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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science.

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