LAST SUMMER I got a phone call from a man who lives locally to say that he had picked up the body of an animal that had been killed on the road and he was having an argument with some of his friends about its identification.

THE phone number given for Daniel Buckley, of Toames East, Macroom, Co Cork, who is conducting a survey of feral ferrets in Ireland, was incorrect (Irish Examiner letters, February 13).