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Personality in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Temporal stability and methods of assessment

Authors: Lucy Rutherford, Lindsay Murray, Lisa Holmes, Ellen Williams

Publication/Journal: Personality and Individual Differences

Keywords: elephant, personality, scale, TIPI, welfare

2025

Advancing zoo animal welfare through data science: scaling up continuous improvement efforts

Authors: Liptovszky,Matyas

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal welfare, artificial intelligence, continuous improvement, data science, evidence-based decision making, machine learning, zoo

2024

Analytical and biological validation of a noninvasive measurement of glucocorticoid metabolites in feces of Geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Authors: Juliane Damm, Filippo Aureli, Ariadna Rangel-Negrín, Miriam Barradas-Moctezuma, Pedro A. D. Dias

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: capture, circadian rhythm, cortisol, enzyme immunoassay, platyrrhines, reproductive state

2024

The Animal Welfare Consequences and Moral Implications of Lethal and Non-Lethal Fox Control Methods

Authors: Nathalie de Ridder, Andrew Knight

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: control method, death, livestock, Peter Singer, suffering, Tom Regan, vulpes vulpes

2024

Assessing zoo giraffe survivorship: Methodological aspects, historical improvement and a rapid demographic shift

Authors: Lara Scherer, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Max Hahn-Klimroth, Dennis Müller, Marco Roller, Mads Bertelsen, Jörg Jebram, Paul Dierkes, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: giraffa camelopardalis, husbandry, mortality, progress, survival

2024

Catcalls: exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers

Authors: T. Crews, J. Vonk, M. McGuire

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: *Voice/physiology, animals, caregivers, Familiar human, felid, felidae, humans, physiology, pilot projects, psychology, rearing history, recognition, Vocal discrimination

2024

Detailed Comparison of Acoustic Signals from Rehabilitated and Wild Franciscanas (Pontoporia blainvillei) Dolphins

Authors: Giardino Gisela Vanina, Mel Cosentino, Agustina Camila Macchi, Juan Pablo Loureiro, Sergio Rodriguez Heredia, Karina Ceilia Alvarez, Sergio Gabriel Moron, Diego Horacio Rodriguez

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: acoustic monitoring, animal communication, animal welfare, bycatch, NBHF species, Pontoporia blainvillei, rehabilitation

2024

Enhancing Visitor–Animal Interactions in the Modern Zoo: A Designer’s Perspective

Authors: Jon Coe

Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice

Keywords: animal-visitor interaction, avi, habitat design

2024

Enriched social environment affects the utterance of acoustic signals of captive François’ langurs

Authors: Yinghong Xie, Yinshu Liu, Yifeng Li, Yanhong Zhong, Ruoshuang Liu, Penglai Fan

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, social enrichment, vocal communication, vocal repertoire

2024

Factors influencing the behaviour of common leopard (Panthera pardus) in captivity

Authors: Saurabh Vashisth, Dwijendra Nath Singh, Natasha Sethi, Randeep Singh

Publication/Journal: Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity

Keywords: activity pattern, enrichment, inactive, stereotypic, sustainability

2024

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