Zoo visitor emotion: What emotional responses do visitors have to zoos?
Channel: Vanessa Lawson
Date: 2017-10-30

This video is a short presentation on zoo visitor emotions: What emotional responses do visitors have to zoos?

See the Zoo Visitor Emotions book chapter for more information - https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2017/Zoo_visitor_emotion

Copyright License: Creative Commons Attribution

NB. Any photo not referenced is the property of the presenter, all cartoon images sourced from Microsoft Icons. 

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