122: No Such Thing As A Sticky Shell Spoon

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss holey spoons, the speed of snow and how to get more milk from a cow.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:18.3	to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:21.0	My name is Dan Shriver.
0:22.1	I am sitting here with Andy Murray, Anichezinski and James Harkin and once again we have gathered
0:27.9	around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular
0:32.4	order, here we go, starting with you and Drew Hunter Murray.
0:36.6	My fact is that farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows' bottoms to stop
0:42.0	lions from attacking them.
0:44.0	Stoking.
0:45.0	We don't need anything more.
0:49.2	Time for fact number two.
0:52.9	Does it work Andy?
0:53.9	Well, this is the really interesting thing.
0:55.7	This is in the trial stages at the moment.
0:58.4	So it's by a British conservation biologist called Neil Jordan.
1:01.9	He works in Australia and Botswana, so we're in Botswana here and he wanted to trick
1:08.3	lions into thinking that they've been spotted when they're sneaking up on a cow or
1:12.3	when they're seeing.
1:13.3	So he's been working in the Okavango Delta and he did a trial last year where 23 cows
1:20.2	had eyes painted on their bottoms.
1:23.2	They all survived and in the rest of the herd there were 39 cows which were not painted
1:27.1	and of those cows three were eaten by lions.
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