Funny Sign Don't Feed The Animals Special Diet Farm, Safari, Zoo - 1.2mm Rigid Plastic 200mm x 150mm

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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (January 29, 2013). "Artificial Feeding of Wildlife is against the law". State of Montana. Archived from the original on 2013-04-29 . Retrieved 2013-06-30. Kim NY. The influence of message framing and issue involvement on promoting abandoned animals adoption behaviors. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2013 Jul 3;82:338–41. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. "Environmental Status: Sharks and rays: Response: tourism". Archived from the original on 2011-04-11 . Retrieved 2013-07-10. In national parks and state parks, feeding animals can result in malnourishment due to inappropriate diet and in disruption of natural hunting or food-gathering behavior. It can also be dangerous to the people doing the feeding. [18] Feral pigeons are often found in urban public spaces. They are often considered environmental pests, and can transmit diseases such as psittacosis. [11] Deliberate feeding of feral pigeons, though popular, contributes to these problems. [11]

Obviously, short of sitting up the yard 24/7 and catching people in the act I can't stop people feeding them. The horses will move grazing at some point but given that we've found evidence suggesting people have left the footpath to feed the horses when they are in a further field, I doubt moving the horses will eliminate the problem. The footpath (and fields) are all fenced with electric fencing which I can say from personal experience gives a hell of a belt(!) and there are signs warning of this along the length of the footpath but this nolonger seems to be a threat to walkers/feeders... The degree to which a sign engages the audience can also be affected by its perceived relevance. Previous research outlines the importance of framing the message personally toward the current reader to maximise its relevance [ 14]. Simply using personal pronouns can also make a message more direct and increase its significance to the audience [ 6]. Attitudes and behaviours are most likely to change if readers are illustrated as the audience who will be personally affected by their actions [ 15]. Ross SR, Gillespie KL. Influences on visitor behavior at a modern immersive zoo exhibit. Zoo Biology: Published in affiliation with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association. 2009 Sep;28(5):462–72a b c d "Feeding native animals". Queensland Government. 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21 . Retrieved 2013-06-30. Houts PS, Doak CC, Doak LG, Loscalzo MJ. The role of pictures in improving health communication: A review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence. Patient Education and Counseling. 2006 May 1;61(2):173–90. pmid:16122896

Citation: Parker EN, Bramley L, Scott L, Marshall AR, Slocombe KE (2018) An exploration into the efficacy of public warning signs: A zoo case study. PLoS ONE 13(11): Tappin BM, Capraro V (2018) Doing good vs. avoiding bad in prosocial choice: A refined test and extension of the morality preference hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 79, 64–70.How You Can Help Many people enjoy living near and watching wildlife. You can help keep animals wild by keeping the following tips in mind. Feeding wild animals can significantly change their behavior. Feeding or leaving unattended food to large animals, such as bears, can lead them to aggressively seek out food from people, sometimes resulting in injury. [9] Feeding can also alter animal behavior so that animals routinely travel in larger groups, which can make disease transmission between animals more likely. [10] In public spaces, the congregation of animals caused by feeding can result in them being considered pests. [11] In zoos, giving food to the animals is discouraged due to the strict dietary controls in place. [5] More generally, artificial feeding can result in, for example, vitamin deficiencies [12] and dietary mineral deficiencies. [13] Outside zoos, a concern is that the increase in local concentrated wildlife population due to artificial feeding can promote the transfer of disease among animals or between animals and humans. [12] [14] Sign example gallery [ edit ] Get hold of local responsible people who may walk through & ask them to keep eyes open to protect your horses? Worth a try as when you explain to most dog people or walkers, they do understand about not feeding other animals/children sweets etc, so push the point if you can. Gales, Nicholas; Hindell, Mark; Kirkwood, Roger (2003). Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues. CSIRO. p.306. ISBN 0643099263. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05 . Retrieved 2016-09-22. Do not feed” signs are one of the oldest forms of signs found in zoos [ 6] and play a vital role in promoting zoo inhabitants’ welfare. An investigation into the efficacy of “do not feed” signs found no difference in levels of feeding between no sign and a simple, instructional sign (“Please do not feed the animals”). However, an explanatory sign (“Please do not feed. These animals are on special diets”) significantly reduced feeding in a monkey exhibit [ 7]. This highlights the need to understand the aspects of sign design that influence the efficacy of the signs. In terms of wording, research suggests that less may be more as signs with fewer words are read by more people while longer signs attract less attention [ 6]. However, once a message has been attended to, even if it is not read carefully, increasing the number of arguments in a message can still increase its persuasiveness [ 8].