QI | Which Animal Is The Most Successful Hunter?

This clip is from QI Series O, Episode 2 , 'Organisms' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Nish Kumar, Cariad Lloyd and Holly Walsh.

[TheTrwebster]

I love Alan and Sandi together- so much fun to listen to and watch!

[Phlebas]

I am amazed by the reaction time of those klaxon operators.

[chrisninety]

I thought I was so clever when they went through all those wrong answers, and I'm sitting there smugly thinking that it's so obviously going to be 'Owl'.

[lazybones]

I'm so happy this show is still as strong with Sandi as it had been with Stephen for all those years. Odd, the BBC actually doing something right.

[adambrekka]

Clip starts: "Which animal has the highest success rate as a hunter?"
Midway through clip: "(...) and what it does is it *calculates* where its prey is going to be (...)"
Clip ends: lol, penises

[LaGuerre]

Strangely enough, it's Brian Blessed.

[evansfamily]

I have always loved dragonflies! I have long called them "the birds of prey in the insect world". The sound of them crunching through the exoskeleton of a tasty bug is astounding. Their mandibles are huge! Amazing creatures!

[rossmac]

I can just imagine Alan somewhere during the 'Beast from the East' where his car windows have froze over. He's tried using a normal scraper, tried using hot water but still the ice won't budge. So what does he do? He grips his belt, grimaces and says to no one in particular- "And people tell me that I learnt nothing from Qi..."

[jademccurrach]

"Which Animal, beginning with O, Is The Most Successful Hunter?" "Dragonfly" ok then

[kallek]

It's more than fair to call ’Dragonfly’ the most successful hunter, especially since he helped Basil Fawlty catch 85 pounds on the horse race.

[EleanorPeterson]

For those complaining about the unfairness of mentioning the letter 'O', that's entirely reasonable, but it was also entirely intentional.

The QI format is of a genteel, old-school, after-dinner parlour game; the whole point is to wind people up, tease questions out, have a laugh, cheat decorously, beguile the innocent, intrigue the curious, confound pedants, and give any smartarse whippersnappers a damn good thrashing.

Sandi's sneaky 'O' ploy is perfectly valid because it achieves so much for so little... ;-)

[BX]

The Dragonfly has four wings and can control all 4 independently. It can fly forwards, backwards, sideways, straight up, straight down and hover. Basically, anything a helicopter can do, with a brain the size of a pin head.

[DionLewiis]

i was expecting it to be Orca, they're so strategic when it comes to hunting

[Deathnotefan]

"What is he most successful hunter?"

I think I know this one

"Starts with an O"

I definitely know this one, otters have to consume about a quarter of their body weight a day, so it'd have to be them

"It's dragonflies"

...

Sure, why not

[NewMessage]

You think getting your tongue stuck to a frozen bit of metal is unpleasant... Try your 'scraper'.

[montieluckett]

Owls are quite prodigious predators in their own right. I think it's something like 6 to 7 out of ten attempts, which is a lot better than a lions by far.

[skippymagrue]

Dragonflies can see fast. That's why they're such good hunters

[michaeltreend]

Epomis Beetles have pretty much a 100% success rate in hunting frogs

[InformationIsTheEdge]

"I can do a wing mirror." LOL!!

[epiendless]

I thought it was shaped that way to stop your hand slipping off the end.