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In addition to helping us understand the past, zooarchaeology can also help us to improve the present and the future.

Studying how people dealt with animals, and its effects can help us avoid many potential ecological problems.

This specifically includes problems involving wildlife management.

For example, one of the questions that wildlife preservationists ask is whether they should keep animals facing extinction in several smaller areas, or in one larger area.

Based on zooarchaeological evidence, they found that animals that are split up into several smaller areas are more likely to go extinct.