Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from our Book of the Year 2018 tour, live from the Union Chapel in London!
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Chasinski, Andrew Huntamari, and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go!
Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact this week, my fact is the world's oldest krill was nine years old,
and was called Alan, he was called Alan, he was a nine year old krill, and Alan would have lived to have been older,
but unfortunately during a routine cleaning of his tank he escaped and fell down a drain,
so yeah, it's a shame because he possibly had many more years,
maybe he survived the drain fall as well, maybe like finding Nemo, like he might,
he might still be out there, finding Alan is a less good title.
He might have been more than nine as well, because when they caught him he was an adult,
so he probably at least two more years on top of that.
Why do you escape as a krill, because mostly you're water based aren't you,
but presumably he had to sort of struggle out along some surfaces.
They were changing the tank, so they were cleaning the water out,
so it was in the process of taking the lid off and exchanging waters that Alan thought,
finally after nine years, it's my chance, yeah, but unfortunately there was a drain right next to it.
Well he was kept in his own jar for all those nine years by a guy called Tom Icada who is like one of the best krill scientists in the world,
I mean you all know him, I mean we are actually going to do 20 minutes about krill,