Killer Bees and Crossbows
Minisode 1
Shawn and Dan discuss Pacifico et al. 2020, and their recent paper aimed at saving the Lear’s Macaw from extinction.
These researchers are total badasses! Repelling off of cliffside and shooting invasive killer bee hives with crossbows. In an experiment that can only be described as the future premise of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
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Source:
Erica C. Pacífico, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Cristina Y. Miyaki, José L. Tella, Isolation and characterization of 15 new microsatellite markers for the globally endangered Lear’s macaw Anodorhynchus leari, Molecular Biology Reports, 10.1007/s11033-020-05812-w, (2020).
