However, since some field researchers report incidents of third party punishment in the wild, further research is required.
From the perspective of managing wild populations, research is necessary for making management decisions and usually requires some capture and handling of animals.
De-extinction is becoming potentially feasible for restoring extinct species in the wild, but research is required to determine the likelihood of success in light of contemporary and future environmental change.
From now through April, "Sea Secrets" lectures will go on to explore killer whales and wild animals, research on the impact on the ocean of climate warming and CO2 emissions, and what science tells us about the effect that climate change has had on the rise and fall of civilizations through the centuries and around the world.
For example, alarm about influenza A(H5N1) virus resulted in short-term spending of hundreds of millions of dollars for wild bird related research globally.
Although ≈50 years have passed since AIVs were first detected in wild birds, research is still in the exploratory phase, primarily because sampling wild animals is logistically challenging and expensive and techniques for high-throughput molecular surveillance have only recently become available.
"Politicians need to be able to show they're doing something," says George Rose, a Newfoundland-based fisheries scientist who recently had his government financing for wild-cod research slashed.
Does a part of him wish he had been born earlier, into the early 20th-century generation working in the wild west of research?
The insects were a far cry from the delectable specimens they'd caught in the wild during their research trips around the world.
British suburban gardeners may be unknowingly driving the spread of a lethal frog disease by stocking their ponds with exotic or wild aquatic species, research shows.
