Parasites
2 articles-
Darwin’s Finches Are At It Again
Darwin’s finches are in trouble. Climate change and globalization have drastically affected their habitats on the Galapagos Islands. In the 1960s, we introduced, most likely through a banana import from Brazil, the fly parasite Philornis downsi. The fly’s larvae infest the finches’ nests, where they enter the nostril cavities of the chicks, first eating the […] -
Parasites Are Us
How biological invaders challenge our idea of self and other.