How animals are suffering in zoos of human quarantine

That's why at the Phoenix Zoo, guards “regularly run” with elephants and Orangutans or visit a very lonely bird that is very friendly under normal circumstances.

Dublin Zoo says animals also seem to be in a state of wonder and are looking for visitors.

They come to me and look at me in amazement. They are used to visitors,” said Dublin Zoo director Leo Oosterweeghel for Irish Times.

Without visitors, some animals lack stimulus, said Paul Rose, a animal behavior expert and professor at Exeter University, for BBC.

Linda Hardwick, an expert on animal communications, said that the <x0 most social animals are quite lonely. With this, I mean they miss visitors”.

At the Wildfall & Netherlands Trust Zoo in Slimbridge, stewards care for ducks and ducks the way visitors normally do.

But in the meantime, some animals have “forgotten people”. These are eels in Tokyo's Souraium Sumidi.

Since there have been no visitors since the outbreak of the epidemic, eels have been distracted by humans, causing them to enter the sand whenever an aquarium worker is found.

Will animals be shocked when everything returns? Paul Rose says he believes most animals will be aware of changes in their daily pace.

Considering the gradual opening of zoos is a good solution so that the transition from silence to silence is not too fast.

The regular presence of the zoo staff means that people will not be unknown to them,” says Rose.