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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 6 September 1997

From H. Kabaraya

Bristol

A little fact I remember from my childhood in Sri Lanka is that the elephants
love the fruits of the local wood apple tree. They swallow the whole fruit and
excrete it intact, minus of course the juicy stuff inside. So if you can get the
pills in the fruits . . .

Issue no. 2098 published 6 September 1997

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