**Study finds more Texas owls are testing positive for rat poisons**

New research suggests that owls in Texas have high rates of anticoagulant rodenticides (AR)—blood thinning rat poisons—in their systems. Jennifer Smith, a professor of integrative biology in the UTSA College of Sciences, co-authored a research article published recently in PLOS ONE, the world's first multidisciplinary open access journal.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-texas-owls-positive-rat-poisons.html