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Attitudes to specific taxa – General – visitor studies
CANTIN (S.) & PRESCOTT (J.), 1979a: Analyse de la popularité des animaux au Jardin
Zoologique de Québec. [Analysis of the of animals at Québec zoological gardens.] Carnets de
Zoologie 39(2): 24-30.
CANTIN (S.) & PRESCOTT (J.), 1980: Species popularity at Quebec Zoo. Int. Zoo News 167:
MANOKHIN (A.), 2010: В столичном зоопарке выбрали самое популярное животное.
[Animal popularity poll at Moscow Zoo]. www.homepage.ru, 7 September 2010.
www.homepage.ru/news/252699-v-stolichnom-zooparke-vyibrali-samoe-populyarnoe-zhivotnoe
MORRIS (D.J.), 1961: An analysis of animal popularity. Int. Zoo Yb. 2: 60-1.
MOSS (A.) & ESSON (M.), 2010: Visitor interest in zoo animals and the implications for
collection planning and zoo education programmes. Zoo Biology 28: 1-17.
Abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.20316/full
SURINOVA (M.), 1971: An analysis of the popularity of animals. Int. Zoo Yb. 11: 165-7.
TUNNICLIFFE (S.D.), 1998: Everyday zoo animals – mental models of children in England and
the USA. 1998 AZA Reg. Conf.: 604-08.
WARD (P.I.), MOSBERGER (N.), KISTLER (C.) & FISCHER (O.), 1998: The relationship
between popularity and body size in zoo animals. Conservation Biology 12: 1408-11.
ON-GOING AND UNPUBLISHED STUDIES :
SMITH (A.), 2010: A call to action? The merits of using flagship species and anthropomorphism. Abstracts, 2010 IZE
Conf., Disney’s Animal Kingdom: 15.
Abstract: www.izea.net/resources/IZE%20Conf%202010-Compiled%20Abstracts%20for%20website.pdf
VILLARRUBIA (N.), 2010: A wake-up call to reconnect with nature. Abstracts, 2010 IZE Conf., Disney’s Animal
Kingdom: 18.
Abstract: www.izea.net/resources/IZE%20Conf%202010-Compiled%20Abstracts%20for%20website.pdf
BACKGROUND & FURTHER READING: ATTITUDES TO SPECIFIC TAXA - GENERAL
ANDELMAN (S.) & FAGAN (W.), 2000: Umbrellas and flagships: efficient conservation surrogates or expensive
mistakes? Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sciences USA 97: 5954-9.
ANON., 2009: Fish fingers swimming around in London’s Sea Life aquarium. The Daily Telegraph, 12 Oct 2009.
www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6306610/Fish-fingers-swimming-around-in-Londons-Sea-Lifeaquarium.html
ANON., 2010: Rare species named for the first time by British public. The British public choose common names for
species with an identity crisis. Press release, 17 June 2010. Sheffield, Natural England.
www.naturalengland.org.uk/about_us/news/2010/170710.aspx
BATT (S.), 2009: Human attitudes towards animals in relation to species similarity to humans: a multivariate approach.
Bioscience Horizons 2(2): 180-90.
BITGOOD (S.), 1986: Variables influencing visitor behavior: physical qualities of the exhibit object/species. Visitor
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