ZooBoo delivers family fun while raising money for animals
The Erie Zoo's popular ZooBoo fundraiser will provide lots of familiar family fun but on more nights this October.
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Hosey, G. R. 2000. Zoo Animals and their human audiences: What is the visitor effect? Animal Welfare 9, 343-357.
A review. We can conclude that social facilitation effects cannot explain the pattern of responses [increase in agonistic and decrease in affiliative behavior] of non-human primates to human observers ...
As fire raged nearby, a tiny town’s zoo animals were driven to safety
The animals of the Big Bear Alpine Zoo are returning home after spending a week in Palm Springs evacuating from wildfires.
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Hosey, G., Melfi, V. 2012. Human-animal bonds between zoo professionals and the animals in their care. Zoo Biology 31(1), 13-26.
Some human-animal relationships can be so positive that they confer emotional well-being to both partners and can thus be viewed as bonds. In this study, 130 delegates at zoo research and training ...
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Salisbury Zoo mourning death of black-handed spider monkey Dweasal
The Salisbury Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its black-handed spider monkeys, Dweasal. Here's all to know.
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Zoo animals escape as flood hits Nigerian state
but has been recaptured Officials from a zoo in north-east Nigeria have confirmed that some wild animals had escaped from captivity after flooding hit Borno state. Videos of some of the creatures ...
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Orangutan ‘cartwheels’ his way to escape from Toronto Zoo enclosure
Toronto Zoo/Facebook A four-second clip shows the orangutan swinging from O-line ropes to an elevated platform, from which he shimmied his way down. The fuzzy animal executed a nearly perfect ...
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As fire raged nearby, a tiny town's zoo animals were driven to safety
Perched in the front seat of a truck, Cowboy — along with nearly 50 other animals — was being evacuated Sept. 12 from the Big Bear Alpine Zoo in the face of the advancing Line Fire ...
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As fire raged nearby, a tiny town's zoo animals were driven to safety
Perched in the front seat of a truck, Cowboy — along with nearly 50 other animals — was being evacuated Sept. 12 from the Big Bear Alpine Zoo in the face of the advancing Line Fire, which blazed ...