Day Time Activity Budgets, Height Utilization and Husbandry of Two Zoo-Housed Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroos (Dendrolagus goodfellowi buergersi)

Authors: Katherine Finch, Amy Humphreys

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: activity budget, behaviour, Dendrolagus, enclosure use, tree kangaroo, understudied

2022

Effects of Crowd Size, Composition, and Noise Level On Pool Use in a Mixed-Species Penguin Colony

Authors: A. N. Edes, E. Baskir, K. L. Bauman, N. Chandrasekharan, M. Macek, A. Tieber

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: behavior, decibel, visitor effects, welfare, zoo

2021

Comparative Personality Traits Assessment of Three Species of Communally Housed Captive Penguins

Authors: Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino, Richard Preziosi, Massimo Faustini, Giulio Curone, Mariangela Albertini, Dawn Nicoll, Lorna Moffat, Romain Pizzi, Silvia Mazzola

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: aptenodytes patagonicus, Eudyptes moseleyi, personality-traits, Pygocelis papua

2019

Validation and welfare assessment of flipper-mounted time-depth recorders for monitoring penguins in zoos and aquariums

Authors: Grace Fuller, Matthew R. Heintz, Stephanie Allard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bio-logging, data-loggers, gentoo penguin, king penguin, macaroni penguin, rockhopper penguin

2019

The effect of the zoo setting on the behavioural diversity of captive gentoo penguins and the implications for their educational potential

Authors: Courtney Keane Collins, Quirke,Thomas, Louise Overy, Kevin Flannery, Ruth O’Riordan

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: behavioral diversity, environmental enrichment, gentoo penguins, visitor presence

2016

Reproduction, social behaviour and captive husbandry in the eastern grass owl (Tyto longimembris)

Authors: Ric Anthony Dunlop, Philip Pain

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal husbandry, owl

2016

Sex Identification of Four Penguin Species Using Locus-Specific PCR

Authors: Peijun Zhang, Jiabo Han, Quansheng Liu, Junxin Zhang, Xianfeng Zhang

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aptenodytes patagonicus, chd1, eudyptes chrysocome, pygoscelis papua, spheniscus magellanicus

2013

Geographic variation in beak colouration in gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua

Authors: Barbosa, Andres; Palacios, M. Jose; Valera, Francisco; Martınez, Ana

Publication/Journal: Polar Biology

Keywords: antarctica, carotenoid, colour trait, contaminants, gentoo penguin, geographic variation, krill, ultraviolet

2012

Genetic evaluation of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Matschie’s tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) captive breeding program

Authors: T.J. McGreevy, L. Dabek, T.P. Husband

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: endangered species, marsupial, mean kinship, microsatellite markers, mtdna control region, papua new guinea

2011

Genetic diversity in captive and wild Matschie’s tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) from Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, based on mtDNA control region sequences

Authors: Thomas J. McGreevy, Lisa Dabek, Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Thomas P. Husband

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive propagation, endangered species, founder effect, marsupial, noninvasive sampling, species identification

2009