UCLA La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Fellow Olivia Sanderfoot discusses the effects of wildfire smoke on animals for the Ottawa Citizen. “When I see pictures like the ones out of New York, I think ‘This is going to make a lot of people sick. And it’s going to make a lot of animals sick.’ Pet birds, wild birds and poultry are all highly vulnerable to air pollution and that’s because they all share a common respiratory system.”