WE CONCLUDED our report on grasshoppers that play football with their faeces with the words “now that this aspect of the grasshopper lifestyle has been so thoroughly investigated, putative authors searching for an original topic will just have to find something else” (30 April).
We were reckoning without Jon Richfield, the legendary South African who has answered many more Last Word questions than anyone else on the planet (Â鶹´«Ã½, 9 October 2010, p 50).
“I think that you were either over pessimistic or over optimistic,” Jon admonishes us in an email headed “grasshopper strikers”: “There seems to be…
