The flying fox

摘要

Unfortunate quote of the week award goes to Ted Burden, founder of Riverside Animal Centre in Wallington, who seems to be privy to some human evolutionary advance that kicked in when Elisha Graves Otis invented the elevator safety break in 1852. Speaking about the advice he gave 'Romeo', the Shard-dwelling fox, during his post-capture check up, he cleared up the centre's debriefing process: 'We explained to him that if foxes were meant to be 72 storeys off the ground, they would have evolved wings.' Erm, just like humans, then?