Episode 4 Curious Creatures

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Hello, I'm Kate Humble and this is Curious Creatures,

a brand-new quiz about all things zoological.

And perhaps a few things zoo illogical, as well.

LAUGHTER Sharing their natural history nous

with us today are two expert teams.

Joining wildlife colossus Chris Packham

is conservationist and primate expert Christy Harrison.

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And teaming up with writer and sloth fanatic Lucy Cooke

is everyone's favourite vet, presenter Steve Leonard.

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-Me?

-Yeah!

-Who knew?

We start as we mean to go on,

with some tantalising teasers from the animal kingdom

in our first round,

Yay or Neigh?

So I am going to read each of you a statement about an animal

and it may be true...

ELEPHANT TRUMPETS

That's a yay. Or it may be false...

HORSE WHINNIES

That is a neigh.

All you have to decide is whether indeed it is fact or fabrication.

So Chris, let's start with you.

A dolphin does not have a navel.

Well, they're born pretty much like a human.

Do you think they have innies and outies?

-LAUGHTER

-They have a what?

Do they have innies and outies?

Innies and outies, what's that?

LAUGHTER

Innie or an outie.

-What's that?

-I think we should...

-Yeah, here we go.

-Come on. Everyone, get it out. Let's see.

We all want to know whether Chris has got an innie or an outie.

This is the first biological question you've not known.

All I've got is noise going on, you know...just a noise.

What are you talking about?

Your belly button, does it stick in or does it stick out?

It sticks in! Well, who has a belly button that sticks out?

-Some people, perhaps you can...

-What's the point of that?

LAUGHTER OK, well, so...

Do you want to take over, he's obviously all flustered?

-That was my fault.

-What you are you going to do, yay or neigh?

Well, I imagine they would have a navel, don't you?

Yeah, so if we're agreeing with the statement...

They're born like humans, they have a placenta...

-Yeah.

-You know, surely some semblance of a scar would be there

and I presume it would be an "innie."

LAUGHTER

A dolphin doesn't want anything outie,

it would ruin the streamlined nature of the animal.

Very good point. Very good point.

-I think they have a navel.

-OK, they have a navel,

-so we're saying it's a neigh.

-HORSE WHINNIES

Thank goodness we're there. And thank goodness you're right,

otherwise we'd have to go on for even longer.

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And just to prove it, we have a close-up of a navel.

There it is. I would say that's an innie.

-Innie.

-It's an innie.

-Would you say that's an innie?

-Dolphins have innies.

-OK,

we are going to award you the first part of your curious creature.

It better not be a navel!

-Oh, look at that!

-That is absolutely splendid.

-Goodness me.

-We shall wait till later to find out

-what you think it is. Lucy.

-Yes.

Your statement is - a scorpion can regrow its tail,

yay or neigh?

Ooh. Now, some animals do have the fantastic ability

to regrow their tails.

-Famously...

-Yes.

-..of course, geckos.

-Yeah.

-As a defence, if they're caught by a predator,

an animal bites them on the tail, they're able to lose their tail,

which then, I saw just the other day, actually, a lizard's tail,

and they wiggle like a little worm in the ground

-as a total distraction.

-Mm.

The animal forgets that it's chasing the lizard and the lizard escapes.

-Yep.

-A scorpion, on the other hand, though...

I think it's probably going to be neigh.

It's too complicated an organ, I think.

And I think that once gone, they wouldn't have time.

They need it for protection, so if it's gone,

I'm afraid they're probably going to starve to death before they can fend

for themselves might anyway. So I don't think they'd have had time,

evolutionarily, to develop that as a strategy.

-Wow!

-That's my theory and I'm ready to be wrong.

You've got some experience...

-Yes.

-..in picking up scorpions by their tails...

-Yep.

-..and one has never fallen off on your hands.

-Have I seen one with two? No.

-Yeah.

-It's never come off in my hand, no.

-So I think...

-I think... I think...

I'm confident, I'm with you, as well.

OK, so let's hear it, a scorpion can regrow its tail, yay or neigh?

-Neigh.

-HORSE WHINNIES

And you're right.

-Yay!

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Now, you mentioned, Steve,

that they probably wouldn't be able to survive for very long without

their tail. Any guesses as to how long they can survive?

I guess a week.

Actually eight months.

-Yeah.

-Eight months?

-Eight months

and the reason for that is it gives it time to find a mate and

-reproduce and then it can just get on with the job of dying.

-Ah.

-Nobody'll want it without a tail.

-Ah, you never know, someone might

-feel sorry for it.

-You've got to have a sympathetic female... I know, yeah.

Anyway, congratulations, you were absolutely right, so you get

-your first part of today's curious creature.

-Right.

Oh.

-There we go.

-Aw, bless.

Christy, I put it to you that leafcutter ants use the leaves

to farm fungus.

That definitely feels like it's ringing a bell.

And I do remember seeing...

It's amazing just watching them go along together, all in a line,

and it's just such a beautiful thing to watch.

And it's... What's the difference in the weight that they're carrying

compared to themselves? Chris, you might know.

It's like a lass carrying a double-decker bus or something,

-isn't it?

-Yeah, exactly.

They can actually carry 50 times their body weight.

And obviously they're doing that for, you know, very good reason.

They're not doing it for no reason at all.

So if they were farming fungus, what would they be doing

-with it, do you think?

-Chris, help me out, I can't...

They'd be eating it.

They'd be farming to eat the fungus?

Yeah, yeah, they're extraordinary creatures.

They make their nests deep underground so they don't dehydrate

and so they'll go down, like,

ten metres to a chamber where they store the leaves and grow fungus on

-them.

-All of which indicates that you would say that this statement

-might be true. Is that right, Christy?

-Oh, yes. We're going for a yay.

ELEPHANT TRUMPETS You'd be right.

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And you said that it is absolutely enchanting to watch leafcutter ants

and we've got a lovely bit of film that shows you just how remarkable

they can be. So fabulous.

There they are. So, very well done.

You earn another part of your curious creature.

Wow.

Now, then. Mr Leonard.

-Hello.

-My statement to you is reindeer's

eyes change colour in the winter.

I would find that very hard to believe, to be honest.

Your eyes protect themselves through pupil size, basically,

so they have irises that will just clamp down.

Take a look at your cat at night.

They've got whopping great big eyes and then obviously during the day

they can go down to tiny, tiny slits.

So I think in terms of camouflage, obviously,

their eyes are a tiny part of their body.

So in terms of, you know...

Lots of animals do, especially in the Arctic,

change colour to try and mask themselves.

You know, the Arctic fox, those sorts of things.

So I think in terms of camouflage,

it's not really going to give them much in the way of benefit either,

so I'm going to say neigh.

HORSE WHINNIES

Big mistake.

It is a yay.

Is it, really?

It is. Reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes are known

to change colour depending on the season.

-Wow!

-Oh!

Their eyes are gold during the summer, when the reindeer experience

almost constant sunlight, but in the darkness of winter,

their retinas become less reflective and their eyes turn deep blue,

which results in far less light being reflected

back out of their eyes.

Bad luck to Steve and Lucy.

You don't get another part of your curious creature, but for now,

we move on to round two, which today is What on Earth?

So I have one clip for each team and we're going to start with you,

Chris and Christy.

Have a look at this and tell me what on earth this orangutan does when it

starts raining.

-Oh, can I start now?

-No!

-LAUGHTER

-Hold yourself in.

-Now, Christy, you like an orangutan, don't you?

I love orangutans.

What is it about an orangutan that you find so compelling?

Well, I spent a long time out in Borneo,

which is where I saw my first orangutan doing this,

which is an orangutan called Siswi.

It started drizzling and then, as always happens in these places,

it was just a pure thunderstorm of water everywhere.

I was completely drenched.

I looked over to Siswi,

who was just very carefully taking some leaves and placing them on her

head and basically made herself a little bonnet.

So she had a little hat to protect herself from the rain,

which other apes haven't managed to do.

Chimpanzees don't do it, gorillas don't do it,

so it's something that the Bornean orangutan,

and the Sumatran as well,

that they have learnt how to build this little hat for themselves

and keep nice, non-frizzy hair.

Do you think Christy's right?

Let's have a look.

Genius.

So this isn't, I would say, a little bonnet.

-That's a bit more bonnet-like.

-OK. Well...I think obviously...

-It's the same...

-Look at this!

LAUGHTER Well, that's a tent.

That's a festival poncho going on there.

I think, you know, it's the same.

They've got different personalities, some are cleverer than others.

Have you seen orangutans use leaves for anything else?

If they're climbing up a prickly tree,

where there's lots of thorns on it, they'll actually use it to help,

almost like little gloves, to stop them from getting prickled.

-Yeah.

-They've also spotted a couple of young ones where they actually

twist it and hold it as if it's their own baby.

They use them for cups, as well, don't they? They make receptacles

for drinking out of, cos obviously their hands are long and thin,

so they've worked out that they can actually hold more water in them,

-as well.

-Yeah, I mean it's amazing when you spend so much time watching

them and you see all these kind of different tool-use these things that

they're doing. There's also an orangutan who took a stick and just

poked it in to see how deep the water was

and she then proceeded to steal a canoe.

-LAUGHTER

-And used, because her hands

are so big, just used her hands as a paddle

and off she went. Siswi, as well,

because they have this ability to obviously learn, to watch and learn,

and they'd seen some of the people who work there that were washing

clothes down by the river

and so she went down and started washing clothes by herself.

Well done, and you have won another part of your curious creature,

congratulations.

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Now, Lucy and Steve.

What on earth made this structure?

I think I know what this is. Do you know this?

I think I do, yeah.

And is it, erm...

-Is it a bower, is it?

-I think it must be, yeah.

It's one of those fabulous birds, isn't it?

There's no sense of scale there, so that's...

You know, whenever you just see trees and twigs and stuff like that

and it's really getting a sense of how big this structure is.

It's probably about, sort of, yay big, is it?

That sort of thing. And it's obviously decorated

-meticulously...

-Yeah.

-..with...you know,

and it's decoration that's the key point here.

That's what I think gives it away.

-I think...

-What is it about the decoration that tells you it's a

-bower?

-I think the structure by itself...

-Yeah.

-..could be any number of animals could've created that.

-It is, yeah, yeah.

-But the male bowerbird attracts the female by

creating a bower out of sticks

-and then choosing brightly coloured things to decorate it.

-Yeah.

Very beautifully.

They are absolutely extraordinary. And sometimes...

I mean, in this case, it looks like flowers, doesn't it?

Yeah, there's definitely petals in there.

But they'll use beetle casings and things like that.

And they're very, very meticulous.

It's very similar to a human who's just about to sell a house.

-LAUGHTER

-It's the same level of meticulous

detail and it's all about bringing in the females.

It's all about, "Look what I can do," you know,

"I have a degree in interior decoration

"and I can look after you."

Well, let's see if you're right.

We've got some film of the critter that made this wonderful shelter.

-Let's have a look.

-It's a hedgehog, isn't it?

-There it is.

-Oh, there you go.

Mr Bowerbird's quite dull-looking, you see,

so he has to make a really fancy looking shelter in order to attract

-the ladies.

-That's it. That area in front is called the gesso.

-Is that what he calls it?

-No, that's what we call it, the gesso.

Yeah. Some of them will place larger objects

further away and the smaller objects closer to the entrance of the bower,

and the trick there is to lure of the female into the bower,

where again there was a target area marked by pebbles or whatever

they put in there, and then he stands outside

and throws objects across,

and because of the forced perspective generated by the size of

the objects on the gesso,

he can increase the fascination that the female feels in the bower.

And if he does that by only one or two seconds,

it massively increases his chance of copulating with her.

If only all men made such an effort.

Well, congratulations, Steve and Lucy, you were absolutely right,

and you win another part of your curious creature.

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-Ooh.

-Ooh, I know what that is.

Now, it's time to play our regular mystery animal round,

Is it Bigger than a Chicken?

Yes, we're going to be looking in some depth at a particularly

interesting animal, but first of all

our teams have to work out what it is.

They will take turns to ask me questions to which I must be able

to answer only yes or no.

Each time they get a yes, a small part of the animal is revealed,

and at that point, you can guess what the animal is,

but if you get it wrong, you will be out of the round.

And there is just one other rule.

The first question that is asked must be, audience...

-AUDIENCE:

-Is it bigger than a chicken?

Excellent. So we are going to start with Christy, I think.

What would you like to ask me?

Is it bigger than a chicken?

What an excellent start.

-I thought so.

-And I can tell you that it absolutely is,

so here is your first clue of the animal jigsaw.

Any thoughts looking at that?

That skin texture is a little bit diagnostic.

You might have seen one of these, where you've been.

Yeah, no, that's exactly what I was thinking.

I'm just going to go for it.

-If you go for it...

-Go for it, Christy!

-I'm going for a Komodo dragon.

-Can you possibly be right with just one

-tiny clue? Let's have a look.

-I feel it.

ELEPHANT TRUMPETS

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-Yes!

-Yay!

-I really wanted to say that.

-Well done. Well done.

Right, come on,

I know you're bursting to tell me all about Komodo dragons.

Come on then, Christy. What do you know about them?

So they live on Komodo island, which is in Indonesia.

There's a lot. Obviously,

they're called dragons because they are absolutely massive.

They actually have toxic bites,

so I've seen some really sad footage where they'll follow their prey and

they're all just slowly nipping away at their ankles and biting it.

And it takes quite a long time,

so it can be days before they can bring down a

large prey that's slowly being...

We have got some footage of a Komodo dragon perhaps sniffing around a

potential meal. Have a look at this.

Oh, it's so horrid.

God, it's a totally incredible creature.

-They are amazing, aren't they?

-Yeah, aren't they? So prehistoric.

-So prehistoric.

-As it emerges out of the mist.

-Very many congratulations.

-Thank you very much.

-It was a punt worth

taking and you get an extra part of your curious creature.

Let's have a look at it.

There it is.

Now, Lucy and Steve,

you do have a chance to win a part of a curious creature yourselves.

Good. If you can answer this question.

Why do young Komodo dragons often roll around in poo?

One of the things about young Komodo dragons is their biggest threat in

life is old Komodo dragons.

There isn't a great deal of food on the island.

Yes, so definitely they would cannibalise. Possibly even their own young, actually.

Oh, they do, yeah. Well, because they probably don't recognise them.

So maybe it's a way of masking their own scent.

-Yeah.

-So they don't get predated on. Kate's nodding. Kate's nodding.

I'm just nodding cos you're sounding so convincing.

OK. Can we...

We'll say it's to mask their odour to avoid being eaten by...

You're absolutely right, it is to make them less appetising to adult

-Komodo dragons.

-I've done it myself.

-Well, I know.

-Yeah, it's part of being a vet, I'm afraid.

How I managed to get a wife is beyond me.

It's beyond most of us.

But congratulations, you have won

another part of your curious creature.

And here it is.

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Now, talking of poo, in today's round four,

we're really going to get to the bottom of things,

yes, it's time for Whose Poo?

Each team will be given a sample kindly provided by the doyens of dung

at the National Poo Museum on the Isle of Wight.

All our teams have to do is figure out which animal has done the deed,

but before we start, here's a small health and safety message.

I implore you not to try this at home.

All animal poo is potentially harmful

and our expert teams are examining

their samples under strictly-controlled conditions.

Chris and Christy, you're going to go first.

-Ta-da!

-Oh, wow.

That's a good chunk, isn't it?

I can smell it from here.

Well, it's definitely been eating some kind of...

grassy, hay type.

-Yeah.

-Are you thinking that this is a vegetarian poo?

Yeah, I think it does look like it's...

Yeah, it's got lots of hair on the outside, though, hasn't it?

-Oh, of course, it's hair.

-Yeah, it's hairy on the outside.

But look. Oh, goodness me, that's rock-hard.

Is that poo, or... It is, it is, yeah.

It has quite a distinctive smell.

And it has a sort of a glaze on the outside of it.

Doesn't it? It's very shiny on the outside, but look at that.

On the inside, it's almost like soil, isn't it?

-Yes.

-It looks like...

-Dusty.

This is full of hair.

No, yeah, this is carnivore poo.

So I would suggest that this part here is where it's been fed on

-raw meat...

-And it's digested really well.

And this is basically left over.

Yes. I mean, this is a very large predatory animal.

The poo isn't fresh.

So that the smell is not...

I mean, it's there, but it's not as strong as it should be.

I don't think you're close enough!

Yeah, I was going to say, I can smell it from here, Chris.

-It's like...

-In science, you had to do...

Yeah, get the chemicals.

-Get that...

-OK, so an animal this size,

looking at the diameter of the poo because the diameter of the poo is

obviously... Yeah, OK.

So this is a big animal.

It's clearly a carnivore.

So we're going down the big cat route.

It's potentially, you know, tiger, lion material, isn't it?

It's been eating bones.

Yeah, it's like, you know, hyena poo obviously is just completely white

because of the all the bone that it ingests.

I'm just going to hold that up again cos that's magnificent.

-Isn't it?

-That brings a tear to the eye, that does, doesn't it?

It's just such an emotional moment.

-It is...

-That is absolutely stunning.

I think it's time for you to have a little guess.

It's bigger than leopard, it's bigger than jaguar.

-Definitely, yeah.

-So we are in the tiger, lion.

I'd lean towards tiger.

Yeah, I would say. From the lion poos that I've seen,

I would say let's go tiger as well.

-Tiger.

-Tiger poo.

Let's have a look and see if you're right.

Oh! You're not!

-Lion!

-So, I'm sorry, you don't get another part

of your curious creature,

but now, Lucy and Steve.

Thank you so much, Kate.

OK, so, Steve, I'm thinking as a vet,

I reckon you're going to be quite good on poo.

-Now.

-Ah, OK.

This is obviously slightly different.

-It has been resined to preserve it.

-Yes.

And actually, that's the poo there, and this is the beach that it was

found on. So the creature that's produced this...

Lives under the... Lives under the sand, doesn't it?

-Yeah, yeah.

-So is it a lugworm or something like that?

-Well.

-I'm just trying to think cos I used to go with my dad when I was

little down on Pett Level digging for lugworms.

Did you look for those, or did you...

-You see, I...

-I think the lugworm cast...

I sort of feel like...

Or was it... I remember one of the casts was like longer but I think

that's the razor clams cos it travels more.

So it's either razor clam...

When I originally saw it, I thought it was razor clam, but I don't know.

It could be lugworm. If you're eating sand,

cos this is what it's doing,

it is basically... Whatever creature it is,

it lives down a burrow and it basically ingests sand,

extracts all of the...

Because sand is obviously completely inert, they've got the cleanest...

They don't need to go for colonic irrigation at all

cos they're scoured.

It's like it's got a through gut.

-Now, razor clam won't have a through gut.

-No.

-Whereas...

You know, so the invention of the anus by evolution was incredible

cos it meant that you didn't have to ingest and then regurgitate,

ingest and regurgitate.

So the through gut is basically to enable you to

keep eating and shoving everything out the back end.

And I think worms...

Worms were one of the first things that did it.

-Yep.

-I think it is probably a lugworm.

OK, so we're going to go lugworm, then.

-And you'd be right.

-Bang!

Here they are.

This little one did you a favour and won you another part

of your curious creature.

-Attractive.

-So, Chris and Christy have four parts of their curious

creature, as do Lucy and Steve, so, well done to all of you.

And we're nearly at the end of the show

which means it's time to see how

many bits of their curious creatures our teams can identify.

So, Chris and Christy, we're going to start with you.

You have got four parts of your curious creature

and you will get two points for each one you correctly identify.

So let's start with this very, very splendid head.

That is one of the best birds in the world.

I would have to agree with you.

And they lek first thing in the morning,

so you have to sneak into the jungle in pitch-black and as the light

begins to come up, the males assemble,

and make this cacophony of weird sounds, the females arrive.

You can't appreciate the colour because it's in really low light

and they look great. You're mainly looking at silhouettes.

If you're very fortunate,

one of them may loiter in the lekking area and you get a chance

to see that colour. This is male cock-of-the-rock.

-You're right.

-It looks... It's not like a head, is it?

-Mental.

-It was punk rock years ahead of its time.

That's why you like it so much.

-Awesome bird.

-It is an awesome bird, and it has won you two points.

Let's move on to these rather splendid ears.

-Yes, ears.

-These have perplexed us for a little bit.

Yeah, go on, then, what do you think?

-Come on, Christy.

-So, we were...

The first thing that came into mind was an ass.

They've got the black around the edge, haven't they?

I mean, it could be an ass, but it could be a donkey.

Or it could of course just...

I say just, it could be a zebra.

Yeah.

Quite woolly inside, aren't they?

-Yeah.

-And I think the shape of them...

Mind you, look at that.

They don't... Look at the hairs there. They don't look that big.

Oh, this is a tricky one, isn't it?

It is a tricky one.

So we have to give an answer.

-You might kick yourself.

-Was that a clue?

-Were you being clever?

-Well, it could be a mule, then.

No, but mule's not a real animal, it's a hybrid.

Shall we go ass because it's a funny word?

Yeah, go on, then. We're going to go...

-Or donkey.

-Let's go ass.

-Ass.

-Ass.

-You're wrong.

-LUCY:

-She even gave you a clue!

-CHRIS:

-Donkey's ears.

Who wants a donkey... Who wants to wear donkey's ears?

They're associated with being a dunce, aren't they?

Just tell me whose body this is.

Well, we're not going to talk a lot about this.

-Beetle.

-Because it's a dung beetle, carapace.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Thank heavens. Two points.

Shall we go on to your final piece?

-Yeah.

-What's this?

-Flying squirrel.

-Flying squirrel.

Or sugar glider. Or is it a flying donkey, for goodness' sake!

You're absolutely right.

It is a sugar glider, or a flying squirrel.

That is two points. You have six points between you.

You can win one extra point if you

can identify the part that you didn't win, which is this.

So, so what cetacean is it?

-It looks like a...

-Dolphin.

Yeah. Well, there are

a number of black and white ones.

There's the little very tiny one called the Commerson's dolphin and

they have a black and white tail like that.

So, what are those pieces you were thinking of?

Cos it does look like it could be from quite a small dolphin.

Well, Commerson's are the small ones.

But I can't remember if they've got white tails or black tails.

I just remember them being piebald.

Are there any others in the running?

Do you know what? I'm still sulking over the donkey here,

so I'm not really able to concentrate on this.

-You are. I can tell.

-Deep breath.

OK. So dolphin is not enough.

No. We need a little bit more specific.

-Sorry.

-OK. Shall we go for the Commerson's?

Commerson's dolphin.

It's a killer whale.

Oh, my goodness.

-Oh, blimey.

-It is a killer whale, so no points.

You end up with six points.

Now...

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Sorry.

..Lucy and Steve.

Let's see if you can beat six points.

-Come on, Captain, my captain.

-Yes.

-You have the potential to get nine

points, so let's start with your pretty little face.

-It's a raccoon.

-You're absolutely right, two points.

Cute as Christmas.

Now, what about its cranial adornments?

-Well...

-Well, these are moose antlers, I think,

because of the shape of them and they are...

If they are moose antlers, then they are the biggest antlers in the animal kingdom.

The fastest-growing tissue.

Yeah, fastest-growing bone.

-Fastest-growing bone, yeah.

-Cos it's ridiculous that it grows these

-every year and sheds them.

-So you're saying IF they are.

-Are they, or not?

-I think there are moose antlers, yes.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

-You're right.

-Two points.

-Nice.

Now, what about that little body?

Yes, well...

-it's a bee.

-Yeah.

-It's a bee.

-It's a bee.

-Do you need more than that?

-A little bit more than that.

It's not a bumblebee. It looks like a honeybee to me.

If you just saw the very top of it,

you could be mistaken for thinking it might be a bumble,

but if you look at the whole body, it's not a bumblebee.

And there's lots of different bumbles, so it's not. So we're going to say a honeybee, I think.

-Are we? Are we happy with that?

-The poor, poor, poor, endangered honeybee.

It's a bumblebee.

-It's a bumblebee.

-It is a bumblebee.

Is it? There's loads of different types of bumblebees, though.

It's actually a cuckoo bumblebee.

-Ah.

-Here you are. What about these pretty little pins?

Rodent looking, aren't they?

Yeah, I mean it looks like it's an animal that can jump.

Or exceedingly run very fast, mainly with hind limb propulsion.

Exactly. But they don't look like marsupial legs,

so we think they're probably rodent legs.

There is a kangaroo mouse, isn't there, as well?

-Yeah.

-That's...

-Which is a mouse rather than a marsupial.

Yes, I believe so.

-Kangaroo mouse.

-Let's go for it.

Sadly, it is not a kangaroo mouse.

It is not even a rodent.

It is a rufous rat-kangaroo, which is a marsupial.

It was a marsupial.

Oh!

However, you have got one more body part which you didn't win,

but we can present to you to see if you can get an extra point.

You jolly well should.

Would that make us even-stevens?

-No.

-No.

-We're still going to lose.

You're still going to lose. But, you know, you could claw back a little bit of dignity.

So we're not playing for pride, we're playing for slightly less shame?

-Exactly that.

-Very good.

-Exactly that. So tell me whose tail you think this is.

It's a pheasant, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-It is indeed a pheasant.

So you get one point,

but I am afraid that brilliant bit of deduction wasn't quite enough

and today's Curious Creatures winners are Chris and Christy.

Thank you.

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-Very well done.

-OK.

Thank you to all four of you curious creatures for playing.

Thank you to you splendid sapiens at home for watching.

See you next time, goodbye.

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