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The Infinite Monkey Cage

How Animals Behave

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.79.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How Animals Behave

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Rufus Hound, Zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke and Professor Rory Wilson to discover how we learn about what animals are up to when we are not looking, and some of the hilarious mistakes we've made in the process of discovery. They'll be hearing about why the sex life of eels has remained so enigmatic, how the mystery of the wandering albatross has been solved, and why making underwear for frogs finally solved the riddle of how babies are made.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:02.0

Hello, I'm Robin Inz.

0:03.6

And I'm Brian Cox.

0:04.6

And having had a guest raven outstair Brian in a battle of which earlier this series today,

0:08.6

we're returning to Forner and looking at the behaviour of animals.

0:12.4

In fact, we were going to have a guest lepodon,

0:14.6

but unfortunately, it actually broke away from its leash and picked up Nicholas Parsons.

0:18.4

And there's just been dragging him all the way down Great Portland Street

0:21.0

with Paul Murr and running behind going,

0:22.4

Deviation, Deviation.

0:26.0

So, Brian, as we'll be talking about animals,

0:28.0

let's start off seriously.

0:29.0

It's like, what animal would you like to be?

0:31.0

I'd be a human.

0:32.0

Right, you're not doing this properly.

0:34.0

If you could be another animal like Adolfin, Alion or Alima.

0:40.0

No, but in episode three, series 17,

0:44.0

you said that I wasn't human.

0:45.0

So you can't have it both ways, can you?

0:47.0

Ah, physics says I can, actually.

0:50.0

Because using many world's theory, I'm going to demean you in two different universes.

0:54.0

So, just pretend for a moment.

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