The use of a simple and practical water-based enrichment in a pair of lion-tailed macaques

Authors: Rebecca Newman, Thomas Quirke, Sean McKeown, Ruth Riordan

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: environmental enrichment, evaluating enrichment, macaca silenus, primate, zoo

2024

A comprehensive investigation of negative visitor behaviour in the zoo setting and captive animals’ behavioural response

Authors: Courtney Collins, Sean McKeown, Ruth O’Riordan

Publication/Journal: Heliyon

Keywords: animal behaviour, Circuit-study, Negative behaviour, visitors, zoo

2023

The effect of a new enclosure on the behaviour of a large captive group of lion-tailed macaques Macaca silenus

Authors: Rebecca Newman, Sean McKeown, Thomas Quirke, Ruth M O'Riordan

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: enclosure, enrichment, visitor effect

2021

Using a novel ethogram of tuatara behaviour to evaluate the impact of interactions with zoo visitors

Authors: Ruth JA van Heerbeek, Bridget W Brox, Anne C Macaskill

Publication/Journal: New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Keywords: animal welfare, contact, reptile, sphenodon punctatus, visitor

2021

Consequences Matter: Compassion in Conservation Means Caring for Individuals, Populations and Species

Authors: Paul J. Johnson, Vanessa M. Adams, Doug P. Armstrong, Sandra E. Baker, Duan Biggs, Luigi Boitani, Alayne Cotterill, Emma Dale, Holly O'Donnell, David J. T. Douglas, Egil Droge, John G. Ewen, Ruth E. Feber, Piero Genovesi, Clive Hambler, Bart J. Harmsen, Lauren A. Harrington, Amy Hinks, Joelene Hughes, Lydia Katsis, Andrew Loveridge, Axel Moehrenschlager, Christopher O'Kane, Meshach Pierre, Steve Redpath, Lovemore Sibanda, Pritpal Soorae, Mark Stanley Price, Peter Tyrrell, Alexandra Zimmermann, Amy Dickman

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: compassion, consequentialism, ethics, virtue

2019

Effects of environmental enrichment on activity and lameness in commercial broiler production

Authors: Guro Vasdal, Judit Vas, Ruth C. Newberry, Randi Oppermann Moe

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: behavioral activity, broiler chickens, environmental enrichment, lameness, poultry welfare

2019

Differential relationships between chronic hormone profiles in pregnancy and maternal investment in rhesus monkey mothers with hair loss in the neonatal period

Authors: Amanda M. Dettmer, Kendra Rosenberg, Mark T. Menard, Saif N. El-Mallah, Ruth A. Woodward, Stephen J. Suomi, Jerrold S. Meyer

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: alopecia, hair loss, infant growth, maternal investment, pregnancy

2017

Effects of captivity on house mice behaviour in a novel environment: Implications for conservation practices

Authors: Stephanie K. Courtney Jones, Adam J. Munn, Phillip G. Byrne

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, captive breeding, captivity, phenotypic plasticity, reintroduction, transgenerational effects

2017

The effects of environmental and visitor variables on the behavior of free-ranging ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in captivity

Authors: Courtney Collins, Ilse Corkery, Amy Haigh, Sean McKeown, Thomas Quirke, Ruth O'Riordan

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal behavior, free-ranging, ring-tailed lemur, visitor effects, zoo environment

2017

The effects of intrinsic enrichment on captive felids

Authors: Juliana Damasceno, Gelson Genaro, Thomas Quirke, Shannen McCarthy, Sean McKeown, Ruth O'Riordan

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, felids, novelty, olfactory

2017

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