Dolphin-WET—Development of a Welfare Evaluation Tool for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) under Human Care
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: cetacean welfare, marine mammals, welfare evaluation, welfare indicator, zoo animals
2024
Hibernating or not hibernating? Brown bears’ response to a mismatch between environmental natural cues and captive management, and its welfare implications
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal welfare, captive management, cues, environment, physiology
2024
The Impact of Food Enrichment on the Behavior of Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) Kept under Human Care
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: aquarium, elasmobranchs, environmental enrichment, fish welfare
2024
The voice of choice: A scoping review of choice-based animal welfare studies
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, animal wellbeing, applied animal behaviour, captive environments, choice
2024
The Voice of Choice: A Scoping Review of Choice-Based Animal Welfare Studies
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, animal wellbeing, applied animal behaviour, captive environments, choice
2024
Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare
2023
Effects of food-based enrichment on enclosure use and behavioral patterns in captive mammalian predators: a case study from an Austrian wildlife park
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: animal behavior, animal visibility, animal welfare, brown bear, Domestic ferret, Pine marten
2023
Survival improvements of marine mammals in zoological institutions mirror historical advances in human longevity
Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Keywords: adult mortality, first-year mortality, life expectancy, lifespan equality, population welfare
2023
Different problem-solving strategies in dogs diagnosed with anxiety-related disorders and control dogs in an unsolvable task paradigm
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: dogs, gazing behaviour, pathological anxiety, problem solving
2013
Social referencing: Water rescue trained dogs are less affected than pet dogs by the stranger’s message
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behavioural regulation, dogs, referential looking, social referencing, stranger, training
2013