Read the summary and the most important questions on Zoo Animals Behaviour, Management, and Welfare | 9780199693528 | Geoff Hosey; Vicky Melfi; Sheila Pankhurst

• 1 Begrippenlijst

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• Annex A species

  Species listed in the first of four annexes to the EU CITES legislation. They include all Appendix I species, as well as some Appendix II and III species for which the EU has adopted stricter measures than CITES

• 2 Introduction

• 2.1 who is this book for?

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• Number of animal collections?

  10.000

• 3 History and philosophy of zoos

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• What is a zoo?

  A collection of exotic animals kept in captivity and show to the general public

• 3.1 What is a zoo

• Defintion of a zoo (Norton et al. 1995)

  A proffessionally managed zoological institution accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Assiciation and having a collection of living animals used for conservation, scientific studies, public education and public display

• Defintion of a zoo (Baratay & Hardouin-Fugier 2002)

  A place of forced meeting between animal and human

• Description of a zoo (AZA)

  A permanent cultural institution which owns and maintains captive wild animals that represent more than a token collection and, under the direction of a proffesional staf, provides its collection with appropriate care and exhibts them in an aesthetic manner to public on a regulary schedueld basis. 
  
  They shall further be defined as having their primary business the exhibition, conservation and preservation of the earth's fauna in an educational and scientific manner.

• 4 Behaviour

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• What implicate adaptive behaviour?

  Behaviour has a genetic base, because it can change after multiple generations. So there is also a range in the type a behaviour that a animal can preform, so indivudaly differences..

• What is adaptive behaviour?

  Behaviour that can evolves over generations by the proccess of natural selection, changing animals so that they are better able to survive.

• What are examples of animal stimuli?

  calls, chemical postures

• What are examples of physical stimuli?

  light, temperature, sound