Study finds more Texas owls are testing positive for rat poisons

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Sep 13, 2023, 12:11 pm186 pts
New research suggests that owls in Texas have high rates of anticoagulant rodenticides (AR)—blood thinning rat poisons—in their systems. Jennifer Smith, a professor of integrative biology in the UTSA College of Sciences, co-authored a research article published recently in PLOS ONE, the world's first…

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