Advancing zoo animal welfare through data science: scaling up continuous improvement efforts
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: animal welfare, artificial intelligence, continuous improvement, data science, evidence-based decision making, machine learning, zoo
2024
Utilizing vocalizations to gain insight into the affective states of non-human mammals
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: affective state, animal welfare, bioacoustics, emotion, vocalization
2024
Acoustic Monitoring of Professionally Managed Marine Mammals for Health and Welfare Insights
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: acoustic welfare, anthropogenic sound, marine mammal welfare
2023
Activity budgets, responses to disturbance and novel behaviours in captive mountain chicken frogs Leptodactylus fallax
Publication/Journal: Herpetological Journal
Keywords: amphibians, behaviour, disturbance, mSPI, welfare, zoo
2023
Age and Social History Impact Social Interactions between Bull Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) at Denver Zoo
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal welfare, elephant management, group compatibility, pachyderms, social behavior
2023
Animals’ Relationships with Caregivers and Conspecifics are Associated with Zoo Visitors’ Perceptions of Animals’ Emotions and Welfare States
Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös
Keywords:
2023
Aquarium Visitors Catch Some Rays: Rays Are More Active in the Presence of More Visitors
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: aquarium, elasmobranch, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare
2023
Assessing Negative Welfare Measures for Wild Invertebrates: The Case for Octopuses
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: body patterns, cephalopoda, field study, sentience
2023
Behavioural effects of a giraffe public feeding programme on Masai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi and plains zebra Equus quagga in a mixed-species exhibit
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: giraffe, mixed-species enclosure, public feeding, zoo
2023
Behavioural effects of noise on Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) in a walk-through enclosure
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: acoustic stress, animal welfare, behaviour, captivity, sound pressure, two-toed sloth
2023