While absolutely fascinating (and hoping they didn’t release any of these SOB’s into the environment – we fight another fire ant species all the time in TX), I would also be intrigued to find out how much foundation money went into this study. Sort of a study on the wear and tear on Flicker feathers, to me.
From the article’s Acknowledgements:
“This study was supported and funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31972342), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (no. 2662018JC052).”
You may be able to source email addresses via an internet search.
While absolutely fascinating (and hoping they didn’t release any of these SOB’s into the environment – we fight another fire ant species all the time in TX), I would also be intrigued to find out how much foundation money went into this study. Sort of a study on the wear and tear on Flicker feathers, to me.
From the article’s Acknowledgements:
“This study was supported and funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31972342), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (no. 2662018JC052).”
You may be able to source email addresses via an internet search.