Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care

Holistic Approaches to Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals.- Ageing Gracefully: Compassion for Nonhuman Animal Elders.- The Importance of Meaningful Record Keeping in Caring for Ageing Wild Animals.- Facility Design for Diasabled and Ageing Wild Animals.- Environmental Enrichment for Ageing Zoo Animals.- The role of learning and training in caring for ageing animals.- Supporting Geriatric Zoo Animal Welfare through Nutrition.- Veterinary care of ageing zoo animals: Description of a Proactive Approach.- Pain: Physiology, Recognition, and Management in Zoo Animals.- Physiotherapy and Management of the Musculoskeletal Health of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care.- Euthanasia of Geriatric Zoo Animals: Decision Making and Procedure.- The Longevity Legacy: The Challenges of Old Animals in Zoos.- Mourning-Like Behaviour in a Malayan Sun Bear.- Caring for Elderly Wild Animals: The Human Experience.- The View from Beyond the Fence: Ageing Zoo Animals and Communicating with the Outside World.

Sabrina Brando is the director of AnimalConcepts, uniting people and organisation on 6 continents through interconnected online platforms combining animal, people, and planetary wellbeing. She is a psychologist with a MSc in Animal Studies and currently pursues a PhD at the University of Stirling in Scotland focusing on human wellbeing at an individual, leadership, and organisational level in zoos and aquariums. Since 2009 Sabrina is an instructor on the Primate Care Training Program for the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance, in 2019 she became a Research Associate with the Smithsonian Institution and is a graduate of the Inner MBA class of 2022. She is a Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional and Optimize Eudaimonia Coach.

Sabrina teaches at various universities and colleges as well as working with many zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities worldwide, on topics such as animal wellbeing, behaviour, environmental enrichment, animal training, habitat design, and the human-animal relationship. AnimalConcepts has organised over 500 events worldwide since 2004, and Sabrina is a frequent invited and keynote speaker. She serves on zoo expert groups and collaborates on a wide variety of research projects. Sabrina serves as a reviewer on academic journals, contributes chapters to animal wellbeing books, and has extensively published popular and academic articles. She also works with governments writing policies and guidelines.


AnimalConcepts 'One Care' approach is based on optimal wellbeing for all, based on the premis that compassionate and holistic self-care (individuals) and we-care (teams, leadership and organisational) approaches combined will support the commitment and desire of serving animals, people, and the environment.Sarah Chapman qualified as a vet in June 2000 and is an experienced zoo veterinary surgeon having worked with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates in anumber of large zoos in