Understanding and Improving the Visitor Experience: How Can We Increase the Positive Social Impact of Animal–Visitor Interactions?

Authors: Emily M McLeod, Kelly S Fielding, Angela J Dean

Publication/Journal: CABI Books

Keywords: animal–visitor interactions, avi, choice and control, wildlife conservation.

2024

Review: Towards an integrated concept of animal welfare

Authors: I. Reimert, L. E. Webb, M. A. van Marwijk, J. E. Bolhuis

Publication/Journal: animal

Keywords: behaviour, emotion, health, physiology, welfare assessment

2023

The Zone Overlap Index: A new measure of shared resource use in the zoo

Authors: J. E. Brereton, P. E. Rose

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biol

Keywords: animal, animals, compatibility, enclosure design, housing, humans, mixed-species enclosure, Pianka Niche Overlap Index, proximity, zoo

2023

Comparison of novel mechanical cervical dislocation and a modified captive bolt for on-farm killing of poultry on behavioural reflex responses and anatomical pathology

Authors: J. E. Martin, D. E. F. McKeegan, J. Sparrey, V. Sandilands

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, captive bolt, cervical dislocation, killing, poultry, reflexes

2016

Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare

Authors: G. F. Davies, B. J. Greenhough, P. Hobson-West, R. G. W. Kirk, K. Applebee, L. C. Bellingan, M. Berdoy, H. Buller, H. J. Cassaday, K. Davies, D. Diefenbacher, T. Druglitro, M. P. Escobar, C. Friese, K. Herrmann, A. Hinterberger, W. J. Jarrett, K. Jayne, A. M. Johnson, E. R. Johnson, T. Konold, M. C. Leach, S. Leonelli, D. I. Lewis, E. J. Lilley, E. R. Longridge, C. M. McLeod, M. Miele, N. C. Nelson, E. H. Ormandy, H. Pallett, L. Poort, P. Pound, E. Ramsden, E. Roe, H. Scalway, A. Schrader, C. J. Scotton, C. L. Scudamore, J. A. Smith, L. Whitfield, S. Wolfensohn

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: animal welfare, laboratory animals, social science

2016

Kangaroo harvesters and the euthanasia of orphaned young-at-foot: applying the theory of planned behaviour to an animal welfare issue

Authors: T. M. Sharp, S. R. McLeod

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, attitudes, commercial harvesting, kangaroo, social psychology, theory of planned behaviour

2016

Pushed to the limit: food abundance determines tag-induced harm in penguins

Authors: R. P. Wilson, J. E. Sala, A. Gómez-Laich, J. Ciancio, F. Quintana

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, body condition-dependent cost of transport, drag, energy expenditure, magellanic penguin, spheniscus magellanicus

2015

Should stress management be part of the clinical care provided to chronically ill dogs?

Authors: S. L. Nicholson, J. E. Meredith

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior-Clinical Applications and Research

Keywords: alone, animals, behavior, behavioral sciences, cats, chronic disease, chronic stress, cortisol concentrations, disease, dog, hair, hair cortisol, health, questionnaire, responses, spatial restriction, time left, veterinary sciences, welfare

2015

Short-term physiological and behavioural effects of high- versus low-frequency fluorescent light on captive birds

Authors: J. E. Evans, E. L. Smith, A. T. D. Bennett, I. C. Cuthill, K. L. Buchanan

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: captivebird, corticosterone, flicker frequency, fluorescent lighting, light environment, sturnus vulgaris, welfare

2012

Behaviour of domestic fowl in anticipation of positive and negative stimuli

Authors: P. H. Zimmerman, S. A. F. Buijs, J. E. Bolhuis, L. J. Keeling

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal welfare, classical conditioning, comfort behaviour, domestic fowl, gallus gallus domesticus, learning, positive emotion

2011

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