Rat poison is ripping through the food chain, threatening predators at the very top
Rat poison detected in around a third of wild mammal carnivores — including those that don't normally eat rodents, such as mountain lions and gray wolves.
Meghan P. Keating
PhD Candidate in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, Clemson University
Meghan Keating is a PhD candidate studying urban carnivore space use and survival. Her current work focuses on the long-term effects of human development and rodenticide use on bobcat populations in the southeastern US and globally. Her master's work focused on the ecological drivers of mule deer movement in the Mojave Desert Preserve. Meghan has also participated in research at USGS's Western Ecological Research Center looking at predator-prey interactions and space-use.
