Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
coming to you this week from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Anna Tyshinski, I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Alex Bell, and James Harkin, and once again,
we've gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go, starting with Alex.
My fact this week is that baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
Oh, it's very sweet.
Is that the response you're going for?
Yeah, that's what I've got.
In fact, adults do all sorts of things with their trunks as well,
when they're nervous or they don't know what they're doing.
They will pick up their ears or kind of wipe their eyes, and you know, they do it like humans do with hands.
So what is just a social thing that they don't know what to do with their trunk?
Yeah, well actually, when baby elephants are born, they can't really control their trunks the first few days,
so they just wave around a bit wildly, and also it's really sad.
They kind of tread on it, and then they kind of scream because it really hurts,
but they can't work out where the pain is coming from or how to make it stop.
Yeah, trunks are amazing.
Did you know that elephants can be left or right trunked, even though they've only got one?
What does that mean?