Sentences with phrase «other captive breeding»

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The decline of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), classified as «vulnerable» by the IUCN, led to the coordination of captive breeding programs in zoos and other breeding facilities.

«It is important to predict which native species are most at risk and to monitor their populations so that if they start to decline catastrophically, we can establish captive breeding programs and other supportive measures,» he said.

Species in zoos are often protected from total extinction because they are commonly the subjects of captive breeding programs in which staffers entice animals to mate and reproduce offspring that can then be released into the wild or shared with other zoos.

In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in females.

These methods will also benefit other endangered species captive breeding programs that possess similar demographic histories.»

In short, zoos that are seriously committed to captive breeding are a part of conservation, while others are simply theatre.

The LHI Stick Insect captive breeding program is currently being undertaken by Rohan Cleave, Norman Dowsett, Robert Anderson, Zoe Marston and other invertebrate keepers at Melbourne Zoo.

Humane Canada advocates that companion animal stores restrict their sale of live animals to domesticated and captive - bred birds, fish and small mammals other than cats and dogs.

While a successful captive breeding and release program has yet to be developed for any parrot species, we do support scientifically - based, bona fide parrot conservation programs undertaken by teams of experts in population genetics, ecology, animal behavior, habitat conservation and restoration, natural resource management, economics, politics, sociology, and all of the other fields that must be considered if such a program is to succeed.

Others are the result of captive breeding of wild animals for the express purpose of providing animals for the exotic pet industry.

Section 9 -5-9: Reptile captive breeding license This proposal mainly clarifies the existing law in this section, but does add the term «AVID reader» when discussing transponders in captive breed stock other than reptiles.

The answer is, as with every other species in the exotics marketplace, captive breeding.

As a result of research conducted during the captive breeding period, we now know that island foxes have induced estrus and ovulation, which is unique among canids and may be related to other distinctive features of their mating system.

In 2004, each of the island fox subspecies was federally listed as endangered, but a captive breeding programme combined with other measures saved this species from extinction, and populations are now more stable.

In 2004, each of the island fox subspecies was federally listed as endangered, but a captive breeding program combined with other measures saved this species from extinction, and populations are now more stable.