Evidence of Public Engagement with Science: Visitor Learning at a Zoo-Housed Primate Research Centre

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Waller, Bridget M ^a,b   Peirce, Kate ^a   Mitchell, Heidi ^b   Micheletta, Jerome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Marwell Wildlife   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO SCIENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPREHENSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMATE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SCIENTIST; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ATTITUDE; HUMANS; LEARNING; PRIMATES; SCIENCE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84866409873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044680     Document Type: Article

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