Age‐based variation in calf independence, social behavior and play in a captive population of African elephant calves

Authors: Patrick T Freeman, Erica L Anderson, Kristin B Allen, Caitlin E O'Connell‐Rodwell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, interaction, ontogeny, sociality

2021

Integrated Collection Assessment and Planning (ICAP) workshop: Helping zoos move toward the One Plan Approach

Authors: Kathy Traylor-Holzer, Kristin Leus, Karen Bauman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ex situ conservation, integrated conservation, regional collection planning

2019

A comparison of fecal steroid metabolite concentrations between harem and bachelor stallions in a free-Ranging population of przewalski’s horses (Equus ferus przewalskii)

Authors: Maureen D'Souza-Anjo, Bruce W. Christensen, Kristin Brabender, Waltraut Zimmermann, Philip H. Kass, Franz Schwarzenberger

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: epi-andosterone, estrogen, sociosexual hierarchy, testosterone

2017

Food preparation behaviour of babirusa (Babyrousa celebensis)

Authors: Masaaki Ito, Alastair Macdonald, Kristin Leus, Dewa Gede Agung Atmaja, Wayan Balik

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: babirusa, food preparation behaviour, food washing behaviour

2017

Effects of crowd size on exhibit use by and behavior of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) at a zoo

Authors: Kristin E. Bonnie, Mabel Y. L. Ang, Stephen R. Ross

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: exhibit design, visitor effects, welfare

2016

Evaluation of thermal regimes for transported ambassador ectotherms: One size does not fit all

Authors: Sasha J. Tetzlaff, Kristin E. Tetzlaff, Richard J. Connors

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: education, husbandry, outreach, temperature preference, welfare

2016

Initial founders of captive populations are genetically representative of natural populations in critically endangered dusky gopher frogs, Lithobates sevosus

Authors: Kristin M. Hinkson, Natochia L. Henry, Nina M. Hensley, Stephen C. Richter

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive population management, ex situ, genetic variation, relatedness

2016

A retrospective analysis of mortality in captive pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) from 1912 to 2014

Authors: Gabriella L. Flacke, Suzana Tkalčić, Beatrice Steck, Kristin Warren, Graeme B. Martin

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: encephalomyocarditis virus (emcv), leptospirosis, obesity, pathology, polycystic kidney disease (pkd), stillbirth

2016

Wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) place nuts in anvils selectively

Authors: Qing Liu, Dorothy Fragaszy, Barth Wright, Kristin Wright, Patricia Izar, Elisabetta Visalberghi

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, affordance, anvil use, capuchin, cebus libidinosus, embodied cognition, nut cracking, perception-action, selectivity, social influence

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