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Recent work suggests captive-reared monarch butterflies lose their capacity to fly southward in fall, questioning the value of captive rearing. We show that, in contrast to captive-reared monarchs flown in… Click to show full abstract
Recent work suggests captive-reared monarch butterflies lose their capacity to fly southward in fall, questioning the value of captive rearing. We show that, in contrast to captive-reared monarchs flown in a flight simulator, monarchs reared under laboratory conditions and released in the wild showed proper southward orientation.
Keywords:
released wild;
orientation;
monarch butterflies;
captive reared;
reared migratory
Journal Title: Conservation Physiology
Year Published: 2021
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Journal Title: Conservation Physiology
Year Published: 2021
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