Confronting Back-of-House Traditions: Primates as a Case Study

2022 Abstract This review commentary focuses on traditional management practices and facility design with suggested improvements in non-public primate management areas, often called “back-of-house”, (henceforth BOH) in zoos, sanctuaries, and research facilities....

2022 New Paper on Back-of-House Traditions

July 2022 The Journal of Zoos and Botanical Gardens published the paper Jon coauthored with Ms. Sabrina Brando titled Confronting Back-of-House Traditions: Primates as a Case Study. This review commentary focuses on traditional management practices and facility design...

2022 Jon’s BBC Interview

Jon was interviewed by BBC producer Daniel Nills Roberts for over an hour for an upcoming feature on the morality of zoos. It was a wide-ranging discussion, one of four interviews to be concentrated into a single ten-minute feature in the BBC IDEA series.

2022 Welfare Through Competence

Animal Welfare through Competence (WtC) is a novel animal management and facility design concept Jon developed for zoos and wildlife sanctuaries. The idea is that with excellent health care and diet zoo animals may appear happy and healthy. But can they do anything...