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, I am sitting here with Andy Murray, Anna Chazinski 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 you, Andrew Hunter Murray.
My fact is that farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows' bottoms to stop lions from attacking them.
So good!
We don't need anything more!
Time for fact number two!
Does it work, Andy?
Well, this is the really interesting thing, this is in the trial stages at the moment,
so it's by a British conservation biologist called Neil Jordan.
He works in Australia and Botswana, so we're in Botswana here,
and he wanted to trick lions into thinking that they've been spotted when they're sneaking up on a cow.
So he's been working in the Okavango Delta,
and he did a trial last year where 23 cows had eyes painted on their bottoms.
They all survived, and in the rest of the herd there were 39 cows which were not painted,
and of those cows, three were eaten by lions.
So it's a very small sample size, so he is literally,