Personality in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Temporal stability and methods of assessment

Authors: Lucy Rutherford, Lindsay Murray, Lisa Holmes, Ellen Williams

Publication/Journal: Personality and Individual Differences

Keywords: elephant, personality, scale, TIPI, welfare

2025

Benchmarking Giant Panda Welfare in Tourism: A Co-Design Approach for Animals, Tourists, Managers, and Researchers

Authors: Yulei Guo, David Fennell

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, benchmark, co-design, giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), tourism, visitor comments

2024

The effects of human-zoo ambassador animal interactions on millennial populations

Authors: Brittany Fischer, Madeline Winans, Kimberly Cole, Sara Adamczak, Lauren Sommers, Kelly Ann George

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: education, human-animal interactions, millennial, welfare, zoo animals

2024

Zoo Visitors’ Most-Liked Aspects of Elephant Encounters and Related Perceptions of Animals’ Emotions and Welfare States: A Pragmatic Approach

Authors: Angela M. Lacinak

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal emotions, animal experiences, animal training, animal welfare, animal–caregiver interactions, elephants, pragmatism, visitors, zoos

2024

Animals’ Relationships with Caregivers and Conspecifics are Associated with Zoo Visitors’ Perceptions of Animals’ Emotions and Welfare States

Authors: Angela M. Lacinak

Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös

Keywords:

2023

A Gecko-eye View of Naturalistic Enclosures

Authors: Victoria Davies, Abigail Heaman, James Brereton

Publication/Journal: Insights Biol Med.

Keywords: enclosure design, Lygodactylus williamsi, naturalism, reptile behaviour, visitor perception

2023

Investigating Zoo Management Based on Visitors‘ Perception of service performance: a case of zoo Rabbitland, Malaysia

Authors: SITI FAHAZARINA HAZUDIN, MOHD AIDIL RIDUAN AWANG KADER, MOHD FAIZAL, AZRUL AZWAN MUHAMED, NOR HIDAYATUN ABDUL RAZAK, MAISARAH ISHAK, ADIBAH HUSSIN, AFIQAH BAZLLA MD SOOM

Publication/Journal: Journal of Sustainability Science and Management

Keywords: animal zoo tourism, Business excellence, service performance, sustainability, zoo management

2023

The perception of felid welfare by zookeepers in North America and the implications for zoo managers

Authors: Brian Ogle, Annabel DeSmet

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare management, felids, five freedoms, zookeepers, zoos

2023

Understanding Job Satisfaction and Occupational Stressors of Distinctive Roles in Zoos and Aquariums

Authors: Sabrina Brando, Patrícia Rachinas-Lopes, Vinícius D. Goulart, Lynette A. Hart

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, animal wellbeing, eudaimonic, hedonic, human wellbeing

2023