Research and study design in zoos

Question 1

Examples of stereotypic behviour

Answer 1

Examples include:
* Pacing Head-shaking
* Weaving Self-mutilation
* Rocking Feather plucking
* Bar-biting Tail biting

Question 2

Five Categories of Enrichment:

Answer 2

1. Food-based (centred on type & delivery of food)
2. Physical (changes to structural environmentpermanent or temporary-or provision of objects to manipulate)
3. Sensory (stimulates senses-what they see, hear, or smell)
4. Social (interactions with other animals-same or different species-or people)
5. Cognitive (problem solving tasks)

Question 3

How to observe and record behiour

Answer 3

Published Activity Budgets
Ethograms
Enclosure Diagram

Question 4

Zoo visitors may be seen as:

Answer 4

• Enemy/predators
• Prey
• Symbiont (living together)
• Conspecific (same species)
• No consequence

Question 5

• Symbiont means

Answer 5

(living together)

Question 6

Conspecific

Answer 6

(same species)

Question 7

Hands-off

Answer 7

(limited interaction)

Question 8

• Protected

Answer 8

(mesh or fence in between)

Question 9

• Hands-on

Answer 9

(in with animal)

Question 10

—- —– sampling is common sampling rule for zoo animal studies.
observe one individual for a specified length of time.

Answer 10

Focal animal sampling

Question 11

——– ——– sampling :

dividing session into short successive intervals of time (sample intervals)

at end of each sample interval (sample point) record behaviour that is occurring (beeper or timer goes off).

Answer 11

Instantaneous time