Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, and Welfare by Geoff Hosey,Vicky Melfi,Sheila Pankhurst
By Geoff Hosey,Vicky Melfi,Sheila Pankhurst
Zoo Animals: Behaviour, administration and Welfare addresses the most important questions surrounding the preserving of unique animals in captivity, and divulges how we will be able to observe our ever-growing realizing of animal behaviour and use a proof established method of verify zoo animals are controlled as successfully as possible.
Drawing on their huge event of zoo examine, perform, and instructing, the authors mix jointly thought with a extensive variety of either mammalian and non-mammalian examples to offer a highly-readable evaluation of this burgeoning box. Zoo Animals: Behaviour, administration, and Welfare is the perfect source for somebody desiring an intensive grounding during this topic, no matter if as a pupil or as a zoo professional.
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