Robin Williams
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It is.
And then, of course, you've got that great stick insect, which they're breeding in Melbourne, aren't they?
I think so, yeah.
Huge thing.
Take us around Australia to some of the places that really have impressed you.
Let's start...
Well, actually, in the West, because you've just been to Perth and you had a spider named after you.
Was that a cute spider?
I couldn't see it.
It sounded two millimetres long.
That wasn't a bit of a... Well, I mean, I could just... Under a lens, I'm sure it's got a most attractive face.
Have you got things named after you?
Only a star.
What do you mean, only a star?
A whole galaxy, perhaps?
No, no, no, a star, but slightly bigger than a spider.
But a couple of years ago, I remember somebody else who used to be in Western Australia, Dr John Long, published this wonderful paper with his colleagues about the invention of pleasurable sex by a fish...
Exactly.
365 million years ago in Western Australia.
And that fish was named after you as well, wasn't it?