The Wild Enrichment Podcast

Ep. 31- The Bear Care Group and the Future of Animal Welfare with Jay Pratte

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In this episode, we sit down with Jay Pratte, President of the Bear Care Group and Director of the Miller Park Zoo. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the origins of the Bear Care Group, AZA's Well-being shift and the future of animal welfare science.

Resources we discussed: 

  • https://www.bearcaregroup.org/ 
  • Maher, Chloe J., Angela Gibson, Laura M. Dixon, and Heather Bacon. 2021. "Developing a Reliable Welfare Assessment Tool for Captive Hibernatory Bear Species" Animals 11, no. 11: 3090. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11113090
  • https://greystonebooks.com/collections/else-poulsen
  • https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2332/aza_animal-welfare-strategy.pdf
  • https://www.eaza.net/
  • https://www.waza.org/ 
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