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.
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Knight, J. If they could talk to the animals.... Nature 414, 246–247 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35104708
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