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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones.. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Tonight's guest has been late for everything. He did not start his | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
ballroom dancing career until he was 21. He didn't become a dad | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
until who has 40. He was 60 when he became famous. Everybody knows that | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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the One Show starts at... Severn! Len Goodman! Delight that? Clever! | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
We're not here to talk about Strictly. We are now referring to | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
you as the finis ambassador. I am the ambassador. -- thickness. For | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
the over 55s and it is all about getting them more healthy and it is | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
all about your personal best. We will not just be hearing more | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
about his new role as fitness ambassador, later on we will be | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
making him work, putting you through your paces. I'm ready! | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
First, the maximum sentence for causing a death when driving on | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
drugs is 14 years in prison. But at the moment there's no official | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
equivalent of the breathalyser so it can be difficult to prove when | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
York city centre and I'm on the night shift with it on Taylor. We | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
are on the lookout for signs of a lethal menace on Britain's roads, | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
drug driving. It is not long before she makes her first stop of the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
night. I'm not entirely happy when I look at your eyes that you | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
haven't taken anything recently. Currently suspected drug drivers | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
can be asked to undergo a series of balance and co-ordination exercises | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
known as the field impairment test. I will catch your pupils. Look | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
straight ahead. -- look at your pupils. To the tip of your nose. | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
This is the most advanced test for drug driving in the UK. When you | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
compare that alcohol testing where you blow into a breathalyser, it | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
does seem strange that this is the most advanced way we do it and it | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
is still down to of as a judgment. I don't believe you are impaired on | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
this occasion. This driver was not under the influence of any drugs, | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
but it is estimated that one in five motorists killed in road | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
accidents may have drugs in their system. I just remember a beautiful, | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
happy girl. The smile shone from ear to ear. In 20th June 10, 14- | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
year-old Lillian Groves was hit by a car outside her home near Croydon. | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Not only was the driver speeding, he was also uninsured and he had | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
been smoking cannabis. Lilian was rushed to hospital with serious | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
head injuries and died later that evening. Words can't explain. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
You're just numb all the way through. You think it is not | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
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The driver admitted smoking cannabis, but the police were not | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
able to prove he was impaired. He was not tested for drugs until nine | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
hours after the accident, by which point the traces found in his | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
bloodstream were too small to charge him with causing death by | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
dangerous driving while under the influence of drugs, which carries a | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
maximum sentence of 14 years. He pleaded guilty to causing death by | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
careless driving and driving without insurance. He was sentenced | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
to eight months in prison and served just eight weeks. Disgusted. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
That his or her life was worth. You can go around and kill someone, | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
take away their life, wreck a whole family life, ripped us apart and | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
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Surprisingly unlike with drink- driving, there are still no legal | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
limits on the acceptable level of illegal drugs allowed in blood. It | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
is up to the police to prove that a person's driving has been impaired | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
by drugs in their system. But there are more advanced methods available. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Kits like these which can be used at the roadside to see if the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
driver has been taking drugs are already in use in many other | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
countries. So why aren't they news in the UK? -- in use. The Home | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Office has been testing the devices, which checks saliva for the | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
presence of illegal drugs, for a number of months. Some senior | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
police officers say there's no point in having these kits without | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
first changing the law to make it a criminal offence to drive after | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
taking an illegal drug. My view would be they will not add anything | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
of value to the process so there's no point in us buying them. If we | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
moved to a different place in terms of the offence, they will be cost- | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
effective. We need an absolute offence. What do you mean by that? | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
If you take a range of drugs and then have a certain level in your | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
body, the same as alcohol, you are committing an offence for which you | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
will be prosecuted. Lilian's parents have persuaded David | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Cameron to back their campaign for just that law and now the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
government has appointed as scientific panel to advise on the | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
technical aspects of introducing a new offence. We have heard promises | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
from the government before, why should you believe -- be believe | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
now? Governments have been looking at this fear. The prime minister | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
has said there will legislation. Can I get it in this new | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
parliament? No. I am hoping I can get it in the next Parliament, next | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
year. In south London, Lilley and parents had this new legislation | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
will provide a fitting tribute to their teenage daughter's life. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
deserves that much more. I don't want those 14 years to be forgotten | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
and to have been wasted. Thank you. Len, you and the lovely Arlene | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Phillips are launching a brand new campaign called personal best. | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
personal best. It is for the over 55s, either perfectly healthy or | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
those with health issues, to try to do a little bit more, a little bit | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
more exercise. Once you get to a certain age, it is so easy to sit | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
back and say I can't be bothered. This is not about trying to do a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
marathon or the pole vault at the Olympics, it is just your personal | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
best. Whether that means getting out in the garden and doing a | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
little bit or walking to the shops rather than taking the car or the | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
bus. As for me, when I going to Dartford, because I have a bus | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
pass! I quite often get off a couple of stops early. I was going | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
to ask how active you were. You're very good at sitting behind a desk. | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
I know! I play golf so that is always good and it is a lovely long | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
walk. I bought sewer and died a bicycle beach a few years ago. -- | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
Sue and five. Lovely big saddles. There are so many cycle paths now. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
We go down to Brighton or Southend, which is lovely and flat. I don't | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
do Hills! Park up in Hove and circle a long down the promenade | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
and Stoppard have a cup of tea. I am not talking about going to the | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
gym, I go occasionally, but I don't wear my career and swept up in the | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
paddock. I do a bit on the treadmill and a couple of other | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
things. A cappuccino and then I go back... What we are talking about | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
is the over 55s trying to do a little bit. There are so many | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
things you can do. They have a website. My picture is there. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
ambassador! In all his glory. You're not the only more mature | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
person who is doing a bit of exercise these days. Forget the | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
latest celebrity fitness video, let's meet Stanley Thomas from | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Cardiff, 94 years old. A personal friend of Alex Kane. He has been | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
making videos of himself and working out in his home gym to | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
inspire other people to get fit. He is it -- even has a sauna. Twice a | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
week he exercises like that. You note... My mum is 94. They | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
could get together. You go into her house and so I will make you a cup | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
of tea, she says, you sit down! This is marvellous. It is a bit | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
like dancing, you can do it as long as you want and you don't have to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
be sweating, just a bit of gentle exercise. Some of his moves are | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
quite intense. We thought we would put some to the test. I'm going to | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
have one. We are ready to go. Tell me when you are ready. Happy? I | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
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Matt, Len, Alex. I have some exercises for you. I want you to | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
try to follow me. Free-standing loosening up exercises. Bend, | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
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stretch, bend, stretch. And swing. It is the cross that is tricky. | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
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Repeat. I am loving this! And down. You were getting into that. Stan is | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
good! No bingo wings! We had loads of exercises lined up. Have we run | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
out of time? It is a Monday. This is what we are talking about, this | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
is not about tremendous physical activity, trying to drain for a | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
pole vault or what ever. It is doing what you can. Speaking of the | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
pole vault and all things active, we will stay with fitness. Just a | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
week to go to apply for Paralympics tickets. He if everybody is as | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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excited about that as Ade Adepitan, 20 sports, 300 sessions and 499 | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
gold medals up for grabs. The Olympic Stadium is nearly finished | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
and that means the 2012 Paralympics are almost here. But this year's | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
spectacular event will be very different from how the games | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
originally began. Created in 1948 to help patients recover from | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
spinal injury at an Aylesbury hospital, the Stoke Mandeville | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Games became end international event. In 1960, they were held in | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Rome and 24 years later the Olympic Committee re classified those games | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
as the first Paralympics. Margaret won two gold medals in Rome, just | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
one year after breaking her back in a car crash. The first competition | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
of the day involved me and that was archery. It was weird because we | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
were sat in a very long line, so close to each other we could hardly | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
move to draw the Barlow. They wrote our scores down, they did not tell | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
us what the scores were. I knew vaguely that I was doing quite well | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
because I could see where the arrows were. I got to the end of | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
the day and somebody said, wears Margaret? We need her, there's a | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
medal ceremony. I got the gold medal! What was that like to have | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
the medal and the national anthem playing? It was bewildering! But it | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
was lovely. That was the first British gold medal. Today it is | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
very different. Elite athletes battle it out on the world stage. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
He one of my favourites to watch is the brutal and brilliant wheelchair | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
rugby. It is the only full contact wheelchair sport. To get round your | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
opponent, it is a lot easier to do if they are on the ground than if | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
they are on their wheels. For long. It is very aggressive and fast. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
2012 we are hoping for a medal and everybody wants gold. Those guys | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
are tough and so it is six-time Paralympic medal winner and world | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
No. 1 David Weir. He won gold in the 805th -- 800 metres and 1,500 | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
metres in Beijing and he is tipped to win four golds in London. When | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
you win a major race, you think of all the people that have helped you. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
It is the best feeling in the world, you can't describe it unless you | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
know it yourself. To go out in the stadium with 80,000 people cheering | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
you on, it will be spectacular. after shooting range to meet | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
another Paralympians with an amazing story. And wild, five-time | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
Paralympians in part it all. This year she has a shot at representing | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
Paralympics GB in a different sport. I had brain surgery last year and | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
it left me unable to compete in contact sports any more. Now I'm | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
doing the shooting. I've been training from nine-to-five each day | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
and we have been in camps for weeks on end. It is tough because space | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
is low, competition is I am everyone is fighting for their | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
space. In seven months, that stadium will be rocking in | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
anticipation for what could be the greatest Paralympics ever. I can't | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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Well, and Ade is here now. It will be superb. So we have until 6.00pm | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
on theth of February to buy tickets for the Olympics, but if an event | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
is sold out, there is a chance to see an event you want? Yes, there | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
is, but exclusive to the Paralimpics you can get day passes. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
They give allocations to some of the events. For instance, the world | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
chair tennis and rugby may be sold out, but you can still get in with | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
the day passes as well as the world chair basket as well. | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
There are 20 events? Yes, 20 events. Which one do you want to see? | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
my sport was basketball. The men's team won the European gold. I would | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
put them up as favourites to win gold this year. It could be the | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
first time. You did so well at the last | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Paralympics? They were second. They won 102 medals all together, 4 | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
golds. So if you go to the Paralympics you will be doing a lot | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
of celebrating. How do you buy it, what is the | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
procedure? You go on to the London 2012 website and it is on a first | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
come, first serve basis. You have until 6.00pm on theth of February | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
to get your tickets. You can still get limb pick football tickets | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
until the 6th of February, 6.00pm and the rest of the limb pick | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
tickets will be on re-sale in April. If you have had tickets you have to | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
give them back by the 3rd of February if you can't go to the | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
event, but say now for example, Matt Baker has a ticket to an event. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
He can't go, but he wants to give them to me, can he do that? | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
course he can, but he can't sell them. He can give them as a gift. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
You may have to give him a bottle of wine back, but there you go. | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
I can do that. We have a brilliant photo of you, | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
going back to the active team. Is this you on the football team? | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
is me, there I am! Look at him standing proud! That is wonderful. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
What position did you play? Usually up front. | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
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Were you twinkle toes? I was speedy! We played at Hackney | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
marshes and there would be about 100 football pitches. You would | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
look on the list, 71, and carry the posts out to wherever it was, stick | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
the posts in and off you went. it's a bit like a dancing partner. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
Well it is all about counting, isn't it, there is a three-four for | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
the waltz, a four-four for the foxtrot? Well, according to Marty | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Jopson what you like to listen to has nothing to do with personal | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
taste, and everything to do with maths and physics. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
The 17th century mathematician Gottfried Leibniz once wrote that | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
music is the pleasure of the human mind of counting without realising | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
it. It seems odd, but music and maths are more closely intertwined | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
than you may thing. To understand what Leibniz was saying you have to | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
get around what the brain perceives as sound. | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
Dr Williams, a psycho cost igs from Oxford University. What is sound? | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
It is energy of high and low pressure, moving through air to our | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
ears. So we perceive the changes of pressure as sound. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
So peaks of pressure hitting the eardrums, that is sound, so what is | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
a note sp? Well we -- what is a note? We use frequency, we get it | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
from the number of times that the peak is hitting our ears. So if you | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
play a middle C on the piano. If we take a look at the recording of | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
that note on the computer we can see the fundamental frequency is | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
this 262 cycles a second. So that middle C corresponds to 262 | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
peaks 6 pressure hitting my eardrum? Yep. | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
Per second? Yep. Every key on the piano has its own | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
unique frequency. Just as puffs of air here are invisible until they | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
hit us. Pressure peaks are undetectable until they reach our | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
eardrums and our brains can count this regular onslaught and in | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
response we hear a C, but music is made up of many notes in | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
complicated chords. So how on earth can we count them all? This is | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
where our amazing ability to recognise patterns comes into play. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
It is an evolutionary trait that helps us to develop language, | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
create art and discover mathematics. What makes music interesting is | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
that regardless of our tastes, preference or musical ability, we | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
can all tell the difference between a random jumble of notes and a | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
beautiful piece of music. Well, I'm not a musical expert, but | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
I would say it is out of tune. does it make it unpleasant? I'm not | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
really sure, but it's not unpleasant to listen to. | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
So what make one song sound like a beautiful harm ony and another a | :20:30. | :20:39. | |
discordant racket. So consider C and G... Every second pressure peak | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
from C arrives at exactly the same time as one from G. By contrast the | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
notes C and F-sharp don't fit well together if you play them together | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
it sounds unpleasant... This time the pressure peaks just don't line | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
up at all. They have no correlation to one another. They have no | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
recognisable pattern. To make a really pleasing sound and a dynamic | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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pattern we could use three notes, in this case, high-C, E and G. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Even with three chords, the pressure peaks line up at regular | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
intervals. Some chords pressure peaks line up | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
far better than others. It is these which are the building blocks for | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
the perfect harmony. That is why of the dozens of chords available to | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
musicians, hundreds of successful songs have been written using the | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
same few chords, but don't take my word for it... Here is just a | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
selection of famous melodies which all use exactly the same repeating | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
chords. # Of a beautiful nightmare | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
# I saw an angel # I'm sure... # Your brilliant | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
mathematical brains can count music and recognise patterns. If they | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
include matched pressure peaks, well, your ears will find it | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
irresistible. # I can find wherever you take... # | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Now, Carrie is here with us now, alongside artist and musician, John | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Telfer. There are other notes? Yes, | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
absolutely every pop song out there, there is The Beatles, Letwin, auld | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
auld auld, Bob Marley, and even auldlang sign. | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
-- Let It Be. You are going to talk about | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
science? Yes, I know. Here we have a speaker, on the top of the | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
speaker is a bowl of water. John is putting on his special machine, we | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
are going to see what happens when the sound hits the air and goes on | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
to the surface. That is the look of sound. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
It is like a call I'd scope effect, isn't it? It is mesmerising. | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
This is called cymatics. It is great with a low note. I have seen | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
you work out earlier, Matt, I heard you doing the low notes, let's have | :23:30. | :23:40. | |
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a listen. Yeah, oh, oh, yeah! Come on k -- on, | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
len, have a go... -- Len, have a go... We know that we can hear | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
individual notes, but what about a whole tune. | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
Well, we have a surprise for you. Earlier we gave John a very well | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
known tune and we will be able to see it later on. | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
I wonder what that could be? Well while John gets ready for that, | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Miranda has also seeing something for the first time in the woods of | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
Bedfordshire. In the late 19th century, grey | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
squirrels were introduced into the country from North America, they | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
quickly spread out. Now there is a new kid on the block, the greys | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
have competition and could even be knocked out of their territories by | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
the black squirrel. Black squirrels arrived in Britain at about the | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
same time, but in small numbers for private collections. It is thought | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
that some escaped in Bedfordshire. But over the last 100 years, | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
numbers have really grown and they are now seen scam pering across | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
hard fordshire, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, and possibly further | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
afield. They've been given hard press. There are rumours that they | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
are dominant. Highly territorial and more aggressive, but is black | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
the new grey? Will they wipe out the grey squirrels completely? Very | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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little is known about them. So biologist Helen Grovery has gone | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
the research into their behaviour. There are all these headlines about | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
black squirrels being mutants, but what exactly are they? As far as we | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
know, the only difference between them is the tiny DNA missing in the | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
black squirrel. So a grey squirrel, looking at the fur it has stripes | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
of white fur in the hair, also a yellow stripe, but the black | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
squirrel only makes that one black colour, so the hair is completely | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
black. In some areas, the black squirrels | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
are tarting to outnumber of greys. Former ekolgist has been seeing | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
them in his garden for nearly three decades and is seeing them grow. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
When we first saw them we saw the odd one, now it is something like | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
40% black ones to the 60% greys ones, and up to nine in the garden | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
at the same time. Do you see a difference? | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
Surprisingly yes, the black ones a little less bold. If there is a | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
confrontation, the black one gives way to the grey. | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
Why is that? I don't know, there is no logical explanation, just a | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
minor genetic mutation. But this colour mutation could be a | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
part of their success. As grey and black squirrels are a part of the | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
same species, they can interbreed. When they, do they produce darker | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
off spring, increasing the spread. It is thought that the dark breed | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
can help survival. In America, there are more black | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
squirrels in the north where it is colder. | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
That could mean that the black are surviving in the colder winters | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
when the greys perish. We need help to be sure how many | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
there are to record the numbers and where. | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
They were introduced in Woburn. I know that they are now having | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
reached Cambridge where I live. That is about 150 miles way, so in | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
about 100 years, that gene has travelled 100 miles. I want to know | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
what they've been up to. They have nearly reached as far up | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
at Peterborough. A few as far as Watford and some having made it to | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
Bury St Edmunds in the east, but do you know better? There have been | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
reports of sightings in Devon and Cornwall, and even in the south of | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
Scotland, but what is the true picture of the spread of the black | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
squirrel? That is where you can help. | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
Len have you ever seen a black squirrel? No, I don't think that | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
they have invaded Kent yet. Well, have a lack around. Helen's | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
is in need of your help. It is simple. Note down if you have seen | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
a red, grey or black squirrel and log tonne our website and then put | :28:29. | :28:36. | |
a virtual pin in the map. We have had lots of e-mails from fitness | :28:36. | :28:43. | |
fanatics, this one from Janet, she has just turned 54 and cycled | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
across south maefrbg. Well, that is -- south America. | :28:48. | :28:53. |