Structural enrichment promotes natural behaviour and welfare of captive gilthead seabream broodstock

Authors: Ana Rita Oliveira, María J. Cabrera-Álvarez, Florbela Soares, Carlos Diáz-Gil, Ana Candeias-Mendes, João L. Saraiva, Pablo Arechavala-Lopez

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aquaculture, behavioural indicators, environmental enrichment, Physiological indicators, positive welfare, Spawners

2024

Environmental Enrichment and Its Effect on the Welfare of Two Asian Elephants in African Safari Wildlife Conservation Park (Puebla, Mexico)

Authors: Martha Trinidad Pérez Ramírez, Nora Garcez Mercado, María Rebeca Rojas Ronquillo, Marco Antonio Alarcón Zapata, Melina Maribel Ojeda Chi, Carlos David Pérez Brígido, Abigail Tabarez Rojas

Publication/Journal: Open Journal of Animal Sciences

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, behavior, environmental enrichment

2023

Environmental Enrichment and Its Effect on the Welfare of Two Asian Elephants in African Safari Wildlife Conservation Park (Puebla, Mexico)

Authors: Martha Trinidad Pérez Ramírez, Nora Garcez Mercado, María Rebeca Rojas Ronquillo, Marco Antonio Alarcón Zapata, Melina Maribel Ojeda Chi, Carlos David Pérez Brígido, Abigail Tabarez Rojas

Publication/Journal: Open Journal of Animal Sciences

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, behavior, environmental enrichment

2023

Ackonc-AWA: A multi-species animal welfare assessment protocol for wild animals under human care to overcome the use of generic welfare checklists

Authors: Débora Silvia Racciatti, Alejandra Feld, Laura Analía Rial, Carlos Blanco, Oriol Tallo-Parra

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords:

2022

Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses

Authors: Carlos Magno de Faria, Fernanda de Souza Sá, Dhiordan Deon Lovestain Costa, Mariane Mendes da Silva, Beatriz Cristiana da Silva, Robert John Young, Cristiano Schetini Azevedo

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal welfare, Cetartiodactyla, conservation, food-based enrichment

2022

Preliminary Findings on How Different Management Systems and Social Interactions Influence Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites in White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)

Authors: Leticia Martínez, Gema Silván, Sara Cáceres, Jose Manuel Caperos, Jesús Fernández-Morán, Miguel Casares, Belén Crespo, Paloma Jimena de Andrés, Juan Carlos Illera

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: glucocorticoids, management, reproduction, stress, white rhinoceros

2022

What do we know about flamingo behaviors? A systematic review of the ethological research on the Phoenicopteridae (1978–2020)

Authors: Henrique Cardoso Delfino, Caio J Carlos

Publication/Journal: acta ethologica

Keywords: behavior, flamingos, review

2021

Conservation, animal behaviour, and human-animal relationship in zoos. Why is animal welfare so important?

Authors: Isabel Escobar-Ibarra, Daniel Mota-Rojas, Fernando Gual-Sill, Carlos R Sánchez, Fidel Baschetto, María Alonso-Spilsbury

Publication/Journal: Journal of Animal Behaviour abd Biometeorology

Keywords: animal welfare, ex situ conservation, wildlife conservation., zoos

2020

Corticosterone Assimilation by a Voluntary Oral Administration in Palatable Food to Rats

Authors: Juliana Raya, Carlos Eduardo Neves Girardi, Débora Cristina Hipólide

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: administration, bread, drug, noninvasive, refinement

2019

Diel and infradian (7-day) activity rhythms in Mexican spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) kept with and without visitor contact

Authors: Jairo Muñoz-Delgado, Sergio Pérez-Galicia, José Carlos Sánchez-Ferrer, Domingo Canales Espinosa, Hans G. Erkert

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: activity pattern, circadian rhythm, circaseptan rhythm, masking effect, zoo visitor effect

2018

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