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

from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

My name's Andy and I'm sitting here with three of the regular elves, James Harkin, Alex

Bell and Anna Tijinsky.

And we've gathered our favourite facts from the last seven days and we're now going

to talk about them in no particular order.

First fact is Alex.

Okay, my fact is cows have friends and they get sad when you separate them.

Oh.

How are they cow friends?

Yeah, so basically Northampton University did a study.

So cows are herd animals obviously.

Alcine.

Yeah, so they live in a herd but they get separated a lot because they need to be milk,

they need to be taken to the vet, etc.

And Northampton University did a study where they looked at cows when they were in a field

and monitored all their behaviour to see which cows hung out with which other cows.

And then they separated them out into different combinations.

So sometimes they'd be removed from the herd in pairs and sometimes they'd be with a cow

they'd never hung out with before or sometimes they'd be with their best friend.

I don't know how we've worked that out.

Bracements, they wear brace.

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