Prickly response

Press, 4 March 1982, Page 16

Prickly response

Sir, — I read your editorial (March 2) in a litter-strewn rest area while I was on my natural round of balancing the ecology by consuming insects, slugs, mice, frogs, etc. Very droll and, as usual, slanted in that species-specific way so peculiar to homo sapiens. Your arrogance and conceit never fail to astound us other species. “Passive, prickly and not very attractive,” you call us. You, Sir, are aggressive, lethal and ugly — especially when you roar along those barren strips, that contribute nothing to the natural environment, in metal monsters attempting to flatten my kind out of existence. Your patronising attitude is sickening, and you know what you can do with your saucer of milk. We have suffered proliferations of species more than once and have survived. We hedgehogs, as you call us (we call you roadhogs), pray for the day when the balance of nature asserts itself by making you extinct. Yours, prickly — Erinaceus Europaeus. — Signed by my friend, L. J. ROBINSON. March 1, 1982.