Bishop's Endless Forms

Bishop's Endless Forms

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  • The Restless Mite of the Carolina Parakeet

    On the wing of a Carolina parakeet, a feather mite named Carol does something feather mites aren’t supposed to do: he leaves a perfectly good home. It’s a such a profound shift in behavior, it could start a whole new species. With acarologist Heather Proctor of the University of Alberta, we imagine what life looks like at the scale of a single feather barb.

    Read the original species description: Mironov, Dabert & Ehrnsberger (2005), “Six new feather mite species (Acari: Astigmata) from the Carolina parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis, an extinct parrot of North America,” Journal of Natural History 39(24).

    Special thanks to Jordan Wirfs-Brock



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From a feather mite to the tallest living thing on Earth, the show follows Darwin's 'endless forms most beautiful' and the people whose lives are bound up with them. Each episode, whether researched…