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Horses in the Archives

Horses in the Archives

In November 2021, Monica did fieldwork and archival research at Prague Zoo. Prague Zoo has been active in breeding the Przewalski’s horses from the 1930s, and did the first zoo driven reintroduction of Przewalski’s horses in Mongolia, hiring army aircrafts. Monica...
Interview in Trouw

Interview in Trouw

On September 19th, 2021, Willem Schoonen interviewed Raf de Bont for the newspaper Trouw. You can read the interview (in Dutch) here: https://www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/vogels-wezen-de-vroege-natuurbeschermers-de-weg~be9adb5e/ *Credits picture: Yrjö Jyske (2001),...
Blog post for NiCHE: “Incest at the Zoo”

Blog post for NiCHE: “Incest at the Zoo”

On 16 August 2021, Monica Vasile published a blog post for NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History & Environment, titled “Incest at the Zoo: Saving and (in)Breeding the Przewalski’s Horse.” Incest is more common than one would expect amongst zoo-bred...