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

to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

My name is Dan Triver, I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, Aniches and Ski and James

Harkin.

And once again we have gathered around the microphone with our four favorite facts from

the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

Starting with you.

Andrew Hunter Murray.

My fact is that until the mid 2000s the best method for finding out how many pandas were

alive was to sift through their poo.

Was that where they were hidden?

You just had to look for the white bits.

Yeah, what does that mean?

Well, it's very, very hard to know how many pandas there are.

We've got no idea how many there are accurately and they do senses is every so often and they

can be very, very, they can be based on a lot of guesswork.

So the best method in the early 2000s, which came up with the total number of 1500 and

96, which is very precise, was to go around looking for panda excrement sift through it

for undigested fragments of bamboo and then find tooth marks on that because tooth marks

have a particular, like fingerprints though, it's supposedly unique and that's how

you find out how many pandas there are.

So you were looking for pandas inside the poo?

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