Creating a healthy, social classroom environment. This book explains how the brain, as a
social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late …

The ability to serially collect blood samples and conduct ultrasound examinations in Asian
and African elephants has provided unique opportunities to study the biology of these …

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

Animals foraging in groups can either search for food themselves (producing) or search for
the food discoveries of other individuals (scrounging). Tactic use in producer–scrounger …

To reverse the trend of declining wildlife populations globally, individuals must be provided
with conditions that allow them to not just survive, but to thrive. It is no longer only the remit of …

Zoological institutions are in urgent need of identifying and implementing welfare
assessment tools that allow for ongoing, quantitative monitoring of individual animal well …

Group size is one of the most important factors influencing the formation and maintenance of
successful social groups in captivity. For zoos, appropriate social groupings are of the …

The effect of individual differences on the behaviour and reproduction of zoo animals has
long been recognised by zoo biologists, yet only recently has the quantitative assessment of …

We previously reported that African (Loxodonta africana) and Asian (Elephas maximus)
female elephants in European zoos have shorter adult lifespans than protected conspecifics …

All species of rhinoceros are, to varying degrees, threatened with extinction because of
poaching, habitat loss, human‐rhinoceros conflict, hunting and civil unrest. Clearly the …