News Headline

Save the Parasites (Seriously)

Source
The Atlantic

Publication Date
2015-09-29

In the 1980s, conservationists ushered the planet's 22 last remaining Californian condors into captivity. They saved the birds, cared for them, fed them, and bred them. They also de-loused them and, in doing so, they killed off the last remaining condor louse—a harmless parasite that lived only on Californian condors.

Content
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/save-the-parasites/407701/