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unfolded – even zoo animals who were suddenly not seeing crowds of visitors pass by every single day.
"A limitation to understanding how visitors can affect behavior of animals in zoos and parks is that they rarely close to the public for prolonged periods, so this provided us with a unique opportunity."Observations were recorded at Twycross Zoo and Knowsley Safari in the UK, both before and after visitors returned.
The olive baboons in the safari park were seen to engage in less sexual and dominance behavior when the visitors came back. They also tended to approach visitor cars more often, compared with the ranger vehicles they saw when the park was closed.Whether or not these changes were positive is more difficult to say.
That the gorillas changed the parts of their enclosures they spent the most time in when visitors came back suggests that the animals can to some extent manage this disruption.
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