Breeding Far Eastern Leopards for Reintroduction: The Zoo Programme Perspective

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 388-410

  Christie, Sarah ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breeding and release strategy; Breeding Far Eastern leopards for reintroduction zoo programme perspective; Breeding strategy in Amur leopard EEP and Founder 2 problem; European Russian zoo breeding programme (EEP European Endangered species Programme) for Amur leopards and North American Canadian programme (PMP Population Management Program); Extant population of Far Eastern leopards at risk from multitude of threats; Leopard management selected for breeding to undergo health tests before being shipped from home zoos; Numbers and genetics reproductive techniques (ART); Wild population of Amur leopards too small to establish new populations

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EID: 84886489097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312034.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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