Conservation biology is a crisis discipline. Zoos contribute via four core aspects:
Many zoos will house and care for albino animals that were rescued or born accidentally, but they will not allow them to breed. Conservation biology is a crisis discipline
This was the ethical minefield of the modern zoo. The old way of thinking viewed albinism as a marketing tool—rarer animals meant bigger crowds. The "better" way, the scientific way, viewed albinism as a diagnostic tool. It was the canary in the coal mine. the scientific way