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"I like having the long-term view of welfare – because sometimes things change so gradually that you don’t realize it."
Lead Keeper
23 yrs experience
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"It’s good to see the graphs… sometimes they flag something that we weren’t aware of."
Senior Keeper
23 yrs experience
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"If the use of this tool was extended over several years, one could see how well-being changes over a lifetime. This could be really fascinating and useful."
Researcher & Workgroup Coordinator
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"The tool provides a way to quantify the qualitative observations that keepers are already making. This tool adds precision to the keepers’ observations..."
Assistant Curator
32 yrs experience
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"I can read the dailies, but reading the reports is quicker & easier… I can breeze through these pages and know what the animal has been doing for the past few weeks."
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"By watching the patterns, we started paying more attention to how we could change their behavior and how to eliminate the negative trends."
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"The best part about WelfareTrak® is putting some sort of quantitative analysis on what a lot of keepers would refer to as gut feelings."
Lead Keeper
20 yrs experience