The Dangers of Roundups

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Ranch owners and farmers banded together to stop the snakes from harming cattle and people. The biggest benefit is to help the ranchers because if they bite the cows, then it can actually kill the cattle. Most of the rattlesnake hunters I spoke with had not been bitten. But as long as you're paying attention and doing it the way you should do, you're probably not going to get bitten.

Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.

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