More Challenging Diets Sustain Feeding Performance: Applications Toward the Captive Rearing of Wildlife

Mitchell DR, Wroe S, Ravosa MJ, and Menegaz RA. 2021. More Challenging Diets Sustain Feeding Performance: Applications Toward the Captive Rearing of Wildlife. Integrative Organismal Biology 3(1), early view. DOI: 10.1093/iob/obab030. [PDF]

Soft food diet increases risks for captive animals released in wild. Research to chew on: Harder foods needed to make hardier heads. EurekAlert! November 22, 2021.

Something to chew on? Tougher diets might be helpful for some captive-reared animals intended for release. Guest blog by D. Rex Mitchell for IOB Open. November 23, 2021.

Harder foods make for stronger skulls, giving hand-reared animals the best chance of survival in the wild. Guest blog by D. Rex Mitchell for the Conversation. November 22, 2021.

Twitter thread by lead author Dr. D. Rex Mitchell. November 22, 2021.

Find the mesh models used in this research on MorphoSource.