I have worked at the University of Chester as a senior lecturer in the Animal Behaviour Team since 2002. After spending three years conducting welfare and conservation work in Central and South America I completed six years of research in the USA (1994 – 2000; University of Omaha, Nebraska and the Conservation, Science and Education Dept, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL). The two years following USA were spent as a faculty member in the School of Biology and Biochemistry, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (2000 – 2002) before my position at the University of Chester