Zoo Animals: Husbandry, Welfare and Public Interactions (book)

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A new zoo book has been published, Zoo Animals: Husbandry, Welfare and Public Interactions, edited by Maja Berger and Sarah Corbett. The online price is $175.50.

Table of Contents:


Preface

Chapter 1. Can We Meet the Needs of Social Species in Zoos? An Overview of the Impact of Group Housing on Welfare in Socially Housed Zoo Mammals
(Ellen Williams, Samantha Bremner-Harrison and Samantha J. Ward, School of Animal Rural and Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottinghamshire, UK)

Chapter 2. Animal Ambassador Encounter Programmes in Zoos: Current Status and Future Research Needs
(Katherine Whitehouse-Tedd, Sarah Spooner, Laura Scott, and Jairo Lozano-Martinez, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Southwell, United Kingdom, and others)

Chapter 3. Ensuring a Good Quality of Life in the Zoo: Underpinning Welfare-Positive Animal Management with Ecological Evidence
(Paul E. Rose, Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Labs, Exeter, Devon, England, UK, and others)

Chapter 4. Conserving Behaviour with Cognitive Enrichment: A New Frontier for Zoo Animal Management?
(Lisa Riley, University Centre Sparsholt, Westley Lane, Sparsholt, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK)

Chapter 5. Challenging Folklore Reptile Husbandry in Zoological Parks
(Robert W. Mendyk, Department of Herpetology, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washingtond DC, US, and others)

Chapter 6. Remembering the Forgotten: Highlighting the Need for More Research and Education on Understudied Zoo-Housed Taxa
(Ricardo Lemos de Figueiredo, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Chester, England, UK)

Index
 
Seems to be heavy with researchers, and relatively few practitioners? Also very expensive. Is this an arm waving academic book?
 
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