In anthropology and across the humanities social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on ways in which these institutions enable viewing other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound-focused ethnographic fieldwork engage with two UK describe a particular mode cross-species listening is enacted zookeepers. The conc...

Zoo animals may be particularly vulnerable to water sources contaminated with cyanobacterial toxins given their nonvoluntary close association with this resource. However, the prevalence and potential threat of toxic cyanobacteria in this setting are unknown. Several otherwise unexplained yellow-bellied slider (Trachemys scripta scripta) deaths were documented in a zoo moat with recurring bloom...

The gastrointestinal (GI) tracts of non-human primates (NHPs) are well known to harbor Escherichia coli, a known commensal of human beings and animals. While E. coli is a normal inhabitant of the mammalian gut, it also exists in a number of pathogenic forms or pathotypes, including those with predisposition for the GI tract as well as the urogenital tract. Diarrhea in captive NHPs has long been...

Understanding the demands and satisfaction levels of zoo visitors becomes indispensable to sustain a flow of visitors in the increasingly competitive tourism market. This research assessed the importance and performance of the service and facilities attributes in order to measure visitor satisfaction using an importance-performance analysis (IPA). Results of the questionnaire survey of 697 visi...

Environmental enrichment, particularly auditory has recently gained attention as a potential method for reducing stress, and encouraging more diverse behavior repertoire in captive animals. However, the effects of enrichment on are inconclusive between different studies, interpretation proven difficult. In this commentary, we discuss factors, such small sample sizes diversity social groups, whi...

This is the third part of the five-part saga on the umbral transfermatrix method, based on Gian-Carlo Rota’s seminal notion of the umbra. In this article we describe the Maple package ZOO that for any specific k, automatically constructs an umbral scheme for enumerating “k-board” lattice animals (polyominoes) on the two-dimensional square lattice. Such umbral schemes enable counting these impor...

A zoo experienced several fatalities following an outbreak of a Y. pseudotuberculosis infection in Goeldi’s Marmosets (Callimico goeldii) and Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). The zoo had previously abandoned its vaccination programme due to no outbreaks over the past few years. The animals underwent a post mortem examination at Greendale Veterinary Laboratories and an infection with Y. p...