“We could be forgiven if we start busily searching for Hindu priests to bless our cattle sheds. The ruling could set disease control in Britain back by 70 years.”
Evan Thomas of the National Farmers Union of Wales on a ruling sparing Shambo, a sacred bullock in a Welsh Hindu temple, from being slaughtered, despite having TB (The Guardian, London, 17 July)
“They move about with their trunks right on the ground, and it could be that they pick up the scent in this way.”
Biologist Ian Whyte at the Kruger National Park in South Africa, on how elephants…
