Rodent conservation, zoos, and the impor
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Spartaco Gippoliti; Giovanni Amori
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Historically, zoos have focused on the exhibition and maintenance of "diurnal, social, large, colorful, cute, typically mammalian and usually African species" . Today, ex situ zoo-based breeding programs are still biased toward the so-called "charismatic megavertebrates." This has recently found jus