Isabella Louise Milner-Bradford

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Opportunity nest egg: insights on the nutritional ecology, life history and captive management of three species of kiwi (Apteryx spp.) chick from Operation Nest Egg zoo hand-rearing records.

Nov 2, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Lindsey Gray |Brittany Mitchell |Gemma Bell |Isabella Louise Milner-Bradford

AbstractZoo data collected by keepers while looking after endangered species are increasingly recognised as important scientific resources. In New Zealand, kiwi chicks (Apteryx spp.) are subject to the protective conservation programme Operation Nest Egg (ONE), during which growth, developmental and life history data are recorded. We have conducted comparative analyses on hand rearing records from 306 chicks, from Coromandel, Eastern and Western populations of Brown kiwi (A. mantelli), and rowi (A.

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