Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: Daan W. Laméris, Marina Salas, Marcel Eens, Lisa Gillespie, Nicky Staes, Jonas R. R. Torfs, Jonas Verspeek, Hilde Vervaecke, Samantha J. Ward, Jeroen M. G. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: D. W. Laméris, M. Salas, M. Eens, L. Gillespie, N. Staes, J. R. Torfs, J. Verspeek, H. Vervaecke, S. J. Ward, J. M. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Anim Welf

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

Evaluation of plasma corticosteroids associated with performance-based activity in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Authors: Don R Bergfelt, Sydney Davis, Anne Conan, Michelle Martinez, Rocio Canales, Roberto Sanchez-Okrucky

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: aldosterone, bottlenose dolphin, cortisol, dolphin-human swim interactions, metabolism

2020

Effect of partial covering of the visitor viewing area window on positioning and orientation of zoo orangutans: A preference test

Authors: Rachel C. Bloomfield, Graeme R. Gillespie, Keven J. Kerswell, Kym L. Butler, Paul H. Hemsworth

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: human-animal interactions, orangutans, preference, zoo visitors

2015

“Animals First”: Good Communication May Be the Missing Element in Nonhuman Animal Welfare Systems

Authors: Don Moore, Erika Bauer, Brandie Smith

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, communication

2013

Drug-Resistant Human Staphylococcus Aureus in Sanctuary Apes Pose a Threat to Endangered Wild Ape Populations

Authors: Frieder Schaumburg, Lawrence Mugisha, Bruce Peck, Karsten Becker, Thomas R. Gillespie, Georg Peters, Fabian H. Leendertz

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: africa, great apes, reintroduction, staphylococcus aureus, transmission, wildlife

2012

Influences on visitor behavior at a modern immersive zoo exhibit

Authors: Stephen R. Ross, Katie L. Gillespie

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: attracting power, conservation education, exhibits, graphics, holding power

2009

Zoo Biology: a voice for science in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums

Authors: Don Lindburg

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aza, science

2007

Preferences among four species of local browse offered to Colobus guereza kikuyuensis at the Central Park Zoo

Authors: Twiggy C. Tovar, Don Moore, Ellen Dierenfeld

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: food preference, monkey, nutrition

2005

Environmental Enrichment for Dendrobatid Frogs

Authors: Kristiina Hurme, Kittzie Gonzalez, Mark Halvorsen, Bruce Foster, Don Moore, B. Diane Chepko-Sade

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: dart-poison frog, dendrobatid, enrichment, feeder, husbandry

2003