Currently reading Heini Hediger's Studies of the psychology and behaviour of captive animals in zoos and circuses and Wild Animals in Captivity....
Something that anti-zoo people seem to bring up a lot as a reason why zoos are bad is stereotypic, stress-driven behavior. "Zoochosis", if you...
This thread is about wild and zoo animals which voluntarily enter, stay or return to their exhibits. To show by examples, that animals do not...
Hi there, I'm looking for some guidance when it comes to protecting open air animal exhibits from visitors' personal objects falling in. For...
Nowadays, large carnivores get often large and well designed enclosures (in particular big cats, bears and wolfs). While many smaler to medium...
A new study has found that 84% of mammal species (n = 59 spp. in eight orders) live longer in zoos than in the wild. The effect was especially...
Something to share & keep in mind next time we visit a zoo... Often we forget that we're not the quietest species. Then how does noise affect the...
Hi, I am doing a research investigation on zoos- a 3-fold investigation centered around the contribution/value of the most reputable zoos w.r.t....
Dear colleagues, I would like to introduce my newsletter ZOOLINX which was originally produced to assist zoological establishments and their...
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