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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of Enteric Parasites of Zoo Animals and Zookeepers in Beni-Suef Governorate, Egypt [PDF]

Journal of Veterinary Medical Research, 2013
In this study, the enteric parasites of zoo animals and zookeepers in Beni-Suef governorate, Egypt were investigated. Fecal samples from thirteen animal species were examined by floatation and formol ether sedimentation techniques.
W. M. Arafa, Lilian N. Mahrous, S. M. Aboelhadid, A. E. Abdel-Ghany   +3 more
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Contrasting phagocyte respiratory burst responses in two European bat species during hibernation

Frontiers in Immunology
Bats use various natural or artificial structures as hibernacula, resulting in a diversification of hibernation strategies. For example, caves provide a stable thermal microclimate for the greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis), whereas above-ground ...
Jan Zukal, Jan Zukal, Monika Nemcova, Erik Bachorec, Tomas Heger, Veronika Seidlova, Ivana Papezikova, Vladimir Piacek, Katerina Zukalova, Jiri Pikula   +9 more
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Gender and Age, but Not Visual Context, Impact Wildlife Attitudes and Perceptions of Animals in Zoos

Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2023
People’s attitudes toward wildlife may impact their behaviors in support of conservation. We surveyed people in the United States to determine if gender, age, or visual contexts commonly seen in zoos impacted wildlife attitudes and perceptions of animals
Andrew C. Alba, Gina M. Ferrie, Mandi Wilder Schook, Maureen Leahy, Katherine A. Cronin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maintaining the genetic health of putative Barbary lions in captivity: an analysis of Moroccan Royal Lions. [PDF]

, 2009
The last representatives of the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo), once numerous in North Africa but exterminated from the wild by the 1940s, are believed to be the captive lions descended from the Moroccan Royal Collection, numbering less than 90 ...
Groombridge, Jim J., Black, Simon, Black, Simon A., Harland, Adrian, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, Groombridge, Jim   +5 more
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Behavioral Implications of the Complete Absence of Guests on a Zoo-Housed Gorilla Troop

, 2021
Research conducted on the effects that zoo visitors have on primate behavior has yielded inconsistent patterns. This study aims to contribute to the growing body of literature regarding visitor effects on zoo-housed primate’s activity budgets, with the ...
Caeley M. Robinson, Susan W. Margulis, Megan E. Miller   +2 more
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Quantitative assessment of masticatory muscles based on skull muscle attachment areas in Carnivora

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Masticatory muscles are composed of the temporalis, masseter, and pterygoid muscles in mammals. Each muscle has a different origin on the skull and insertion on the mandible; thus, all masticatory muscles contract in different directions. Collecting in vivo data and directly measuring the masticatory muscles anatomically in various Carnivora ...
Kai Ito, Mugino O. Kubo, Ryo Kodera, Sei‐ichiro Takeda, Hideki Endo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physical and Physiological Indicators of Welfare in Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus) Serving as Ambassador Animals

, 2020
Special encounters that allow contact between animals and guests are common in zoos and aquariums. Visitors to the Saint Louis Zoo may touch guinea pigs serving as ambassador animals.
John Clark, David M. Powell, Ashley D. Franklin, Alice Seyfried, Eli Baskir, Corinne P. Kozlowski   +5 more
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Feeding live prey to zoo animals: response of zoo visitors in Switzerland [PDF]

, 2010
In summer 2007, with the help of a written questionnaire, the attitudes of more than 400 visitors to the zoological garden of Zurich, Switzerland, toward the idea of feeding live insects to lizards, live fish to otters, and live rabbits to tigers were ...
Bühler, D, Cottle, L, Lindemann-Matthies, P, Hyseni, M, Tamir, D   +4 more
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Tooth row allometry in domestic rabbits and nondomestic lagomorphs: Evidence for a decoupling of body and tooth row size changes in evolutionary time

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Domestic rabbits of different body sizes differ disproportionately in the length of their tooth row or the length of their diastema. Abstract In various domestic mammals, smaller breeds tend to have proportionally larger teeth, whereas this is not a universal trend across mammals.
Ursina L. Fasciati, Christine Böhmer, Stefanie Ohlerth, Marcus Clauss   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source