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Marco Apollonio

Marco Apollonio is Professor of Zoology at the University of Sassari in Italy.

Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation

Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior. How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters? Do individual differences—in age, sex, size, past experience—affect how an animal reacts to a given situation?