Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshensky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin, and once again,
we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.
My fact this week is that for cheaters, slowing down is more important than running fast or speeding up.
Wow.
More important in what way?
Yeah.
In the successful kill rate.
Is that because if they just carried on speeding up forever, they'd have no time to eat their kill?
You can't just run and run and run and expect to have a meal at the end of the day.
It's not quite that.
So this is a few studies that have been done actually into kind of cheater locomotion.
The one I was reading was 2013,
and the scientists spent nearly 10 years designing a battery-powered solar-charged kind of tracking collar,
and then they put it on cheaters,
and so it measured exactly when they're speeding up, when they're slowing down,
et cetera, and then it looked at when they were successful in hunts and when they weren't,