April 2014: Many animals in need of conservation attention are the least studied due to human bias, reveals new research by scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Their results found that large, wide-ranging carnivores that exclusively eat meat, such as wolves, are more likely to be studied than smaller carnivores with varied diets, even though these are often the more threatened.
The study looked at the number of research papers published between 1900 and 2010 for each of the 286 carnivore species. The authors then analysed the papers to see if research effort was linked to the characteristics or to the extinction risk of a species.
By analysing more than 16,500 papers they found that conservation status was not a significant driver of research effort, despite significant improvements in the tools used by conservationists to identify species most at risk of extinction.
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