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Thinking with Civets: The Role of Zoos in the Decolonisation of Animal Tourism
Animals, 2023 Civets belong to the family Viverridae, an ancient line of ‘cat-like’ animals. Despite their large geographic distribution across southeast Asia and parts of Africa, little scientific attention has been attributed to Viverrids or Viverrid–human relations.
Jes Hooper
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The role of aquaria in beluga research and conservation
Polar Research, 2021 Aquaria that care for and maintain belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) under professional care have the opportunity to contribute to the conservation of wild belugas through research, expertise in animal care and husbandry, and engaging and educating the ...
Tracy A. Romano +7 more
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How AZA zoos and aquariums are helping to fill the gap
Animal SentienceOldfield & Bonano (2024) identify significant gaps in scientific knowledge about certain animal taxa, such as reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and fish.
Erika Bauer +2 more
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Does the Absence of Zoo Visitors during the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact Gorilla Behavior?
Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2022 Whether or not primates are behaviorally affected by the presence of visitors in a zoo setting is a question of great relevance to zoo animal well-being.
Mary Masman +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal, 2002 Abstract We can start with a rough-and-ready definition of zoos: they are public parks which display animals, primarily for the purposes of recreation or education. Although large collections of animals were maintained in antiquity, they were not zoos in this sense.
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Environmental enrichment for reptiles in European zoos: Current status and perspectives
Animal Welfare, 2023 Zoos and aquaria are paying increasing attention to environmental enrichment, which has proven an effective tool for the improvement of animal welfare. However, several ongoing issues have hampered progress in environmental enrichment research.
Alicia Bartolomé +2 more
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The Effect of Regulating Zoo Visitor-Penguin Interactions on Zoo Visitor Attitudes
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Understanding visitor attitudes toward zoo animals can inform the way zoos manage visitor-animal interactions by identifying the factors that may influence visitors and the way visitors interact with animals.
Samantha J. Chiew +4 more
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Experimental Mathematics, 2001 We find all the maximal admissible connected sets of Gaussian primes: there are 52 of them. Our catalog corrects some errors in the literature. We also describe a totally automated procedure to determine the heuristic estimates for how often various patterns, in either the integers or Gaussian integers, occur in the primes.
Renze, John, Wagon, Stan, Wick, Brian
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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HumanimaliaPlacing the special issue within the historiography of human-elephant relationships, the introduction addresses the challenges associated with the integration of elephants into academic narratives. It pays special attention to the epistemological and
Violette Pouillard +1 more
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