An interesting follow-up to Friday's post. So many animals can be difficult to study in the wild. Zoos, besides serving as modern arks, can be living laboratories, where data can be collected and research techniques honed before being applied to wild individuals. Belugas are somewhat misleadingly labeled as a species of Least Concern by the IUCN, but their numbers are in decline, and we need to know more to understand why. The best time to start saving an endangered species is, as I've said before, before it becomes endangered.
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