I’ve studied stress in marsupials. Here’s why banning koala cuddles is a good idea – backed by the scientific evidence on koala handling and stress.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Zoos
Displaying 1 - 20 of 69 articles
Just as the world’s zoos breed critically endangered animals in captivity to repopulate the wild, scientists are building a global effort to freeze corals for reef restoration.
Zoo-based research can teach us about the needs of animals in our care.
Zoos have the potential to do more for growing conservation science and practice.
Surviving solely in zoos and botanic gardens are 33 animal and 39 plant species.
Vale Tricia: the beloved Asian elephant called Perth Zoo home since 1963. Her death has led to an outpouring of grief in Perth, especially among zookeepers and her fellow elephants.
Historians aren’t sure exactly when the first zoo was built, but it’s clear humans have kept exotic animals for thousands of years.
Ukraine’s zoos are struggling to look after their animals, but are getting international support.
A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 protocols should be extended to areas in which there is a human-animal interface such as zoos, wildlife sanctuaries and game farms.
A fundamental change in how North American zoos and aquariums are accredited supports their animal conservation and species survival work.
There are so few wild ocelots in the US that the cats are becoming inbred, with a bad prognosis for their ultimate survival. But researchers are perfecting ways to get new genes into the population.
The lawsuit resembles earlier legal efforts to make tobacco companies remedy wrongdoing.
Life in captivity causes observable harm to the structure and function of large mammals’ brains.
Zoos are struggling more than most businesses.
One aquarium in Japan has asked the public to make video calls to captive garden eels so they don’t forget about human visitors.
Freedom of movement for survival.
People can still learn a great deal about these mammals while keeping a safe distance.
The main food for the mountain pygmy-possum’s spring/summer breeding season is the migratory bogong moth, but in 2017 and 2018 billions of bogong moths failed to arrive. Then the bushfires did.
The slaughtered tigers were not bred in zoos, yet their story should put captive breeding in general into question.
Data collected by zoos can help scientists model the populations of endangered species.
Job Board
-
Team Leader, Admissions, Future Students
-
Economics Editor
-
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services)
-
Chief People & Culture Officer
-
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Construction and Project Management
Top contributors
-
Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
-
Associate Professor of Zoo Animal Welfare, Nottingham Trent University
-
Professor, Applied Evolutionary Ecology, Laurentian University
-
Director Wildlife Conservation and Science, Zoos Victoria, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Biology, Psychology, and Environmental Science & Sustainability, Director Zoo & Conservation Science, Drake University
-
Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation, University of Surrey
-
Professor in Sociology, University of Canterbury
-
Professor of wildlife population health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
-
Senior Lecturer in Wildlife, University of Salford
-
Professor in Modern History, University of York
-
Adjunct Lecturer/ Ecologist, University of New England
-
Associate Professor of Communication, Georgia State University
-
Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Environmental Ethics and Conservation, Arizona State University
-
Professor of Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
