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

week coming to you live from Oxford!

My name is James Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anich Zanski, Andrew Huntson Murray

and 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 hippos sometimes poo into rivers so much that all the fish downstream die.

This is such cool science.

This is a horror story if you're a fish.

So quick shout out to the scientists who did this, the team who did this was scientist Chris

Dusson and Amanda Subulloski and the hippos poo a lot into rivers.

Basically pooing is one of the main things that hippos do and they do it for all sorts of

purposes, communication and mostly to get it out of their body.

So it's mostly for pooing purposes but it's technically called organic matter loading.

If you-

I call it.

Surely it's unloading.

Depends what you're loading the river?

I guess.

Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I don't know.

No, you're right, you're right.

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