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

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with James Harkin, Anitzenski and Andrew

Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered around the microphones of our four favorite

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

Starting with you, Shuzinski.

My fact this week is that one of the costume designers on Star Wars also made a mousse suit

for scientists to help them sneak up on mousse or mousse.

On mousse such.

On mousse.

Is mousse such the actual plural?

Yeah.

Because it's a native American word and that's how this particular tribe pluralises it.

So was the advantage of sneaking up on a mousse?

Well, if you want to hang out with them, which these scientists did, so they were studying

mousse in the Yellowstone area and I think there was specifically at this time looking

at how they were responding to predators.

So wolves, numbers are declined in Yellowstone and mousse have got used to living without

them and then I think they'd come back and the scientists wanted to see if mousse had

forgotten how to escape wolves and so then you need to put wolf poo and we where mousse

lived to check how they responded to the threat.

And so this researcher called Joel Berger asked a woman who worked on the set of Star Wars

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