Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski, James Harkin, and Andrew Hunter Murray.
And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, James.
Okay, my pet this week is that elephants can tell how much of something is in a closed bucket by smell alone.
Wow, that's so cool.
It's so amazing.
So let's say, let me take one of you, for instance, Dan, because I'm looking at you.
Hello.
If you have two plates of food, and one of them has got three steaks on,
and the other one's got one steak, you'd know which one had the most steaks on,
but if you had two boxes of corn flakes that were both closed,
you wouldn't be able to tell which one was full of corn flakes and which one isn't full of corn flakes,
and elephants can do this.
So that's insane.
Am I allowed to shake the cornflake boxes, and are they allowed to shake the buckets with their noses?
You're allowed to do whatever you want, no one's going to stop you, unless you do it too much in Sainsbury's.
But the elephants know they didn't do any touch at all.