Comparative Analysis of Visitor Codes of Conduct in Chinese and Anglophone Zoos
Yulei Guo, David Fennell · 2024
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Yulei Guo and David Fennell compare visitor codes of conduct in Chinese zoos and zoos in English-speaking countries, in a study from 2024. Zoos worldwide post such codes to steer visitor behavior. Yet the ethics of managing visitors has drawn little research.
The team read close to nine hundred statements from forty-nine zoos in all. The two groups shared much in structure and content. Most rules took a duty-based form: plain bans and duties for guests. Few codes drew on animal welfare science or used the visit to teach conservation. The authors suggest adding both, and designing rules that reason about outcomes and fit each zoo's setting. That shift could raise guest engagement and ease management.
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| CREATOR | Yulei Guo, David Fennell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |