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Feeding live prey to zoo animals: response of zoo visitors in Switzerland

Cottle, L., Tamir, D., Hyseni, M., Bühler, D. & Lindemann-Matthies, P. (2010). Feeding live prey to zoo animals: response of zoo visitors in Switzerland, Zoo Biology, 29, 344-350.
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URL: doi.org/10.1002/zoo.20261


Abstract
In summer 2007, with the help of a written questionnaire, the attitudes of more than 400 visitors to the zoological garden of Zurich, Switzerland, toward the idea of feeding live insects to lizards, live fish to otters, and live rabbits to tigers were investigated. The majority of Swiss zoo visitors agreed with the idea of feeding live prey (invertebrates and vertebrates) to zoo animals, both off- and on-exhibit, except in the case of feeding live rabbits to tigers on-exhibit. Women and frequent

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