Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Paris!
I am sitting here in the head of the industry,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphone to our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go!
Starting with you, James.
Okay,
my fact this week is
that North American porcupines sometimes fall out of trees and impale themselves on their own spikes.
So it gets pushed into them?
So they're already in them?
That's what impaled means.
Do they die?
We all die, I think.
We're in Paris, I shouldn't have realized the philosophy would come earlier than all of them.
Well actually,
not usually and the reason that we know about this for a few reasons but it's kind of a report that came out by a guy called Aldis Rose and his colleagues and they noticed
that quills have antibiotics on them and they worked out that the reason that they have antibiotics on them is
because they do impale themselves quite often and it means that it won't kind of get infected and it won't kill them.
It is weird that they spend so much time on trees and this is North American porcupines, isn't it?
They absolutely love climbing trees.