The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 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 ...
Sherwen SL, Hemsworth PH.
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Parasitological examination results of zoo animals in Germany between 2012 and 2022 [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeParasitic infections in zoo animals are a critical concern for both animal health and management. The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of endo- and ectoparasites among zoo animals in Germany.
Lea-Christina Murnik +7 more
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Identification of zoonotic pathogens in zoo animals in the Republic of Korea [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeZoo animals may harbor various zoonotic pathogens and may pose a potential risk to humans through close contact. Nevertheless, epidemiological data on zoonotic diseases are scarce.
Jinho Um +6 more
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Investigation of Toxoplasma infection in zoo animals using multispecies ELISA and GRA7 nested PCR [PDF]
BMC Veterinary Research, 2022 Background Toxoplasma is an obligate intracellular protozoan that causes an important zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution. Felids are the definitive hosts of this parasite, while virtually all warm-blooded animals, including birds, serve as ...
Ru-Min Liu +9 more
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Assessment of Welfare in Zoo Animals: Towards Optimum Quality of Life [PDF]
Animals, 2018 Zoos are required to maintain a high standard of animal welfare, and this can be assessed using a combination of resource-based and animal-based indices usually divided into behavioural indicators, physiological indicators and clinical/pathological signs.
Sarah Wolfensohn, Wolfensohn Sarah
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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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