169: No Such Thing As Constantly Awake Beauty

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Anna, James, Andy and Alex discuss synchronised blinking, the ants the size of foxes, and nocturnal apple-counting robots.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish.
0:18.8	Coming to you this week from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:23.0	My name is Anna Toshinsky, I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Alex Bell and James
0:27.8	talking and once again we've gathered around the microphones with our four favourite
0:31.7	facts in the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with Alex.
0:40.6	My fact this week is that baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
0:44.0	Oh, it's very sweet.
0:47.0	Is that the response you're going for?
0:48.3	Yeah, that's what I've got.
0:50.2	In fact adults do all sorts of things with their trunks as well when they're nervous
0:53.2	so they don't know what they're doing.
0:54.7	They will pick their ears or kind of wipe their eyes and you know they do it
0:57.8	like humans do with hands.
0:59.2	So what is just a social thing that they don't know what to do with their trunks?
1:03.8	Yeah, well actually when baby elephants are born they can't really control their trunks
1:08.0	the first few days so they just wave around a bit wildly and also it's really sad.
1:11.7	They kind of tread on it and then they kind of scream because it really hurts.
1:14.5	They can't work out where the pain's coming from or how to make it stop.
1:17.5	Yeah, trunks are amazing.
1:19.1	Did you know that elephants can be left or right trunked even though they've only got one?
1:23.2	What does that mean?
1:24.6	They will have a preference of picking up objects that are left or right from a really early age.
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