Letter: Nose-picking licked

Published 23 September 2009

From Alan Hickman

What makes Sophia Dunn think that hoofed animals do not pick their noses (5 September, p 26)? Cows do it all the time – with their tongues.

Folkingham, Lincolnshire, UK

Issue no. 2727 published 26 September 2009

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