llama, not emu
I sent the following letter to the Opelika-Auburn News on April 4th; it wasn’t published:
To the editor:
Page C1 of the April 4th paper features a picture of two animals with the caption “Spring brings a new generation of emus to a farm on Society Hill Road.”
emu, not llama
Perhaps it does, but emus are ostrich-like birds. The animals pictured are obviously either llamas or alpacas – in any case, mammals rather than birds.
Perhaps this was meant to run three days earlier?
Roderick T. Long
(I put some pics up to make their mistake look slightly less egregious.)
