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Biomedical research with a Caribbean one-health perspective
Contributor(s):: Cheetham, S., Stone, D., Marancik, D., Kaplan, R. M., Olson, N. C.
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Behavior reference intervals and activity budgets of bottlenose dolphins in accredited zoos and aquariums
Contributor(s):: Lauderdale, Lisa K., Mellen, Jill D., Walsh, Michael T., Granger, Douglas A., Miller, Lance J.
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Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animal groups
| Contributor(s):: S. Mazzola, M. Albertini
Interactions that animals experience can have a significant influence on their health and welfare. These interactions can occur between animals themselves, but also between animals and keepers, and animals and the public. Human and non-human animals come into contact with each other in a...
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A science-based policy for managing free-roaming cats
| Contributor(s):: Lepczyk, C. A., Duffy, D. C., Bird, D. M., Calver, M., Cherkassky, D., Cherkassky, L., Dickman, C. R., Hunter, D., Jessup, D., Longcore, T., Loss, S. R., Loyd, K. A. T., Marra, P. P., Marzluff, J. M., Noss, R. F., Simberloff, D., Sizemore, G. C., Temple, S. A., Heezik, Y. van
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Long-Term Spatial Restriction Generates Deferred Limited Space Use in a Zoo-Housed Chimpanzee Group
| Contributor(s):: Duncan, Luke Mangaliso, D’Egidio Kotze, Chiara, Pillay, Neville
Background: Appropriate space is considered paramount for good captive animal welfare. There has been a concerted effort by captive institutions, particularly zoos, to provide captive animals with relatively large, naturalistic enclosures which havehad demonstrated welfare benefits for animals....
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Enrichment with classical music enhances affiliative behaviours in bottlenose dolphin
| Contributor(s):: Guérineau, Cécile, Lõoke, Miina, Ganassin, Giuseppe, Bertotto, Daniela, Bortoletti, Martina, Cavicchioli, Laura, Furlati, Stefano, Mongillo, Paolo, Marinelli, Lieta
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The Struggle Itself Toward the Heights Is Enough to Fill a Man's Heart: Calling, Moral Duty, Meaningfulness and Existential Self of Zookeepers
| Contributor(s):: Luisa G. Allen
Applying Existential Sociology (Douglas & Johnson 1977, Manning 1973, Lyman and Scott 1989, Kotarba and Fontana 1984) as a theoretical foundation, this thesis endeavors to formulate first-order experiential understanding of zookeepers. Utilized is a mixed method approach comprising the...
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Evaluation Tools for Educational Programs at Zoos Victoria
| Contributor(s):: Nicole Marie Packard, Michael Robert Clark, Erin Marie McConnaghy, Brian Grant Peterson
Zoos Victoria recently introduced a new educational program, Education for Conservation (EfC), to teach visiting students about conservation practices. Our goal was to create a set of efficient tools to assess the effectiveness of EfC from the perspectives of Zoo educators, schoolteachers, and...
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Liminal Animals in Liminal Spaces: A Day at Berlin Zoo
| Contributor(s):: Kristine Hill
This reflexive essay is based on a visit to Berlin Zoo on an overcast February day. It attempts to make sense of the "zoo experience" through critical self-reflection and observations of how visitors relate to animal others. The concept of zoo inhabitants as liminal beings, neither...
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Assessing the Psychological Priorities for Optimising Captive Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Welfare
| Contributor(s):: Jake Stuart Veasey
The welfare status of elephants under human care has been a contentious issue for two decades or more in numerous western countries. Much effort has gone into assessing the welfare of captive elephants at individual and population levels with little consensus having been achieved in relation to...
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Public Perceptions of Herpetofauna in Zoos
| Contributor(s):: Ogle, Brian W., Devlin, Shona
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Mountain Turtles and Giant Crabs: Cosmological Implications and Supernatural Understandings of Rare Creatures on an Eastern Indonesian Island
| Contributor(s):: Forth, Gregory
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Carcass Feeding for Captive Vultures: Testing Assumptions about Zoos and Effects on Birds and Visitors
| Contributor(s):: Hannah Gaengler
Carcass feeding is a potentially controversial feeding method for zoo animals. The common assumption is that many North American zoos refrain from feeding large carcasses to their carnivorous animals because zoo visitors might not approve of this feeding method. However, since there are several...
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Behavioral characterization of musth in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Defining progressive stages of male sexual behavior in in-situ and ex-situ populations
| Contributor(s):: LaDue, Chase A., Vandercone, Rajnish P. G., Kiso, Wendy K., Freeman, Elizabeth W.
Complementary studies of wild and zoo-housed animals offer insight into behavioral variation across a range of conditions including the context under which various behaviors evolved in natural settings. This information can be used to improve the sustainability of in-situ and ex-situ populations...
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Individuals Matter: Dilemmas and Solutions in Conservation and Animal Welfare Practices in Zoos
| Contributor(s):: Clay, Anne Safiya, Visseren-Hamakers, Ingrid J.
Compassionate conservation advocates for minimizing individual suffering in conservation practice and adheres to the principle “individuals matter”—intrinsically, in and of themselves. Our objective is to determine the extent to which, and how, zoos recognize the intrinsic value...
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Using Thermal Imaging to Monitor Body Temperature of Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in A Zoo Setting
| Contributor(s):: Edward Narayan, Annabella Perakis, Will Meikle
Non-invasive techniques can be applied for monitoring the physiology and behaviour of wildlife in Zoos to improve management and welfare. Thermal imaging technology has been used as a non-invasive technique to measure the body temperature of various domesticated and wildlife species. In this...
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Human Positioning in Close-Encounter Photographs and the Effect on Public Perceptions of Zoo Animals
| Contributor(s):: Shaw, M. N., McLeod, E. M., Borrie, W. T., Miller, K. K.
With the rising popularity of social media, conservation organisations and zoos need to understand its impact on public perceptions of the animals they house and their role in conservation. In addition, many zoos offer close-encounter experiences, and visitors frequently share images from these...
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Visitor attachment to dolphins during an interaction programme, are there implications to dolphin behavior?
| Contributor(s):: Welsh, T., Ward, S.
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The influence of welfare and bonds with animals on the job satisfaction of felid keepers in North America
| Contributor(s):: DeSmet, A., Ogle, B.
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Ireland Human-Animal Interactions Education Abroad
| Contributor(s):: Lauren Hamer
For my project I took course in Human-Animal Interactions then went abroad to Ireland with the Department of Animal Sciences to do study that same thing. While abroad for 9 days we visited zoos, animal rehabilitation centers, multiple farms, the University College of Dublin, and even some...
