2019-06-14
37 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Sheffield my name is Dan Schreiber I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Andrew Hunts and Murray and James Harkin 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 Andy.
My fact is as a child the naturalist Frank Buckland learned to differentiate different kinds of animal urine by taste alone.
How did this happen?
Well so he was the son of another naturalist a guy called William Buckland this is Victorian we're talking here 19th century and William Buckland was an amazing guy and he you know taught his children lots and they grew up surrounded by animals so instead of having a hobby horse to ride on they had a dead crocodile and as part of his education he learned about different kinds of animal urine.
And is that so you know which pet to tell off when someone weeds on the floor?
Oh yeah who did that?
I'm just going to check.
Freddie?
That's a very good idea yeah because they had loads of animals around the house.
For instance William Buckland he was a naturalist like you say he liked experiments he likes to do
that kind of thing so there was one time he was in bed and he was thinking about fossil footprints
because they just found all these new footprints and he came up with an idea of how they might be formed so he woke up his sleeping wife and asked her to prepare a slab of dough in the kitchen so he could get his pet tortoise to walk across it so he could have a look at the footprints that it made.
That's so cool.
So William's son Frank's house seems
like it was riddled with animals there was an account from 1877 of a journalist who went to visit
because he was quite famous and he said they opened the door and they immediately retreated
because there was a jaguar in the doorway with monkeys seizing its tail and denuding it of fur and then the buckles were like don't worry he won't hurt you it'll be fine.
There was a jackass laughing jackass which I think is a cuckaburra their word for cuckaburra chasing live mice up and down a glass jar with a battalion of cats waiting underneath and there was a battalion and there was a parrot that kept on calling cabs from the front window as soon