The visitor effect on zoo animals: Implications and opportunities for zoo animal welfare

SL Sherwen, PH Hemsworth - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Research has shown that an animal's welfare is highly dependent on how
various individual animal factors (eg, species traits, genetics, temperament and previous …

The neurobiology of behavior and its applicability for animal welfare: A review

GA Coria-Avila, JG Pfaus, A Orihuela… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Animal welfare is the result of physical and psychological well-being and
is expected to occur if animals are free:(1) from hunger, thirst and malnutrition,(2) from …

A global review of animal–visitor interactions in modern zoos and aquariums and their implications for wild animal welfare

N D'Cruze, S Khan, G Carder, D Megson, E Coulthard… - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This study explores the characteristics of animal-visitor Interactions
(AVIs)(interactions between people and captive wild animals) in zoos and aquaria across …

The visitor effect in zoo-housed apes: The variable effect on behaviour of visitor number and noise

A Hashmi, M Sullivan - Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research, 2020 - jzar.org
Human visitors have the potential to impact heavily upon the welfare of zoo-housed animals,
and the study of the effect has become an established research area in the modern zoo. This …

Welfare assessment tools in zoos: from theory to practice

N Jones, SL Sherwen, R Robbins, DJ McLelland… - Veterinary …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Zoos are increasingly implementing formalized animal welfare assessment programs to
allow monitoring of welfare over time, as well as to aid in resource prioritization. These …

Public feeding interactions as enrichment for three zoo-housed elephants

EJ Fernandez, B Upchurch, NC Hawkes - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Human–animal interactions are an important focus of modern animal
welfare research. A subset of this interest includes animal–visitor interactions that occur in …

[PDF][PDF] Animal-Visitor interactions: Effects, experiences, and welfare

EJ Fernandez, SJ Chiew - Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2021 - researchgate.net
Animal-Visitor Interactions (AVI) within zoos and aquariums have become an increasingly
studied topic. Influenced by both the broader field of Human-Animal Interactions (HAI), as …

Are" visitor effects" overestimated? Behaviour in captive lemurs is mainly driven by co-variation with time and weather

AE Goodenough, K McDonald, K Moody… - Journal of Zoo and …, 2019 - eprints.glos.ac.uk
The potential influence of visitors on behaviour of captive animals is well known. However,
little research on “visitor effects” has also evaluated time of day and weather, which can …

Through the looking glass: effects of visitors on primates in zoos

AN Edes, K Hall - … Primate Behavioural Flexibility Across Human Contexts, 2023 - Springer
Daily exposure to visitors as well as caretakers makes the zoo environment a unique setting
for primates in human care. Understanding how visitors impact zoo-housed primates is key …

The effect of visitors on the behaviour of zoo-housed primates: A test of four hypotheses

G Hosey, S Ward, V Melfi - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of human visitors on the behaviour and welfare of zoo-housed primates have
been extensively studied, and we know more about these effects in primates than in any …