Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play
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
Animal welfare research is fascinating, ethical, and useful—but how can it be more rigorous?
Publication/Journal: BMC Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, evidence-based animal care, welfare science
2023
Choice, control, and animal welfare: definitions and essential inquiries to advance animal welfare science
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: affective states, agency, animal welfare, choice, control, psychological wellbeing
2023
Feeding management of giraffe towards positive welfare
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: feeding strategy, giraffe, positive welfare
2023
Review of Environmental and Health Factors Impacting Captive Common Marmoset Welfare in the Biomedical Research Setting
Publication/Journal: Veterinary Sciences
Keywords: animal model, husbandry, marmoset, NHP, nonhuman primate, veterinary, welfare
2023
Review: Towards an integrated concept of animal welfare
Publication/Journal: animal
Keywords: behaviour, emotion, health, physiology, welfare assessment
2023
Differing animal welfare conceptions and what they mean for the future of zoos and aquariums, insights from an animal welfare audit
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, audit
2022
The More the Merrier? Zoo Visitors’ Affective Responses and Perceptions of Welfare across an Increase in Giraffe Density
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: affective experience, perceptions of animal welfare, visitor studies, zoos and aquariums
2022
Affective styles and emotional lateralization: A promising framework for animal welfare research
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: affective states, animal welfare, emotional reactivity, emotional regulation, hemispheric dominance, individuality, motivational tendencies, motor lateralization, personality, stable individual traits
2021