Role of Personality in Behavioral Responses to New Environments in Captive Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo persica).

ABSTRACT: Studying personality in captive animals may enable the development of individual-based management decisions, which may improve animal welfare. Asiatic lions at London Zoo represent an opportunity to research an understudied species' response to new environments since they have experienced social and physical changes, such as new enclosures and increased social interaction with humans. This project aimed to investigate the role of personality in behavioral responses to these changes. Lion personality questionnaires completed by keepers and direct focal animal observations were used to create personality profiles. Time budgets and enclosure use were determined and compared between control nights and event nights and between the lions' previous enclosure and their new one. The results showed

SUBMITTER: Quintavalle Pastorino G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5468777 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature