Oct 12, 1998 | Abstract
1998 Abstract: This paper suggest the need for more integration between design and management, and surveys a series of such systems already at work in American zoos and aquariums. Several of these establishments take an entrepreneurial and team approach to all...
Oct 12, 1998 | Abstract
1998 Keynote address to the Chimpanzoo Conference Abstract: Why not let the monkeys run the Monkey House?
Oct 12, 1997 | Abstract
1997 Abstract: Activity-based design strives to fully integrate animal husbandry, training, enrichment and display with facility design. This is a great advance over the traditional process where zoo staff attempt to develop and implement animal management systems...
Oct 12, 1996 | Abstract
1996 Abstract: Four ‘generations’ of great ape facilities are illustrated and discussed. These range from the Victorian and ‘blue tile’ periods thought third generation ‘modernist’ and ‘immersion’ displays. Future fourth...
Oct 12, 1995 | Abstract
1995 Abstract: The first zoos appeared with the b beginnings of human civilization. For 2500 years zoos have evolved along two very different paths. Most captive animal displays were demonstrations of human power or whim. however, a few early examples from India and...
Oct 12, 1995 | Abstract
1995 Abstract: American zoo9s are beginning to develop facilities around the concept of “anima rotation”, wherein animals move through multiple enclosures in a simulation of “home range”. Multiple species can occupy the same enclosures...
