When Animals are Both Defended and Defenseless

South Island robin. Michal Klajban, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

It sounds like a good conservation strategy: If a native species is being killed by invasive predators, move the native species to a predator-free sanctuary where their numbers can recover. However, a new paper suggests this approach could result in problems if the native species ever faces their invasive foes again.

Read my latest Animal Minds blog post to see how this played out in New Zealand robins: When Animals are Both Defended and Defenseless.