Article explains how pesticides threaten animals and plants which are already vulnerable. Learn about the ways that chemicals are harmful, how they affect many areas, and what needs to be done. THE BALD EAGLE on Richard Strouds autopsy table showed the alltoofamiliar signs of carbofuran poisoning: talons knotted into fists, legs cocked back against its body, but no signs of traumatic injury or disease. Basically, the mechanism was death by convulsion, explains Stroud, a veterinary pathologist with the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab in Ashland, Oregon.

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