What’s the Message? Exhibit Design for Education

1987 Abstract: This paper discusses the importance of implicit as well as explicit communications zoos transmit to their visitors and suggest “homocentricity” is an inappropriate yet central message of all zoos and aquariums today. The author suggests...

In Search of Eden — A Brief Histroy of Great Ape Exhibits

1987 Abstract: Great apes, among the world’s most severely threatened species and our closest biological relatives, are being featured in new zoo exhibits of unprecedented size, complexity, cost and number throughout the country. Historically, Great Ape exhibits...

Self-Help Design

1984 Abstract: While this paper was written to assist small zoos in areas of economic decline in the Northeaster U.S., it provides advice that should be useful to economicaly challenged zoos everywhere. There have been a few updates made in 2006.

Approaching Eden: A Behavioral Basis for Great Ape Exhibits

1984 Abstract: A new generation of zoo great ape exhibits is described based upon wild ape interaction with their natural habitats and wild conspecific species. Illustrative plans for idealized great ape exhibits are shown based upon these environmental and...