Effects of browse, human visitors and noise on the behaviour of captive orang utans

Animal Welfare

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 189-202

  Birke, L ^a  

^a CHESTER ZOO   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Orang utan; Responses to zoo visitors; Zoo animal welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NOISE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN;

ANIMALIA; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0036224881     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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