What Is There to Learn in a Zoo Setting?

Clark, Fay E.

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“…. but desire heirs in order to preserve the life or lives we value" [10]. To expand notions of the kinds of lives we value, we (the authors) believe better awareness of our companion species and an empathic view of our shared worlds through direct contact will help us understand our essential interconnectedness, leading to more liveable Earth futures.…”

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Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design

Saeidi,

Anderson,

Davidová

2023

Buildings

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The research’s main objective is to explore and encourage modes of architectural practice that can foster multispecies co-living to reduce biodiversity loss and increase the quality of life for both human and nonhuman inhabitants of architecture. This is achieved through conceptual discussions, comprehensive architectural case studies and work-based design explorations that support cross-species co-living in the context of Eastern Norway (Østlandet)—a geographical region of south-eastern Norway consisting of the counties Vestfold, Telemark, Viken, Oslo and Innlandet. A pluralistic method builds on analytical, critical and work-based explorative studies consisting of two parts: (a) historical and contemporary case studies in Norway that support modes of cross-species co-living and (b) design explorations by the second author investigating the operational potential of kindness in architecture. The notion of kindness in this research is built upon an understanding of the amalgam of concepts: solidarity, kinship and being kind, explained in the article’s introduction. The potential for designing with and for nonhumans to reinvigorate modes of co-living and support existing habitats is investigated, focusing on the ways three bird species relate to a specific building in Eastern Norway due to their habitat needs in the region: Cyanistes caeruleus, Eurasian blue tit (blåmeis in Norwegian); Passer montanus, Eurasian tree sparrow (pilfink in Norwegian); and Delichon urbicum, northern or common house martin (taksvale in Norwegian). The research contributes to ongoing discussions within architectural discourse regarding multispecies inhabitation and architecture’s role in the current biodiversity crisis and provides insight into both historical and contemporary/ongoing design solutions for multispecies co-living.

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Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design

Saeidi,

Anderson,

Davidová

2023

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“…While learning clearly confers benefits to wild animals, what about for captive animals whose environments are less variable and more predictable? Animals do not stop learning or responding to their environment simply because they are housed in captive settings [3], and animals' proclivity to learn can be leveraged to enhance behavioral management practices [4]. Moreover, individual animals' learning is often influenced by their social environment, and such social learning can be co-opted to refine behavioral management practices and enhance captive animal welfare.…”

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Leveraging Social Learning to Enhance Captive Animal Care and Welfare

Hopper

2021

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From ants to zebras, animals are influenced by the behavior of others. At the simplest level, social support can reduce neophobia, increasing animals’ exploration of novel spaces, foods, and other environmental stimuli. Animals can also learn new skills more quickly and more readily after observing others perform them. How then can we apply animals’ proclivity to socially learn to enhance their care and welfare in captive settings? Here, I review the ways in which animals (selectively) use social information, and propose tactics for leveraging that to refine the behavioral management of captive animals: to enhance socialization techniques, enrichment strategies, and training outcomes. It is also important to consider, however, that social learning does not always promote the uniform expression of new behaviors. There are differences in animals’ likelihood to seek out or use socially provided information, driven by characteristics such as species, rank, age, and personality. Additionally, social learning can result in inexact transmission or the transmission of undesirable behaviors. Thus, understanding when, how, and why animals use social information is key to developing effective strategies to improve how we care for animals across settings and, ultimately, enhance captive animal welfare.

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How computers can shape the relationship between non-human primates and humans through multi-sensory experiences: Developing multi-modal devices for Lemurs

Wang,

Brewster,

Hirskyj-Douglas

2023

The Tenth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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Modern zoological institutions play a pivotal role in preserving endangered species and educating the public [6,17]. However, zoos face three challenges: firstly, the limited range of animal activities, which can diminish their enrichment experience [8], the inadequate educational engagement for visitors often stemming from passive learning, which fails to foster engaging experiences [9,12] and how to balance direct interactions between humans and zoo animals. The interactions between zoo animals and people are complex as excessive interaction can distress the animals [20], while too limited interaction fails to provide visitors with engaging educational experiences [22]. This PhD project aims to address these three challenges by utilising technology within the zoo context to foster appropriate human-animal interaction. This PhD will be conducted in three phases looking at 1) augmenting the red-ruffed lemur enclosure by providing multi-modal stimuli-based technology to see what stimuli attract lemurs to engage with technology and how to develop lemur technologies; 2) how animal technology can provide engagement educational experiences for zoo visitors via a human-animal system and 3) building on these results, how humans and animals can use these systems together.

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What Is There to Learn in a Zoo Setting?

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References 99 publications

Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design

Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design

Leveraging Social Learning to Enhance Captive Animal Care and Welfare

How computers can shape the relationship between non-human primates and humans through multi-sensory experiences: Developing multi-modal devices for Lemurs

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