Evans quits Radio 2
ZOE BALL has been named the favourite to take over the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show after Chris Evans shocked fans by announcing his departure.
The broadcaster, 52, revealed yesterday morning that he was quitting Radio 2 and his breakfast show after 13 years at the BBC station.
He will be hosting a rival breakfast show on Virgin Radio, which he called “my spiritual home”.
Radio 2 has plenty of time to make a choice, with the broadcaster continuing his run until December. BABOONS at a British zoo have been observed flossing their teeth with broom bristles and their own hairs.
Charlotte Morgan, an animal behaviour student at the University of Exeter, spotted the primates cleaning between their teeth at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Devon.
The behaviour was first noted at the zoo a few years ago, when a female hamadryas baboon was seen using a bristle from an old broom to floss.
Previous studies have suggested that primates floss their teeth for hygienic and social purposes.
Morgan said: “Past research at the zoo found that certain baboons floss using their own hair and bristles from broom heads.
“I have observed cases where baboons will pluck hair off other baboons to floss, which is pretty exciting. My research project is looking to see if personality is related to dental flossing activity.”
Morgan said it was difficult to suggest exactly how the baboons had learnt how to floss but there may be a “social learning element”.
“We have found that animals from certain harems floss more than others, so potentially animals are learning from their social cohorts,” she said.