Wildlife Markets (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Markets

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Wild and domestic birds can often be found together in wildlife markets, as well as on the way to markets, as in this photograph. Such commingling of different species gives diseases new opportunities to mutate and spread.

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D. Collins/Wildlife Conservation Society

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