Beth: I'm Beth.
Neil: And I'm Neil.
Phew! I've spent all day in meetings,
then shopping, then collecting the kids from school -
I'm exhausted, Beth! What have you been doing today?
Beth: Oh, not much, just sitting around doing nothing... relaxing and kicking back!
Neil: Lucky you! Don't you have work to do?
Beth: It may not look it, Neil,
but I'm actually as busy as a bee!
If you've seen nature documentaries about worker bees flying from flower to flower,
you probably think animals are always on the move.
But the surprising truth is, away from the cameras,
most animals spend most of the time doing absolutely nothing at all.
Neil: In the natural world where finding food and shelter is hard work,
why have some animals evolved to do nothing?
And if it's good enough for animals, would being lazy work for humans too?
That's what we will be discussing in this programme,
and as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.
Beth: But first, let me work up the energy to ask you a question, Neil.
Of course, some animals have a reputation for lounging about – lions,