Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups
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 variety of...
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ftunivmilriv:oai:ojs.riviste.unimi.it:article/5115 2023-05-15T18:01:47+02:00 Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups Quintavalle Pastorino, Giovanni Preziosi, Richard Albertini, Mariangela 2015-07-17 application/pdf https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf/article/view/5115 https://doi.org/10.13130/2283-3927/5115 eng eng Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety (VESPA) https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf/article/view/5115/5179 https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf/article/view/5115 doi:10.13130/2283-3927/5115 Copyright (c) 2015 International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety; Vol. 2 No. 1s (2015) International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety; V. 2 N. 1s (2015) 2283-3927 zoo animal-keeper relatonship animal-public interactions info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 ftunivmilriv https://doi.org/10.13130/2283-3927/5115 2022-02-21T07:12:04Z 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 variety of settings, and wherever there is contact there is the opportunity for interaction to take place. Interaction with companion animals are well known, but human–animal interaction (HAR) (Hosey, 2008) also occurs in the context of farms (Hemsworth and Gonyou, 1997; Hemsworth, 2003), laboratories (Chang and Hart, 2002), zoos (Kreger and Mench, 1995) and even the wild (e.g. Cassini, 2001). This project proposes a permanent monitoring scheme to record animal-human interactions and animal-animal interactions in zoos. This will be accompanied by a survey of animal personality for welfare, husbandry, breeding programs and reintroduction purposes. The pilot project is currently based on direct monitoring of animal behaviour, use of time lapse cameras and animal personality questionnaires completed by experienced keepers. The goal of this project is to create a network between zoos to explore the aforementioned interactions to produce husbandry protocols and explore personality and behavioural traits in multiple species. We present provisional data regarding polar bear (Fasano Zoosafari, Italy), Sumatran tigers, Amur tigers and Asiatic lion (ZSL London and Whipsnade zoo) interactions with humans and conspecifics. This data is collected across a broad range of environmental conditions and outlines the monitoring protocols developed to collect this data. The first year data show the great adaptability of these species to ex situ environments, low or absent negative impact of visitors’ presence and the relevance of individual personality in these interactions. Article in Journal/Newspaper polar bear University of Milan: Riviste UNIMI |
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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 variety of settings, and wherever there is contact there is the opportunity for interaction to take place. Interaction with companion animals are well known, but human–animal interaction (HAR) (Hosey, 2008) also occurs in the context of farms (Hemsworth and Gonyou, 1997; Hemsworth, 2003), laboratories (Chang and Hart, 2002), zoos (Kreger and Mench, 1995) and even the wild (e.g. Cassini, 2001). This project proposes a permanent monitoring scheme to record animal-human interactions and animal-animal interactions in zoos. This will be accompanied by a survey of animal personality for welfare, husbandry, breeding programs and reintroduction purposes. The pilot project is currently based on direct monitoring of animal behaviour, use of time lapse cameras and animal personality questionnaires completed by experienced keepers. The goal of this project is to create a network between zoos to explore the aforementioned interactions to produce husbandry protocols and explore personality and behavioural traits in multiple species. We present provisional data regarding polar bear (Fasano Zoosafari, Italy), Sumatran tigers, Amur tigers and Asiatic lion (ZSL London and Whipsnade zoo) interactions with humans and conspecifics. This data is collected across a broad range of environmental conditions and outlines the monitoring protocols developed to collect this data. The first year data show the great adaptability of these species to ex situ environments, low or absent negative impact of visitors’ presence and the relevance of individual personality in these interactions. |
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Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups |
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Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups |
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Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups |
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Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups |
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Factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups |
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factors influencing interactions in zoos: animal-keeper relationship, animal-public interactions and solitary animals groups |
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Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety (VESPA) |
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2015 |
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https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf/article/view/5115 https://doi.org/10.13130/2283-3927/5115 |
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International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety; Vol. 2 No. 1s (2015) International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety; V. 2 N. 1s (2015) 2283-3927 |
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https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf/article/view/5115/5179 https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/haf/article/view/5115 doi:10.13130/2283-3927/5115 |
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Copyright (c) 2015 International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety |
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