Parasite Lost
Until now, my posts have focused almost exclusively on wildlife impacts (real and otherwise) related to predation by cats, a topic I’ll be returning to soon enough. Over the past week or so, however,...
View ArticleIt’s Not the Media, It’s the Message
To hear The Wildlife Society’s staunch opponents of TNR tell it, the media’s just not interested in stories about “the impacts of free-ranging and feral cats on wildlife.” “This January when thousands...
View ArticleClose Enough?
Among the findings of a recent study: Five of 18 cats trapped “between the spring and fall of 2008 and 2009” in central Illinois’ 1,500-acre Robert Allerton Park tested positive for Toxoplasma gondii...
View ArticleLoose Threads
North American Opossum with winter coat. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Cody Pope. A study published last month in the online open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases suggests a...
View ArticleThe Silent Treatment
“I don’t want to be sort of a poodle dog when I’m out there, and a friendly sort of presence in people’s lives,” explained New York Times reporter David Carr in an October 2011 interview with Fresh Air...
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