We just arrived on Sable Island for the Sable Island Horse Project 17th annual field season 😃

3 Sable Island bachelors (photo by Katie Moyes)

Does the gut microbiome explain variation in fitness in wildlife? Our decade-long effort to answer this question in @SI_horses suggests that it does. Out in Nature Communications today: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Team Sable Island🐴 2024