A Guide to Managing Zoo Animal Welfare: A Behavioral Approach delivers a step-by-step guide to behavioral assessment approaches, techniques, and tools for animal welfare with an emphasis on animals living in zoos and aquaria. The authors develop a unique “balance-based” approach that can be used to assess and enhance the welfare of a diverse range of species. Backed by extensive scientific literature, this book also provides foundational context to help readers to understand why the authors give these recommendations and guidelines.
Proximate and ultimate reasoning for the existence of each of the Needs
Welfare benefits of meeting the Needs, including positive affect, maintaining homeostasis, passing on genes, and learning through reinforcement
The highly variable personalities of individual animals and different animal species, as well as why personality is an important facet of animal welfare
A guide for assessing animal welfare using the Three Needs model
Table of Contents
Background Concepts and Goals
Is Wild Animal Behavior a Proper Template for Captive Animal Behavior?
Investigating
Acquiring Reward
Exerting Control
Balance: Good Welfare Through Psychological Resilience
Animal Personality: For Every Animal, All Needs Are Important, but They Are Not Equal
What It Looks Like When the Needs Are Met and Not Met
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