Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP140100373
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Human-animal relationships in zoos: Optimising animal and visitor experiences. Extensive research on human-animal relationships in agricultural and domestic settings shows that human-animal interaction affects animal behaviour and welfare, which in turn affect human attitudes to animals. As conservation and welfare organisations, zoos aim to provide visitors with opportunities to closely interact with animals to improve visitor experience and conservation outcomes, whilst maintaining good animal welfare. Some visitor interactions may be stressful for some animals creating conflict between animal welfare and visitor experience. By determining visitor effects, this project aims to provide zoos with practical animal management and educational strategies to optimise both animal welfare and visitor experience.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2015
End Date: 12-2017
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $353,415.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Tourist Behaviour and Visitor Experience | Social and Community Psychology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
