Lateral with Tom Scott
64: Black and white bowties
Dec 29, 2023
Comedy panel game podcast guests, Daniel Peake, Lizzy Skrzypiec, and Bill Sunderland discuss shoe safes, safety signs, sinuous streets, connections between buildings and New York City's history, misinterpreted theme and toga costumes, unnecessary bends and roundabouts in Perth, and deer separation in Richmond Park.
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- Red deer in Czechia have been refusing to breed with other red deer a short distance away for over 30 years because of a learned behavior to not cross the area where an electric fence used to be.
- A facility in Perth, Australia added bends and roundabouts to a local road to prevent pilots from mistaking it for the runway, showing how design can influence behavior.
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Interbreeding resistance between Red Deer
For over 30 years, Red Deer in Czechia have refused to breed with other Red Deer a short distance away, despite there being only forest and open land between them. The reason for this is a learned behavior passed down from generation to generation. A national border that used to have an electric fence separated Czechia and Germany. Even though the fence has been gone for longer than any living deer has been alive, the deer have been taught by their parents not to cross into the area where the fence used to be.
