"Zinc Toxicity (New Wire Disease) in Aviary Birds"

The experiment on the five peach-faced lovebirds was beyond callous. She read it again, not skimming. Oh. Unrelated to the experiment, one little lovebird had fallen to chlamydiosis; the other four had been fed antibiotics and seen their cage solicitously steam-cleaned. (Her own office rug hadn’t been cleaned in years.) She’d missed how the survivors hadn’t been brutally killed off, their deaths had been unexpected. It hadn't even been, strictly speaking, any kind of experiment. Basically, two peach faces died gnawing their cage wires and three lucky guys who noticed got themselves a refereed article in Austral. Vet. J. 63(6).

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