The State - News from June 17, 1987

A University of California, Davis, researcher said a two-year study on the effect on birds of a rodent-killing chemical has been wiped out by the release of five turkey vultures. The birds were released by someone who broke into the university’s Raptor Center over the weekend, officials said. A note left behind was signed “ALF,” the initials of the militant Animal Liberation Front. Research physiologist Michael Fry said all but one of the birds would probably be unable to survive in the wild because they had been tamed and trained as part of the research project. “It wiped out two years worth of work,” Fry said.