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Kirstin Anderson‐Hansen is currently a author has been studying the effects of envi-
postdoc at the University of Southern ronmental enrichment on the behaviour and
Denmark and in cooperation with the welfare of zoo animals, especially birds. In
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, addition, antipredator training techniques
where she trains grey seals and aquatic birds, for captive‐born animals are being tested
currently cormorants and common murres with the aim of increasing reintroduction
to investigate the effects of underwater noise success. Finally, aspects of animal personali-
on marine life. She started her career at the ties are being investigated to increase the
University of California in Santa Cruz over efficiency of the environmental enrichment
25 years ago, working with cetaceans as a and for conservation purposes.
research assistant and trainer. Later, she fol-
lowed some of the dolphins to the Shedd Kathy Baker works for the Whitley Wildlife
Aquarium in Chicago, where she worked and Conservation Trust and her main role is to
trained Pacific white‐sided dolphins, beluga manage the zoo‐based research and higher
whales, harbour seals, sea otters, and education delivery for Newquay Zoo. She
penguins. In 1998, she was offered a trainer coordinates and supervises student projects
position at the Fjord and Baelt in Denmark, from FdSc to MSc level. Her research focus
training harbour porpoises and harbour seals covers a wide range of behaviour and welfare
for research and public demonstrations. related topics. In particular, cross species
From 2003 to 2013, she was the training comparisons of animal personality, the eval-
coordinator and zoological curator at Odense uation of personality as a management tool
Zoo, where she had the opportunity to for captive animals, and multi‐institutional
expand her training experience to all types of research to inform management practices for
animals, including lions, tigers, giraffes, captive animals. Kathy’s also a committee
tapirs, birds, and manatees. Kirstin is the co‐ member of SHAPE – UK‐Ireland, the
chair for the Training Committee at the regional division of The Shape of Enrichment,
Danish Association for Zoos and Aquariums Inc. that is dedicated to furthering enrich-
(DAZA), as well as an expert advisor for the ment efforts in the UK and Ireland, and she is
Animal Training Working Group at the also a member of the Primate Society of
European Association of Zoos and Great Britain.
Aquariums (EAZA), where she is also an
instructor for the animal training and man- Gordon B. Bauer is professor emeritus of
agement courses for both DAZA and EAZA. psychology at New College of Florida where
he held the Peg Scripps Buzzelli chair in psy-
Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo is a Brazilian chology until his retirement. He received an
biologist interested in zoo animals, animal MS from Bucknell University and a PhD
behaviour, and animal conservation. This from the University of Hawaii, where he