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  • - Natural history museums hold important specimens, samples, and data that help us understand the natural world.
  • - A recent commentary discusses the need for more compassionate collection methods for specimens in these museums.
  • - It raises the question of whether it's feasible to entirely stop the collection of whole animal specimens in the future.

Article Abstract

Natural history museums are vital repositories of specimens, samples and data that inform about the natural world; this Formal Comment revisits a Perspective that advocated for the adoption of compassionate collection practices, querying whether it will ever be possible to completely do away with whole animal specimen collection.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10664955PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318DOI Listing

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