1. Wildlife Attractions
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Walter Lechner and Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
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Ethnobiology ,Geography ,Environmental protection ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Animal welfare ,Wildlife ,Captivity ,Environmental ethics ,Welfare ,Time immemorial ,Recreation ,Wildlife conservation ,media_common - Abstract
From time immemorial, humans have been fascinated by wildlife and interacted with animals. Besides using animal-derived products, they started keeping living animals already many centuries BC for economical and recreational reasons. Over the time and ancient menageries, this led to the modern zoos and aquariums of today and to aquariums and terrariums of hobbyists at their private homes. Nowadays several thousands of public zoos and aquariums exist in all countries, and they fulfill roles in education, research, preservation, and recreation. In modern times, the habit of keeping animals in captivity is discussed ambivalently, due to ethic and animal welfare reasons. Nevertheless, hundreds of millions of people worldwide visit public zoos and aquariums every year, and they are the first places for modern urban residents to get in contact with wild animals. So their importance from the ethnozoological view is indisputable.
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- 2018
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