Oh
Kingdom let's meet tonight's menagerie the questing phil jupiter's
Quartet of quadrupeds a moose in a quarry copter again in quentin tarantino's jacuzzi
I love this. What is blue and sounds like a whale?
So the whole door is it a sad dolphin dolphins we care about yeah, we care about them
What does the whale sound like?
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?
That's the saddest out of clear
Blue you sound like a whale
There was a genius comic called linda smith and one of her best jokes when she said
I bought one of those tapes of whale music and I thought really soothing turned out to be a dolphin tribute band
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
Can I just remind everybody that this season is the letter q q something so so the queen
What is blue and sounds like a whale quail? Yes a blue quail
We're just trying to upset in what is orange and sounds like the parrot
What is orange a carrot? Oh, sorry
Well lives in sub-saharan africa. It's one of about 40 species of quail world white actually only the males are blue
Gales, they're brown with buff
underparts
Does this love the word buff? Yes, I don't even know what the plural of quail is quail eye
No, it's quail
It's always worth having a go with yeah, isn't it quail eye for the straight guy
Yeah
That's a program i'd like to see
What did quail teach us about sex in space, do you suppose they sent quails up to space?
Yes, they could in fact be called the very first extraterrestrial life form. Okay. I'm going to take a mad guess
Yep, they taught us how to be caring lovers
They sent the eggs up they did send the eggs up they are the very first vertebrates to be born in space
They went up into the mere space station in 1990 part of the russian program
They wanted to find out if quail would be a good food source for a long-term mission
So eight of them hatched out of that lot, but they couldn't cope with zero gravity
They simply couldn't latch on and feed themselves at all
So this is the sweetest thing the cosmonauts had to stop every two hours and feed the quail and in the end
They invented a little jacket
That harnessed them to the feeder
I'm feeling in this
What they discovered was it completely removes their sex drive what yes entirely going up into space
The female stopped ovulating the males had reduced testosterone levels and both sexes exhibited an absolute apathy to mating
This means my girlfriend's been to space
I'd be all right if sandra bullet drifted by in her underwear and i'll be
Oh, yes, i knew she'd be here
Sorry i'm having trouble concentrating
But there seems to be a great deal of interest in the sex life of quail so this is one of my favorite studies
So the university of kentucky in 2011 they received a massive grant from the national institute of health to study
What the effect of cocaine is on the sex drive of the japanese quail?
Well
Everyone's just deep frying everything
Here's the thing that will surprise you apparently the cocaine was linked to increased risky sexual behavior
Well i'll say where's my drugs
So old british words for quail they used to be called butt for butt but for but they get better wet my lips
And quick midic
There's another medieval phrase for quail which is cocaine whore
They all refer to the sounds that they make in fact
So does the word quail itself it comes from the medieval latin name for them, which was quackula
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
Got any care got any care
Love this alan. I have a fact that is just for you. Okay, the male japanese quail
They have a gland above their sex organ
It's a liquid containing it has some of the same enzymes and proteins that you get in egg white
And they whip this into a stiff foam using their sphincter
Imagine you're beating like this
And then I ever take Japanese quail meringue and then they deposit into the female after the sperm like a dessert
Is it like clay to make sure it doesn't come back out
Okay, yes, yes
There seems to be some advantage, but we don't know what it is other than I think fun
We've talked a lot about the male quail there's something interesting about the females they're attracted to losers
University in ontario they did some research
so what they did they had two male quail in a box with a
Plexiglass divided down the middle and they fought by trying to peg each other through the glass and they had a female quail
Watch this and when she was placed in with the two males
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
He lost the pecking but she was checking the sphincter and she was like look at the whip on that. Yes, please
She's also possible she's hoping that the male quail is not going to be aggressive towards her. Yeah exactly. Yeah now
What's the most numerous undomesticated bird in the world?
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
Okay, we'll hear that a lot when alan speaks
Chicken
So i'm going to give you a clue
This is uh, one of the ways to kill it. This is a piece of dynamite. Okay
Um, uh the roadrunner
Is it does it live in britain? No, so deliso is in with the best chance of knowing this as there are lots of
These in malawi. Oh, okay. Yes, it's weaver birds
Weaver bird is what we call
You're absolutely right. It's called the red-billed quail
They should not be according these things they are a menace, okay
These things are like the bane of farmers. They like flock and they eat like everything
They're like feathered locusts. That's exactly it. Yes, there are approximately one and a half billion of these birds
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
They come in flocks of two million birds
And each bird eats roughly half its own body weight a day. Are they going to eat that elephant?
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
Agriculture it is an extraordinary thing and getting rid of them
They're like people go through the field with like drums trying to chase them away
We don't have dynamite. That seems like a better plan
The drums are like we might get dynamite
We're seriously thinking about it we don't have the budget
It's all right if you don't have the money for dynamite
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
Next field and they do have wings don't they? Yeah, i'm afraid
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
Well full of smarties and they all go over there no one thinks
Or just a million cats
Can you imagine the poor pilot who you know, he wants to see action in the army and they send him to
To fire bomb a bunch of birds
About 50 million are killed in south africa alone every single year
But they have very few natural predators and the females produce about nine offspring a year
So they're able to just keep replenishing themselves
I have to say this is not the only animal that farmers use dynamite on
I love this story in the austrian province of ralberg in 2018. Oh god
Not daisy
They banned the practice of blowing up dead cows
Yeah, is that how they'd make a stew
Oh
So what it is is that area is a very alpine area
It's right on the swiss border and when a cow dies
You've got to get rid of it
But it can die by falling down a precipice or being struck by lightning or something
But it's really difficult to get rid of the remains and so they were having to helicopter the dead cows out
That costs a thousand dollars a trip so some farmers were blowing them up. It's 32 to blow up
Oh
Do you know why they've stopped doing it it's birds against the law now to do it
Do you know why well it might spread diseases surely contamination of the groundwater
But the other thing which I really like is it was putting tourists off
What shall we do today let's just blow it up I can't be asking a helicopter what fun
What is happening over there in austria? We're making some cheese with hogs
We are hearing the banging and there is meat landing on my roof no
Oh, it's no just carry on with your cheese
Who's started waking up earlier in order to get more selfies?
Is it uh
Teenagers teenagers. No, they're all these young pop stars the kadashians and stuff who've got selfies
Buzz for saying kim kardashian. Yeah, because we thought it was predictable that somebody at some point
Oh
Don't get crossed Danny
It's fine. Remember we're in queue and we're doing you animals chew animals
quail
uh
Queen koala
Okay, you are in the right part of the world a queen kangaroo. Uh, you are in the right part of the world
It is the world
Yes, no australia
Happy one from australia
I mean that when you take when you take a picture it looks like he's smiling and people keep taking pictures
And it looks like he's poking his head in smiley. It is the world's happiest animal quagga quagga. Yes, absolutely
Right very well. Have you seen one? What?
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
I don't trust it. That's like a person in a suit
Have you seen the rest of the peloton
I lost the guys completely
So the quokka is an aboriginal word and the dutch sailors initially mistook them for giant rats
So that's why the island is called rot nest and there are more than seven thousand four hundred quokka selfies
Which were posted on social media in 2018
Helped by the fact that people like roger federer
Uh, the tennis player and margo robbie the actress both did them. There's roger federer with the quokka and apparently
Who are you ah-ing roger federer or the quokkas?
They're all on push bikes as well
Here's the sweetest thing about them. They're nocturnal but those that are on rot nest are now staying awake during the day
In order to spend time with the tourists
And the ones who are on the bit of the island that's highly developed for tourism are doing better
Than the ones in the less disturbed habitats. Yeah, here's the thing that's slightly going to put you off the clock
Oh does it shit in your face?
All right, it's got a gland that makes a stew that you have sex with
Do not eat their pavlovas
And not great parents
so when the female quokka becomes aware of a predator the first thing she does is she ejects the joey from her pouch and
The infant lies on the ground making a sort of hissing noise and this distraction allows the mother to escape and leave the predator
I mean you say bad parent, but in a way she's she's smart, isn't she?
Yeah
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
And the quokkets is the bad I want to see
Quokkas get their beauty sleep at night now so they can always look their best for a daytime selfie
But selfies are dangerous. Oh, yes, they are many people die doing selfies also like I was given advice
By comedian who said oh if a fan comes and they they recognize you and they're excited
Maybe you you should say oh do you want to selfie because sometimes they're too shy
And I followed this advice. Yes, and in noddingham a woman was like, oh, I I recognize you
I was like, oh hi, and I said, uh, do you want to selfie and she said no, you're not the eiffel tower
Sticking with australian marsupials a quoll is a squirrel sized marsupial. Okay. Let us imagine that you're heisting a baby
Australia and a mob of quolls turn up. What are you going to offer them straight away? You give them a tinny
Then you're asking if they're vego
They're not vegetarian, but why do we have to offer them anything we didn't invite them
Now we're catering for everyone who turns up. Yes, so there is a reason
Why you want them to eat something because they're cuter than you. Oh, no, no that which is cuter than you
Don't think that's a nature's rule
What's a barbecue thing another barbecue thing burgers sausages sausages, okay sausages is what you need to offer them
What kind of sausages do you think you might offer a quoll vegetarian sausages?
Okay, the reason we need to do this is to save them from extinction
Is the real reason they should have said that when they turned up. Yeah, so
We're being extinct feed us because I was like get out of here
This is my barbecue but by my friends
No, their numbers have dropped dramatically and it is because partly they've been eaten by foxes and they've been eaten by cats
Which were introduced by the victorians, but also they like to eat cane toads
So there is a toxin in the back cane toad
So licking them can cause uh hallucinations and they're indeed australian dogs, which are entirely addicted
uh to doing
Uh, that's an addict a labrador on a trip is a fantastic
But the quolls can be killed by this poison
So in order to educate them not to eat cane toads, they're being fed sausages made from toad
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
The plan is to put them off eating toad, but I think the ones in the wild don't smell like barbecue
Also, why are they hoping that they go back home? They're like, oh tony I had some toad
No telling you what it was bad. Oh, i'll go and tell shela. Let's spread the word. Well
If tony had a bad toad sausage
We should all avoid it up to 68 percent of the wild quolls that have been fed toad sausages have been put off
Eating toad they've got good social networking and they're actually hoping now that they can drop toad sausages by helicopter
Just say that one more time
They are astonishing cane toads, so they're not native to
Australia at all. They're native to central and south america in 1935. They were brought in
To sugar plantations in order to get rid of a pest which was the cane
Beetle they brought in 102 toads. Um, it was a failure. Why hello?
I think we should definitely leave europe
Why would it be a failure the other things no, so they live on the ground and beetles can fly. Oh shit
These 102 toads have grown into today's population of one and a half billion
And they have devastated australia's flora. Toads love to do it. Oh a female toad can have 35 000
Eggs what? Yeah
So here's a nice thing apart from the toad sausages
One of the ways they're thinking now of saving the quoll is to turn them into pets
Um, there are people who say they should have them instead of a cat and in fact, they're rather sweet
They can be trained they can use a litter tray
Um, they weigh about the same. Yeah
Really sweet
Have you got your foot sticking out from under the duvet that gets hold of you
The second biggest bite force quotient
So how hard they can bite relative to the size of any animal children then yeah second only to the tasmanian devil
Um, but of course keeping them as pets is not going to save the wild population in any way whatsoever
Here's a fact about quolls that I love the breeding season only lasts for three days during which they mate with their partner
Every 15 minutes for the entire duration
Yeah, the males and the females only meet for that three-day fest
They want to stop eating the toads and talk to them about having sex
Also not great parents these ones
No, so what they do is they give birth to about 30 offspring each one is the size of a grain of rice
But the female quoll only has six nipples so the first six who are fastest
Come on boys, yeah rush is fastest. Yeah like some insane reality show
If I just sit like that in your living room, ah have you been a squirrel sized marsupial
Tremendous bite force
Which can have sex with anyone
Scientists are encouraging quolls to eat sausages rather than toads in the hole
Right, uh moving on. Uh, what is wrong with this zebra?
Uh, no barcode
Mutant zebra with like half the stripes. It's an extinct subspecies. Oh someone checked it out. It's a
It is a quagga indeed. But wait, didn't we already aren't the birds the quagga?
So we've had quolls and quackers and quileia it's cute darling there's going to be a lot of animals beginning
Doctor's use has moved in and started
Quackers and quackers and quails and all of them have the most magnificent tail
It's an extinct subspecies of zebra lived in southern africa
It was stripey but only down to the shoulders. It's been sort of described as a zebra who's forgotten his pajama bottoms
interesting thing about
Stripes, I I went to school in kenya and we read early colonial books
And they theorized because they'd never seen any mixed race children, right? So they imagined that
A child would be born with stripes if a black person and a white person
It makes sense if you think about it if you've never
If you've never seen it, it's more logical, you know, I mean like these are people who thought the world was flat
Okay, but still
That's what they thought would happen. That's appalling
Appalling can I just apologize?
It's nice saying but it's a bit like
What about the quagga is this a really good example of humans sorting out the natural world
The quagga was made a protected species three years after it had already become extinct life
It was given legal protection by the capetown government in 1886 and the last one died in an amsterdam zoo in 1883
So they were three years too late. Wake up cleaver did it's time for your edam
I am
No, he's dead
Zookeeper yeah, no fair enough
I thought it'd be called clifford
They have tried
To reverse engineer a quagga
So in 1987 they tried to see if they could get one through selective breeding
And in fact, they successfully bred the plain hindquarters, but it is still genetically a zebra. It is anybody not watch
Jurassic park
Here's an interesting thing for a long time grant museum at the university college london believed it owned two zebra skeletons
But they re-examined them in 1972. They found one was a quagga and one was a donkey
So they didn't have any zebra skeletons
This is a fantastic thing
This is the actual skeleton of the quagga now if you have a look at the back left leg
You can see that there is just a sort of a black outline
And that is because that particular leg is missing on this quagga
And this has an extraordinary story and here to tell us about it is the curator of the grant museum tannis davidson. Hello tannis
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
University zoological museum in london and anybody can go and visit it
Yes, we're open to the public monday through saturday one till five
Okay, so these skeletons of quaggas. How many do you think there are in the world?
Um, well, it's one of our star specimens
Uh, we think there's only seven quagga skeletons anywhere in the world
Right as far as I know ours is the only one with a skull, but it's missing a leg
What happened? Where the hell is the leg?
Um, well the first idea is that it had been loaned to the royal college of surgeons just before world war two
And of course that building was bombed. So it was lost
during the bombing
Another idea was that when the specimens were evacuated to wales it somehow became lost
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
This is what it looks like right? How would you know the difference between a quagga leg and a zebra leg?
It's very difficult. Oh
So if you've got one you may think that it is in fact a zebra leg
Um, yes
There is a an idea that perhaps this might be in someone's collection if it was lost in wales
And maybe somebody thought it was a donkey leg or a horse leg
So you could compare it to your actual skeleton and see if it is yes if somebody found something like this
We could you know slot it in perfectly and it would just all become
Okay a whole specimen again. I feel we are the show to help you with this. Okay
so
This is a quine watch appeal
I
Have any information relating to the whereabouts of this missing quagga leg, please please
There is a reward an all expenses paid trip to the mountains of kong. Thank you
Thank you very much tannis fantastic
The idea somebody in wales is going I think there's one of those
Anyway, what is the most offensive thing anyone could do?
with this
I actually have two and it involves doing something with two of them sandy sandy for me for me. Come on both of them
This summer
So you need both of them you actually have to hold them like this well like boxing gloves
It is exactly that that they were used as boxing gloves
I know so this is a queen conch actually in the united states. It's called a conch
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
part of the ritual worship of the rain god charlotte and
Honestly, it resulted in quite a lot of blood. Let's yeah. Yeah, which was apparently part of the ceremony
I don't know what they've got in their heads. That is this I would imagine if you're in a culture
That's hitting each other wearing conches as boxing gloves. You're going to invent the crashing on it really fast
Yeah
It is an extraordinary thing the queen conch large species of sea snail. It lives in the atlantic
It's incredibly strong 10 times stronger than mother of pearl
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
It just sucks
What a way to go
That's the best production of west side story I ever saw
Bill conch shell playing also has a tremendous tradition. So I have put a conch beside you
There's a tiny bit kind of cut off and the aztecs used to have a conch shell trumpet
It was called a quick whistly and the musicians who played them were called quick whiz oini
And it's thought of had the power to defeat the aztec lord of the dead
Are you ready noise apparently if you move your hand in and out of the aperture that is
Oh the way in which you get
There's an annual conch blowing competition. It's held in key west florida. I bet there is
In 2018 a 70 year old woman called mary lou smith
She won the woman's division and her fellow conch player a man called rick race dropped to one knee and proposed
I know it's a thing people in key west and in the and in the bahamas. They call themselves conches
What am I supposed to do with mine?
I don't know
That looks like some sort of star wars character
I have not seen solo
I am your father
You will come to the seaside with me
I will buy you some chips and we will go for a walk
Sandy I can't get it off. Okay with that. Why you finish your career?
Yeah
What does it mean if quentin the cohog squirts to the right
He votes tori
No, it's not like this look at this and see if this it's a shellfish isn't it?
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
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
family guy of cohog
Rhode island and february the second in the united states is groundhog day most of north america
But in nantucket, it is cohog day and a cohog called quentin
Is opened and the direction that the water spurts from his shell predicts whether winter is over
So if it squirts to the left six more weeks of winter
Right that should come with a trigger warning
To the right then winter is over unfortunately quentin himself does not live to see the prediction come true
Because he's eaten immediately by the harbormaster
That's the ceremony so there's a there's a new quentin every year
Have you seen the groundhog when they do the groundhog day thing? So that's a punks attorney fill
That's the name of the groundhog you see on one of the movie channels
The other day when it was actually groundhog day, they ran groundhog day all day
They've been doing it since 1887. I mean cohog days and have been going for 10 years
But the groundhog thing is hugely old although cohogs are very old in themselves
So in 2006 there were some researchers from bangal university and they opened up the shell of an ocean cohog
Which they dredged from the coast of iceland
Unfortunately, they had just killed the oldest animal known to science. It was
507 years old
Yeah, they were very upset
Paul butler from the university said we had no idea it was that old before it was too late
That'd be a good section to do on the show when scientists are sometimes dicks
Uh, there once was a clam from nantucket
I'll actually finish that one in your own time
Now who would want to kiss these lips
Another one of those would want to kiss them. It's a freshwater fish found throughout north america
It's called a quillback sucker
So they've got these really thick fleshy lips and it allows their mouths to act like a vacuum
They can actually attach to surfaces by suction, but here is how nature can be a you know, rotter
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
I know it just seems mean doesn't it big mouth tiny ability to swallow
To follow through
So the oldest recorded quillback at 95 years old
It doesn't actually have quills on its back. That's a it's a bit of a misnomer
It's that its dorsal fin is shaped a bit like a quill pen. There's the reason they have a polygynanderous mating system
So what that means is two or more males will mate exclusively with two or more females
It's like they belong to the same club
There is a quillback rockfish i bet there is
And that has sharp venomous spines on its dorsal fin and that protects it
Your name's not down you're not coming in
So most well-known quilled animal is their porcupine porcupine, how does a porcupine make love carefully
Okay, two families of porcupines as old world and new world this thing that we're looking here north american new world porcupine so
Sex takes about a minute. All right, and the female signals her interest by urinating and screaming. We've all been there
I don't want to alarm anybody. We're just about to have a look at porcupines. Is it horizontal?
Well, i'm going to show you
Mating is spike free. Yeah, so what happens is the female turns her back on the male
Uh, she arches her tail over her back. That's covering her quills and cushioning them. Let's talk more
But his um his member has got bristly barbs on the tip
And it usually points backwards in its sheath, but it's more like a sort of flick knife
It comes it comes up like a sort of a that's all I can say
You know, it's like this when they're finished. There we are. Yeah
Let's put it under a hand dryer
Here's a cute thing baby porcupines are called porcupettes
I know that's so you can't do five minutes of something else and then do cute baby names
Um, what would a porcupine make of this?
nice face of sex
Seems to be what we know about them
You're not far off. Um, so american porcupines are extremely good at climbing trees
And it is one of the ways in which a female might show her interest is to climb a tree
And then urination scream
A lot of them spend their entire lives up a tree and as a consequence, I love this they make their own
Antibiotics in their quills because they keep falling out of the tree
And inhaling themselves on the quills. I mean that's quite flexible and bend as the porcupine lands
But they really raise a sharp the quills they can penetrate skin unbelievably easily
But they're they're extremely painful to extract because they have backwards pointing barbs
So scientists are now trying to mimic this exact mechanism so we could develop better medical adhesives
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?
Can we have them having sex again, please?
Now that brings us to the loving and soft environment that we call general ignorance fingers on buzzers, please
According to the traditional proverb what killed the cat? Oh my god. Yes
curiosity
And the original version for over 260 years was that care
Killed the cat care meaning worry or sorrow if you know your shakespeare is in much ado
What courage man what though care killed a cat thou hast metal enough in thee to kill care
In the mid 19th century care was replaced by curiosity and we just don't know why
The russian version of this phrase is curious barbara's nose was torn off at the market
I'm going to use in the future. I think it's rather better
She cats are in lots of phrases aren't they the cat got the canary cat got the cream
Yeah, cats away mice would play cats got your tongue. Anybody know why cats got your tongue
Because they're bastards
It may be that it could be as far back as you know, the middle east from about 500 bc
Apparently liars had their tongues removed and fed to cats as a punishment if you die
Yeah, and you've got cats and no one finds you after about three days
They will feed on your face. Look at them. Those those six there that they're gonna do
I I am firm in my belief that that is true because
When thomas hardy died the nation wanted him to be buried in poet's corner in west mister abbey
But his wife wanted him to be buried in dorset
So it was arranged that his heart would be removed after his death and the body would go to poet's corner
And the heart would be buried in dorset. Anyway, the surgeon came did it at the house?
They weren't doing the burial of the heart till the next day
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
Anyway, the cat eventually died they buried the cat
Up to its neck. Yeah
The cats only eat their dead owners if they can't get out. Yeah. Oh, yeah
They don't want to but they're hungry. Yeah, if you're gonna die leave the cat flap open
Yeah put on a fencing mask
He's going
Curiously it was care that killed the cat
How could you tell if a bird is a songbird?
It'll be singing
It's got uh, it's got a record deal and it's on spotify. It's in little mix
So here's the thing not all songbirds sing a songbird is defined as any bird that belongs to the passer in
Suborder, so basically still a black she was a songbird. She was a songbird
You need to have three toes facing forward and one facing back. Uh, so they're approaching
The syrinx is the name for their song box and some are so developed
That they can sing two notes at once really really fast
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
I know that is really astonishing
But the definition of songbird is not about whether the birds actually sing because in fact females
29 percent of songbird species don't sing at all
So according to the rspb bird song is any sound used to attract a mate or to protect territory, okay
Bird song isn't just for songbirds. How would this animal protect itself?
By oh rolling into a ball
Will it just lie down?
So here's the thing there are 18 species of armadillo only two of them the brazilian
Three banded and the southern three banded roll up into a ball. I was showing you a six banded armadillo
Which does not do that. It rolls into a square. They where they go. It's just not going to a square. No, um
They see
You were right alan they very quickly dig a hole and get into it and just line it with only the armor showing
He's trying to get in that hole. Well, he's trying to dig it. Well, there's one already in there
I have another marvelous way of escaping a predator. So the nine-banded armadillo can walk under water
What so it can hold its breath for as long as six minutes getting under the water
It can also make itself buoyant on the water by swallowing air and inflating its stomach and intestines. It's jesus
It is a fantastic thing other facts about armadillos what disease are they thought to be the only ones to get
They can get leprosy but so can mice and rats and in fact a 2016 study found that one third of red squirrels
In britain carry leprosy. Oh, where is your tile?
Yeah
It's the most appealing thing about me
Now just hamster
Right, this is true. I have terrible asthma. I do which of these dogs should I buy
Toed licking labrador
We're obsessed with the hallucinating dog licking psychedelic labrador, is it going to be not a hyper allergenic dog oddly?
Well oddly there's no such thing really so there are all sorts of dogs that are described as hypo allergenic
There's no evidence to support that there's such a thing
I'm allergic and the wirier dogs that shed more you tend to have more reactions
It's the dog's saliva and it's the dander or the flakes of dead skin
It is found in all dog breeds. There is some thought that if they shed less fur they release
Less of this protein into the environment and so into the nostrils of sufferers
I have to say it's not been proved to be clear about this
There's no evidence to support the idea of a totally hyper allergenic dog
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
If you're allergic to dogs get a budgie
But now the issue that's been dogging us the scores, oh really
The top dog with minus five is deliso
Oh
Place with minus six. It's phil did you and kary had also minus six so
In place with minus ten. It's the audience
And yourself in final place with minus 56 alan
Thanks to deliso phil kary had an alan and I leave you with this quick quotation from the porcupine poem by ogden nash
Any hound a porcupine nudges can't be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter. Thank you
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