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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Live from Paris, Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss odour-analysing t-shirts, New York under meteor attack, and self-pricking porcupines.

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0:00.0

Oh

0:16.8

Another such thing as a fish a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Paris

0:30.0

I'm

0:32.4

Every month in Marie and James Arkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones of our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order

0:41.2

Here we go starting with you James

0:44.6

Okay, my fact this week is that North American poppies

0:48.6

Sometimes fall out of trees and impale themselves of their own fights

0:52.8

So they're getting pushed into them like so it's they're ready as well in paled beans

1:03.8

Do they die we all die

1:12.8

They can well actually not usually and the reason that we know about this for a few reasons

1:18.2

But it's it's kind of a part that came out by guy called oldest Rose and his colleagues and they noticed that

1:25.8

Quills have antibiotics on them and they worked out the reasons that they have antibiotics on them

1:31.4

It's because they do it. They'll sell supply often and it means that it won't kind of get infected and it won't kill them

1:43.0

Yeah, actually a female potpied is only interested in sex once a year

1:46.6

And she signals that by climbing the tree urinating and screaming

1:56.8

But the males have urination as well in their mating so the males they

2:01.6

They can sometimes make the females receptive to mating and the way they do that is urinating on them and they have a special

2:08.5

high velocity urine

2:10.5

And go six feet

2:12.5

So even if the female is on a completely different branch

2:16.3

The male can spray her that she will become the first time that's a credible

2:20.9

I know is it true I might have this wrong is it is a true that so there's a fight that happens between two males who are

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