Assessing Visitor Effects on Zoo Animals
Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice
Keywords: animal welfare, HAI, human-animal interactions, visitor effects
2024
Assessing zoo giraffe survivorship: Methodological aspects, historical improvement and a rapid demographic shift
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: giraffa camelopardalis, husbandry, mortality, progress, survival
2024
A Comparative Multi-Zoo Survey Investigating the Housing and Husbandry of Callimico goeldii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: callitrichid, captive management, enclosure complexity, goeldi's monkey, welfare
2024
Does zoo visitor presence and noise impact the behaviour and enclosure use of zoo-housed Siamese crocodiles? A case study
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: crocodilian, Electivity Index, enclosure design, post-occupancy evaluation, visitor presence
2024
Effects of Enclosure Complexity and Design on Behaviour and Physiology in Captive Animals
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: behavior, captive animals, enclosure complexity, enclosure design, physiology
2024
Introducing the Mellorater—The Five Domains Model in a Welfare Monitoring App for Animal Guardians
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal husbandry, end-of-life decisions, quality of life, welfare assessment
2024
Personality Characteristics Predictive of Social Pairing Outcome in Orange-Winged Amazon Parrots (Amazona amazonica)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: amazon parrots, amazona amazonica, compatibility, orange-winged, pair housing, personality assessment, welfare
2024
A preliminary global investigation into potential impacts on successful captive breeding for two species of Rhyticeros hornbill
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: breeding success, evidence‐based husbandry, Papuan hornbill, questionnaire, wreathed hornbill
2024
Sixty Years of Tinbergen’s Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal management, behavioural ecology, causation, conservation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny, zoo animal husbandry
2024
Stereotypic Behaviour in Elephants
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases
Keywords: elephant, stereotypic behaviour, zoo
2024