Compounding this already bad situation is the fact that the majority of roadside zoo operators conduct their businesses on shoestring budgets, so they don’t have the funds required to provide acceptable conditions for the animals or improve them over time. SUBSTANDARD HOUSING, CARE & ANIMAL WELFARE...
To provide effective enrichment to a diversity of big cats, keepers must tailor their practices to the particular conditions and characteristics of each animal [10,84]. The personal experiences of keepers with specific animals or species, and the beliefs they generate from these experiences, can ...
[26,27]. In addition, setting performance benchmarks can also help improve individual institutions and the zoological industry as a whole [28]. Moreover, the performance of a zoo is connected to the employees’ working conditions and satisfaction. Specifically, good working conditions promote a ...
so zoos must assemble touchscreen systems on their own and write their own software or use pre-existing research-based software that is not ideally suited to zoo settings and applications. To remedy this, we developed a pre-built portable touchscreen system named Apex along with easy-to-operate...
It was in the 1950s that zoo animal welfare began to take centre stage as zoos (particularly those in Europe and North America) were pressured by the general public to improve captive conditions for the animal’s experience [34]. Such a shift came in the wake of increased accessibility to...
However, this claim must in part be attributable to the fact they defined immersion in water as an indicator of enhanced welfare. They also claimed that even in habitats in which tigers did not use pools, that the “presence of a water pool with clean water encourages tigers to perform ...
more frequent feeding schedules, providing larger enclosures with adequate enrichment, giving access to a greater number of nests with enough space, and controlling the number of visitors all may have implications for the welfare of red pandas, and these variables must be explored in future research...
Animal welfare measures have been designed to improve the health and environmental conditions of animals living under human control, for whatever reason. Welfare regulations have evolved also in line with new research insights into the cognitive, affective, and physiological domain of birds, as this ...
Thus it is not only possible to reject unreliable results, but also to repeat the localization with different settings to improve the accuracy. 4.1. Influence of Various Conditions and Filter Settings on the Accuracy of Sound Localization The accuracy of the software LASER has been tested under ...