IZW - Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

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Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.)

An Institute of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (WGL).

The IZW conducts integrated biological and veterinary research on wildlife. Our work is focused on the mechanisms and functions of evolutionary adaptations that ensure the survival and reproduction of individuals in free-ranging and captive populations of wildlife, and the limits that may affect the viability and persistence of such populations. For this purpose, we study the behavioural and evolutionary ecology, wildlife diseases, and reproduction of mostly larger mammals and birds.

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