Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Anna Toshinsky and I'm sitting here with Anne Miller,
James Harkin and Alex Bell and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with Anne's fact.
My fact is that Ruby, a sheep who'd been genetically engineered to glow in the dark,
was accidentally sold to an abattoir.
So you would have thought if you'd genetically engineered a sheep you're keeping pretty close tabs on it.
Apparently not.
How did that happen?
Well actually it may have been an insider job.
It may have been someone with a grudge against the company.
What, one of the other sheep?
Yep.
Very close and dagger stuff.
So this is the National Institute for Agricultural Research in Paris and they actually it was Ruby's mother, Emerald,
was given this jellyfish gene which makes her glow in the dark and then Emerald had a lamb Ruby who had the same gene but I'm not sure
if it was active or she actually was glowing but it was revealed this year that last year Ruby,
yeah, made it into the food chain and they've been very suspicious of people that they won't rescue you,
Ruby, you're all right but somebody did buy her, someone didn't eat her.
We are constantly making animals glow in the dark these days and it's always for apparently scientific purposes but I'm so suspicious and also it's always bloody jellyfish,
isn't it?