Today’s SCMP has this brilliant observation about dead fish:
Making specimen is a lengthy process – it took half a year to turn the largest gar into a suitable specimen.
A well-prepared specimen can last 250 years and allow researchers to study its body structures in detail, Chong says. However, movements and behaviour of a fish can be observed only when it is alive.
Well, yes indeed. Being dead would rather limit their movements…
In other SCMP news, readers are apparently being asked to email their columnists to tell them whether they agree with columns that they didn’t actually write:
Ordinary Gweilo 
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