Singing like a doped bird
Surprised by the stories of Pakistan’s cricket-match fixing ring? I was much more shocked by a story I came across last week, while on a birdwatching trip to Catalonia.
There’s a tradition there of holding contests in which songbirds are encouraged to compete against one another in sweetness and volume. According to a report in La Vanguardia, the handlers, not content with the performance of their birds, have begun to dope them with something called unte, the principal ingredient of which is testosterone. If X-Factor ratings continue falling, surely it’s only a matter of time before Simon Cowell gets the same idea.
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