2025-01-10
29 分钟This is the Guardian.
Today, a feathery whodunit in the Scottish Highlands.
What kind of altitude are we at now?
We are at probably about 350 meters.
Phoebe Weston is a biodiversity reporter at the Guardian, and recently her reporting took her to Argyle in the Scottish Highlands.
So I was walking up this hill with sheep farmer David Coultard, and right at the top, you can see in both directions we've got locks on one side and mountains on the other, which get, like, increasingly blue as they go into the background.
But we've got kind of a 360 view and it's.
It's kind of on this little boggy lip of the hill.
There's midges everywhere, so you don't really want to hang around too long.
And right in front of us is fluff.
And it looks like someone's just taken the inside of their duvet out.
There's just fluff all over the place.
Scene of the crime.
There doesn't look like there's any bones.
Left now, bones over there, but, you know, it's natural.
And this is the wool of a lamb that was killed a month ago.
And all that remains of it is.
This wool, skeletal, the backbone still about.
And David points to this little hillock just beside us and he thinks that this lamb was standing on that hillock just before it died.
So when something is killed, it's going to rupture the end cavities, and you're going to get a lot of blood just like yourself.