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Zoo Animal Welfare Assessment: Where Do We Stand? [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Zoological institutions, such as zoos and aquariums, have made animal welfare a top priority, as it is not only a moral obligation but also crucial for fulfilling their roles in education and conservation.
Oriol Tallo-Parra +2 more
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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 ...
Sally L. Sherwen, Paul H. Hemsworth
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Behaviour-Based Husbandry—A Holistic Approach to the Management of Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors [PDF]
Animals, 2018 The field of zoo animal welfare science has developed significantly over recent years. However despite this progress in terms of scientific research, globally, zoo animals still face many welfare challenges.
Heather Bacon
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Advances in applied zoo animal welfare science [PDF]
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2018 Nonhuman animal welfare science is the scientific study of the welfare state of animals that attempts to make inferences about how animals feel from their behavior, endocrine function, and/or signs of physical health.
Clark, FE, Sherwen, S, Ward, SJ
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Keeper-Animal Interactions: Differences between the Behaviour of Zoo Animals Affect Stockmanship. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Stockmanship is a term used to describe the management of animals with a good stockperson someone who does this in a in a safe, effective, and low-stress manner for both the stock-keeper and animals involved.
Samantha J Ward, Vicky Melfi
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Dilemmas for Natural Living Concepts of Zoo Animal Welfare. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2019 This ethical discourse specifically deals with dilemmas encountered within zoological institutions, namely for the concept of natural living, and a new term—wilding. It is agreed by some that zoos are not ethically wrong in principle, but there are currently some contradictions and ethical concerns for zoos in practice.
Learmonth MJ.
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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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Artificial Intelligence's Potential in Zoo Animal Welfare. [PDF]
Zoo BiolABSTRACTThe thorough, objective, and regular assessment of animal welfare in zoos and aquariums is rapidly becoming an essential task for these institutions. Traditional welfare assessment methods are, however, difficult to scale to the number of species and individuals housed in zoos and aquariums.
Liptovszky M, Polla E.
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The Constructional Approach to Zoo Animal Training: Enhancing Welfare Through Emerging Evidence-Based Behavioral Science [PDF]
AnimalsAnimal welfare has become a cornerstone of modern zoo and aquarium animal care practices. This paper introduces the constructional approach to animal training as an evidence-based framework that can enhance the welfare of zoo animals.
Barbara Heidenreich, Annette Pedersen
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Various assessment tools that have been proposed thus far have disadvantages in that they are complex, time-consuming, non-objective, and not convenient for assessing multiple zoos.
Seung-Aee Ma +4 more
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