Ep. 31- The Bear Care Group and the Future of Animal Welfare with Jay Pratte

In this episode, we sit down with Jay Pratte, President of the Bear Care Group and Director of the Miller Park Zoo. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the origins of the Bear Care Group, AZA's Well-being shift and the future of animal welfare science. Resources we discussed:  https://www.bearcaregroup.org/  Maher, Chloe J., Angela Gibson, Laura M. Dixon, and Heather Bacon. 2021. "Developing a Reliable Welfare Assessment Tool for Captive Hibernatory Bear Species" Animals 11, no. 11: 3090. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11113090 https://greystonebooks.com/collections/else-poulsen https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2332/aza_animal-welfare-strategy.pdf https://www.eaza.net/ https://www.waza.org/