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Letter: For the record

Published 22 November 2017

• The study of mouse pup weight compared 34 pups, delivered by caesarean section to five mice, with a control group of 35 born to six mice (21 October, p 19).

• Elephants may never forget, and we now remember that rhino horn is mostly keratin protein and one rhino farmer has more than six tonnes of it (4 November, p 7).

Issue no. 3153 published 25 November 2017

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