Letter: For the record

Published 18 March 2008

• The silhouetted ape pictured in the feature on bipedalism (8 March, p 36) is a bonobo, not an orang-utan.

• We said that the BTV8 strain of bluetongue appeared in Belgium in 2005 (8 March, p 12); in fact it made its appearance there in 2006.

Issue no. 2648 published 22 March 2008

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