Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Pengaruh kehadiran pengunjung dapat menyebabkan stres pada satwa di kebun binatang yang dapat dilihat dari perilaku dan tingkat animal welfare. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh pengunjung terhadap perilaku harian dan animal welfare pada rusa sambar. Penelitian dilakukan terhadap delapan ekor rusa sambar di Taman Rusa Desa Lamtanjong, Aceh Besar, Aceh, Indonesia, Penelitian dilakukan selama 13 hari Pengamatan dan pengambilan data dilaksanakan Senin-Kamis dan Sabtu-Minggu pukul 08.00 sampai dengan 16.00 WIB. Metode yang digunakan berupa scan animal sampling untuk pengamatan perilaku harian, sedangkan penilian tingkat animal welfare melalui observasi kandang dan wawancara kepada animal keeper. Data perilaku harian yang didapat di tabulasikan dan dianalisis menggunakan uji Kruskal Wallis dan uji Man whitney U test untuk korelasi dianalisi dengan menggunakan uji korelasi Spearman, sedangkan penentuan tingkat animal welfare dianalisis secara deskriptif sesuai dengan pedoman Direktur Jenderal Perlindungan Hutan dan Konservasi Alam. Data yang didapat dari hasil penilaian memperlihatkan bahwa jumlah pengunjung memiliki pengaruh yang nyata terhadap perilaku harian rusa sambar di Taman Rusa Desa Lamtanjong, yaitu perilaku sosial (P

The influence of the presence of visitors can cause stress to animals in the zoo which can be seen from the behavior and level of animal welfare. The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of visitors on daily behavior and animal welfare in sambar deer. The study was conducted on eight sambar deer in the Deer Park of Lamtanjong Village, Aceh Besar, Aceh, Indonesia. The study was conducted for 13 days. Observations and data collection were carried out Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday from 08.00 to 16.00 WIB. The method used was scan animal sampling for daily behavior observations, while the assessment of animal welfare levels was through cage observations and interviews with animal keepers. The daily behavior data obtained were tabulated and analyzed using the Kruskal Wallis test and the Man Whitney U test for correlation analyzed using the Spearman correlation test, while the determination of animal welfare levels was analyzed descriptively in accordance with the guidelines of the Director General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation. The data obtained from the assessment results show that the number of visitors has a significant influence on the daily behavior of sambar deer in Lamtanjong Village Deer Park, namely social behavior (P