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Letter: Letters: Green sheep

Published 14 September 1991

From TONY HOWARD

It is evident that the lack of greenness amongst sheep has evolved as
a defence mechanism against ducks – sheep being permanently quadrupedal,
they are four times more likely than a flamingo to be bumped into by ducks.
If green sheep ever evolved, they would suffer substantially greater inconvenience
as they would be invisible against a background of duck-weed, thus provoking
even more collisions.

Tony Howard Norwich, Norfolk

Issue no. 1786 published 14 September 1991

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