Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

Yes, it was an act of God. But which God?

The aye-aye looks a little like a large cat with a bat's ears, a beaver's teeth, a tail like a large ostrich feather, a middle finger like a long dead twig and…

The Great Zaganza said: 'You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of.'