Lisa P. Barrett

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🖐️🐘Is touching an animal important for visitors? Does species matter for making a connection? Check out our paper comparing stingray and elephant experiences, and touch vs. in-person vs. video experiences 📹 @okczoo #visitorstudies #conservationintent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zo…

📢📰What is #ManyZoos? Our founders just published a concept paper! 🥳 We are very grateful to MZ committee members, mentors, and reviewers & are excited for what the future holds! #ZooBiology #AZA #EAZA #WAZA #BIAZA @innova_tori @DrElliephants @Drfayclark @lisapbarrett

🦁Today we attended the #AZA Felid TAG conference! We are soliciting input on our proposed methods for MZ1. You can find out more here: docs.google.com/.../1wYIzNJe55…... #ZooScience #ManyZoos

🐯🐺Today we shared our MZ1 pilot study of the range size hypothesis at the @AnimBehSociety conference! If you missed our talk, check out our MZ1 information "packet" here: bit.ly/mz1interest #ABS2025 #ZooScience

Lisa Barrett @lisapbarrett and Ellen Williams @DrElliephants are at the International Symposium on Zoo Animal Welfare at @brookfield_zoo this week! It was elefantastic to see some of our members there #ISZAW

Interested in working with birds, cognition, and nest building? Exciting postdoc opportunity below! 🪺🧠vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/63…

We found evidence of technical innovation in palaeognath birds - not so bird-brained any more!! Rheas outperformed emus, and ostriches did terribly... Published in Scientific Reports today rdcu.be/eaGkj

Calling all our Black and/or Indigenous mammalogists! Do any of you 1) identify as a woman and 2) have routine access to live animals (i.e., work at a zoo or an animal sanctuary)? There might be a neat media opportunity for you. Get in touch! 🐾

🐯📢We are looking for additional committee members to support our goals! Apply here by 2/21 (bit.ly/2025committees) to join our awesome committees! 🦩🌍 #ZooScience #ManyZoos

We are officially a month away from our 2025 research grant application deadline. Be sure to get your applications in soon! Read More: fieldinclusive.org/2025/01/01/app…

Our findings are important for institutions that seek to reduce these behaviors in primates without necessarily completely eliminating biscuits from their diets #zoonutrition

We observed gorillas pre-diet change, 3 weeks after diet change, and 1 year after the diet change @okczoo #zooscience #animalwelfare

🦍 🤮 Gorillas in zoos sometimes regurgitate & reingest their food! Check out our paper to learn about the effects of a high-fiber, low-starch diet on R/R and coprophagy 💩 doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21…

🚨Research Assistant Alert 🚨 Title: Scientific Assistant: Behavior and Welfare at Chester Zoo Learn more: jobtrain.co.uk/chesterzoo/Job…

Repost from Jennifer Vonk, Ph.D.- For all of my wonderful animal caretaker friends. I am hoping you'll be willing to help me out in recruiting your expert fellow caretakers to complete a short survey that will help us understand how zoo animals respond to the death of their 1/#

We are hiring😃! Research assistant for collecting behavioral data on zoo-housed orangutans and chimpanzees. Retweets appreciated 🙂!

🐯🐺Join us 6 Dec. 10-11 a.m. EST to contribute to MZ1 (spatial memory in canids and felids) methods! Please review our previous information session (manyzoos.weebly.com/projects.html) & sign our Code of Conduct (manyzoos.weebly.com/code-of-conduc…). Registration is required: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Interested in undertaking a PhD in developing novel technologies for animals? I am looking to recruit PhD students, please share or get in touch. For scholarship info (Deadline 31st Jan) #fundedphdprojects" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gla.ac.uk/schools/comput…

I am accepting applications for fully-funded PhD & MSc students (Sept 2025 start) International applicants welcome to apply! Application open now, closes 01 Dec 2024. Apply bit.ly/3PBHwWy My team bit.ly/ACRG_UofA Eligibility bit.ly/3XBsq7J

Exciting way to start the morning! @lucyrutherfor @DrYellowstone @LisaBottell and I have had our paper on elephant personality accepted! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…. It's possible that not all aspects of personality are static, which should be considered in management! 🐘🐘