In Absentia—Can a Lack of Behaviour Be a Useful Welfare Indicator? An Application to the Captive Management of Livingstone’s Fruit Bats, Pteropus livingstonii

Authors: Morgan J. Edwards, Charlotte A. Hosie, Laura Naidenov, Eluned Price, Tessa E. Smith, Dominic Wormell, Christina R. Stanley

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity

2024

The effect of anthropogenic noise on foraging and vigilance in zoo housed pied tamarins

Authors: Fiene Steinbrecher, Jacob C. Dunn, Eluned C. Price, Lisa H. Buck, Claudia A. F. Wascher, Fay E. Clark

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, callitrichid, primate, stressor

2023

Principal Component Analysis as a Novel Method for the Assessment of the Enclosure Use Patterns of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

Authors: Morgan J Edwards, Charlotte A Hosie, Tessa E Smith, Dominic Wormell, Eluned Price, Christina R Stanley

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: critically endangered, enclosure design, fruit bats, principal component analysis, Spread of participation index, zoo management

2021

Social Experience of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

Authors: Morgan J Welch, Tessa Smith, Charlotte Hosie, Dominic Wormell, Eluned Price, Christina R Stanley

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, binomial mixture modelling, captive welfare, dominance, evidence based, Livingstone's fruit bat, network assortment, social network analysis, social roles

2020

Consequences Matter: Compassion in Conservation Means Caring for Individuals, Populations and Species

Authors: Paul J. Johnson, Vanessa M. Adams, Doug P. Armstrong, Sandra E. Baker, Duan Biggs, Luigi Boitani, Alayne Cotterill, Emma Dale, Holly O'Donnell, David J. T. Douglas, Egil Droge, John G. Ewen, Ruth E. Feber, Piero Genovesi, Clive Hambler, Bart J. Harmsen, Lauren A. Harrington, Amy Hinks, Joelene Hughes, Lydia Katsis, Andrew Loveridge, Axel Moehrenschlager, Christopher O'Kane, Meshach Pierre, Steve Redpath, Lovemore Sibanda, Pritpal Soorae, Mark Stanley Price, Peter Tyrrell, Alexandra Zimmermann, Amy Dickman

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: compassion, consequentialism, ethics, virtue

2019

The impact of exhibit type on behaviour of caged and free-ranging tamarins

Authors: Kayley Bryan, Samantha Bremner-Harrison, Eluned Price, Dominic Wormell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: captivity, emperor tamarin, free-ranging, natural behaviour, naturalistic exhibit, pied tamarin

2017

Successful treatment of infertility in a female Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

Authors: Neil Maclachlan, Gordon Hunt, Sarah Fowkes, Melissa Frost, John Miller, Gari Purcell-Jones, Peter Sullivan, Alberto Barbon, Andrew Routh, Francisco J. López, Eluned C. Price

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: hysterosalpingography (hsg), operant conditioning, pressurized fallopian tube perfusion, proximal tube obstruction (pto), ultrasound

2017

Why do captive pied tamarins give birth during the day?

Authors: Eluned C. Price, Catherine Payne, Dominic Wormell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: callitrichidae, circadian pattern, delivery behavior, parturition, saguinus bicolor

2016

Social buffering in a bird

Authors: Joanne Edgar, Suzanne Held, Elizabeth Paul, Isabelle Pettersson, Robbie I'Anson Price, Christine Nicol

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: bird, chicken, empathy, maternal, social buffering, socially mediated arousal

2015

Artificially Generated Cultural Variation Between Two Groups of Captive Monkeys, Colobus guereza kikuyuensis

Authors: E. Price, C.A. Caldwell

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: behavioral tradition, behavioural tradition, colobus, cultural transmission, monkey, social learning, virtual demonstrator

2007

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