Diane K. Boyd

Do you know about lions and wolves and toxoplasmosis?

Do you know about lions and wolves and toxoplasmosis?

Do you know about lions and wolves and toxoplasmosis?

So in Yellowstone, it's basically a dog-eat-cat world down there for the most part because of packs of wolves and the lions. But they have found that because the dogs are coexisting with the lions and sometimes ingest or scatter their guts or anyway, they eat some part of it. They get exposed. They have found with now the wolves have toxoplasmosis. And what happens is there is something like

So in Yellowstone, it's basically a dog-eat-cat world down there for the most part because of packs of wolves and the lions. But they have found that because the dogs are coexisting with the lions and sometimes ingest or scatter their guts or anyway, they eat some part of it. They get exposed. They have found with now the wolves have toxoplasmosis. And what happens is there is something like

So in Yellowstone, it's basically a dog-eat-cat world down there for the most part because of packs of wolves and the lions. But they have found that because the dogs are coexisting with the lions and sometimes ingest or scatter their guts or anyway, they eat some part of it. They get exposed. They have found with now the wolves have toxoplasmosis. And what happens is there is something like

11 times. It's a huge amount. I wish I can't. Maybe Jamie can Google it. More likely to be extra bold and leaders of a pack than a dog, than a wolf that does not have toxoplasmosis. And these wolves that have the parasite take extraordinary risks and are more likely to die and lead the pack to death. So in the long run, it's sort of a cat's revenge on the wolves.

11 times. It's a huge amount. I wish I can't. Maybe Jamie can Google it. More likely to be extra bold and leaders of a pack than a dog, than a wolf that does not have toxoplasmosis. And these wolves that have the parasite take extraordinary risks and are more likely to die and lead the pack to death. So in the long run, it's sort of a cat's revenge on the wolves.

11 times. It's a huge amount. I wish I can't. Maybe Jamie can Google it. More likely to be extra bold and leaders of a pack than a dog, than a wolf that does not have toxoplasmosis. And these wolves that have the parasite take extraordinary risks and are more likely to die and lead the pack to death. So in the long run, it's sort of a cat's revenge on the wolves.

Isn't that wild?

Isn't that wild?

Isn't that wild?

And when they do that, they're not very well set up to survive.

And when they do that, they're not very well set up to survive.

And when they do that, they're not very well set up to survive.

It's a parasite from cats. Another book you'd like to read is called Spillover. Have you read that by David Quammen?

It's a parasite from cats. Another book you'd like to read is called Spillover. Have you read that by David Quammen?

It's a parasite from cats. Another book you'd like to read is called Spillover. Have you read that by David Quammen?

So he wrote it, I think, 2017. It's an older book, maybe 2012. And he wrote, it's a spillover from wild animals, just Q-U-A-M-M-I-N-I-N, wild animals to human populations. And it starts with a horse disease in Australia that becomes some extremely viral, terrible disease in humans. And he actually traces back the origins of HIV. And all this happened before COVID.

So he wrote it, I think, 2017. It's an older book, maybe 2012. And he wrote, it's a spillover from wild animals, just Q-U-A-M-M-I-N-I-N, wild animals to human populations. And it starts with a horse disease in Australia that becomes some extremely viral, terrible disease in humans. And he actually traces back the origins of HIV. And all this happened before COVID.