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Scotland Outdoors

Wood ants, the fish with the cucumber smell, tailless cats, a disobedient falcon and field full of whooper swans

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Euan look back at some of their animal encounters over the past year

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

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0:19.0

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC sounds hello and thank you very

0:24.6

much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast I'm Mark stephen he's you and Michael Wraith

0:28.8

and coming up do any of these actually ring a bell with you John Wayne had one the

0:36.1

king had one the Queen Mother was sent one for the Royal Yacht for

0:38.9

Britannia.

0:39.8

So they were moving in pretty posh circles.

0:41.9

Oh indeed, of course.

0:43.3

They do smell a cucumber?

0:44.6

That's extraordinary.

0:46.4

But my nose right on it, more or less.

0:48.3

I apologise to the fish for that, but, you know, it does smell a cucumber.

0:52.1

They're kind of like the perfect democracy.

0:57.7

So they're all communicating via pheromones and they're antenating,

0:59.8

which is meaning where they rub their antenna together.

1:03.7

They're also doing this thing called trophlaxis, which is basically ant snogging.

1:04.6

Oof.

1:05.3

Again.

1:07.5

Oh! Whoa!

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