Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Oxford!
My name is Dan Schreiber, and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that hippos sometimes poo into rivers so much that all the fish downstream die.
This is such cool science.
This is not if you're a fish, this is a horror story if you're a fish.
So a quick shout out to the scientists who did this,
the team who did this was scientists Chris Dawson and Amanda Suboluski, and the hippos poo a lot into rivers.
Basically pooing is one of the main things that hippos do, and they do it for all sorts of purposes, communication,
mostly to get it out of their bodies, mostly for pooing purposes, but it's technically called organic matter loading.
That's what I call it.
Surely it's unloading.
It depends if you're loading the river, I guess.
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
No, you're right, you're right.
Well, I'm not sure I am.