Rebecca Boyle with Popular Science magazine recently authored a report on the development of birth control for wildlife.
Read Rebecca’s article — Birth Control for Animals.
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Matthew Philips
From the magazine issue dated Mar 2, 2009
Ever since us airways flight 1549 made its miraculous safe landing on the Hudson River in January, America has had a new public enemy-a villain so resilient that annihilation through open war appears to be the only way to save ourselves. This scourge’s name? The wild goose. “Get rid of the geese so that humans can live!” a frothing Sean Hannity cried on Fox News; the New York Post followed suit, advocating an all-out avian assault. In the weeks that followed the near disaster, people offered new weapons for the fight, including a technique called egg addling, which one proponent, David Feld, explains thus: “You find their eggs and cover them in corn oil. It shuts down the embryonic process.” (It also gives new meaning to the phrase “your goose is cooked.”) Feld, by the way, is the founder of GeesePeace, an organization devoted to the birds’ humane treatment, meaning he’s supposed to be on their side. But that’s the life of a goose today: even your friends want you dead. Just imagine if Sully hadn’t safely landed that plane.
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