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A Guide to Managing Zoo Animal Welfare: A Behavioral Approach

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A Guide to Managing Zoo Animal Welfare delivers a step-by-step guide to behavioral assessment approaches, techniques, and tools for animal welfare with an emphasis on animals living in zoos and aquaria. The authors develop a unique “balance-based” approach that can be used to assess and enhance the welfare of a diverse range of species. Backed by extensive scientific literature, this ebook provides foundational context to help readers to understand why the authors give these recommendations and guidelines. Presenting unique insight and a novel approach, this resource is essential for professional animal behaviorists in zoos and aquaria, researchers in animal behavior and animal welfare, and students in veterinary sciences and zoology programs.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

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A Guide to Managing Zoo Animal Welfare delivers a step-by-step guide to behavioral assessment approaches, techniques, and tools for animal welfare with an emphasis on animals living in zoos and aquaria. The authors develop a unique “balance-based” approach that can be used to assess and enhance the welfare of a diverse range of species… 204 p. 

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  • Jason V. Watters. Adjunct Associate Professor, Animal Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA (USA).
  • Bethany L. Krebs. Executive Editor of ‘Zoo Biology‘, a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with reproduction, demographics, genetics, behavior, medicine, husbandry, nutrition, and conservation; San Francisco Zoo, CA (USA).
  • Publication date (digital versions): 2025-01 – Wiley-Blackwell; Copyright © 2025 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

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