Swimming with captive dolphins: current debates and post‐experience dissonance

Curtin, Susanna; Wilkes, Keith

doi:10.1002/jtr.599

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“…These feelings are explicitly represented in many of the in vivo responses gathered in this research thereby giving further credence to the few studies that assert that 'peak aesthetic experiences' are often 'achieved through the nature experience' (Chenoweth & Gobster, 1990;Mannell, 1996, p. 407) and more specifically with human -animal encounters (Curtin, 2006;Curtin & Wilkes, 2007;DeMares & Krycka, 1998;Laski, 1968;Wilson, 1984). Peak experiences can be linked to cathartic experiences that can make the participants' everyday problems temporarily diminish.…”

Section: Wonderment and Awementioning

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Wildlife tourism: the intangible, psychological benefits of human–wildlife encounters

Curtin

2009

Current Issues in Tourism

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This article presents the results of an ethnographic study of wildlife tourists. The findings reveal the commonalities and complexities of the wildlife experience during wildlife encounters at home and while on holiday. Nature's design, performance and immense biodiversity initiate an emotional response of awe, wonder and privilege that unlocks ecocentric and anthropomorphic connections to wild animals and a feeling that is 'beyond words'. There is time to stand and stare, and contemplate. Nature and wildlife are not only spatial events but also temporal ones. In this liminal, embodied space of a wildlife encounter, socially constructed modern fast time dissipates and is replaced by stillness and nature's time whereby participants are totally absorbed in the spectacle. All thought and action is concentrated on the moment. This provokes a deep sense of well-being that transcends the initial encounter leading to spiritual fulfilment and psychological health benefits. The implications of this research has relevance to environmental conservation particularly the recognition that conserving habitats and wildlife has an intrinsic connection to the future well-being of the human population who are part of the ecosystem and not separate from it.

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Section: Wonderment and Awementioning

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Wildlife tourism: the intangible, psychological benefits of human–wildlife encounters

Curtin

2009

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…The reason being that most links in networks that are inferred from time series arise, in fact, mainly due to indirect interactions between two nodes through intermediate nodes or from "common-driver" nodes. This issue has arisen, and was shown to be important in various different disciplines (see, e.g., [24][25][26][27][28][29][30]). Different approaches to tackle this problem include partial correlation, conditional mutual information, and conditional Granger causality [26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

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Teleconnection Paths via Climate Network Direct Link Detection

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Teleconnections describe remote connections (typically thousands of kilometers) of the climate system. These are of great importance in climate dynamics as they reflect the transportation of energy and climate change on global scales (like the El Niño phenomenon). Yet, the path of influence propagation between such remote regions, and weighting associated with different paths, are only partially known. Here we propose a systematic climate network approach to find and quantify the optimal paths between remotely distant interacting locations. Specifically, we separate the correlations between two grid points into direct and indirect components, where the optimal path is found based on a minimal total cost function of the direct links. We demonstrate our method using near surface air temperature reanalysis data, on identifying cross-latitude teleconnections and their corresponding optimal paths. The proposed method may be used to quantify and improve our understanding regarding the emergence of climate patterns on global scales.

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“…However, not all zoos and aquariums are effective in these endeavors (Curtin and Wilkes, 2007;Marino et al, 2010). Jiang et al (2007) found that people who had visited a captive cetacean facility had significantly less conservation concern and knowledge than in the control group who had never visited a marine park.…”

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The Kraken in the Aquarium: Questions that Urgently Need to be Addressed in Order to Advance Marine Conservation

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Draheim

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Front. Mar. Sci.

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Despite advances in marine conservation research, policy, and management, human activities continue to negatively affect marine species, habitats, and ecosystems, and the people who rely on them for needed resources. This begs the question: What is preventing us from being more effective in conserving marine species, habitats, and ecosystems? Answering this requires us to identify gaps in marine conservation efforts and develop a consensus on how best to target our efforts. One way to do this is to conduct research prioritization exercises. The questions discussed here were identified during a series of workshops designed to establish a list of important questions that need to be answered to advance marine conservation. We deemed these particular questions to be in a separate class than those considered in the associated paper "Seventy-One Important Questions for the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity" (Parsons et al., 2014b). These questions were put into a separate category because they were identified as areas of ecological, social, and economic research that include external drivers or required sizable paradigm shifts to address. Here we describe and discuss these "Kraken in the aquarium" questions-the marine equivalent of "the elephant in the room" questions-in four sections: human nature, meeting our responsibilities, entrenched interests, and corporate driven policy. Within each section, we address multiple questions by identifying the issues and offering examples of ways forward where possible. This paper is intended to start a dialog about these difficult questions that loom over marine conservation research and management. It is becoming increasingly important that the conservation practitioner community engages in these discussions and develops solutions in order for our work to be fully effective.

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Swimming with captive dolphins: current debates and post‐experience dissonance

Cited by 37 publications

References 34 publications

Wildlife tourism: the intangible, psychological benefits of human–wildlife encounters

Wildlife tourism: the intangible, psychological benefits of human–wildlife encounters

Teleconnection Paths via Climate Network Direct Link Detection

The Kraken in the Aquarium: Questions that Urgently Need to be Addressed in Order to Advance Marine Conservation

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