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591: No Such Thing As Anti-Schmetterling Schnibbles

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James and Andy discuss shining holes, glittery voles, Baker's burial and Basque butterflies.
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0:00.0

Hi everybody, before we start the show, if you'd like to get ad-free episodes of No Such Thing as a Fish and bonus episodes of fish, you can do that by joining ClubFish.

0:10.0

You can get a free trial as well, see if you like it, try it before you buy it.

0:15.0

It's really fun, and it's a great members club, and there's all sorts of fun extra stuff in there.

0:19.0

Just go to no suchthing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming to from three undisclosed locations around the UK.

0:49.1

My name is Dan Schreiber, and the reason we are three today is Anna is on holiday, so I am joined by

0:54.6

Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin, and once again we have gathered round the microphones

0:59.6

with our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and in no particular order, here

1:04.4

we go.

1:05.9

Starting with fact number one, that is Andy.

1:09.3

My fact is that scientists are trying to save water voles by feeding them glitter.

1:14.1

Yes.

1:14.4

Oh, nice.

1:16.1

Yeah.

1:16.7

I thought plastic was bad for the environment.

1:19.1

Yeah.

1:19.4

Well, yes, they're not feeding them plastic.

1:22.4

They're not only feeding them plastic.

1:23.6

It's not like they're just shoveling glitter into these poor voles.

1:25.9

Basically, they're very endangered water voles in the UK.

1:28.7

If you've never, if you're listening from outside the UK, we have these charming little things.

1:32.6

Ratty from Wind and the Willows is actually a watervowl, is not a rat. But they're really, really endangered for various reasons.

1:37.5

And so conservationists are now trying to track them, work out where they are, they're quite hard to track because they're quite elusive.

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