They don't want to huddle on the welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish coming to you this week from the cue eye offices in Covent Garden, My name is under the shinsky I'm sitting here with Andrew on Summary, Alex Bell and James Hagen, and once again, we've gathered round the microphone with a full favorite facts. In the last seven days and endnote particular order here, we go starting with I, this week. Is that baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort is very and for adults do all those things that trunks as well when nervous, so they didn't know what they're doing they will pick up. That is all kind of wipe their eyes, and you know they do it like, like humans, do with hands so

it's just a social thing that is, they don't know what to do with a trunk well. Actually, when baby elephants are born, they can't really control their trunks. The first few days they just wait around a bit wildly and also it's really sad. They kind of tread on it and then they kind of scream because it really hurts. We can work out where the pain is coming from or how to make it stop. Yeah trunks are amazing, did you know the elephants? can be left or right trunked, even though they've only got one. What does that mean? They will have a preference for picking up objects that left or right Only if there is food on the left and the right drugs, I would starve to death here. I don't know If they move they move over. Like tennis player, he doesn't have a backhand exactly what they'll do is. They will turn three hundred and forty degrees. Out with their tail. Oh right now, a hundred and eight on the other side of it like affects driver.

as if that explained the thing been in the podcast before or is that just gonna sound like nonsense to anyone? You should explain, but I'll explain quickly, that in America Fedex drivers aren't supposed to turn left instead, they just do three right turns to get in the right direction and it works because of our cars on the grid system will not say is that it saves petrol, tax petrol because otherwise you're kind of sat there waiting for the traffic to go on girls or if there's a clear road, not allowed and not allowed us like saying all the traffic light was read, but I didn't send our coming. So I went through anyway, but the other thing is Erica. Sometimes you're allowed to write on traffic lights, even if the traffic lights are read your let's turn, because I am just a little same in Austria and the very bewildering when you're a foreigner and you try to cross a road hang on, I don't see how turning right three times helps you if you're driving along the road- and you need to turn left because there's a thing right there on the left. So you going North EAST

now you're going south and now you turn right and now you going west and he needed to go west in the first place. It does seem like it'd, be massive, he saw, but I ve done this calmly. Their nose What concerns do they disabled the steering wheel? So they can't talk back and say. Well, I think we were talking about elephants. Oh yeah and adults. Do the trunk sucking sometimes as well as a behavioral ecologist, who's called Joshua Plotnik, who has been observing elephants, and he says that when they get stressed out, then they put their trunks in each other's mouths, comfort, yeah! So that sounds a bit kinky to me. It sounded a bit kinky it doesnt work is on us it s for human supports your firm in someone else's mountains is because I'm struck, but now we say that your thumb is your equivalent to attract your most else's. I would say it's more like that: it's the opposite! The insides, whose during the com for saying not the receiver, so is that be put your trunk in the mouth of an elephant. He looks upset. our two make one he's not here,

well you're, not doing it to convert the thumb. All you are doing it to comfort the mouth I dunno, but that doesn't mean that whatever you put your thumb in will feel better about it. Yeah it does that's the rule I go around insulting your thumbs into stuff and the world will be a happier place. Okay, so that's not the only thing that elephants do with their trunks. They also use the trunk for mating, with a male will put his trunk to the tip of the female's private parts and then he'll put it back in his mouth and he has a thing called Obama, Renee's Logan and he can smell whether she's, receptive and in the mood and on heat and so on and giraffes do the same thing. I think lots of animals have shrunk, so they don't have trunks, so I think they giraffes, I think, urinate on each other. Today, yeah yeah, they did at night and then smell if they're, on heat or whatever, which is amazing, considering the neck,

because you're gonna have to spray it quite higher than it was obvious that a good way for another fund to tell if she's not up for it, is by the fact that it will get kicked in the face of women to stick. This John copper got two black eyes, but I'll give it a smell just in case that do not elephants have a specific cool to warn each other about bees and, they don't make this sound. In any other scenario, this was a study that was done. I think it was last year and it's this certain rumbling sound they play when they. So if, if they're played audio of bees, buzzing they make this rumbling sound and then, if that played audio of that specific rumbling sound, they also make the rumbling sound because they recognise that is a sound that says bees, because these one of the few things that can actually happened they fly on that.

Investing the money into this a bit like us, because we have a thing that we say whenever bees around, which is these are on the trunk. Do you know what happened when Margaret Thatcher mentioned elephant she and her husband Dennis went to the Sri Lankan President's Garden Party in Sri Lanka and the triangle presents elephant. Was there and then is that she didn't know much about elephant anatomy of he was given some bananas to feed to the actors, often, and instead of just offering them out to the elderly, pick them up and he started shoving about the wrong according to many supposedly got through nearly half doesn't have north it yellow. I go over everybody president that has started telling him off and he said well, it's I think, as a fairly reasonable mistake to make it works out. The elephants don't eat, but I think if you're not sure

so you'd have to be that it sounds like it was six of one half a dozen of the other on the blame game, because other ones are supposed to pick stuff up with their trunks like food and then until the elephant unreasonably polite waiting until like six when we was like no, this is constantly taking such as size another ninety at the elephant center. They can't eat and drink using their trunks either when they're babies, they don't know how to suck water up with their trunks. Hold it there and then put in their mouths. They have to be taught and copy that there are other adults and their parents crap, to begin with agencies a string straight out of the? On the one hand, they are now cause they, and I didn't drink from their trunks to drink straight from their mouths, and then they eventually realize that they can suck it up with their trunk and it's a more dignified way of looking at veganism squatting, India. Now yeah, I mean if a human did that they'd be kicked out of a restaurant, but apparently his dignity

at an elephant. So the traditional indian way of sobering up drone drunk was to feed it. Three pounds of melted butter nah, it's just a three pounds of melted butter and feed. shove. It up the trunk that is coming home, drunk like meals, I have the cosmetic upgrades just got three pounds of melted immediately note they used to this isn't fun, but they used to make them drunk, so they fight each other. They give them bread, so they'd fight each other in the old days, yeah and then sell them up. They give them oh, that is bad, so they have that. Give me all the animals of the humans that have anything that resembles a chin. We should have been quite a chitin, but they do have a

protrusion, underneath that bottom jaw, like a lot of conservatives and the alright until you fight number two, and that is James, my fat this week is that moviegoers, a blink sink very good, is it true or is it just pursuing it's it's true, because it It is about what it is, true. This was the study done by the University of Tokyo and they gave a load of people movies to watch and also movies, with no narrative like just an aquarium and also an audio book, and they showed the people watching the movie. What blinking? In sync, about thirty percent of the time and the others just not in sync at all and the reason that they think

This is because, when you're watching the film, you kind of keep your eyes open when it's really exciting, but then, when there's a kind of found that you everyone kind of blanks, are the same size, If you're watching die hard d, only bank twice throne, I never seen die hard, but is it really excited? So excise is a constant threat and this is basically what they thought was they worked out. How often people spend blinking in assent about time and if you're watching like a hundred minute film, then you gonna spend ten or fifteen minutes blanket night. How can you still keep up with the story if you're not wanted to do this? But if that's because you know bunch of all your blogs,

in the beginning, when the production credits, the blink loads? That well that's true, but how do we know that that's the case until we do a study about it? I do, but it just seemed like the most self evident question to all of scientific history. But if we are blinking in sync, then everyone is missing. The same parts of the movie, so there might be some really crucial, basing in movies that everyone thinks is shit but are actually great movies. When nobody guess Mulholland Drive, yeah yeah cause, he lulled you into the blinking and then he really quickly throws in the crucial explanation. The whole post is written up yeah. We do this, though, with other things, don't we say when you're reading, apparently, humans tend to blink. When you finish reading a sentence or if you're listening to a speech then will tend to blink when the person speaking finishes the sentence. So we seem to blink a kind of rest moments and there's one thing that scientists have looked into is: why do we blink so often because we don't

eight two blink as much as we do for liberation purposes and always greatly does not explain why? Well I'm giving a speech and I look at the audience after a finished sedative over there. I shot gotta. Only look when you. since it is anti babies link where less than adults. Chemicals. In saying that we talk about baby humans, they believe in very humans, because both the scientific discoveries and they think it's because they sleep more and eyes blink war when the tired and one baby just ass, tired yet well, because they sleep more so they re just they as in day they spend more time with their eyes closed. resting in a kind of eyes resting state. I thought I was gonna. Do I thought it was just babies was so tired. It that's what you always here. Always just I it turns out is not targeted towards like

it is even maybe he's just ass, also because babies don't cry for low first, like few weeks of their love, they don't care that you today, as they cry my greatest, is and so the end that party changes the amount by which you need to bring to keep your eyes most yet, but the blinking thing is unbelievable and is already massive different, so the average person blinks fifteen to twenty times a minute and babies blink one well two times a minute, so it's actually about fifteen times more, and I cannot believe I have noticed this and I want everyone with a baby to verify this. Please I almost texted my friend who's got a baby this morning being like. Can you stare at your child for a minute? Please isn't a match. That is moved once a minute if you had a load of babies in a movie theater watching a movie, but they only blink twice admit. It must be weird cause. It would be no blinking at all in the whole theater and then suddenly, they'll all just blink and then go back to normal again, but it must be the case and that we need to ask babies what mall

in drivers about the great tragedy. Is they can't tell us so on them, winking, as opposed to blinking? I can take the conversation in that direction. There was a study in a journal called communication research reports in two thousand and nine. They surveyed people in a shopping mall and the campus- and it was just to see, is what is the intent of whinging clear, basically and the experiment was as follows: someone would approach possible by ask for the time get them to tell them the time then they'd. Thank them. Then they wink the bulk of right and then immediately a research will pop up they work creaked. I don't follow me started saying: did you notice that wig? What did you think?

another driving Austria because he arrives and then answer just work out what the recipient of the wicked thoughts into- and this is interesting, that most people thought it was saying, thank you all, being friendly, all being flirtatious without already do no three separate and one. So I can't think of any other reasons. Well, other theories lower down the list, greeted the possibility that the wink at an eye problem, I was trying to seem coup, always expressing some strange ulterior motive. One person's vested they didn't We want to know the time yeah I love visiting an option for was trying to be cold on winking. Actually I found have you ever heard of so you will have heard of three d glasses. Have you heard of three d? No glasses

Is this really weird thing I found online that's being developed by a brazilian production company called Jonathan Post and two neurons attached to the side of your heads on either side and they send little electronic signals that make one of the eyes blink and it makes the left eye wink and then the right eye wink and then the left eye wink and the rights aren't going to go faster and faster faster until it's basically doing like twenty five times a second and your isis that you're essentially blinking but out of sync left or right or left or right side. And if you look at an object- and you close one eye and then you close your clothes on the image kind of move slightly and principle has been used, so you can. We have to watch treaty films without having to our glasses and an apparent he's really convincing three day solely weight and the union have just been doing that Alex has been talking and my eyes quite sorrowfully

I as well am idea. So I don't think this is going to be. I don't think so. There's no way! This could be good to be honest, doing it with the reason one day not doing this, because I am an actual scientist and I know the reason your eyes are so is that you are using your muscles, which presumably this doesn't accept- that dragging her eyelids up and down manually incredibly slowly, her eye muscles of my fingers. I read when you wait, It left idle right, most people wink with a dominant eye yeah. For me, it's left. I didn't know that you didn't know that. Well, I got my left eye. Naturally, there's one I'm I'd get drunk from your right eyes. We spent five years of our lives with our I shot from blinking. That's no, including the time he's been sleeping. That's assuming like seventy year lifespan. Yes, if you spend a third of your life asleep and you have seventy five years, the nuts

twenty five years asleep five years link. Fifty is awake and ten percent of that you're blinking yeah. So Europe spend a third of your life asleep, which that would be if you had to choose one. That is, I mean it's going to be the last that right yeah, but when you tired and you could play golf everyday, especially if I have to say if we at your work time Well, the middle third, when you're meant to be building on the capital getting on the property ladder he's asleep over? Hopefully it goes straight from the pool the pool is. It will be a very good way of having a very long marriage. If you got married immediately before you fell asleep yeah, it's the opposite of. Obviously, computer constantly awake yeah tell the prince came along endlessly yeah. Ok, anyone got anything else, cinema

Advertising is less effective when audiences eat popcorn, study he's according to a study from Cologne University and the reason is quite fun. It's because, according to them research, remember new brands by simulating the pronunciation of a new name with the mouths. So city like does and you've never heard of. Does you kind of just bail? If the word? about how you remember. If you eating popcorn, you can't do that so Is it a new face, the audience settle, blinking in synchrony and repeating the words on the advert? We must have the courage of robots mouth words in the films. Do you mind important lines of dialogue. I am not aware that I do it, but then I've never watched myself at the cinema, but also you don't know it. No, that's, usually you know when you ve worked as we know, is an EU product. I think with there is you do it just afterwards? So it's not like people memorized up.

Nowhere does again. I want to get ready to challenge that. Did you read about that guy this week? You suit his date because she was texting, and this in my quite right, too he's a bit of a hero. He's is correct. with Brandon Bozeman he was going on a date with someone called crystal. They went to see the three d version of guardians of the galaxy. Then you got into the guy, which is an extremely bad sign, children need text texted ten to twenty times in the first fifteen minutes? film, I wonder what she leaned over and said. Would you mind not doing that and she refused? So he said. I'm really sorry. Would you mind going outside you're distracting me at which point she walked out and drove home, and her car was his left home so abandoning him but the cinema, and so he sent her a text saying you pay me back, please, and she said no, so we took it to the small claims.

So do we have a results yet, or is it still awake making it's way through the Supreme yeah? I think he's going to withdraw his claim, because some newspaper set up a meeting between them where she begrudgingly gave him the cinema money. But I noticed not. The pizza money. He'd also asked for four dollars for a pizza. What she didn't Rita. I think if they'd already enjoyed the pizza, that's fair enough, but that's as far as I think he's taken her to a shit movie and she's having set the texting, so he should pay for the price of the tax system that will get all Jude. Judy? I James they've already generated enough press that no one is going to die with either,

well from now on. The job has been done because the people that you've heard about people sort of Google each other before going on dates now before people apparently do that, thank God, I'm married yeah he's actually had lots of propositions. It's been extremely like lots of girls got in touch saying I totally agree with. You will look at me and said. I promise I won't text at all. He doesn't come out of it that well because of the small claims court, part of it the you could take me to the smoking. Where are we going on our first date? Have you ever heard of the smoke? The first ten minute So the guardians of the galaxy is pretty much. The only watchable ten minutes in the whole film is quite a good song as bear. I can't believe it was such a good moment and that section- and I can't believe you thought we just needed to have a quick review of any picture. You recommend blinking in which dominated

Ok, let's move on to facts number three, and that is on these banks. My fact is that if you buy an apple today, it might have been taken of the tree. It may twenty forty really hard yeah, That is incredible that these are really brown and moldy ones at the back for no good reason organic on the adult. These are perfectly good, looking healthy, looking apples, so this is from a book called the Apple Orchard, but a food, radical PETE Brown. It's all about the history of apples, It sounds to green, very nice. I think it's always been cool.

so that the book is called the Apple orchard and basically apples get picked and about May, but then to ensure you have apples all year round. You need to keep them in a warehouse and so the average time that they stay. There are six months to a year and their captain warehouses, which have had all the oxygen sucked out of them, and I just got nitrogen them like bags of crisps, unlikely the enlightened bugs as we ve come before other spoke up, and so I just I think it's amazing they. Basically they go into a kind of hibernation. They kind of breathe more slowly these apples, but if you were in there with them, you be surrounded by healthy apples, but you would suffocate runs out. If iphones and imacs get you about three model changes a year and they will succeed each of it. So actually, if you walk into the apple store, your apple products in the apple store going to be fresher than the Appleseed yeah, very strong yeah. That's pretty funny PETE Brown genre of fact about PETE Brown yeah.

He is out Britain's leading apple or such a peep Brown Hugo radiant apples. He used to be a bare inside a writer, and then you realize the thing you really love was apples and he discovered during the course of its research that has a severe allergy to them. So easy logic to the one thing he learn. How so they sounds during the course of that you want a couple years without even touching them really, research and improper had he never had level before this does confuse makes it quite severe reaction is also expands. Is now closed up, so I dont, maybe never tries in his mouth blows, not expose out of its value I mean but yeah poor guy yeah. That's terrible! Is that why he's so obsessed with him? Because it's the one thing you can never have? Yes, that's true: So in the nineteenth century we have tens of thousands of apple varieties and they used to be like all shapes and sizes, so they'd be lumpy and some are already rough. Sandpaper, skin and others will be ready, misshapen and let my potatoes and they range from cherry size to great fruit sized every sign up and get grateful.

Size actually realized apples. Yes, there was no apples he's back then, but then, when we go into like largest, El farming we realize it was cheaper to I'm just take grafting of apples, spread the same apple, the clones than we massively reduced. The number of apples we have and now I think it a marrow, because they used to be seventeen thousand submarine. Fourteen thousand and seventeen thousand varieties, and now it has ninety whoa. So we've lost a lot of Apo. That is amazing, yeah, so yeah, every single granny Smith Comb is genetically identical to one that was in a in a house in Sydney centuries ago, every single Bramley apple grew from a tree in the garden in Nottinghamshire. The Bramley apple tree has One farm club on its fine club is based in Japan is the one Bromley Apple Fine Club in the world is an abuse in Japan and because they imported Bromley, Apples Abram an apple graft thirty years ago, and they just fell in love with

at that and the mayor of the town and a bunch, all the members of the amplifying club flew all the way to Nottingham from Japan in two thousand and twelve to visit the tree and once that he nearly cried when he set eyes on it. we merely heard something about that phone club. Is that all allergic to apples, yeah actually you're, not part of the world I've just given it away now, but one way to most of the world's apples get produced. Is it somewhere near Japan or somewhere near Japan, yeah Japan, China is China by an insanely large amount, like forty million tons a year, it is that eliminated. The excuses, the? U S, which is four million. Do you know what is the biggest brand of beer in the world? Budweiser nope see the australian one that everyone drinks. No, I want to discuss remain low. It is snow logger on this, the main logged in China is completely unknown, all

lost in the rest of the world, but because China so big, it means that they have something like four percents wolpe is from snow denote. Some apples are non vegan. This is true. Is it cause? They have a worm inside them? No nice try. I guess it must be some kind of thing they spray on it, pretty much yeah. So a lot of apples. They have a natural wax on them right which it preserves all the water inside the apple, but when, when they picked, then they get washed to get rid of all the that waters off the wax to say: supermarkets, spray them with wax, and it's not an unhealthy amount. It's about two drops per apple that you eat a pretty shiny fo, but some of it is brazilian palm leaves the wax. I mean some of the waxes beeswax and some of it is shellac.

which is derived from the secretions of an insect, a lac bug, dino robots can count apples, but only at night out of fear that you're on holiday. So this is the idea that if you are an orchard oder, you want to know how many apples are on your tree and humans can do it, but robots are cheaper, but the problem is: how does a robot know? An apple is compared to a leaf or compotes. Whatever is really hard, especially in the daytime. So you can know what you can do is at nighttime. You can get tree and you can have a robot looking at it, and then you put a light on it and the light will reflect off the fruit and the leaves, but the four fluxions from the fruit will be rather than it can tell those round shapes better than in the daytime, when actually all the branches and leaves I'll get in the way of over that sounds so terrifying to get stuck in an ocean.

night when all the robots come out actually one robots. I did a reading about warehouses for this fact and Amazon, warehouses and other distribution warehouses for huge shipping companies that used to be that you'd have rows and rows and rows of shelves, and then some people will be employed to pack and some people were deployed to go up and down the shelves boots around now what happens all humans that work in that they they work around the edges of these packing stations and and there's no one in the middle best. Just loads and loads of tool, narrow shells and shells can drive around by themselves. finally on several stage on the Geneva load, the shelves- or they just stand there and they wait for the shelves becomes a damage, takeovers meat. Is it let the staircases Hogwarts its yeah? It's like I'm crazy skills that amazing videos to watch for this and what is the best business in the west.

It because, as officer you've got hundreds and hundreds of shells moving around and there's no orders what needs to be on the shelves. You can just put anything on the shelves in any order in any combination and as long as the computer knows what's on the shelf, it doesn't really matter where it's being stalked. It could just drive anywhere it's needed when you close the warehouse at nights over shelves. We raised himself every night. I don't watch going to be needed for next day say, for example, that is coming up the Valentine S day, and you know people apply more like chocolates and roses and stuff. Then all of the tickets to guardians of the Galaxy yeah. All of those shows move too close to the front of the warehouse cause they're going to be needed more often wow, so cool, well Amazon. Well, just think they're going to thing

Explain if you plan everyone will notice who has vague interest in horticulture, but if you plant the seeds of a certain type of apple tree like a brave and apple tree, then of course it doesn't grow into the private. Does it that's why people do grafting? I just don't understand, I think, as mud yeah, it's it's yeah. It is bad, isn't it it is not because yeah it is man. It's like saying. If you, if two people sleep together, they might have any

the animal, can be a cow, could be it also how fun would life be? No, I am not giving birth to a cow cross section in Clinton's like it's a boy. It's a girl, the okay! Let's move on to our final facts and my facts and life at this week is that the first western eyewitness account of India described as having ants the size of foxes. This is so cool yeah. So this is a firsthand report by Magus the niece, who was the third century BC greek ambassador to the royal court in Northern India, in what is now northern India and He described these ants the size of foxes and they mined for gold, and so they they mined gold, and then they used to leave piles of gold up on the top of the ground. While they went down in mind for more and he said that humans

from India would go and trying to steal the gold from the ants and if the ants caught them, the giant ants they be engaged in a combat to death and he's known as an eyewitness most of these first time. But the amazing thing is that they are real right. The amazing kind of railway will go on. There are marmots who live in this area, who dig burrows and then, when they dig Burrows little bits of dust come out which does have Sundin and apparently people do collect the bits of gold yeah. So the only problem with that is how, at some point, someone decided at the moment looks exactly like a giant and well. No, because in person supposedly, I haven't even regional. The word for Mamma is equivalent to mountain, and

es we just thinking when he said that in the English Murmur College, he is the study of ants, which is an Amelia miles from model and must now must be from the same origin. My might be. That is just incredible. The giant It's the size of foxes which dig up gold and that facts are pretty credible, the weather, a mountain, and yet there are tense moments close by Is it the size of foxes brackets? Not quite Herodotus wrote about these as well, and he said they were bigger than foxes but smaller than dogs. Yes, dogs in such different sizes, what is it with consoles yeah? Where did we first got this tiny dog? I think it was quite late on. I imagine they were more they've gone the opposite way, but I'm trying to think of dinosaurs. I think the Aztecs had like chihuahuas didn't they do and as to what size Mexican that so maybe just a weekly yeah Herodotus did mention them here

Another we can, we build a thinking, but he was before my gas, the knees. I know I've ones now thinking that road Malvin yeah, what it says did say it, but he'd heard it from other people and magasin. He was the first western person to go to India. But yes, it was this rumor, that's been going for hundreds of years that there were ants the size of foxes in India. If it was the size of the folks I worked out may be able to lift a cow, that's cool. I would. I would be inclined to bring back fox hunting if there were calls to the carrier. I have counts: how many times larger? Would you say the smallest fox is the biggest, and so the biggest ant is like four centimeters four inches. That's quite a bigger and bigger, and I think it's an order of several. I think a several orders of magnitude bigger. Do you think of several? I think the smallest fox is several thousand times bigger than the biggest aren't

It twice as big, but no it's what order of magnitude is ten times bigger. Oh so, Alex isn't the size of foxes. Yeah Alex is right that the biggest ant is a bulletin which is about four centimeters on the smallest fox is about forty one centimeters, which is authentic fox. Oh, my goodness, sweet! That's, not just motives. I would have thought no, so I wonder if that aunt's would be able to carry that fox evening yeah, but a the Fennec Fox, presumably, would would have a hard time taking on an antidote such an embarrassing way to go, see and some plants employ ants to scare away giraffes. So these are ants that live in the tropics and they acacia plants attract ants to them. So ants live on the acacia plants and they drink their nectar and they the plants provide shelter for them, but the plans actually make a chemical which causes the ants to go into.

What was described by the National Geographic Ass, a defensive frenzy wits- and they do this? Well, it's like right after I've, I've mansplain something yeah. I didn't mean that. Obviously you know that the gods and so yeah these arms go into this frenzy and they scare away the drums because they can sting them. They've got quite bad bites and so giraffe comes to eat the plant and the plant releases. These chemicals into the answer live on it to say, get rid of that giraffe and the draft starts trying to ESA, and then it gets all these things in it's mouth and it goes away quickly because the facts about, I think it's ethylene, which is a chemical, that plants release and is related to the previous one about apples, and so when plants release ethylene, if they're being eaten by lesson, antelope they release ethylene and all the nearby plants,

What immediately put up their defenses will put up the defenses and release large quantities of a chemical which makes them inedible in fact poisonous the inedible to the antelope or whatever is eating the the the the antelope has to kind of sneak up and eat as much as it counted. The first plan before all the nearby plants are completely radioactive and and poised MR, it is ethically is the stuff which makes fruit go off his net. It's like when you happen. Lists and apples in the same bed of your fridge exactly but the reason it's doing that is to make itself attractive to you. Is it like an advertising sign for a rotten banana? I'm not attracted to that. I know, but animals are less fussy than you James. So, basically, once it releases the ethylene, all the fruit gets softer and sweeter, and it changes color, meaning that the animals know that is ready to eat and it'll be delicious and sugary, and so the fruit is basically saying in your fruit bowl humans are coming

those look good movies and yeah. It says it's like taking someone on a date to guardians of the galaxy. The judgment of what human might wrong just got a little plum, texting, Dakota yeah, we also just became employ ants, are farmers who need to employ a helping farm? They use Coca COLA and Pepsi water down as a pesticide. They spray it on the crops not because they contain any pesticide chemicals, but because they contain sugar and the sugar attracts the ants and then the ants will enjoy the sugar, but that also eats all the love. I have the bugs that already it's almost as effective as other pesticides, but way way cheaper

really is not the cheapest way of getting sugar on your land, then, is that the cheapest shook it. You can get it's a pretty each even easier wasted, because even just started, six already comes a liquid variously not far off and that these and other, though off browned, would be actually cheaper. I wouldn't go for roller cola through work. If the code, they did a study recently into personalities, they the scientists and they all like what they found- changes that all real range of car exhaust yeah, been a bit racist. So they found that some ants really fussy about where they live and so they'll move into what could be a nest and then be really choosy about it and dislike it and abandon it, and then some months it just really chilled out and liberal relax now go into any owed in hellhole. Piece of shit just agree to live there. and it turns out. This is what makes their colonies work because when you're

the ideal home. You need that ready, fuzzy guy who you know she likes it very kind of Philly and then will not shoot us in a rush to find somewhere. Then the other guy takes over time becomes the dominant honest and he helps them make a fast decision to move into the the nearest avail. ask what you're describing is the odd couple, but without the colony, that's so cool, so they move into different places, and I didn't even know that they do yeah. Do you think landlords, so you get refused because they say. Oh, you ve got tat ants and they Yeah, oh well, I was hoping to have bullet was like no. No, I just mean you've got to know. Maybe today is Dan's pronounce tenants, tenants is the one difference being humans and ants is that they pronounce it with an emphasis on the second just thinking for Alex his sitcom of the

this was also sorry living more like an invasion of friends or you ve got kind of the Monica fastidious. Warm yes chilled out Phoebe just quickly on flying at day, which always moves around. There is no day, obviously like Easter. It's just like history happens that, according to the fourth century, looks at yeah no, but I did not know this, so the male will deposit his with the female. I didn't know that something something I the I didn't know the female and the queen can keep male ants spent for twin two years. Oh wow, imagine that is her vagina, full of nitrogen yeah. I think that's a great basis for an ant rom com right in which an ant finds out twenty years later. You might have, you might have a kid or just the bloke who finds out. Oh, we just have one thing: it was on.

I got into is Barbie's. You got two hundred and fifty thousand to pitch you my tenants joke for that expensive yeah, it's Bridget, Jones's baby. We want that. Wasn't a good one, that's true! It will. Actually. This will never happen because, as soon as the male has inserted his genitalia to female and deposited his sperm, his genitalia explode inside His is Bridget yeah. I was linked to that I've got. One more thing is just about this guy Mc Ass, the needs just one other thing that he reported that I quite lies. when he went to India. He festival where way described the people. This is how he, I guess, know that the hands thing might have been a bit. He might have exaggerated the truth. He said the India live men with no noses and smell as I would have been a region by them

The men with no mouths who fed by inhalation but could be killed by too strong a smell, so when they hang out with them with no noses, then they'll drop dead of, and then there were men with dogs heads, but then he also described he was an ambassador, so he was, the kings kings are just as funny like. We've got some pretty wacky ambassador yeah, that's kind of shit, so he lived in the kings, cool and he'd said the king of India like to he judged legal cases. That was one of his responses. These but hearing did it while being continually massaged and he had a swarm of pirates that flew above his head at all times and he was considered the embodiment of the city, which was a city called Patella, Putra and so everytime, the king washed, his hair, a celebratory festival was held to celebrate his hair, washing. I wonder how often he did it yeah. It would be such a hassle. I think maybe you'd not do that.

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