Biology for the Youngest

Sometimes, even with a noticeable print, there is literally no possibility to give a refutation. This was the opinion of the edition of the Leningrad newspaper "Change", which in 1973, publishing a story from the series "To the Boys about the Beasts", made a small mistake. We were talking about the locals, whom the author pleasantly called “little long-eared animals”. In the word "long-eared" the letters "u" and "x" were replaced in places, and in this form these biological facts were presented to the Leningrad childhood.

The editor followed the party line.