365: No Such Thing As A Smart Cheetah At Harvard

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss slow cheetahs, smart cushions and why doing long charity broadcasts might be a terrible idea.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.8	to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
0:23.6	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anatoch Shenski, Andrew Hunter Murray
0:28.0	and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:32.8	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:38.3	Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.
0:42.4	My fight this week is that for cheaters slowing down is more important than running fast
0:48.2	or speeding up.
0:49.2	Wow, more important in what way?
0:52.1	Yeah.
0:53.1	In the successful kill rate.
0:55.7	It's that because they just carried on speeding up forever, they don't have no time to eat
1:00.5	Merkel.
1:01.7	You can't just run and run and run and expect to have a meal at the end of the day.
1:05.9	It's not quite that.
1:07.3	So this is a few studies that have been done actually into kind of cheater locomotion.
1:12.2	The one I was reading was 2013 and the scientist spent nearly 10 years designing a battery-powered
1:18.5	solar charge kind of tracking colour and then they put it on cheaters and so it measured
1:23.2	exactly when they're speeding up, when they're slowing down, etc.
1:26.7	And then it looked at when they were successful in hunts and when they weren't.
1:30.6	And basically one of the things that said is they don't actually run that fast when
1:34.3	they're hunting.
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