Disabled and Aging Animals

2023 Facility Design for Disabled and Aging Wild Animals. Jon wrote this Chapter 6 in the book “Optimal Welfare of Aging Wild Animals in Human Care” in 2021 and the book is finally available from Springer-Nature Publishers.

Future Planning

2023 How Do we Plan for the Zoo Exhibit of the Future? This paper, a collaboration between Jon, Eduardo Fernandez, and James Brereton, was published in October 2023 by Applied Animal Behaviour Science and by years-end already had over one thousand reads on Research...

Reptiles

2021 ReptileJam: Designing Enrichment for Reptiles in Captivity. Jon advised Fiona French and Leah Williams in planning and facilitating this computer-interactive online brainstorming workshop with published results.

Eco-Planning High Dry Regions

2020-2021. Community-Based Eco-Planning in High Dry Regions-Parts 1&2. Jon was invited by the editor of the Indian Journal of Landscape Architecture to contribute two articles on his work consulting with the United Nations Environment Programme in Afghanistan from...

Papers Widely Read!

2022 Jon’s zoo design and animal management papers are being widely read. On 16 December ResearchGate, a European networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, recorded 30,000 “reads” of Jon’s papers, including 9,716 “reads” of Design and Perception,...

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...