I was unsure as to whether you were trying to improve captive breeding program practices merely to increase their success rate and produce more individuals to be re-release, OR if you were trying to study the effects of captive breeding practices on the reproductive success rate of re-released populations.
One of my undergraduate majors was Zoo Science, so I find your topic interesting, and look forward to seeing the results.
Please check this useful link and PDF attachments.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430766/
Dear Jeanne, thank you for your interest. My aim in this project is to identify zoo management practices influencing the reproductive success of captive Lemurs but also their actuarial senescence pattern. For instance, I would like to understand why the juvenile survival of some lemurs species is decreasing from 60' to today while we could expect an improvement due to the improvement of management practices from 1985. For now, I don't have any information about reintroduced individuals.
Thank you very much Arvind for this suggestion of article, very interesting!
Dear Morgane, thank you for answering my question. Your project sounds very interesting. I look forward to seeing your progress. I'm sure any information you find will be helpful to breeding programs in the future. Good Luck!
Arvind, I enjoyed reading the first article you suggested. Much of the information was already familiar to me, but it was very interesting to look at things from a different perspective. I'm sure I'll enjoy reading the other three as well.
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