Primate behavior changed as zoos closed for pandemic, research suggests TrentUni
Zoo visitors can have a positive, negative, or neutral impact on animals. Primates are cognitively very advanced and their interactions with human visitors are complex. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a prolonged absence of visitors in zoos. This enabled an opportunity to compare how primates behaved when the zoo was open to visitors as opposed to when it was closed.
Olive baboons performed less sexual and dominance behaviour and approached visitor cars more frequently when the safari park was opened to the public than the ranger’s vehicle during closure periods. The results suggest that the zoo closures had variable impacts on the primates and that the closure periods were neither “negative” or “positive” for all of the studied species. There are likely to be differences between individuals due to prior experiences.
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