Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Aniches Zinsky,

James Harkin 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 it's very hard for scientists to spot Armadillo's having sex because Armadillo's

have sex while running.

I mean how fast do they run?

Too fast to see them.

They would show up on film and in photos but it's just a mating habit that they have

so whenever the Armadillo female is in heat she starts, may also start chasing her but

then she starts running away so it's all the matter of the fastest Armadillo who can

catch up with her but she doesn't stop running when he's caught up.

So they engage in sex mid, like passing a baton on to a condom baton, disgusting baton?

We've done in relays, did you use the hold onto the baton all the way around?

Oh but he used to hold onto the penis of the guy in front of him.

Well we got there quite quickly didn't we?

Yeah it's quite it's amazing because they look like little battery operated toys because

the female is just running along and you can't really see their legs moving and the male

mounts the female but he then has to run along only on his hind legs while he's mounted

her.

Yeah like a wheelbarrow race.

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