HumanimaliaThis article reconstructs the double biography of Avi, an Asian elephant, born around 1875 and brought to Europe probably in 1883. “Double” because it will contrast the “medialized” Avi, the star animal of the Barcelona Zoo, founded in 1892 with the ...
Oliver Hochadel
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Who visits a nature based urban attraction and why? An exploratory study of the motivations to visit the Pretoria Zoo in South Africa [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2020 Urban tourism is one of the most dynamic types of tourism. The demand for travel to specifically cities, has greatly increased over the last few decades.
Bianca N Mkhize
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Author Correction: A novel method for automatically analysing the activity of fast-moving animals: a case study of Callimico goeldii monkeys housed in a zoological garden. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Nieckarz Z +3 more
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Zoo Biology, EarlyView.We investigated the extent and composition of red panda (Ailurus Fulgens spp.) encounters amongst 150 global zoos and their impact on animal longevity and reproduction. Comparative data analysis suggests that encounter animals produced more offspring and had higher longevity (survival) than non‐encounter animals with differences noted between ...
Sarah L. Spooner +6 more
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Mortality by Entamoeba invadens in green anacondas (Eunectes murinus) from a zoological garden [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira: Five green anacondas (Eunectes murinus) from the same enclosure died sequentially in the zoological garden of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Midwest Brazil.
Bruno C. Souza +7 more
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Systemic Infection by Angiostrongylus vasorum in a Fennec (Vulpeszerda) in an Italian Zoological Garden. [PDF]
Pathogens, 2022 Galietta V +9 more
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Behavior Change Projects in Zoological Collections: Application of the Behavior Change Wheel
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.Projects identified from zoo websites and their initial categorization. ABSTRACT Human behavior change is needed to stop the triple planetary crisis. Zoos reach millions of people every year and there is evidence available that people do change their behavior because of zoo led interventions.
Isabel Brinkley +3 more
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Prevalence and Molecular Identification of Entamoeba spp. in Non-human Primates in a Zoological Garden in Nanjing, China. [PDF]
Front Vet Sci, 2022 Liu X +8 more
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, 2006 Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing ...
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Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plant functional ecology research has primarily focused on juvenile and adult plants even though regeneration from seed can be the most consequential life‐history bottleneck with cascading influence on later stages of growth and reproduction.
Mandy L. Slate +10 more
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