Life history: Scholars call for greater collaboration between zoos, museums
A new paper lays out a pathway to increasing collaboration between these groups that would enhance our understanding of the animal kingdom.
Source: yale.edu
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A new paper lays out a pathway to increasing collaboration between these groups that would enhance our understanding of the animal kingdom.
The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums — living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other — constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth’s biodiversity. Yet, zoos and museums rarely share data with each...