Captive Wild

Author : Rob Laidlaw
Publisher : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554553881

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Wild Animals in Captivity by Rob Laidlaw Pdf

"A caged lion pacing back and forth on a worn path and dolphins swimming in unending circles are captive animals exhibiting 'stereotypies, ' or repetitive abnormal behaviors. These disturbing behaviors are a common sight in many zoos. Laidlaw effectively captures the plight faced by captive wild animals, even in major, apparently high-quality zoos. In four riveting chapters he explores first the general issues of life in captivity, then addresses specific, often severe, problems faced by polar bears, elephants, dolphins and Great Apes. He goes on to discuss types of zoos and their particular flaws, then concludes with advice for readers on objective evaluation of the zoos they visit and offers a list of ten ways to help animals in captivity. This eye-opening look at zoo issues will strike a chord with readers and would be a useful addition to most collections." -- Kirkus Reviews on the hardcover edition "The issues raised in this important and powerful book will resonate with young and old." -- School Library Journal A large family of elephants ambles all day along a well-remembered route across the hot African savanna. Halfway around the world in a zoo in Alaska, a single female elephant paces back and forth in her cramped, concrete pen. During the sub-arctic winter, she lives alone in a dark barn. When you visit a zoo do you ever wonder what it must be like for the animals who live day by day in the same enclosures? Author Rob Laidlaw asks the tough questions that zoos often avoid: should these animals be in there at all? This is an eye-opening look at the lives of captive wild animals -- at bad zoos, good zoos, and the best wild animal sanctuaries.

Author : Devra G. Kleiman,Katerina V. Thompson,Charlotte Kirk Baer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226440118

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Wild Mammals in Captivity by Devra G. Kleiman,Katerina V. Thompson,Charlotte Kirk Baer Pdf

Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on Wild Mammals in Captivity as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a completely updated second edition. Wild Mammals in Captivity presents the most current thinking and practice in the care and management of wild mammals in zoos and other institutions. In one comprehensive volume, the editors have gathered the most current information from studies of animal behavior; advances in captive breeding; research in physiology, genetics, and nutrition; and new thinking in animal management and welfare. In this edition, more than three-quarters of the text is new, and information from more than seventy-five contributors is thoroughly updated. The standard text for all courses in zoo biology, Wild Mammals in Captivity will, in its new incarnation, continue to be used by zoo managers, animal caretakers, researchers, and anyone with an interest in how to manage animals in captive conditions.

Author : Robert James Ossiboff,Nicole Indra Stacy,Francesco Carlo Origgi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889664986

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Health and Disease in Free-Ranging and Captive Wildlife by Robert James Ossiboff,Nicole Indra Stacy,Francesco Carlo Origgi Pdf

Author : Lois Crisler
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Wolves
ISBN : 158574123X

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Captive Wild by Lois Crisler Pdf

After photographing the wildlife of the Arctic, the assignment which led to the creation of Arctic Wild, Herb and Lois Crisler decided to bring home the five orphaned tundra wolf cubs they had reared. In remote Crag Cabin, their home near Lake George, Colorado, the Crislers built an interlocking series of wide pens in the hope of preserving for their charges some measure of the freedom they would have known in the wild. It didn't work. The dominant female, Alatna, was the only survivor. Captive Wild is the often-heartbreaking narrative of both the growing trust and affection between Lois Crisler and the female wolf, and the enormous consequences of Lois' pledge to devote seven years of her life to Alatna. Crisler's chronicle of the years with Alatna and her retinue is suffused with love and respect. (6 X 9, 248 pages, b&w photos)

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Exotic animals
ISBN : PURD:32754076039993

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Captive Wildlife Safety Act by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Exotic animals
ISBN : MINN:31951D02480404B

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Captive Wildlife Safety Technical Amendment Act of 2005 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Animal culture
ISBN : LOC:00053419203

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Relation of the Endangered Species Act on Captive Propagation of Wildlife by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Exotic animals
ISBN : PURD:32754077068447

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Captive Wildlife Safety Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources Pdf

Author : H. Hediger
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781483226149

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Wild Animals in Captivity by H. Hediger Pdf

Wild Animals in Captivity covers some of the mistaken notions concerning the conditions of animals in captivity, most of which are the result of an anthropomorphic approach to the subject. This book is composed of 12 chapters and starts with an overview of the historical development of zoological gardens. The succeeding chapters deal with the territorial requirements and sociological factors in the wild life. These topics are followed by discussions of the wild animal’s transition behavior from freedom to captivity; the physiological and psychological aspects of animal captivity; and the motive and situation of animal escapes. Other chapters emphasize the physical and biological environment of animals in captivity. The final chapters examine the problems related to feeding patterns, and nutrition of captive animals. These chapters also explore the relationship between human and animal, their capacity to be tamed and trained. This book will prove useful to zoologists.

Author : Hal Markowitz,Victor J. Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004582584

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Behavior of Captive Wild Animals by Hal Markowitz,Victor J. Stevens Pdf

Author : P.J. Olney,G. Mace,A. Feistner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789401107211

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Creative Conservation by P.J. Olney,G. Mace,A. Feistner Pdf

Past progress and future challenges R.J. Wheater Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. In the past two decades much has been achieved in the sphere of breeding endangered species, and we should be pleased that our co operative efforts have already borne so much fruit. However, on balance and despite the best efforts of conservationists, the position of wildlife in the wild places where they are best conserved has become worse, often dramatically worse. Before returning to the United Kingdom in 1972, I was in Uganda for 16 years, most of which time was spent as Chief Warden of Murchison Falls National Park. Our main problem was that an over-population of large mammals was having a devastating impact on the habitat. Devas tation was being wrought on woodland areas by the arrival of large numbers of elephants into the sanctuary of the Park, following changes in land use in the areas outside the Park. These changes were in response to the requirements of an ever-expanding human population.

Author : Nicole Buehler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822009465816

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Domestication of Captive Wild Animals by Nicole Buehler Pdf

Author : Emma Marris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781635574968

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Wild Souls by Emma Marris Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work.”--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "Fascinating . . . hands-on philosophy, put to test in the real world . . . Marris believes that our idea of wildness--our obsession with purity--is misguided. No animal remains untouched by human hands . . . the science isn't the hard part. The real challenge is the ethics, the act of imagining our appropriate place in that world." --Outside Magazine From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals. Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions. Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe--from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. And she offers a companionable tour of the philosophical ideas that may steer our search for sustainability and justice in the non-human world. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Environment and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029336539

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Captive Propagation for Recovery of Species Under ESA by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Environment and Natural Resources Pdf

Author : Vicky A. Melfi,Nicole R. Dorey,Samantha J. Ward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118968536

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Zoo Animal Learning and Training by Vicky A. Melfi,Nicole R. Dorey,Samantha J. Ward Pdf

Comprehensively explains animal learning theories and current best practices in animal training within zoos This accessible, up-to-date book on animal training in a zoo/aquaria context provides a unified approach to zoo animal learning, bringing together the art and science of animal training. Written by experts in academia and working zoos, it incorporates the latest information from the scientific community along with current best practice, demystifying the complexities of training zoo animals. In doing so, it teaches readers how to effectively train animals and to fully understand the consequences of their actions. Zoo Animal Learning and Training starts with an overview of animal learning theory. It describes the main categories of animal learning styles; considers the diverse natural history of zoo animals; reviews the research undertaken which demonstrates ultimate benefits of learning; and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches. It also shows how the direct application of learning theory can be integrated into zoo animal management; discusses how other factors might affect development; and investigates situations and activities from which animals learn. It also explores the theoretical basis that determines whether enrichments are successful. Provides an easily accessibly, jargon-free introduction to the subject Explores different training styles, providing theoretical background to animal learning theory as well as considerations for practical training programme – including how to set them up, manage people and animals within them and their consequences Includes effective skills and ‘rules of thumb’ from professional animal trainers Offers commentary on the ethical and welfare implications of training in zoos Features contributions from global experts in academia and the zoo profession Uniquely features both academic and professional perspectives Zoo Animal Learning and Training is an important book for students, academics and professionals. Suited to senior undergraduate students in zoo biology, veterinary science, and psychology, and for post-graduate students in animal management, behaviour and conservation, as well as zoo biology. It is also beneficial to those working professionally in zoos and aquaria at different levels.