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[00:03:50] Have you ever heard that polar bears and penguins have never met?

[00:04:02] It's one of those things that everyone believes, like leopards can't change their spots, and tigers can't change their stripes, and that zebras are black with white stripes.

[00:04:15] But that just isn't true.

[00:04:18] Imagine wearing the same thing every single day.

[00:04:23] It would quickly get more than a little bit boring, wouldn't it?

[00:04:27] That's what leopards think too.

[00:04:29] So, of course they change their spots.

[00:04:33] Sometimes, they wake up in the morning and feel a bit more like the six on a dice, and sometimes more like the one or the two.

[00:04:43] They swivel their spots around to suit their mood.

[00:04:47] Tigers do the same thing.

[00:04:48] If they have important meetings to go to, they add extra stripes.

[00:04:53] Where do you think the idea of pinstripe suits came from?

[00:04:58] And, as for the zebras, they sometimes feel like adding white stripes to a black background.

[00:05:04] And on other days, for no reason they can put their hoof on, they feel like putting black stripes on a white background.

[00:05:12] These are all very subtle differences, of course.

[00:05:16] And unless you know them very well, on first name terms, that sort of thing, you probably wouldn't notice.

[00:05:24] So, leopards and tigers and zebras used to have a jolly good time changing up their spots and stripes on a whim.

[00:05:34] Until they realised that scientists were watching them very closely indeed.

[00:05:41] They came to an agreement that whenever a scientist was around, they'd switch back to the same display of spots or stripes.

[00:05:51] It was their way of getting won over the scientists, you see.

[00:05:56] Those people who came around in ridiculous safari hats and long shorts with long socks,

[00:06:04] and who hummed and whored with pens and paper,

[00:06:07] and who thought they knew everything about everything.

[00:06:12] Well, turns out they don't.

[00:06:15] And leopards and tigers and zebras have a lot of laughs about that.

[00:06:22] So, now that you know this, perhaps you won't be surprised to hear that, of course, polar bears and penguins have met.

[00:06:31] Quite regularly, in fact.

[00:06:33] You understand why this is strange.

[00:06:37] Polar bears live at the North Pole, and penguins live at the South.

[00:06:41] That's quite literally an entire world between them.

[00:06:47] And so it's fair to assume they've never laid eyes on each other.

[00:06:53] But that belief has to be based on the idea that polar bears and penguins aren't smart enough

[00:06:59] to figure out that they live on the top and bottom of a very big ball,

[00:07:04] and that perhaps they could find a way of travelling to the other side of it.

[00:07:12] Let's just say that when humans first arrived at the two poles over a hundred years ago,

[00:07:19] the first thing polar bears and penguins thought wasn't,

[00:07:24] what on earth is that strange new creature?

[00:07:28] No.

[00:07:30] The first thing that went through their minds was,

[00:07:33] well, about time.

[00:07:36] They'd been placing bets for centuries by this point.

[00:07:40] Polar bears believing that humans would make it to the North before they did the South,

[00:07:46] and penguins believing the opposite.

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