Scientific Justification for Animal Capture

In the News & Analysis story “Court slams Japan's scientific whaling” (4 April, p. [22][1]), V. Morell recounts the recent judgment of the International Court of Justice that the second Japanese scientific whaling program in the Antarctic (JARPA II) shall cease. This decision has given extra weight to a principle that is already contained in most existing scientific and ethical guidelines for research involving the taking of wild animals: Sample...