The breeding of threatened species in captivity for release is a central tool in conservation
biology. Given gloomy predictions for biodiversity trends in the Anthropocene, captive …

Domestication interests us as the most momentous change in Holocene human history. Why
did it operate on so few wild species, in so few geographic areas? Why did people adopt it at …

In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play
in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution …

Over the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under
domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes—mammals, birds …

There is a long research history addressing olfactory imprinting, natal homing, and non-natal
straying by anadromous salmon and trout (Salmonidae). In undisturbed populations, adult …

Structural environmental enrichment, that is, a deliberate addition of physical complexity to
the rearing environment, is sometimes utilized to reduce the expression of the undesirable …

Like all species, humans have exercised their impulse to perpetuate and propagate
themselves. In doing so, we have domesticated landscapes and ecosystems in ways that …

Conditions fish encounter during embryogenesis and early life history can leave lasting
effects not only on morphology, but also on growth rate, life‐history and behavioural traits …

Jack Harlan was a polymath. His life-long study of crop evolution combined plant sciences,
archaeology, systematics, genetics, and conservation, leaving a legacy of five decades of …

Different kinds of experience during early life can play a significant role in the development
of an animal's behavioural phenotype. In natural contexts, this influences behaviours from …