Widespread Behavioral Responses by Mammals and Fish to Zoo Visitors Highlight Differences between Individual Animals

Authors: Sarah A Boyle, Nathan Berry, Jessica Cayton, Sarah Ferguson, Allesondra Gilgan, Adiha Khan, Hannah Lam, Stephen Leavelle, Isabelle Mulder, Rachel Myers

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: exhibit, interactive, management, visitor effect, welfare, zoo

2020

Diurnal and Nocturnal Activity Time Budgets of Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in a Zoological Park

Authors: D. E. Lukacs, M. Poulin, H. Besenthal, O. C. Fad, S. P. Miller, J. L. Atkinson, E. J Finegan

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal management, asian elephant, behavior, elephas maximus, husbandry, thermoregulation, welfare

2016

An initial investigation into the effects of isolation and enrichment on the welfare of laboratory pigs housed in the PigTurn^® system, assessed using tear staining, behaviour, physiology and haematology

Authors: S. P. DeBoer, J. P. Garner, R. R. McCain, D. C. Lay Jr, S. D. Eicher, J. N. Marchant-Forde

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cortisol, enrichment, isolation, pigs, tear staining

2015

Invited review: Changes in the dairy industry affecting dairy cattle health and welfare

Authors: H. W. Barkema, M. A. G. von Keyserlingk, J. P. Kastelic, Tjgm Lam, C. Luby, J. P. Roy, S. J. LeBlanc, G. P. Keefe, D. F. Kelton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science

Keywords: activity-monitoring-system, agriculture, antimicrobials, automated calf feeder, automated milking system, automatic, avium subspecies paratuberculosis, biosecurity, clinical mastitis, dairy & animal science, farm-animal, food science & technology, genome-wide association, herd size, immune-response traits, level risk-factors, milking systems, somatic-cell score, viral diarrhea virus, welfare

2015

Establishing ‘quality of life’ parameters using behavioural guidelines for humane euthanasia of captive non-human primates

Authors: S. P. Lambeth, S. J. Schapiro, B. J. Bernacky, G. K. Wilkerson

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural assessment, captive management, euthanasia, non-human primates, quality of life

2013

Investigating the relationship between feed and helminthic burden of captive birds of prey in Hong Kong

Authors: Fernando Mata, Alice Lam

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: fecal egg counts, feed, helminthes, hong kong, raptor

2013

The pig’s nose and its role in dominance relationships and harmful behaviour

Authors: I. Camerlink, S. P. Turner

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: allogrooming, dominance hierarchy, snout contact, swine, tail-biting

2013

The welfare implications of large litter size in the domestic pig I: biological factors

Authors: K. M. D. Rutherford, E. M. Baxter, R. B. D'Eath, S. P. Turner, G. Arnott, R. Roehe, B. Ask, Sand,, P. e, V. A. Moustsen, F. Thorup, S. A. Edwards, P. Berg, A. B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, birth weight, litter size, mortality, piglet, sow

2013

The welfare implications of large litter size in the domestic pig II: management factors

Authors: E. M. Baxter, K. M. D. Rutherford, R. B. D'Eath, G. Arnott, S. P. Turner, Sand,, P. e, V. A. Moustsen, F. Thorup, S. A. Edwards, A. B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cross-fostering, human-animal interaction, litter size, nurse sow, split suckling

2013

Can zoo records help answer behavioral research questions? The case of the left-handed lemurs (Lemur catta)

Authors: G. Hosey, S. P. Hill, M. L. Lherbier

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: arks, behavioral style, behavioural style, hand preference, student dissertations, welfare

2012

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