The Effect of Regulating Zoo Visitor-Penguin Interactions on Zoo Visitor Attitudes

The Zoo Visitor: Who’s Who in the Zoo

Effect of Felid Activity on Zoo Visitor Interest

The extent to which the presence of zoo visitors influences animal behavior, and the ways in which animal activity influences visitor interest and perception, are of great interest to zoological parks. Visitors have been variously characterized as being enriching for zoo animals, as being stressors, and generally as influencing behavior in measurable ways. Most studies have focused on primates,...

The Zoo Visitor: What Visitors Think and Say

Is wounding aggression in zoo-housed chimpanzees and ring-tailed lemurs related to zoo visitor numbers?

Chimpanzees in laboratory colonies experience more wounds on weekdays than on weekends, which has been attributed to the increased number of people present during the week; thus, the presence of more people was interpreted as stressful. If this were also true for primates in zoos, where high human presence is a regular feature, this would clearly be of concern. Here we examine wounding rates in...

Farrand A , Hosey G & Buchanan - Smith HM ( 2014 ) The visitor effect in petting zoo

Science. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published Abstract Two studies were carried out on the effect of visitors on mixe...