Originally Posted by LGF
....All mammals have ticks and fleas and all animals have parasites. The connection is via deer mice, which are an essential host of the tick which carries Lyme, and which are a major prey for foxes and other small carnivores. Coyotes kill foxes, reducing their population and leading to more deer mice. Wolves kill coyotes, leading to more foxes and fewer deer mice, hence less Lyme. So the obvious answer is to reintroduce wolves wherever there is Lyme, right?

The obvious answer is to look at who started the thread, and chose the subject 'article'. The prof will philosophize in circles about how we are losing tick habitat to climate change. The only important thing is the 'knock-on effct' of this 'research', which allows loon lefties to dream of what could be.