“People concerned at the plight of animals were giving money and did not know it was being used to spray-paint cars and hurl abuse at children.”
Adrian Radford, who infiltrated the UK Animal Liberation Front to discover how donations to anti-vivisectionists bankrolled violent action (The Sunday Times, London, 1 March)
“If a time traveller wanted to go back in time to a specific date, we could probably draw up a phrase book.”
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Mark Pagel of the University of Reading, UK, who has identified words that have changed little in tens of thousands of years (Times Online, London, 26 February)
“Fish is marvellous. People should eat fish two or three times a week. Unfortunately Russians prefer sausages.”
Alexander Baturin of the Institute of Nutrition in Moscow, which has issued guidelines on healthy eating (The Guardian, London, 3 March)
“We hope that the cuddly monkey will comfort her whilst she is not able to feel the warmth of her mum.”
Jonathan Cage, who helped build a toy monkey with a mechanical heart to simulate the mother of a 3-week-old DeBrazza’s monkey, born in Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, UK. The real mother was too weak to care for her (BBC News Online, 2 March)
“This is not crying wolf. This is genuine concern about the weather, both from a fire and a storm perspective.”
Melbourne’s emergency services commissioner, Bruce Espline, on the decision to send a text message wildfire alert to 5 million people, leading to hundreds of unnecessary calls to emergency services (Herald Sun Online, Melbourne, Australia, 3 March)
