Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber.

I am sitting here with Alex Bell, Andy Murray and Anna Chazinski.

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

Starting with you, Andy.

My fact is that scientists have developed barcodes for zebras.

Mmmmm, no zebras.

They've also developed a separate and identical system for zebras.

We should get on to how to say the name of the thing in a bit.

But this is a team of scientists at Princeton.

And what they've done is this is a particular species of zebra called the Grevis zebra

and it's the rarest of the species of zebra.

And they've persuaded volunteers to take 40,000 photos of different animals and the scientists

have then used this software on them because they've all got completely unique strike

patterns and it combines barcode technology and facial recognition software.

And so you can now identify an individual animal from it.

Steven Skiro, who's been on as a guest, he has a show in Belgium and one of the games

because when you go to a supermarket in Belgium they give you a scanning gun to take around

now so you can just scan as you go along the items.

And then you hand the scan gun in at the end and then they tally up what you've found

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