The visitor effect in petting zoo-housed animals: Aversive or enriching?
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Correlation studies can make interpretation of visitor effects difficult because of confounding variables that can also be associated with variation in visitor numbers, such as weather conditions, time of year and possible changes in husbandry routine.
“This type of study can make interpretation of visitor effects difficult because of the influence of confounding variables that can also be associated with variation in visitor numbers, such as weather conditions, time of year and possible changes in husbandry routine [71].”
From The visitor effect on zoo animals: implications and opportunities for zoo animal welfare (2019) · cites this paper as [71]
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The visitor effect on zoo animals: implications and opportunities for zoo animal welfare
Sherwen, S. L., & Hemsworth, P. H. (2019) · Animals · doi:10.3390/ani9060366 · Cited by 267 · see citing works
“This type of study can make interpretation of visitor effects difficult because of the influence of confounding variables that can also be associated with variation in visitor numbers, such as weather conditions, time of year and possible changes in husbandry routine [71].”
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- Authors
- Farrand, A., Hosey, G., & Buchanan-Smith, H. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Stirling (GB)
- University of Greater Manchester (GB)
- ORCID
- Hosey, Geoff
- Venue
- Applied Animal Behaviour Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 151
- Pages
- 117-127
- ISSN
- 0168-1591 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2043992374
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Animal Behaviour Science (publishedVersion)
- Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Veterinary › Small Animals › Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Animal and Plant Science Education
- Keywords
- petting zoos, visitor effects, visitor density, animal welfare, goats, llamas, animal behavior, safari parks, species differences
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