While they face ethical challenges and must continually strive to improve their practices, zoos also offer invaluable opportunities for education, conservation, and recreation. By balancing the needs of animals, visitors, and the broader environmental landscape, zoos can continue to play a vital role ...
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...
We must also distinguish zoos from sanctuaries such as the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee that preserve animals within expansive natural surroundings, often completely closed from public viewing. Often, however, zoos and menageries like "Noah s Land Sanctuary" in Harwood, Texas misleadingly claim ...
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 ...
However, when referencing poultry literature to aid in the design and management of zoo bird habitats, we must account for the lack of domestication in exotic species and the need to tailor the habitat to each individual bird. 3. Substrate and Flooring Inadequate flooring and generally sedentary ...
[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 ...
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...
Results suggest that zoo management should consider increasing feeding frequency, providing larger enclosures with more enrichment and more nests in larger spaces, and regulating visitor numbers to support good welfare and potentially improve reproductive fitness of red pandas in captivity. Keywords: ...
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 ...
Since some of the otter calls had formant-like structures, which were still clearly recognizable up to 16 kHz (compare [32,33]), it was possible to cut off interfering noise in lower frequencies to improve the results. However, not only the environment made the conditions for sound ...