Human-animal relationships in zoos: Optimising animal and visitor experiences

对农业和家庭环境中人与动物关系的广泛研究表明，人与动物的互动影响动物的行为和福利，进而影响人类对动物的态度。作为保育和福利机构，动物园旨在为游客提供与动物亲密互动的机会，以改善游客体验和保育成果，同时保持良好的动物福利。一些游客的互动可能会给一些动物带来压力，造成动物福利和游客体验之间的冲突。通过确定游客效应，本项目旨在为动物园提供实用的动物管理和教育策略，以优化动物福利和游客体验。

Extensive research on human-animal relationships in agricultural and domestic settings shows that human-animal interaction affects animal behaviour and welfare, which in turn affect human attitudes to animals. As conservation and welfare organisations, zoos aim to provide visitors with opportunities to closely interact with animals to improve visitor experience and conservation outcomes, whilst maintaining good animal welfare. Some visitor interactions may be stressful for some animals creating conflict between animal welfare and visitor experience. By determining visitor effects, this project aims to provide zoos with practical animal management and educational strategies to optimise both animal welfare and visitor experience.