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Take three bemused presenters, nation of wildlife watchers two

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tawny owls, a yellow fox, Iolo Williams, stick them in the oven,

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gas lock for cook, serve them immediately. Welcome to tonight's

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hot and spicy Autumnwatch Unsprung. As usual, we have our marvellous

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audience. We have "Level-Headed" Joe, who is there ready to answer

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your questions, throw them at us and watch out for the quiz

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questions and Iolo Williams - give him a round of applause. Fantastic.

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We'll give your questions to Iolo later. What shall we do right away?

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We wanted to share this little thing for you. Thank you very much.

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This was sent in - this slightly It's from Andy Smith, an AA patrol

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man. He was called out to a car that had stopped. You can see why.

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A squirrel had been stuffed in there and had stuffed the entire

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intake full of nuts. How did he get in there? He had the key! Obviously.

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Thank you very much. Andy, are we going to do the loudest call?

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loudest call? Yes, this is interesting. Last week we had a

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question of which bird produced the loudest call. Last week I thought

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it might be a Nightingale. I wasn't sure. Did anyone else have any

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idea? Beryl Jones from Cheshire said Chris said last week the

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Nightingale was the bird had the loudest song. I would agree. I knew

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a chap who was a chaplain in World War II. He said when the

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bombardment in the evening began, he could hear them above the guns,

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and he found it a must moving experience. It must be a moving

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experience. There is a terrible edge to that but it does go along

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with the fact that we said the songbirds would raise the level of

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their song to try to compete with other noises. We also looked up -

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Nightingales can produce song at 95 decibels. How much is that? It's

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difficult to qualify, isn't it? We thought we'd play a Nightingale

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song Now at 95 decibels to see what the audience thinks of it. I have a

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gadget somewhere. Look at that gadget! Is that real? It's a CR-

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812A. It's a beautiful sound level metre. All right, then. Get on with

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it. I'm liking this. All right. Let's have the Nightingale song,

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and I'm going to see - I'm just going to check -

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CHIRPING OK. Now, what do you think? Did you

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think that was loud? It is loud. Seriously loud! That was loud.

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it the loudest bird? No! Oh! warbler. It's the only bird I know

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that actually shouts at you, "Here I am." I reckon it's louder.

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Yallows are loud, but they don't sustain the song. They're a bit -

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say a band like the Damned that do a track that last like a minute as

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opposed to Guns N Roses that drag it out over five, and in the end

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you get thoroughly bored. Let me tell you what the answer was - it

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was malfunction! Now, 106 decibels... Very good. Let's do

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some questions. The first question we have is from Fran Perry. In

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Greenwich park last week we saw yellow deer stag and fallow deer

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stag fighting each other. Why would they do that? We have a picture

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from Don Carey. Nice one, very odd. Is that unusual? I think it is

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unusual because it's pointless. There is no point in a fallow

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taking on a red because they're obviously not competing for females

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of the same species. I think what's happened is in Richmond Park, you

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have a density of these species. There is a huge amount of

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aggression and hormones pumping around. Because there is similarity

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between the two, I guess they get so frustrated, they need to take it

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out on the nearest male. What we see here is displacement behaviour

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perhaps, where they're doing something for the sake of doing it,

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but in the long term, my money is on the red. Can I make a

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suggestion? Of course. Maybe they're doing it for fun? Stop it.

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They're so full of hormones. They're so pumped up. My chickens

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do the same thing. My cockerel gets carried away I come in to break it

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up. He attacks me. It's just a mistake. From Jennifer Miller, "I

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remember being amuds when I saw a maganza displaying to a huge

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goose." Do these crushes happen often? No, I think it's more here

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at Slim Bridge, where they have a captive collection of birds. Most

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of them, certainly from the northern hemisphere, are thinking

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of breeding at the same time. There is a huge amount of displaying, and

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sometimes they fixate on the wrong bird. I have to say at this time of

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year we see a lot of homosexual behaviour in ducks. If there is a

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shortage of females, they'll start to display to each other. Mallards

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are like that. In crowded area, that's a result of that. Basically,

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we're featuring muddled creatures in these answers... Not muddled,

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really, but different - shall we have the quiz? OK. This week's quiz.

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It is a name quiz, a bit of etymology. I'm going to give you

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some names, old names that are no longer in use for British creatures.

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You have to see if you know which they are. These are the old names.

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We'd like to know the contemporary, more modern - the ones you have in

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your field guides at home - the first one, A, mouldywarp -

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Anyone know what it is? Hands up? Yallo w - that's not fair. Second

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one, B, sea pie, sea pie? Anyone? Welsh name for that particular

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animal is sea pie in Welsh. Is it? It is, yeah. Good skill. Would be

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easy for a Welsh viewer. They've got it right. You're fine! C,

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broc... A bit easier. A few nods in the audience. Lastly, let's finish

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this off, D, yaffle. So these are the old names. We'd like from A

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through to D the modern names of mouldywarp, sea pie and yaffle.

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Send them in, see if you got them right. I thought they were really

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hard. These two said they were easy. We were wrong. Whatever. I think

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you need to start sensoring all the questions. Iolo, come and join us.

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You dropped your poppy. Thanks, mate. Cheers. Before you start, I'd

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like to draw everyone's attention This is a cat that is in love with

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Iolo. He loves programmes like Autumnwatch where you appear.

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Apparently, every time you're on TV, the cat gets up and strokes you.

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Well, sorry, Sweetpea, I am not a cat fan. I am a dog fan, but I will

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make an exception just for Sweetpea. Who is doing this bit? Is it me?

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Iolo, here's some film filmed by Kimara McCrindle who works in the

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Marine Discovery. Let's have a look at that film. Can we see it? What

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do you make of that? Apparently, this is the very first time - we

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tried to get some footage from the BBC library of this. This is

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actually a dwarf sperm whale. We couldn't find any photos, nothing

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at all. That's all we've got. One of the runners drew a picture of it.

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Here we go. Who drew this for us? Nicola. I like that! A round of

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applause! Well done, Nicola. think this is a first, isn't it?

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is. It's a first for UK British waters, the first time it has been

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seen here. It's a very odd one. It's the smallest of all the whales.

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It's smaller than three metres, so some of the dolphins are bigger

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than it. Tiny. It is, and usually found further south. They don't

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usually come further north and Spain - across there in a line to

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sort of Central America, Brazil, and they go down as far as South

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Africa, but they don't come up this way, so that is the first one ever

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seen. But the other thing, of course is they don't blow. They

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don't advertise themselves. When they come up, they just come up

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quietly, then go back down. They usually feed quite deep. One of the

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amazing things about them is they have this red oil - you know like

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squids and octopuses will squirt out ink? They have a red ink, which

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is a defence, so it's an amazing mammal and one we know little about.

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Fantastic we're still seeing new things in the waters that surround

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our country. It's brilliant, and a lot of these new things are in the

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sea. Two-thirds of the world is ocean, and there are so many things

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down there we know very little about, and you don't have to go far.

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You just have to dive or even go rock pooling. You'll sometimes find

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weird things in there. That's one of the fantastic things about this

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whole thing. We keep saying autumn is a great time to do it. It is.

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Here is one from Linda from Antwerp in Belgium - we have viewers in

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Belgium - hi, Belgium. She was on Skomer earlier in the year and she

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was wondering when the puffins leave, where do they go? That's

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God's own country, God's own country. Five years ago, I'd have

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to tell you we don't really know. They go out in the open ocean where

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they survive, avoid the winter storms, but over the last five

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years, scientists from Oxford University have attached

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geolocaters on to puffins. We know where they go. The odd thing is

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they don't all go to one place. They scatter. Some go to the north-

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east Atlantic Ocean. Some go up as far as the Farrows. Some go to the

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North Sea. Some go to the Med. The odd thing is if one goes there one

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year, it will go back the next year. Puffins just scatter. Puffins in

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the Med! Whatever next, Chris? That's where I would go. What about

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some photographs from our Flikr site? We haven't had many of those.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

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Take a look. Here's a montage of I think they're fantastic. He's off

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again. Stop it. I didn't say anything. You didn't need to. Shall

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we do our favourites? MP Goodley of the snipe. I think it's great

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because you don't instantly know what it is. How does a snipe with

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its beak preen the back of its head? It reaches around using its

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long neck and it's accessing... Come on! What do you mean? No, they

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have a very long neck. Feet - competition - apparently somebody,

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no names, thinks they use their feet. To do what? The back of their

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head. I thought you said preen gland! What sort of beak has he

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got? A rubber beak! Now he's going to claim he's a little bit short of

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hearing. This is my favourite. I would have wallpaper like that.

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Wouldn't you? Wouldn't that be gorgeous around your room? This is

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taken by Lee Yatesix. This is beautiful. It's very difficult to

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photograph animals in flocks or herds because trying to get them

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all in the right place where they don't overlap and trying get some

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little distraction like that little mess of widgeon over there - I

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would go for this one as my favourite - simple, plain,

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symmetrical - I would go on Photoshop and lighten this eye to

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balance it with this one, but I think this is a very powerful image.

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This one was taken by Richard Nichool. Shall we see what our

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audience think? Go on. Put your hands up if you think Chris's is

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the best. Put your leaves up if you What about the wallpaper, chaps?

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You bribed them all! You do. cheque's in the post. A couple of

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weeks ago we asked you to send us photographs of the largest house

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spiders you could possibly find. We have had a number of photographs

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sent in. Now we know that a lot of people - we don't want to lose you

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as viewers, we treasure you as viewers. In the corner of the

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screen will be cute seal cubs for to you focus on while the rest of

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us talk about spiders. Just stare at the corner and go "oh-oh" whilst

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we deal with spiders. Show us the photos. Gosh, help! This is Alan

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from Essex. That is enormous. I think it might be dead! This is

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nice. It too will be dead! That's an interesting scale. Are you sure

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that is liquorice? This one, this might be our winning one at the

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moment. Yes, it is. Oh, that's huge! It's enormous and it measures

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an incredible 14 hadn't 5 -- 14.5 centimetres. I love this graph.

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This is a great graph. It really, really is. We have extended it,

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look, it's had an add-on here. This is a miserable tiny spider. We have

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had fine spread. Come on, we want to spread it. Continue to send your

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giant spider pictures. The seals are still there! We have to move on.

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Right, here is a special guest. Who am I talking to? This week I was

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lucky enough to have that amazing encounter with the foxes, let us

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now see - watch out behind you, if we can have another encounter with

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a fox. Come on in. Lovely. Now this is Jeff. You are

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Jeff. Yes. Please tell White House is this -- please tell White House

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is this. Roxy, she is ten and a half years old. How did you come to

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be with Roxy? Roxy was tied up on some railings when she was about

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three months. We done a rescue and brought her back. We didn't release

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her because she was too tame. So now she's the angel. She's the

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sanctuary mascot. I believe you take her round to schools and so on.

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Do you all sorts to tell people about foxes. We do. We do education

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talks on foxes, we take them around schools, do shows and she loves it.

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Put her down on the ground. Oh, she's off! She's very alert.

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Absolutely gorgeous. Right, do you want to sit down? Yes. We have some

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questions. Yeah. How do you tell the difference between a male and

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female fox? She is female, obviously. Yeah, a male is a lot

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bigger and are more thicker. This time of year they have obvious

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testicles, the man, we won't go into that in detail. That's a bit

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of a giveaway, that one. Only if you can see underneath F you see

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them from the front you can't see the testicles. The testicles grow

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dramatically this saoeupl of the year, they start off cashew size

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and turn into wal -- into walnut size. She's relaxed down there. Why

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do foxes have such thick luxurious tails, do they serve any purpose?

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They are for warmth. A fox kurpls up -- curls up and the tail is for

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warmth. As you were saying, Chris, they're used for display. They wrap

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them around their nose, which is the only bare skin they have got.

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It's balance, as well. When they run, it has a counterbalance as

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well. It is more luxurious in winter. It thickens up. Is she all

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right there? Yeah, she's looking around. One more quickly: I have

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seen crows and magpies harassing foxes out and about in fields

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during the day, why would they do this? Territorial. We have had a

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seagull attack Roxy. But why, because they're thinking if she was

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a wild fox, when they're nesting she could then be... That's it, yes.

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You told me as well that she lives happily with your dogs? She does,

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walks with four dogs and will only eat chicken, but it has to be

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cooked. She won't eat raw meat. think the staff at the trust are

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pleased about that. Just in case she gets off the lead. She doesn't

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like swan. One more. People who haven't toys or teddy bears in the

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garden, child's toys, they wake up and find toys, the foxes bring them

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in. It's common. If you leave shoes out as well, they love the smell of

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shoes and will pinch them and roll in them. She's quite ripe, the fox.

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There is a smell over here. You could be enjoying the full benefit

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of Roxy. I like the smell. I had a couple when I was a kid like this

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and it reminds me of that, the whole house smelt like that. My

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room stank a bit! For the best part of three years. Thank you very much

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for bringing her in. It's been How are you going to get her out

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from there? Come on. While we try and extract our gorgeous fox we

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should give the answers to our quiz. Leave her, she's fine. She didn't

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want to go. Did anybody get it right? Most people did. I told you.

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Chris, are you going to give us the answers? I am, but they're trashed

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by the fox. Here we are. I don't need the the answers, I can

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remember. Did many people get - are we going to name any people? Steve

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Knowles and Graham Westen. answers were Mouldywarp was a mole,

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good thinking. Don't answer them all, give them a chance! I have to

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find my notes, because I had interesting things, here we are. It

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comes from the German language, it means soil and throw, mouldywarp.

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Dirt tosser is the quote. Sea pie? Come on, oystercatcher. They come

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from the sea obviously and don't eat oysters in this country, the

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American ones do and we stupidly copied the American name. Broc?

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Easy, a badger. The Gaelic name for badger. Lastly, Yaffle? Green

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wodpecker indeed. Many folk names for the woodpecker, its laughing

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call, yapping dale, it's suggested it brings on rain. Apparently

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Bagpuss - was that an educational prog? Fans will remember Professor

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Yaffle based on a woodpecker. People who had better things to do

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with their time won't remember that at all. Chris tkorbgs they do that?

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Yaffling making that call, is it a precursor of bad weather, rain?

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mate, that's a folk tale. I thought it was science! It's not science!

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am going to mention ladybirds, we have had loads of people saying

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they have seen an unusual amount of ladybirds and why is that and

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they've been asking loads of different questions. Go to the

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website because we have an interview with a ladybird expert

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who will answer all of those questions for you. Don't look at me

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because I have no talkback left in my ear whatsoever! We have some

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questions. Can I just throw one straight in for you. Kirsten is

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desperate to hear Iola say "puffling" again and could you just

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say it for them. Here we go. Go in tight, OK. Puffling. Once more?

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Puffling! Can you walk over and do it now? Calm down! In fact, you can

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walk over - for goodness sake, it's saeury. -- scary. A question, why

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do some sea birds stand on one leg? It's a way to keep warm because

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they have veins near the surface on the leg and if it's cold then it

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will lose heat. So what they do is tuck one leg into these warm

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feathers here, use the other leg and when that gets cold they pull

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that up and the other one down. Actually they put the other one

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down first or they would fall. your socks. From Steve, my daughter

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wishes to know if there are cases of badgers with claustrophobia?

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That's a fantastic one. Are there any? As far as I know every single

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one lives in a sett, so probably not. It wouldn't be an evolutionary

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stable strategy. We have a barn owl update. We asked you, I don't know

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if we have a picture, yes, we have. We asked you to help out if we

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could find a friend for our little barn owl chick that was abandoned,

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if you remember that. It's the lower one here. That was the one we

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actually met on Unsprung and here is the little friend. Thank you

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very much. That's fantastic. They've feathered up a lot. Thank

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you for that, perfect. I am going to wander to the map, while Jo

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tells us about things to do this weekend. All weekend the National

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Trust have a wildlife spotter event near bath. On Sunday from 9.30 to

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12.13 there is a wildlife walk in Norfolk. And a planter tree event

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near Oldham. You don't need to book for those. Tkpwubg to our website,

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put in your postcode and you can find other things. What are all

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these things? They're commemorations. Newport Wet lands

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and the RSP B has 100,000 Starlings. The marine show we did, get out on

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to the beaches, help clean beaches up because we did feature that,

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that there was a lot of rubbish on the beach. I have to tell you

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something quickly, I met somebody here in a camper van and they had

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decided, due to Autumnwatch and Springwatch, that they would rent

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their house and go on the road and go bird-watching around the country.

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They've been on the road a year. I said when are you going back? They

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