Parasites are inside “Everything and everywhere all at once”, yet not often considered in studies on wild animals. What’s the bug?

Journal of Animal Ecology
Authors: Jeremy De Bonville, Emmanuelle Chrétien, Joëlle J. Guitard, Marie Barou Dagues. This blog post tells the #Storybehindthepaper for Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review. What do we and wild animals all have in common? Parasites! As displeasing as this reality may sound, this fact is often overlooked by researchers conducting experiments on wild animals, either in the lab …