 00:17:28,779 This is my barbecue but by my friends 190 00:17:29,339 --> 00:17:33,900 No, their numbers have dropped dramatically and it is because partly they've been eaten by foxes and they've been eaten by cats 191 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:38,299 Which were introduced by the victorians, but also they like to eat cane toads 192 00:17:38,539 --> 00:17:42,059 So there is a toxin in the back cane toad 193 00:17:42,539 --> 00:17:47,420 So licking them can cause uh hallucinations and they're indeed australian dogs, which are entirely addicted 194 00:17:47,819 --> 00:17:49,819 uh to doing 195 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:55,680 Uh, that's an addict a labrador on a trip is a fantastic 196 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,920 But the quolls can be killed by this poison 197 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,279 So in order to educate them not to eat cane toads, they're being fed sausages made from toad 198 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:12,799 Mints, they take the harmful skin off and they make the mints and they lace it with a chemical which makes the quolls feel nauseous 199 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:19,519 The plan is to put them off eating toad, but I think the ones in the wild don't smell like barbecue 200 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,519 Also, why are they hoping that they go back home? They're like, oh tony I had some toad 201 00:18:25,759 --> 00:18:30,319 No telling you what it was bad. Oh, i'll go and tell shela. Let's spread the word. Well 202 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:32,559 If tony had a bad toad sausage 203 00:18:32,559 --> 00:18:38,640 We should all avoid it up to 68 percent of the wild quolls that have been fed toad sausages have been put off 204 00:18:38,799 --> 00:18:44,259 Eating toad they've got good social networking and they're actually hoping now that they can drop toad sausages by helicopter 205 00:18:49,279 --> 00:18:51,279 Just say that one more time 206 00:18:54,339 --> 00:18:57,059 They are astonishing cane toads, so they're not native to 207 00:18:57,700 --> 00:19:01,940 Australia at all. They're native to central and south america in 1935. They were brought in 208 00:19:02,579 --> 00:19:06,099 To sugar plantations in order to get rid of a pest which was the cane 209 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:10,339 Beetle they brought in 102 toads. Um, it was a failure. Why hello? 210 00:19:12,819 --> 00:19:15,539 I think we should definitely leave europe 211 00:19:16,980 --> 00:19:27,900 Why would it be a failure the other things no, so they live on the ground and beetles can fly. Oh shit 212 00:19:29,740 --> 00:19:35,099 These 102 toads have grown into today's population of one and a half billion 213 00:19:36,619 --> 00:19:43,259 And they have devastated australia's flora. Toads love to do it. Oh a female toad can have 35 000 214 00:19:43,740 --> 00:19:45,740 Eggs what? Yeah 215 00:19:45,980 --> 00:19:48,539 So here's a nice thing apart from the toad sausages 216 00:19:48,619 --> 00:19:52,380 One of the ways they're thinking now of saving the quoll is to turn them into pets 217 00:19:52,940 --> 00:19:56,619 Um, there are people who say they should have them instead of a cat and in fact, they're rather sweet 218 00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:58,700 They can be trained they can use a litter tray 219 00:19:59,180 --> 00:20:01,180 Um, they weigh about the same. Yeah 220 00:20:02,059 --> 00:20:04,059 Really sweet 221 00:20:04,779 --> 00:20:15,019 Have you got your foot sticking out from under the duvet that gets hold of you 222 00:20:19,150 --> 00:20:21,710 The second biggest bite force quotient 223 00:20:23,710 --> 00:20:29,789 So how hard they can bite relative to the size of any animal children then yeah second only to the tasmanian devil 224 00:20:31,549 --> 00:20:35,869 Um, but of course keeping them as pets is not going to save the wild population in any way whatsoever 225 00:20:36,109 --> 00:20:42,349 Here's a fact about quolls that I love the breeding season only lasts for three days during which they mate with their partner 226 00:20:42,670 --> 00:20:46,029 Every 15 minutes for the entire duration 227 00:20:47,789 --> 00:20:50,829 Yeah, the males and the females only meet for that three-day fest 228 00:20:50,990 --> 00:20:53,630 They want to stop eating the toads and talk to them about having sex 229 00:20:54,990 --> 00:20:56,990 Also not great parents these ones 230 00:20:58,269 --> 00:21:02,269 No, so what they do is they give birth to about 30 offspring each one is the size of a grain of rice 231 00:21:02,589 --> 00:21:07,470 But the female quoll only has six nipples so the first six who are fastest 232 00:21:09,869 --> 00:21:17,420 Come on boys, yeah rush is fastest. Yeah like some insane reality show 233 00:21:19,339 --> 00:21:31,200 If I just sit like that in your living room, ah have you been a squirrel sized marsupial 234 00:21:33,339 --> 00:21:35,339 Tremendous bite force 235 00:21:38,829 --> 00:21:40,829 Which can have sex with anyone 236 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,799 Scientists are encouraging quolls to eat sausages rather than toads in the hole 237 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,119 Right, uh moving on. Uh, what is wrong with this zebra? 238 00:22:00,299 --> 00:22:05,519 Uh, no barcode 239 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:12,000 Mutant zebra with like half the stripes. It's an extinct subspecies. Oh someone checked it out. It's a 240 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:16,240 It is a quagga indeed. But wait, didn't we already aren't the birds the quagga? 241 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:23,519 So we've had quolls and quackers and quileia it's cute darling there's going to be a lot of animals beginning 242 00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:27,279 Doctor's use has moved in and started 243 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,759 Quackers and quackers and quails and all of them have the most magnificent tail 244 00:22:35,599 --> 00:22:38,400 It's an extinct subspecies of zebra lived in southern africa 245 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:42,799 It was stripey but only down to the shoulders. It's been sort of described as a zebra who's forgotten his pajama bottoms 246 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,599 interesting thing about 247 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:50,079 Stripes, I I went to school in kenya and we read early colonial books 248 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:56,319 And they theorized because they'd never seen any mixed race children, right? So they imagined that 249 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,559 A child would be born with stripes if a black person and a white person 250 00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:04,000 It makes sense if you think about it if you've never 251 00:23:05,519 --> 00:23:10,079 If you've never seen it, it's more logical, you know, I mean like these are people who thought the world was flat 252 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:12,079 Okay, but still 253 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,160 That's what they thought would happen. That's appalling 254 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,640 Appalling can I just apologize? 255 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,640 It's nice saying but it's a bit like 256 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:26,190 What about the quagga is this a really good example of humans sorting out the natural world 257 00:23:26,190 --> 00:23:31,150 The quagga was made a protected species three years after it had already become extinct life 258 00:23:31,950 --> 00:23:38,349 It was given legal protection by the capetown government in 1886 and the last one died in an amsterdam zoo in 1883 259 00:23:38,589 --> 00:23:42,829 So they were three years too late. Wake up cleaver did it's time for your edam 260 00:23:42,829 --> 00:23:44,829 I am 261 00:23:44,829 --> 00:23:46,829 No, he's dead 262 00:23:47,869 --> 00:23:49,869 Zookeeper yeah, no fair enough 263 00:23:52,029 --> 00:23:54,029 I thought it'd be called clifford 264 00:23:55,230 --> 00:23:56,750 They have tried 265 00:23:56,750 --> 00:23:58,430 To reverse engineer a quagga 266 00:23:58,430 --> 00:24:02,589 So in 1987 they tried to see if they could get one through selective breeding 267 00:24:02,910 --> 00:24:10,029 And in fact, they successfully bred the plain hindquarters, but it is still genetically a zebra. It is anybody not watch 268 00:24:10,990 --> 00:24:12,990 Jurassic park 269 00:24:13,869 --> 00:24:19,710 Here's an interesting thing for a long time grant museum at the university college london believed it owned two zebra skeletons 270 00:24:19,950 --> 00:24:24,509 But they re-examined them in 1972. They found one was a quagga and one was a donkey 271 00:24:24,589 --> 00:24:26,589 So they didn't have any zebra skeletons 272 00:24:28,190 --> 00:24:29,470 This is a fantastic thing 273 00:24:29,470 --> 00:24:35,069 This is the actual skeleton of the quagga now if you have a look at the back left leg 274 00:24:35,549 --> 00:24:38,109 You can see that there is just a sort of a black outline 275 00:24:38,589 --> 00:24:43,710 And that is because that particular leg is missing on this quagga 276 00:24:44,029 --> 00:24:50,750 And this has an extraordinary story and here to tell us about it is the curator of the grant museum tannis davidson. Hello tannis 277 00:24:55,839 --> 00:25:01,119 First of all, can I just say fabulous museum and a rare museum. Is it not the grant museum? Um, yes, we are the last 278 00:25:01,819 --> 00:25:05,440 University zoological museum in london and anybody can go and visit it 279 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,480 Yes, we're open to the public monday through saturday one till five 280 00:25:08,559 --> 00:25:12,079 Okay, so these skeletons of quaggas. How many do you think there are in the world? 281 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,480 Um, well, it's one of our star specimens 282 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,000 Uh, we think there's only seven quagga skeletons anywhere in the world 283 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,440 Right as far as I know ours is the only one with a skull, but it's missing a leg 284 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,880 What happened? Where the hell is the leg? 285 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:30,000 Um, well the first idea is that it had been loaned to the royal college of surgeons just before world war two 286 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,119 And of course that building was bombed. So it was lost 287 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,200 during the bombing 288 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:42,799 Another idea was that when the specimens were evacuated to wales it somehow became lost 289 00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:47,440 So it could still be in wales. It could be and you're holding a thing here now that this is what it would look like 290 00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:52,160 This is what it looks like right? How would you know the difference between a quagga leg and a zebra leg? 291 00:25:52,319 --> 00:25:54,319 It's very difficult. Oh 292 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,480 So if you've got one you may think that it is in fact a zebra leg 293 00:25:58,559 --> 00:25:59,359 Um, yes 294 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:04,960 There is a an idea that perhaps this might be in someone's collection if it was lost in wales 295 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,480 And maybe somebody thought it was a donkey leg or a horse leg 296 00:26:08,559 --> 00:26:13,119 So you could compare it to your actual skeleton and see if it is yes if somebody found something like this 297 00:26:13,279 --> 00:26:16,160 We could you know slot it in perfectly and it would just all become 298 00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:20,000 Okay a whole specimen again. I feel we are the show to help you with this. Okay 299 00:26:20,319 --> 00:26:21,359 so 300 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,359 This is a quine watch appeal 301 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:25,599 I 302 00:26:34,059 --> 00:26:38,059 Have any information relating to the whereabouts of this missing quagga leg, please please 303 00:26:39,019 --> 00:26:42,779 There is a reward an all expenses paid trip to the mountains of kong. Thank you 304 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:45,900 Thank you very much tannis fantastic 305 00:26:47,980 --> 00:26:52,930 The idea somebody in wales is going I think there's one of those 306 00:26:55,009 --> 00:26:59,009 Anyway, what is the most offensive thing anyone could do? 307 00:27:00,210 --> 00:27:01,890 with this 308 00:27:01,890 --> 00:27:07,569 I actually have two and it involves doing something with two of them sandy sandy for me for me. Come on both of them 309 00:27:11,789 --> 00:27:13,789 This summer 310 00:27:15,950 --> 00:27:20,430 So you need both of them you actually have to hold them like this well like boxing gloves 311 00:27:20,589 --> 00:27:23,710 It is exactly that that they were used as boxing gloves 312 00:27:25,230 --> 00:27:28,349 I know so this is a queen conch actually in the united states. It's called a conch 313 00:27:28,589 --> 00:27:36,190 But the british say a conch so about 3000 years ago the mayans used them as boxing gloves or more of a knuckle duster possibly 314 00:27:36,829 --> 00:27:40,829 part of the ritual worship of the rain god charlotte and 315 00:27:41,390 --> 00:27:46,829 Honestly, it resulted in quite a lot of blood. Let's yeah. Yeah, which was apparently part of the ceremony 316 00:27:46,990 --> 00:27:50,190 I don't know what they've got in their heads. That is this I would imagine if you're in a culture 317 00:27:50,190 --> 00:27:55,150 That's hitting each other wearing conches as boxing gloves. You're going to invent the crashing on it really fast 318 00:27:55,470 --> 00:27:56,670 Yeah 319 00:27:56,670 --> 00:28:02,049 It is an extraordinary thing the queen conch large species of sea snail. It lives in the atlantic 320 00:28:02,269 --> 00:28:04,589 It's incredibly strong 10 times stronger than mother of pearl 321 00:28:04,829 --> 00:28:10,349 So very few predators can get into this shell except the nurse shark and what it does is it doesn't actually crack the shell 322 00:28:10,349 --> 00:28:12,349 It just sucks 323 00:28:13,230 --> 00:28:15,230 What a way to go 324 00:28:18,990 --> 00:28:21,630 That's the best production of west side story I ever saw 325 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:33,359 Bill conch shell playing also has a tremendous tradition. So I have put a conch beside you 326 00:28:33,599 --> 00:28:39,039 There's a tiny bit kind of cut off and the aztecs used to have a conch shell trumpet 327 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:44,319 It was called a quick whistly and the musicians who played them were called quick whiz oini 328 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,200 And it's thought of had the power to defeat the aztec lord of the dead 329 00:28:51,759 --> 00:29:13,069 Are you ready noise apparently if you move your hand in and out of the aperture that is 330 00:29:13,069 --> 00:29:15,069 Oh the way in which you get 331 00:29:15,390 --> 00:29:30,000 There's an annual conch blowing competition. It's held in key west florida. I bet there is 332 00:29:31,599 --> 00:29:35,200 In 2018 a 70 year old woman called mary lou smith 333 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:40,880 She won the woman's division and her fellow conch player a man called rick race dropped to one knee and proposed 334 00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:45,680 I know it's a thing people in key west and in the and in the bahamas. They call themselves conches 335 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:47,759 What am I supposed to do with mine? 336 00:29:49,119 --> 00:29:50,880 I don't know 337 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,759 That looks like some sort of star wars character 338 00:29:55,839 --> 00:29:57,839 I have not seen solo 339 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,720 I am your father 340 00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:07,599 You will come to the seaside with me 341 00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:13,039 I will buy you some chips and we will go for a walk 342 00:30:16,460 --> 00:30:23,740 Sandy I can't get it off. Okay with that. Why you finish your career? 343 00:30:23,740 --> 00:30:25,740 Yeah 344 00:30:26,619 --> 00:30:30,779 What does it mean if quentin the cohog squirts to the right 345 00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:35,180 He votes tori 346 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,819 No, it's not like this look at this and see if this it's a shellfish isn't it? 347 00:30:39,819 --> 00:30:44,619 It's a it's like a it's a clam like clam. So where would you have you seen that? They're in new england 348 00:30:44,779 --> 00:30:50,140 They are but where else have might you've seen cohog? It's always a family guy. Yeah, so it's set in a fictitious tone 349 00:30:50,539 --> 00:30:52,539 family guy of cohog 350 00:30:53,019 --> 00:30:57,259 Rhode island and february the second in the united states is groundhog day most of north america 351 00:30:57,259 --> 00:31:02,539 But in nantucket, it is cohog day and a cohog called quentin 352 00:31:03,339 --> 00:31:08,619 Is opened and the direction that the water spurts from his shell predicts whether winter is over 353 00:31:08,779 --> 00:31:10,779 So if it squirts to the left six more weeks of winter 354 00:31:11,660 --> 00:31:13,660 Right that should come with a trigger warning 355 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:25,180 To the right then winter is over unfortunately quentin himself does not live to see the prediction come true 356 00:31:25,180 --> 00:31:27,180 Because he's eaten immediately by the harbormaster 357 00:31:28,140 --> 00:31:31,099 That's the ceremony so there's a there's a new quentin every year 358 00:31:31,339 --> 00:31:35,099 Have you seen the groundhog when they do the groundhog day thing? So that's a punks attorney fill 359 00:31:35,180 --> 00:31:39,180 That's the name of the groundhog you see on one of the movie channels 360 00:31:39,660 --> 00:31:43,660 The other day when it was actually groundhog day, they ran groundhog day all day 361 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:48,940 They've been doing it since 1887. I mean cohog days and have been going for 10 years 362 00:31:49,019 --> 00:31:53,900 But the groundhog thing is hugely old although cohogs are very old in themselves 363 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:58,940 So in 2006 there were some researchers from bangal university and they opened up the shell of an ocean cohog 364 00:31:59,180 --> 00:32:01,180 Which they dredged from the coast of iceland 365 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,180 Unfortunately, they had just killed the oldest animal known to science. It was 366 00:32:06,279 --> 00:32:08,279 507 years old 367 00:32:09,339 --> 00:32:11,339 Yeah, they were very upset 368 00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:15,579 Paul butler from the university said we had no idea it was that old before it was too late 369 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:19,660 That'd be a good section to do on the show when scientists are sometimes dicks 370 00:32:20,619 --> 00:32:24,240 Uh, there once was a clam from nantucket 371 00:32:26,140 --> 00:32:28,140 I'll actually finish that one in your own time 372 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:31,920 Now who would want to kiss these lips 373 00:32:36,059 --> 00:32:40,460 Another one of those would want to kiss them. It's a freshwater fish found throughout north america 374 00:32:40,539 --> 00:32:42,539 It's called a quillback sucker 375 00:32:42,859 --> 00:32:47,099 So they've got these really thick fleshy lips and it allows their mouths to act like a vacuum 376 00:32:47,099 --> 00:32:52,220 They can actually attach to surfaces by suction, but here is how nature can be a you know, rotter 377 00:32:52,460 --> 00:32:59,420 They have a really tiny esophagus. So they've got this great big fantastic vacuum mouth, but they can only eat microscopic things like algae 378 00:33:00,140 --> 00:33:03,660 I know it just seems mean doesn't it big mouth tiny ability to swallow 379 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:19,599 To follow through 380 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,680 So the oldest recorded quillback at 95 years old 381 00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:27,759 It doesn't actually have quills on its back. That's a it's a bit of a misnomer 382 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:34,720 It's that its dorsal fin is shaped a bit like a quill pen. There's the reason they have a polygynanderous mating system 383 00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:39,759 So what that means is two or more males will mate exclusively with two or more females 384 00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:41,839 It's like they belong to the same club 385 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,799 There is a quillback rockfish i bet there is 386 00:33:48,079 --> 00:33:51,119 And that has sharp venomous spines on its dorsal fin and that protects it 387 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,799 Your name's not down you're not coming in 388 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:02,640 So most well-known quilled animal is their porcupine porcupine, how does a porcupine make love carefully 389 00:34:10,670 --> 00:34:16,110 Okay, two families of porcupines as old world and new world this thing that we're looking here north american new world porcupine so 390 00:34:16,750 --> 00:34:24,829 Sex takes about a minute. All right, and the female signals her interest by urinating and screaming. We've all been there 391 00:34:25,309 --> 00:34:31,150 I don't want to alarm anybody. We're just about to have a look at porcupines. Is it horizontal? 392 00:34:31,869 --> 00:34:33,869 Well, i'm going to show you 393 00:34:43,869 --> 00:34:48,670 Mating is spike free. Yeah, so what happens is the female turns her back on the male 394 00:34:49,070 --> 00:34:54,110 Uh, she arches her tail over her back. That's covering her quills and cushioning them. Let's talk more 395 00:34:59,949 --> 00:35:10,880 But his um his member has got bristly barbs on the tip 396 00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:15,119 And it usually points backwards in its sheath, but it's more like a sort of flick knife 397 00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:17,679 It comes it comes up like a sort of a that's all I can say 398 00:35:18,559 --> 00:35:20,880 You know, it's like this when they're finished. There we are. Yeah 399 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:27,230 Let's put it under a hand dryer 400 00:35:28,269 --> 00:35:30,929 Here's a cute thing baby porcupines are called porcupettes 401 00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:37,230 I know that's so you can't do five minutes of something else and then do cute baby names 402 00:35:39,949 --> 00:35:42,510 Um, what would a porcupine make of this? 403 00:35:43,869 --> 00:35:45,710 nice face of sex 404 00:35:45,710 --> 00:35:47,230 Seems to be what we know about them 405 00:35:47,230 --> 00:35:50,829 You're not far off. Um, so american porcupines are extremely good at climbing trees 406 00:35:50,909 --> 00:35:54,989 And it is one of the ways in which a female might show her interest is to climb a tree 407 00:35:55,309 --> 00:35:57,309 And then urination scream 408 00:36:01,309 --> 00:36:06,030 A lot of them spend their entire lives up a tree and as a consequence, I love this they make their own 409 00:36:06,570 --> 00:36:10,670 Antibiotics in their quills because they keep falling out of the tree 410 00:36:11,389 --> 00:36:17,070 And inhaling themselves on the quills. I mean that's quite flexible and bend as the porcupine lands 411 00:36:17,230 --> 00:36:21,309 But they really raise a sharp the quills they can penetrate skin unbelievably easily 412 00:36:22,269 --> 00:36:26,989 But they're they're extremely painful to extract because they have backwards pointing barbs 413 00:36:27,309 --> 00:36:31,789 So scientists are now trying to mimic this exact mechanism so we could develop better medical adhesives 414 00:36:31,789 --> 00:36:35,309 So things like nicotine patches you don't like it. You don't like to look at it. It's a bit much isn't it? 415 00:36:35,710 --> 00:36:37,710 Can we have them having sex again, please? 416 00:36:39,389 --> 00:36:44,590 Now that brings us to the loving and soft environment that we call general ignorance fingers on buzzers, please 417 00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:49,630 According to the traditional proverb what killed the cat? Oh my god. Yes 418 00:36:50,650 --> 00:36:52,349 curiosity 419 00:36:52,349 --> 00:37:03,340 And the original version for over 260 years was that care 420 00:37:03,820 --> 00:37:08,699 Killed the cat care meaning worry or sorrow if you know your shakespeare is in much ado 421 00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:14,940 What courage man what though care killed a cat thou hast metal enough in thee to kill care 422 00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:19,820 In the mid 19th century care was replaced by curiosity and we just don't know why 423 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:24,059 The russian version of this phrase is curious barbara's nose was torn off at the market 424 00:37:25,579 --> 00:37:27,579 I'm going to use in the future. I think it's rather better 425 00:37:29,900 --> 00:37:33,420 She cats are in lots of phrases aren't they the cat got the canary cat got the cream 426 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:37,980 Yeah, cats away mice would play cats got your tongue. Anybody know why cats got your tongue 427 00:37:38,219 --> 00:37:40,219 Because they're bastards 428 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:47,199 It may be that it could be as far back as you know, the middle east from about 500 bc 429 00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:53,039 Apparently liars had their tongues removed and fed to cats as a punishment if you die 430 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:58,639 Yeah, and you've got cats and no one finds you after about three days 431 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,920 They will feed on your face. Look at them. Those those six there that they're gonna do 432 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,400 I I am firm in my belief that that is true because 433 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,559 When thomas hardy died the nation wanted him to be buried in poet's corner in west mister abbey 434 00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:14,559 But his wife wanted him to be buried in dorset 435 00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:19,679 So it was arranged that his heart would be removed after his death and the body would go to poet's corner 436 00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:23,280 And the heart would be buried in dorset. Anyway, the surgeon came did it at the house? 437 00:38:23,599 --> 00:38:25,280 They weren't doing the burial of the heart till the next day 438 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:30,880 So he put it in a biscuit tin in the larder and apparently in the morning the cat had managed to open the biscuit. Yes 439 00:38:31,679 --> 00:38:33,679 Anyway, the cat eventually died they buried the cat 440 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,480 Up to its neck. Yeah 441 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,920 The cats only eat their dead owners if they can't get out. Yeah. Oh, yeah 442 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:46,159 They don't want to but they're hungry. Yeah, if you're gonna die leave the cat flap open 443 00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:49,599 Yeah put on a fencing mask 444 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,840 He's going 445 00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:02,480 Curiously it was care that killed the cat 446 00:39:03,119 --> 00:39:05,199 How could you tell if a bird is a songbird? 447 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,920 It'll be singing 448 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:15,650 It's got uh, it's got a record deal and it's on spotify. It's in little mix 449 00:39:17,010 --> 00:39:22,210 So here's the thing not all songbirds sing a songbird is defined as any bird that belongs to the passer in 450 00:39:22,590 --> 00:39:25,809 Suborder, so basically still a black she was a songbird. She was a songbird 451 00:39:25,969 --> 00:39:30,289 You need to have three toes facing forward and one facing back. Uh, so they're approaching 452 00:39:30,289 --> 00:39:41,599 The syrinx is the name for their song box and some are so developed 453 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,920 That they can sing two notes at once really really fast 454 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:50,239 There is a bird called the northern cardinal. It is able to sing more notes that is on the piano keyboard in a tenth of a second 455 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:53,039 I know that is really astonishing 456 00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:58,480 But the definition of songbird is not about whether the birds actually sing because in fact females 457 00:39:58,639 --> 00:40:00,880 29 percent of songbird species don't sing at all 458 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:07,519 So according to the rspb bird song is any sound used to attract a mate or to protect territory, okay 459 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,320 Bird song isn't just for songbirds. How would this animal protect itself? 460 00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:15,840 By oh rolling into a ball 461 00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:23,150 Will it just lie down? 462 00:40:23,150 --> 00:40:27,550 So here's the thing there are 18 species of armadillo only two of them the brazilian 463 00:40:28,030 --> 00:40:33,570 Three banded and the southern three banded roll up into a ball. I was showing you a six banded armadillo 464 00:40:34,050 --> 00:40:38,690 Which does not do that. It rolls into a square. They where they go. It's just not going to a square. No, um 465 00:40:41,570 --> 00:40:43,570 They see 466 00:40:44,449 --> 00:40:48,849 You were right alan they very quickly dig a hole and get into it and just line it with only the armor showing 467 00:40:49,250 --> 00:40:52,449 He's trying to get in that hole. Well, he's trying to dig it. Well, there's one already in there 468 00:40:53,090 --> 00:41:00,690 I have another marvelous way of escaping a predator. So the nine-banded armadillo can walk under water 469 00:41:00,929 --> 00:41:03,969 What so it can hold its breath for as long as six minutes getting under the water 470 00:41:04,130 --> 00:41:10,449 It can also make itself buoyant on the water by swallowing air and inflating its stomach and intestines. It's jesus 471 00:41:12,449 --> 00:41:17,809 It is a fantastic thing other facts about armadillos what disease are they thought to be the only ones to get 472 00:41:26,739 --> 00:41:37,519 They can get leprosy but so can mice and rats and in fact a 2016 study found that one third of red squirrels 473 00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:40,880 In britain carry leprosy. Oh, where is your tile? 474 00:41:41,679 --> 00:41:43,679 Yeah 475 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000 It's the most appealing thing about me 476 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,719 Now just hamster 477 00:41:53,079 --> 00:41:58,849 Right, this is true. I have terrible asthma. I do which of these dogs should I buy 478 00:42:03,510 --> 00:42:05,510 Toed licking labrador 479 00:42:07,349 --> 00:42:14,070 We're obsessed with the hallucinating dog licking psychedelic labrador, is it going to be not a hyper allergenic dog oddly? 480 00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:18,389 Well oddly there's no such thing really so there are all sorts of dogs that are described as hypo allergenic 481 00:42:18,550 --> 00:42:20,550 There's no evidence to support that there's such a thing 482 00:42:20,710 --> 00:42:24,949 I'm allergic and the wirier dogs that shed more you tend to have more reactions 483 00:42:24,949 --> 00:42:28,230 It's the dog's saliva and it's the dander or the flakes of dead skin 484 00:42:28,469 --> 00:42:32,630 It is found in all dog breeds. There is some thought that if they shed less fur they release 485 00:42:33,030 --> 00:42:36,309 Less of this protein into the environment and so into the nostrils of sufferers 486 00:42:36,389 --> 00:42:38,949 I have to say it's not been proved to be clear about this 487 00:42:39,030 --> 00:42:41,909 There's no evidence to support the idea of a totally hyper allergenic dog 488 00:42:41,989 --> 00:42:47,349 There are dogs that perhaps might make your life a little yeah, they make it a bit easier. I'd be fine with a cockaboo 489 00:42:48,789 --> 00:42:51,110 If you're allergic to dogs get a budgie 490 00:42:53,110 --> 00:42:57,030 But now the issue that's been dogging us the scores, oh really 491 00:42:58,869 --> 00:43:03,130 The top dog with minus five is deliso 492 00:43:03,130 --> 00:43:05,130 Oh 493 00:43:05,289 --> 00:43:18,219 Place with minus six. It's phil did you and kary had also minus six so 494 00:43:19,260 --> 00:43:25,449 In place with minus ten. It's the audience 495 00:43:26,489 --> 00:43:33,449 And yourself in final place with minus 56 alan 496 00:43:33,849 --> 00:43:49,030 Thanks to deliso phil kary had an alan and I leave you with this quick quotation from the porcupine poem by ogden nash 497 00:43:49,590 --> 00:43:56,469 Any hound a porcupine nudges can't be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter 498 00:43:56,869 --> 00:43:59,510 At a porcupine that sat on a splinter. Thank you 499 00:44:13,429 --> 00:44:15,429 You