Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: Daan W. Laméris, Marina Salas, Marcel Eens, Lisa Gillespie, Nicky Staes, Jonas R. R. Torfs, Jonas Verspeek, Hilde Vervaecke, Samantha J. Ward, Jeroen M. G. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

Visually assessed body condition shows high heritability in a pedigreed great ape population

Authors: Jonas R. R. Torfs, Marcel Eens, Daan W. Laméris, Jeroen M. G. Stevens, Jonas Verspeek, Jean-Pascal Guery, Nicky Staes

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: animal models, body condition score, bonobo, relative fat mass

2023

The influence of sex, rearing history, and personality on abnormal behaviour in zoo-housed bonobos (Pan paniscus)

Authors: Daan W Laméris, Nicky Staes, Marina Salas, Steffi Matthyssen, Jonas Verspeek, Jeroen MG Stevens

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, bonobo, great ape, personality, rearing, zoo

2021

Time-lag of urinary and salivary cortisol response after a psychological stressor in bonobos (Pan paniscus)

Authors: Jonas Verspeek, Verena Behringer, Daan W Laméris, Róisín Murtagh, Marina Salas, Nicky Staes, Tobias Deschner, Jeroen MG Stevens

Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports

Keywords: bonobos, cortisol, stress

2021

The influence of sex, rearing history, and personality on abnormal behaviour in zoo-housed bonobos (Pan paniscus)

Authors: Daan W Laméris, Nicky Staes, Marina Salas, Steffi Matthyssen, Jonas Verspeek, Jeroen MG Stevens

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal behaviour, animal welfare, great ape, personality, rearing, zoo

2020

A tool for on-farm welfare assessment of pigs in New Zealand [abstract]

Authors: Ian Barugh, David Mellor, Eric Neumann, Daan Vink

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, husbandry, pig, welfare assessment

2009

Captive breeding of the barndoor skate (Dipturus laevis) at the Montreal Biodome, with comparison notes on two other captive-bred skate species

Authors: Serge Parent, Serge Pépin, Jean-Pierre Genet, Laurent Misserey, Salvador Rojas

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aquarium, barndoor skate, breeding, fecundity, rays, thorny skate, winter skate

2008

Husbandry, overwinter care, and reproduction of captive striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis)

Authors: Serge Larivière, Yeen Ten Hwang, Wanda A. Gorsuch, Sarah A. Medill

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive facilities, husbandry, mephitis mephitis, overwinter, reproduction, striped skunk

2005