Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores

Authors: Samantha J. Ward, Geoff Hosey, Ellen Williams, Richard Bailey

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play

2024

Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots

Authors: Emma L Mellor, Heather K McDonald Kinkaid, Michael T Mendl, Innes C Cuthill, Yvonne RA van Zeeland, Georgia J Mason

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, captive breeding, parrots, phylogenetic comparative methods, stress

2021

The efficacy of sex-chromosomal markers in studies of Cercopithecus hybridization: Discovery of a captive hybrid and applications in wild populations

Authors: Anthony J. Tosi, Kate M. Detwiler

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: guenons, single nucleotide polymorphisms, tspy, x-chromosome, xq13.3, y-chromosome

2016

Genetic differentiation in proboscis monkeys—A reanalysis

Authors: Vincent Nijman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: genetics, mtdna, nasalis larvatus

2016

A Brief Glimpse at the Long Evolutionary History of Play

Authors: Gordon M. Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animals, evolution, play, play definition, play functions, play origins, surplus resource theory

2014

Defining management units for European captive aardvarks

Authors: Ludmila Pohlová, Pauline Schepsky, Thomas Lehmann, Axel Hochkirch, Renata Masopustová, Jaroslav Šimek, Wineke Schoo, Roman Vodička, Jan Robovský

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: genetic structure, mitochondrial, orycteropus, taxonomy

2014

Chimpanzees share food for many reasons: the role of kinship, reciprocity, social bonds and harassment on food transfers

Authors: Joan B. Silk, Sarah F. Brosnan, Joseph Henrich, Susan P. Lambeth, Steven Shapiro

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: altruism, chimpanzee, food sharing, pan troglodytes, prosociality, reciprocity, tolerated theft

2013

Endocrinology of sociality: Comparisons between sociable and solitary individuals within the same population of African striped mice

Authors: Ivana Schoepf, Carsten Schradin

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: aggression, alternative reproductive tactics, communal breeding, cooperative breeding, dispersal, helper, philopatry, social flexibility

2013

Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information

Authors: Kevin Healy, Luke McNally, Graeme D. Ruxton, Natalie Cooper, Andrew L. Jackson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: comparative analysis, critical flicker fusion, evolutionary ecology, predator–prey, temporal resolution

2013

Object permanence in domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and gray wolves (Canis lupus)

Authors: Sylvain Fiset, Vickie Plourde

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: domestic dogs, domestication, gray wolves, invisible displacements, object permanence

2013