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Zoo Animals - Geoff Hosey, Vicky Melfi, Sheila Pankhurst

Zoo Animals

Behaviour, Management and Welfare
Buch | Softcover
688 Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-923306-9 (ISBN)
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Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management and Welfare addresses the key questions surrounding the keeping of zoo animals, and reveals how we can apply our ever-growing understanding of animal behaviour to ensure zoo animals are managed as effectively as possible, without their health and welfare being compromised.
The keeping of zoo animals has become a central tool in the conservation of some of the world's most fascinating, yet threatened, species. But how do zoos operate on a day-to-day basis? What are the key problems zoos face in trying to feed, breed and keep healthy the animals in their care? How do they play their part in conserving biodiversity? Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management and Welfare addresses the key questions surrounding the keeping of zoo animals, and reveals how we can apply our ever-growing understanding of animal behaviour to ensure zoo animals are managed as effectively as possible. Drawing on their extensive experience of zoo research, practice, and teaching, the authors blend together theory with a broad range of both mammalian and non-mammalian examples to give a highly-readable overview of this burgeoning field. Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, and Welfare is the ideal resource for anyone needing a thorough grounding in this subject, whether as a student or as a zoo professional.
Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre features: For lecturers: - Figures from the book in electronic format, for use in lecture slides For students: - Tasks, and associated datasets, for use with Zootrition and/or related software - Annotated web link library - Legislation information: summary information, and related web links, regarding zoo-related legislation in countries other than the UK - Latest news: summaries of latest developments in the field, with links to relevant literature

Dr. Geoff Hosey was formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Bolton, UK, where he taught in the area of animal behaviour. Dr. Vicky Melfi is Senior Research Officer at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, UK. Her research interests include animal welfare, behavioural ecology of zoo animals, and environmental enrichment. Dr. Sheila Pankhurst is Director of Studies in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, where her teaching and research centres on the behaviour and welfare of zoo animals.

1. Introduction ; 2. History, philosophy and ethics ; 3. Legislative and regulatory framework ; 4. Animal ID and records ; 5. Housing and husbandry ; 6. Behaviour ; 7. Welfare ; 8. Enrichment ; 9. Captive breeding ; 10. Conservation ; 11. Health ; 12. Nutrition ; 13. Human-animal interactions ; 14. Research ; 15. The future of zoos

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.1.2009
Zusatzinfo numerous halftones and figures
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 189 x 246 mm
Gewicht 1515 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Veterinärmedizin Großtier Zoo- / Wildtier
ISBN-10 0-19-923306-3 / 0199233063
ISBN-13 978-0-19-923306-9 / 9780199233069
Zustand Neuware
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