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Nature 414, 246-247 (15 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35104708
If they could talk to the animals...
Jonathan Knight1
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Abstract
Too many conservation projects are failing because of ignorance about the behaviour of endangered species. This is why the natural world needs ethologists, says Jonathan Knight.
To the uninitiated, wildlife conservation and animal behaviour seem like two sides of the same coin. Conditioned by television wildlife documentaries featuring singing whales and leaping antelope, we imagine that conservation biologists are well versed in ethology, the scientific study of animal behaviour.
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