Animal-Based welfare monitoring: Using keeper ratings as an assessment tool

Zoo Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 545-560

  Whitham, Jessica C ^a   Wielebnowski, Nadja ^a  

^a BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal well being; Animal based assessments; Keeper assessments; Welfare monitoring tool; Zoo animal welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77949685300     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: 10982361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20281     Document Type: Article

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