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The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare [PDF]
Animals, 2019 Achieving and maintaining high standards of animal welfare is critical to the success of a modern zoo. Research has shown that an animal’s welfare is highly dependent on how various individual animal factors (e.g., species traits, genetics, temperament and previous experience) interact with environmental features (e.g., social grouping, enclosure ...
Sally L Sherwen, Paul H Hemsworth
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Animals, 2020 The impact that humans have on zoo animals can vary based on the species of animal, exhibit design, and individual differences in behavioral responses.
Sarah A Boyle +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Modern zoos strive to educate visitors about zoo animals and their wild counterparts’ conservation needs while fostering appreciation for wildlife in general. This research review examines how zoos influence those who visit them.
Eduardo J Fernández +1 more
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Perceptions of Elephants’ Labor and Autonomy in Zoos [PDF]
AnimalsMany modern zoos maintain charismatic megafauna, such as elephants, as their iconic residents, as these animals have been shown to hold the zoogoers’ gaze more adeptly than demurer animals.
Angela M. Lacinak
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How Do You Behave at the Zoo? A Look at Visitor Perceptions of Other Visitors' Behavior at the Zoo [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2021 Previous research regarding behaviors of zoo visitors near exhibits has shown that they can influence animals’ well-being. What is unclear is whether people’s views concerning the purpose of zoos or their beliefs might influence their perception of what ...
Skylar L. Muller +3 more
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Animal-Visitor Interactions and the Visitor Experience: Visitor Behaviors, Attitudes, Perceptions, and Learning in the Modern Zoo [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2021 Animal-Visitor Interactions (AVIs) have become commonplace in zoological institutions and facilities globally. However, most AVI research focuses on the effects of visitors on the welfare of animals, with considerably fewer studies examining the visitor ...
Mark James Learmonth +3 more
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One or two pups - optimal reproduction strategies of common noctule females
BMC Zoology, 2022 Background The success of animal reproduction is impacted by a trade-off between energetic costs and mortality associated with immediate vs. future reproductive attempts.
Katerina Zukalova +6 more
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Blood Parasites and Health Status of Hibernating and Non-Hibernating Noctule Bats (Nyctalus noctula)
Microorganisms, 2022 Co-existence of bats with a wide range of infectious agents relates to their co-evolutionary history and specific physiology. Here, we examined blood samples collected during hibernation and the post-hibernation period to assess the influence of ...
Petr Linhart +14 more
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Zookeepers – The most important animal in the zoo? [PDF]
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2021 Education to improve knowledge of animal welfare is not a universal component of training for zoo staff, and little is reported about the perspectives of zoo staff on the need for such education. This paper reports results from structured telephone interviews of a diverse sample of eight Chinese and eight European zoo staff about aspects of zoological ...
Heather Bacon +5 more
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Increasing Animal Cognition Research in Zoos [PDF]
Zoo Biology, 2021 Abstract Animal cognition covers various mental processes including perception, learning, decision-making and memory, and animal behavior is often used as a proxy for measuring cognition. Animal cognition/behavior research has multiple benefits; it provides fundamental knowledge on animal biology and evolution but can also have applied ...
Garcia-Pelegrin, Elias +2 more
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