Editing Privacy (section)

==Privacy in non-human animals==
[[David Attenborough]], a [[biologist]] and [[natural historian]], affirmed that [[gorilla]]s "value their privacy" while discussing a brief escape by a gorilla in [[London Zoo]].<ref>{{cite news |title=David Attenborough: zoos should use peepholes to respect gorillas' privacy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/18/david-attenborough-zoos-respect-gorillas-privacy-peepholes |access-date=10 August 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |date=18 October 2016}}</ref>

Lack of privacy in public spaces, caused by overcrowding, increases health issues in animals, including [[heart disease]] and [[Hypertension|high blood pressure]]. Also, the stress from overcrowding is connected to an increase in infant mortality rates and maternal stress. The lack of privacy that comes with overcrowding is connected to other issues in animals, which causes their relationships with others to diminish. How they present themselves to others of their species is a necessity in their life, and overcrowding causes the relationships to become disordered.<ref name="Pepper 628–650">{{Cite journal |last=Pepper |first=Angie |date=December 2020 |title=Glass Panels and Peepholes: Nonhuman Animals and the Right to Privacy |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papq.12329 |journal=Pacific Philosophical Quarterly |language=en |volume=101 |issue=4 |pages=628–650 |doi=10.1111/papq.12329 |issn=0279-0750}}</ref>

For example, David Attenborough claims that the gorilla's right to privacy is being violated when they are looked at through glass enclosures. They are aware that they are being looked at, therefore they do not have control over how much the onlookers can see of them. Gorillas and other animals may be in the enclosures due to safety reasons, however Attenborough states that this is not an excuse for them to be constantly watched by unnecessary eyes. Also, animals will start hiding in unobserved spaces.<ref name="Pepper 628–650"/> Animals in zoos have been found to exhibit harmful or different behaviours due to the presence of visitors watching them:<ref name="WiredAnimal">{{cite magazine |last1=Eveleth |first1=Rose |author-link=Rose Eveleth |title=Animals Need Digital Privacy Too |url=https://www.wired.com/story/animals-need-digital-privacy-too/ |access-date=10 August 2022 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=31 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[Cotton-top tamarins]] in zoos engage in less social behaviours, including physical contact and sex, than ones in off-exhibit buildings.
* [[Chimpanzee]]s become more aggressive towards each other.
* [[Lion-tailed macaque]]s pace and [[self-harm|bite themselves]] more in direct proportions to [[human]] visitors.
* In one zoo, [[orangutan]]s have been shown to cover their heads less as the density of visitors decreased.