Attitude of zoo visitors to the idea of feeding live prey to zoo animals

Zoo Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 343-347

  Ings, Raymond ^a   Waran, Natalie K ^a   Young, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Feeding; Live prey; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ACINONYX JUBATUS; ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SPHENISCIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031491112     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2361(1997)16:4<343::aid-zoo6>3.0.co;2-a     Document Type: Article

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