1. STEPHEN WAILS
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2. Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening.
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3. Welcome to Qi which, tonight,
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4. is a menagerie of animals beginning with M.
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5. Let's meet our man children.
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6. The mammalian Romesh Ranganathan...
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7. .. the marsupial Bill Bailey...
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8. .. the microscopic Sue Perkins...
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9. .. and the missing mink Alan Davies.
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10. So, let's hear it for the monkeys, please. Sue goes...
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11. MONKEY SCREECHES
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12. Stop, stop.
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13. .. Romesh goes... MONKEY GIBBERS
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14. .. Bill goes...
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15. MONKEY SHRIEKS
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16. - Which, you do, actually, don't you?
- I do, yeah.
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17. .. and Alan goes...
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18. So, it's a menagerie.
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19. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
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20. managing an imaginary menagerie.
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21. - Very good, well done.
- Thank you very much.
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22. What's...? What...? What just happened?
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23. We're imagining an imaginary menagerie manager
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24. - managing an imaginary menagerie.
- Boom!
- Wow.
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25. - That certainly is impressive.
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26. It's a menagerie. Animal collections.
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27. That monkey's really staring you out, Stephen.
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28. All right. Now, do an impression,
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29. if you can, of a moose on the pull.
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30. A moose on the pull? OK.
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31. ROMESH ROARS
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32. - Very good.
- Probably. That will enter into it.
- When it goes...
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33. "Are you a parking ticket
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34. "cos you got fine written all over you-ooh?"
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35. - Is that a genuine pick-up line? I love it.
- I think it might be.
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36. - "Fine written all over you."
- I'm not actually sure what...
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37. It's not really the sound. It's actually a physical... maybe.
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38. - It's a physical impression.
- Did you do that?
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39. A male moose would do that...?
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40. Does it go up...?
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41. Does it go up on its rear legs and... Eh?
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42. Eh? See anything you like, moose lady?
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43. - Or moose gentleman.
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44. So, what order of mammal is a moose?
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45. It is elk, isn't it? Or a deer?
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46. Well, an elk is simply the European name for what Americans call a moose.
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47. - I've seen one.
- I've seen one.
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48. - I went to Canada and I was staying in a cabin...
- Yeah?
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49. .. and I woke up in the morning, and I looked out the window,
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50. and it was right outside the window. They're almost entirely silent.
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51. - Yes.
- They're so stealthy, you wouldn't think...
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52. - I mean, they're huge - they're like a horse...
- Oh, right.
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53. .. but they hardly make any sound at all, and they creep about.
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54. Frankly, they're unnerving. They're surreptitious.
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55. - Surreptitious.
- I'm amazed it makes any noise...
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56. Would be more like this, then? Would be more like sort of...?
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57. Don't look. Look away. Pretend you're a moose
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58. - at a disco or something.
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59. - Fancy a bunk up?
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60. Is it something like that?
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61. "Fancy a bunk up?"
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62. - It's a moose.
- He said, "Fancy a bunk up?"
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63. You haven't chatted anyone up since the '70s, have you?
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64. I sort of feel sorry for animals...
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65. Like, well, moose. .. because they haven't got... How do you...?
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66. If you're going on the pull, as a moose,
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67. how do you stick out from the herd?
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68. If you're a human and you're struggling on the pull,
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69. you can get, like, a snazzy haircut or, like, a cool jacket.
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70. - Do you know what I mean?
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71. So, the moose does something else.
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72. - Ah! It goes on Tinder, is that right?
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73. There's an equivalent of tundra... Tinder.
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74. Is there? Tundra Tinder, I like it. Tindra.
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75. What are they, as an order of mammal?
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76. - They are...
- Deer.
- Deer, they are deer.
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77. What the deer's mating season?
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78. - The males called it...
- Rut.
- They rut.
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79. One of the things they do in their rut, the males,
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80. is they dig a hole...
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81. - It's the equivalent of wearing a smart jacket.
- OK.
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82. .. and they urinate into the hole,
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83. and then they pull all the...
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84. - pissy mud, let's call it...
- Sexy times.
- Yup.
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85. .. all around their legs and all around their bodies.
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86. - They cover themselves in urine-soaked mud.
- Dirty.
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87. And they go a little distance from the hole and they sit down.
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88. They wait for the female to come -
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89. who, as a female would, would go,
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90. "I like the smell of this."
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91. - It's muddy and it's...
- Pissy!
- .. slightly pissy.
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92. Just a little touch of piss.
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93. And they get in there and cover themselves in that mixture
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94. - and then mating happens.
- And then he says, "Fancy a bunk up?"
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95. Yeah.
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96. But before that, they've got to go through the other rutting procedure,
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97. which is why they've got the antlers, and that's fighting with other males.
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98. Are there any female moose that aren't necessarily drawn in
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99. by the toxic, heady brew of urine,
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100. mud and some slightly wonky antlers?
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101. If there are, unfortunately they'll probably die out
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102. because the only ones that mate are the ones that go in for this,
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103. - and they pass on their genes.
- What does it smell like?
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104. As bad as it sounds, I fear.
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105. Are you moose-curious now?
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106. I am moose-curious.
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107. I want to smell your mud... moosey boy.
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108. Anyway, to impress the females, a moose on the pull
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109. really has to splash out a bit.
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110. Where would you find the world's most dangerous moustache?
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111. Oh, look at Selleck there.
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112. Can I just point out that this bit of Hitler's moustache, is that...?
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113. It is a shadow.
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114. Did he cut a bit off there or is that a shadow?
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115. - That's what tipped him over the edge.
- It was, yes.
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116. - He was shaving and...
- So, we're criticising Hitler now, are we?
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117. - Yes.
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118. The more I hear about him,
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119. the less I like him.
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120. Of course, we're in a menagerie world here
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121. so this moustache is not belonging to a human being.
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122. - A shark.
- Is it a horse?
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123. A moustache on a shark, that's dangerous.
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124. Is it the moustached lizard?
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125. - LAUGHTER No.
- Is it the Terry-Thomas gecko?
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126. Komodo dragon.
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127. You could go dragon. It's not a dragon, it's not an iguana.
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128. - It's actually...
- The KOMODO dragon.
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129. Badoing, badoing.
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130. A gecko. A leaping lizard.
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131. - The Selleck frog.
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132. Amphibious.
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133. - The trampolining, amphibious...
- Frog!
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134. - Other one.
- Toad!
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135. - Is the right answer.
- It's a toad?
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136. It's a toad. It's the moustachioed toad.
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137. - Moustachioed toad.
- The Emei.
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138. - Wow.
- Look at that, that is seriously dangerous.
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139. Look how he's done it, he's gelled it up.
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140. Those studs... Again, we're back in the rutting world.
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141. - Oh, God, look at that.
- .. tear into fellow males
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142. so that you can get the right mate.
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143. And then give the worst snog of all time.
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144. Well, it lives in China,
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145. and in the mating season, it builds up its forearms...
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146. - Oh, yeah?
- Right.
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147. .. but also for mating -
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148. for the grasping the female.
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149. And then it grows this moustache
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150. and then they fight a male rival
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151. at the bottom of the river stream
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152. over a particular female -
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153. and they aim for each other's stomachs to rip at them.
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154. Really, it's nasty business.
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155. 90% of toads involved in this kind of combat are injured,
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156. so it's a really pretty...
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157. God, it make you grateful to be a human, doesn't it, sometimes?
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158. Yeah.
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159. Really? That's your life?
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160. Underwater stomach ripping?
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161. Being intestinally jarred by someone's weird, pointy moustache.
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162. - Not for me.
- When they then get the female,
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163. they fertilise the eggs that the female has laid.
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164. They get a little rock and they have to stay on the rock
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165. or another male might challenge them for the rock and
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166. fertilise the spare eggs and then, when they are hatched...
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167. - It sheds its horns.
- ..it sheds its moustache...
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168. - Its love horns.
- .. and goes around clean-shaven.
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169. Oh, wow.
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170. - Wow.
- The Emei. E-M-E-I.
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171. - Emei.
- Yeah.
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172. Now, we all know there are perfectly good reasons for shaving a toad,
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173. but why would you want to shave the monkey?
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174. MONKEY SHRIEKS
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175. Do you know it?
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176. To find out if it was the Antichrist.
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177. Have the 666 or related number, according to...
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178. Is it some sort of, like, monkey stag do?
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179. - Well...
- He goes to sleep and they shave him completely.
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180. - And then he'll wake up and go, "Ha-ha-ha(!)"
- It's not that.
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181. It's like this with extreme slowness and laziness...
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182. - Sloth.
- Are you a lazy monkey?
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183. I would be languid...
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184. - A langur.
- A langur.
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185. - Oh, hello.
- Where do you find langur monkeys?
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186. That one in the middle does not look lazy.
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187. Psychotic? Yes.
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188. - It's langur.
- Oh, right, OK.
- That's what they're called.
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189. Do they like Madagascar? Do they go there?
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190. I don't think so. It's all lemurs, I think.
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191. They're India. There's a lot of them.
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192. Such a lot that there's a real problem.
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193. They're considered an infestation
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194. and so Indian authorities decided they would try something,
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195. which is...
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196. - You shave the leader of a particular troop of langurs...
- Yes.
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197. - .. the alpha male...
- Yup.
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198. .. and rather than him being expelled and another male taking his place,
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199. - the group disbands.
- Oh.
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200. And that sort of solves the problem of the infestation
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201. because they're a damn nuisance.
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202. Pests, they're considered. I mean...
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203. In their own place, the jungle...
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204. - They can be quite scary.
- .. fantastic.
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205. It's amazing, leaping through trees.
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206. Once they get habituated to humans, they pull your hair, they bite...
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207. I've got a howler monkey bite here that still aggravates me.
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208. "Oh, poor Stephen." LAUGHTER
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209. - Were you trying to shave it?
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210. For your own wicked purposes?
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211. Just horrible.
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212. I like a smooth monkey myself.
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213. Take it away, take it away. This monkey's too hairy.
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214. Oh, yes, bring him to me. I will shave him.
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215. No, um...
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216. - Oh!
- MONKEY SHRIEKS
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217. ALAN JOINS IN
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218. In 2001, several large langurs were employed by the Indian government.
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219. They were paid, in the form of bananas,
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220. and they basically had to police the defence centre
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221. where rhesus macaques were stealing food and paperwork,
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222. - they were pulling women's saris off...
- Paperwork?
- Yes.
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223. - Very anti-bureaucracy monkeys.
- It was the Ministry of Defence complex.
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224. And so... they were small.
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225. So they got the big langurs to police them, essentially,
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226. and they did.
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227. They pushed them out to the post office.
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228. And they've worked there ever since.
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229. Doing paperwork.
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230. The thing is, the baboons in Cape Town,
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231. they have to have monitors because they're protected,
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232. so they can't actually take them out and put them on a perch.
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233. No, it's illegal to kill them.
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234. It's like killing a cow, they are sacred...
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235. in the Hindu religion.
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236. The God, Lord Hanuman,
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237. apparently, is the monkey god.
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238. But they're a damn nuisance, so it's very difficult to know what to do
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239. but shaving seems a good answer.
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240. Well, there you are! Now then,
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241. how do you titillate this ocelot?
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242. - Aww!
Aww!
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243. Oh, you can't, surely... Do you?
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244. It's probably vicious, though, isn't it?
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245. I mean, these things will have your arm off, won't they?
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246. Well done for not saying the famous thing of
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247. - "How do you titillate an ocelot?"
- Which is to...?
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248. Oscillate its tits a lot. LAUGHTER
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249. You didn't do that.
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250. This is tree ocelot,
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251. which actually is better known by another name
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252. which begins with our themed letter.
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253. There it is. Beautiful animal.
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254. - Oh.
- Oh.
- I've played with one...
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255. A kitten one.
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256. .. they're absolutely extraordinary.
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257. - You know what they're called? Margays.
- Margays.
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258. Margay. M-A-R-G-A-Y. Margay.
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259. - Margay.
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260. And they are a tree ocelot because, as you can see from that photo,
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261. they are tree-dwelling.
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262. Have you shaved it, Stephen?
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263. They are almost unique amongst the cat family in that,
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264. not only can they climb trees headfirst...
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265. They can fell them...
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266. They can descend trees headfirst -
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267. which no other cat, except the cloud leopard, can do.
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268. - God, look at that.
- There they are.
- He's rappelling.
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269. - He's rappelling down...
- He is, isn't he?
- Look at that.
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270. And they do this by revolving their ankles 180 degrees.
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271. - It's astonishing.
- Oh, that is fascinating.
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272. They really are extraordinary and so poised in balance,
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273. but there are not many tree-living cats.
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274. - Are their ankles...?
- Margays, they're called?
- Yep.
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275. And the fact that other cats can't is the reason...
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276. The cat stuck in the tree business.
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277. They are stunning.
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278. They live in central and southern America.
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279. They can imitate...
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280. The really rare thing about them, no other cat can do this,
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281. they can imitate...
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282. - Paul Daniels.
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283. - They can imitate...
- All the characters from Coronation Street.
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284. They can imitate Bruce Forsyth.
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285. HE IMITATES BRUCE FORSYTH
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286. They imitate the calls of wild monkeys.
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287. Jimmy Carr laughing.
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288. The pied tamarin is the famous one there.
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289. - Look at that.
- What is that?
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290. Head... submerged in fur.
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291. That's a really cute body
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292. attached to the most hideous head I've ever seen.
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293. It's a pied tamarin. I don't think it usually looks quite as...
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294. Well, odd as that.
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295. A small little... Like a tree monkey?
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296. Yep, exactly.
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297. Now, for a question about migration,
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298. I'm going to ask you all to take out a map
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299. that you should find beneath your desks.
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300. - Oh, yeah.
- There you are.
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301. And you've got some drawing to do on the map.
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302. I want you to draw the extraordinary
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303. annual migration of the North American blue grouse
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304. - as accurately as you can.
- Right. North America. OK, so anywhere...?
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305. Not Alaska, then? Is it Alaska? Could be Alaska?
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306. The point is that I don't tell you until...
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307. I've got a feeling...
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308. that they want to get to another bit of North America,
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309. - but they go the wrong way...
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310. .. and they end up going all the way around the world
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311. - and landing on the other kind of...
- OK, there you go.
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312. Florida for the sun
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313. and then to the Carnival in Rio
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314. and then to Sydney...
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315. And then Cape Town, is it?
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316. So they go to all the Mardi Gras?
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317. Well, they go to all the Mardi Gras.
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318. They're just mad for it.
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319. And then up here, where there's, like,
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320. a cheese-rolling in Britain, they like that.
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321. And then they're just knackered.
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322. and the ones that are still alive, back home.
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323. It's a fantastic route.
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324. I just think that sort of
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325. they go... just on a trip round South America
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326. just to have a look - might as well make a day of it.
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327. - I reckon they go about a mile to the next village.
- Yeah.
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328. Well, I think what happens is they start off
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329. and they overshoot, and they end up going completely round,
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330. not hitting any landmass at all, and they think,
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331. "We'll give it one more go," and they end up in Colchester.
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332. They've no idea but, for millennia,
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333. they've ended up in Colchester.
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334. Alan, yours... Show the ladies and gentlemen.
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335. Oh, dear.
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336. Well, wouldn't it be funny if you were right?
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337. You're trying not to smile.
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338. - You're trying not to.
- I don't want to look at it.
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339. - You like it.
- I don't like it. I don't like it.
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340. "Do I like these? I don't like these."
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341. - It's funny.
- I don't like it.
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342. - OK...
- I don't like it!
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343. Stop that. OK.
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344. Incredibly,
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345. closest to the truth was Alan.
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346. Hold on.
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347. Not in your drawing
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348. - but in the remark you...
- My first idea that they leave America
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349. and go right around the world and land in America again?
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350. - No. In the remark you just made to Bill.
- What?
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351. "I reckon they just..."
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352. Go about a mile to the next village.
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353. Yes!
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354. It's even less than that.
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355. It's extraordinary migration is 300 yards.
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356. My kind of bird.
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357. I love the thought of them packing their cases...
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358. - Leaving a note for the milkman.
- Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
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359. "Unplug the telly!"
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360. Every spring, it goes down to its breeding grounds
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361. and then, in the autumn,
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362. it schleps all the way back up the hill again.
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363. That's...
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364. Does it take a long time?
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365. On foot, by the way. Not even flying.
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366. I mean, they are massive, aren't they? Based on those footprints.
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367. Enormous.
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368. Yes. The name for the insatiable urge to migrate is Zugunruhe.
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369. It's German for movement and restlessness.
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370. - Zugunruhe!
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371. But anyway, where does a marsh warbler go for singing lessons?
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372. - A marsh warbler...?
- Marsh warbler.
- Do they copy other birds' songs?
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373. Is it one of those?
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374. - Take a lot of points.
- Come on, points.
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375. You're absolutely right.
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376. Mimicry.
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377. Usually, you think bird learns its musical repertoire from its parents
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378. and almost all birds do.
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379. The marsh warbler doesn't,
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380. because its parents stop singing before it hatches.
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381. They've got 31 European
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382. and 45 African species
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383. in their repertoire.
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384. So, they sound like all the birds of Africa and Europe to us.
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385. And they can switch from one to another...?
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386. Yeah, because they're just imitating all the different ones around them.
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387. Do they have the own distinctive one, or is just a composite?
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388. No. You can never tell it's a marsh warbler by listening.
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389. We can hear one.
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390. MARSH WARBLER SINGS
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391. We might have a bird expert in saying, "Ah, it is imitating the..."
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392. If you got a marsh warbler and you just played it...
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393. Taylor Swift or something, would it start...?
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394. Because that's your go-to thing, is it?
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395. I've got a marsh warbler, I want to see what this can do.
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396. - Let's get some Taylor Swift...
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397. Swift, oddly enough, great birdies.
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398. Taylor Swallow.
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399. BILL CHUCKLES
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400. No, you're going into dangerous territory there.
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401. Dear, oh, dear.
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402. That's excellent.
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403. "Taylor Swallow."
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404. I'm going to play you a bird song right now...
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405. I had a dream about that the other night.
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406. - No need.
- I'm going to play you a bird song.
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407. - No need for that.
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408. What's this?
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409. BIRD SONG
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410. "Help me. Help me."
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411. "He's shaving me again."
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412. So, we've got it over there.
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413. "You can't park here."
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414. That quite close, "Can't park."
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415. - Illegal item in the bagging area.
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416. - Wahey, got it. Morepork.
- Morepork.
- Morepork.
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417. There it is on the left.
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418. It's also a Tasmanian owl but it's called a morepork.
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419. - I thought you had just translated what that meant.
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420. He said, "More pork." Correct. He's asking for more pork.
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421. - He's asking for more pork. Yes.
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423. The monotonous lark is so-called cos it's monotonous.
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424. A monotonous lark.
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425. "Come on, we're going on a monotonous lark."
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426. We're going on a narrow boat holiday.
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427. THAT is a monotonous lark.
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428. I went on one of those.
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429. "Oh, that'll will be fun. Let's go on a narrow boat holiday,"
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430. and everyone was taking turns doing the engine.
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431. Cut to a couple of miles later,
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432. everyone downstairs drinking wine.
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433. - Me upstairs...
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438. "No, no, I'm fine up here. I'll be fine."
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440. Worst weekend of my life.
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441. I just want you to know that nothing involving Norfolk is ever monotonous.
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442. - The marabou stork...
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444. "The ugliest bird in the animal kingdom..."
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445. That's not fair.
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446. OK, name an uglier one.
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447. - All right.
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448. No! LAUGHTER
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449. - Edwina Currie.
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450. Avian...
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451. One of the reasons it's considered so ugly is...
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452. Edwina Currie, really? I wouldn't have gone straight there.
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453. - It was a good choice, wasn't it? I went through a couple.
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454. It was like you had it...
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455. "Don't make me say it - Edwina Currie."
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456. And I DIDN'T make you say that.
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458. is not just its appearance.
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460. It's peevish.
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461. Well, it squirts its excrement onto its legs,
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462. such that... They are black,
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463. but they become white because they get dried on, caked on...
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464. That's laziness, isn't it?
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465. If Montgomery Burns, from The Simpsons, was a bird...
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466. - That would be! You're right.
- That would be it, yeah.
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467. It dumps on its own leg...
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468. - Poo on my legs, excellent.
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469. They'll eat just about any creature living or dead -
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470. along with faeces, scraps, carrion, human rubbish -
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471. including shoes and pieces of metal.
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472. They're pretty dodgy creatures.
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473. Marsh warblers just make it up as they go along.
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475. What happened while I was reading...?
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476. I had my back turned to you and I was looking at the blackboard.
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477. Honestly, sir. Nothing, sir.
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478. No, sir, Davies showed me a picture of a penis, sir.
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479. - He showed me that, sir.
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480. - That is not a penis.
- Sir, sir, look at Bailey's drawing of a penis, sir.
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481. I never drew such thing, sir.
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482. What's wrong with his penis if he draws one like that, sir?
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483. He drew a penis on the world.
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484. He drew a penis on the world!
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485. That's got... That's illegal, isn't it?
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486. Oh, Lord.
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487. Now it's time to stumble blindly into the morass of General Ignorance.
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488. Fingers on buzzers. All right.
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489. Where does a mosquito go to concentrate?
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490. - A blood bank.
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491. Very good. APPLAUSE
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492. - Library.
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495. and we mean a concentrate...
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496. - Where's the greatest concentration...
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497. .. of mozzies? Where?
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498. - A marsh.
- Near rivers and things.
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499. - Yeah, well.
- Swamps.
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500. - Africa?
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501. Not Africa?
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502. Scotland. Mediterranean.
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503. Loads of midges in Scotland.
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504. Midges, yes, but these are mosquitoes.
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505. - Specifically mosquitoes.
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506. It's that quantity, you don't get that in Africa,
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507. - you don't get that in...
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508. you don't get that in south-east Asia.
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509. You get that only in the Arctic.
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510. Oh. The Arctic. Oh.
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511. In Alaska and Manitoba.
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512. Where there's virtually nothing alive with no blood anywhere.
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515. - Well, you have to be there at...
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516. Or wrong time, really, yeah.
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517. There's the beauty that is Alaska,
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518. and the standing pools of water
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519. are perfect for mosquito breeding.
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520. Yes, the densest concentrations of mosquitoes in the world
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521. are in the Arctic.
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522. Including all the animals,
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525. - Oh, you... That's tough...
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526. - .. because you've got to balance...
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527. - ..a millipede...
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528. My guess is that most numbers will be in the system.
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529. I mean, there are billions of things like ants, aren't there?
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530. There are. Insects. Gigantic. They have six.
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531. That must bump the average right up.
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532. There are huge numbers of mites and they all have eight.
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533. And then you got millipedes and centipedes.
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534. - But lots of them have none.
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535. - Stick with that thought.
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536. One! One leg!
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537. - That's it.
- That the closest we've got.
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538. I'm afraid it's not... KLAXON BLARES
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539. Is it no legs?
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540. Well, it's... 0.01 is the average.
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541. Because there's that many worms.
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542. - Because...
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543. No, it's because nematodes.
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544. Oh.
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545. Yeah, they're a sort of worm.
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546. There are ten to the power of 22,
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547. which is a vast number, on Earth.
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548. What is that?
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549. 100 times more than there are mites
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550. and 1,000 times more than there are insects.
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551. There's a parasitic nematode that lives in the human eye...
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552. Oh! My God.
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553. .. and it can grow to seven centimetres long,
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554. - which is...
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555. Wahey!
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556. - No, we don't want to see that.
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559. Would it be wiggling...? Would you see it moving, for example?
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560. - You'd hear it talking.
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561. A friend would say, "Oh, just a sec till I get the corner of my hanky,
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562. "you've got an... enormous worm in your eye!"
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563. - Yes. Hypocrite. First cast out the nematode in your eye.
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565. Yes, so many animals are completely legless
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566. that the overall average is about 100th of a leg each.
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568. How many legs does a kangaroo have?
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571. Do you know my favourite bit in Toy Story?
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572. Go on.
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573. - It's the dinosaur that's got little arms, right?
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574. And he doesn't want to see something -
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575. something terrible is happening - and he goes,
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576. "Somebody cover my eyes!"
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577. That is a brilliant moment.
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578. I love that bit.
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579. Two. Two.
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582. "How many legs...?"
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583. How many LEGS has it got?
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584. 2.5.
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587. corralled red kangaroos through a chamber
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588. which measured the downward forces.
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589. They discovered that kangaroos put their front legs on the ground
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590. and move their back legs forwards
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591. at the same time as they push their tail onto the floor
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592. and use it to propel themselves forward.
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594. was as great as that from the other four limbs combined...
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595. - So, it's five?
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596. so not just a fifth leg, but the most important of the five.
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597. Yeah.
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599. It is a tail, but it's a kind of limb.
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600. Well, if you'd said limbs...
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601. - Yes, sir?
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602. - No, no, you can't have that.
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603. He can't have that.
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605. The point is, you could cut off... Obviously, you shouldn't.
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606. ..a kangaroo's forearms or arms...
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607. and it could get around perfectly happily
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608. and you could cut off one of its rear legs and even
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611. You'd be a sadistic bastard. LAUGHTER
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613. Kangaroos have almost five legs above average,
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614. which brings me to, miraculously, the scores.
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617. Well, nobody managed to push through into a positive number, I'm afraid.
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618. But our least successful on minus 28...
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619. I know why, and it's... Oh, Sue Perkins.
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620. - "I know why."
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621. In third place, on minus 8, is Romesh.
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624. Alan Davies on minus 3. CHEERING
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625. - Pretty pleased with that.
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626. And our super soaraway winner on minus 1 is Bill Bailey.
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627. So, it's good night from Romesh, Sue, Bill, Alan and me.
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628. You have been magnificent and I want you to stay that way.
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