Wild Animal-Visitor Interactions in Zoos, Aquariums, Sanctuaries and Tourism Facilities
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 874
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Interests: fish pathology; veterinary public health; aquarium, zoonosis
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Interests: conservation ethics; animal welfare ethics; animal welfare and conservation; veterinary ethics; ethical reasoning; ethical review process; ethics and darwinism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Animal-visitor interactions are experiences offered by zoos, sanctuaries, and other tourism facilities in which people can be very close, and even touch, wildlife. This proximity could damage animal welfare and be a risk for the health of both animals and visitors. Proximity, however, is deemed to have a positive emotional impact on visitors, representing an excellent opportunity to communicate conservation and educational messages.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide an opportunity to publish original research or review articles in the field of wild animal-visitor interactions (AVIs), in the context of both zoos and aquariums as well as tourism facilities.
Contributions may include but are not limited to the following categories: theoretical contributions that expose, analyze, compare, and question different types of interactions; research articles and case reports; papers that highlight ethical issues and conflicts in the human-animal relationship and that explore the impact on the actors directly and indirectly involved in the interaction and investigate any other relevant aspects that may affect the perceptions among citizens and in society. These aspects may concern animal welfare, in terms of the positive and negative effects on it, the possible consequences on the health and emotional state of human beings as well as organizational aspects concerning the working environment, staff and management.
Dr. Daniela Florio
Dr. Barbara de Mori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AVIs
- conservation
- education
- ethics
- animal welfare
- tourism
- zoo
- aquarium
- sanctuaries
- tourism facilities
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