Many breeding programs managed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums'(AZA)
Species Survival Plans®(SSPs) are not meeting goals for population size and genetic …

ABSTRACT The European badger Meles meles is thought to mate throughout the year, with
two mating peaks occurring in late winter/spring and summer/autumn. After mating, fertilized …

The American mink has spread widely beyond its native North America due to the activities
of fur traders. The mink is an extremely adaptable, generalist predator. Over two continents …

We used novel techniques for assessing resource value to investigate what additions to a
barren cage female laboratory rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus, value. We tested motivation to …

American mink are highly sexually dimorphic, with males being up to twice the size of
females. Sexual dimorphism may arise for several reasons, including intra‐or inter‐sexual …

Wild carnivores in zoos, conservation breeding centres, and farms commonly live in
relatively small, unstimulating enclosures. Under these captive conditions, in a range of …

Nonhuman primates are well known among mammals for having a highly social nature and
for develo** individualized, long-lasting, intimate social relationships (Haimoff and Gittins …

The existence of play, a form of behaviour without obvious benefits to survival or
reproduction, is a long-standing ethological mystery. Experiments in which socially deprived …

Reproduction is a continuous development process throughout ontogeny and therefore, it
requires energetic, ecological, physiological, anatomical, biochemical and endocrinological …

How individuals move through their environment dictates which other individuals they
encounter, determining their social and reproductive interactions and the extent to which …