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 and I am sitting here with James Harkin,
Anna Czazinski and Andrew Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with you, Czazinski.
My fact this week is
that one of the costume designers on Star Wars also made a moose suit for scientists to help them sneak up on moose.
Or mooses.
Or moose such.
Or meese.
Is moose such the actual plural?
Yeah, because it's a Native American word and that's how this particular tribe pluralizes it.
So what's the advantage of sneaking up on a moose?
Well, if you want to hang out with them, which these scientists did,
so they were studying moose in the Yellowstone area and I think they were specifically at this time looking at how they were responding to predators.
So wolves,
numbers had declined in Yellowstone and moose had got used to living without them and then I think they'd come back and the scientists wanted to see
if moose had forgotten how to escape wolves and so they needed to put wolf poo and wee where moose lived to check how they responded to the threat and so this researcher called Joel Berger asked a woman who worked on the set of Star Wars to make him a moose suit so we could go and deposit moose poo and wee around moose.
Yeah, because they did used to before the moose suit came along,