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Zookeepers have been pointing out the effect of lockdown on their animals, with some species finding it hard to adjust to the lack of human visitors.
Meerkats that may be used to interacting with zoo visitors reacted positively but cautiously to the sudden return of people after lockdown, the study also found.
Researchers studied the behaviour of the animals at three British zoos both during the first lockdown when there were suddenly no visitors, and then for a month after zoos reopened to the public.
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The study, by Nottingham Trent University, Harper Adams University and Twycross Zoo found that the animals showed increased positive social interactions with one another, such as play and social grooming, once visitors returned.
Meerkats also showed an increase in alert behaviours such as increased vigilance, according to the study published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science.
Visitors are normally a prominent and constant feature in a zoo animals' environment, with more than 700 million people visiting zoos and aquariums worldwide each year.
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Similar findings were observed anecdotally at London Zoo. Keepers at the zoo said the gibbons, pygmy goats, Humboldt penguins and Western lowland gorillas have definitely noticed a difference without humans being around.
Dr Samantha Ward, a scientist in Nottingham Trent University's School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, said: The presence of indicators of positive welfare within the group, including positive social interactions and engaging in positive human-animal interactions, suggest the return of visitors was a positive and engaging experience for the meerkats.
She added: It's not always clear how certain animals that are used to humans will react to the changes that we are all currently experiencing but it was promising to see that for these meerkats, they were glad to welcome back the visitors.
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Dr Ellen Williams, a former NTU researcher now based at Harper Adams University, said: Meerkats are a popular species in terms of presence in zoos and are considered to be species that visitors are keen to see and are often used as 'ambassador' species, coming into close contact with the public through personal experience or encounter programmes.
This work is extremely important in future evidence-based approaches to the management of zoo animals, including consideration of enclosure location and design and ensuring positive visitor experiences which do not negatively impact on animal behaviour and welfare.
The researchers suggest more work needs to be undertaken over a longer period of time to better understand how certain species adjust to zoo visitors and the true nature of the effects of visitors upon animal behaviour.his week’s New Yorker has a story by Adam Gopnik about a little girl who was traumatized by the death of her pet fish. It’s an interesting story, not available online (subscribe, already!) but I thought its critical message, about our attachment to creatures and things, got short shrift. The writer’s psychologist sister explains that children go through a phase where they ponder What is Life? before they move on to pondering the deeper questions of Why? Though I confess I’m always quick to quibble with psychologists, I think this is a very simplistic way of looking at it. I don’t think we ever really outgrow our attachment to people, other creatures and things. We’re just socialized to see such attachments as excessive, and to sublimate, rationalize or at least not talk about them when we get older.
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Is there really any difference between the imaginary friends of our childhood and the invented and half-invented people of our adult fantasies (sexual, romantic and other)? Don’t tell me I’m the only one who can’t bear to throw out a stuffed animal toy, no matter how sorry its condition. And don’t tell me I’m the only one that feels a pang of remorse when they trade in their old car for a new one.
We all have attachments to people, places (how many of us have never been homesick?) and things. It serves a Darwinian purpose — to keep us in ‘our place’. It’s nature’s counterbalance to the yearning to learn and explore new places: Some of that is OK, but without some centripetal force to counteract the centrifugal, we’d all go flying off in every direction and there would be no community, no continuity. What we think of as nostalgia is perhaps our equivalent of the instinct that keeps migrating birds and animals coming back to the same nesting and wintering sites every year, even if their experience the previous year was traumatic.
At the end of Gopnik’s story, his little girl moves past her rejection of the replacement fish and becomes re-attached to it, even calling by the old fish’s name. If we were honest about it, we’s admit we are all constantly looking for replacements for people, places and things we were once attached to. It’s all about connection to the Earth, and to each other, and there is nothing more frightening or difficult than ‘letting go’. So many human emotions are tied up with this inability to let go of ones’s attachments: nostalgia, grief, remorse, inability to achieve closure, the thirst for revenge, ‘rebound’ relationships, and the shock when our possessions are stolen or repossessed, just for starters. And the more, and more valuable, these attachments become, the more anguish their loss costs us.
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I’ve always believed that even the love that people (and perhaps all creatures) feel for each other is largely a construct of attachment. The way person A loves person B is probably utterly different from person B’s love of person A, yet each sees their love as mutual, reciprocal, more or less equal. My guess is that if we could somehow change bodies with a person (or pet) we loved, we would be shocked, absolutely bewildered, at how different their feelings for us are than what we project them to be from our own, lonely, frame of reference. (When I was younger and I was asked what I would wish for if I were granted just one wish by a genie, I always said I would want to change bodies with someone else, just for a moment to feel what it was like to be someone else — a loved one, a female, a beloved pet, or more recently a bird. My answer today would be the same.)
Such projection goes along with every attachment. When we become attached to someone, or some place, or some thing, we accord it attributes that are entirely imaginary — we cannot possible really know how (or if) they really feel, how our relationship to them is reciprocated. But it is absolutely essential that we do so, because otherwise we could have no relationships with people, animals, places or things at all. We can anthropomorphize all we want, but my guess is that all living creatures become attached to other creatures, to places and things, in ways that are not substantially different from the way we do. That is perhaps why, except for modern ‘detached’ man, there is such extraordinary mutual respect among Earth’s creatures, and respect for the Earth. We cannot bear to hurt what we are attached to.An American photographer braved frigid conditions in order to capture these stunning photos of thousands of penguins huddled together on an island in the Antarctic.
Mike Johnson, 68, from Estero, Florida, joined several photographers on an expedition on board the Polar Pioneer voyage to the remote South Georgia Island.
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'We were lucky, according to our guides, in that there are three large king penguin colonies on the island and we were able to land at each of them, ' said Mr Johnson.
'I had spent a couple of weeks in the Falklands on a previous trip and to see a rookery with a couple of thousand birds was impressive.
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A rockhopper penguin jumps from the ledge above - and slips as it lands just above the water - at Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island
Follow me: A group of friendly king penguins walk along the rocky shore of Fortuna Bay at South Georgia Island in the Antarctic
Mr Johnson says that guides told the group that they were lucky, since they were able to land at each of the three penguin colonies
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'But this was over the top. It was more awesome to learn that we were early in the season and there would be more in a few weeks.'
Despite the wide range and vast numbers of birds and marine life, combined with beautiful scenery, the remote location and lack of access makes the island quite a rare destination for tourists.
Despite the island's wide range and vast number of birds and marine life, the remote location and lack of access keep tourists away
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Mr Johnson said: 'I remember the scale of the beauty. I remember putting my camera down at a few points and just taking the scenes in.'
He said: 'The main motivation for my trip was to step onto Antarctica, which is the last continent I had yet to visit.
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