“They would actually perch on the barbed wire and wait for the minefields to give them chopped antelope.”
The behaviour of vultures in the 1970s civil war in Zimbabwe, described by Louis Lefebvre of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who has ranked bird species according to their IQ (The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 22 February)
“I dream of seeing a thylacine. Most Tasmanian zoologists dream of seeing one and wrestling it to the ground and bringing it back on a lead to captivity.”
Randolph Rose of the University of Tasmania (AAP, 16 February)
“It was a pleasure to show him the pictures and see his expression when we…
