Colpocephalum californici

Colpocephalum californici

When all remaining California condors were captured to ensure their survival, they were de-loused. In doing so, conservationists killed all remaining individuals of a species of a louse (Colpocephalum californici) that lived exclusively on the California condor, inadvertently causing an extinction.

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