QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance
Join QI's expedition into the animal kingdom to encounter 100 of its most remarkable subjects. Marvel at the elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom.
Albatrosses can fly non-stop for ten years without touching the ground
Box jellyfish have twenty-four eyes
Geese mourn their dead
Koalas don't drink
Monkeys pay to look at porn
Lobsters live for a century
Mice sing while having sex
Spiders can fly
John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder.
John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, and now runs Unbound.