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Letter: On the balls

Published 6 March 1999

From John Harvey

Feedback reports on howlers by biology students
(30 January). I teach in a
large comprehensive school and among other gems that pupils have put my way is
the fact that “an octopus is a fish with eight testicles” and “the whole of
northern Russia is covered in carnivorous forest” (also known as the Siberian
Taiga, I presume).

Lewes, East Sussex

Issue no. 2176 published 6 March 1999

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