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Published online 17 July 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010719-15
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A wallaby school of self-defence
Teaching fear of natural killers may save cosseted creatures.
Learning some respect could save wallabies' skins, say marsupial trainers. Naive, captive-bred animals make easy meat for predators in the wild; efforts to reintroduce them have often run into trouble.
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