Aging Gracefully: Compassion for Nonhuman Animal Elders

Authors: Joachim Nieuwland, Franck Meijboom

Publication/Journal: Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care

Keywords: aging, compassionate care, geriatric, welfare, wellbeing

2023

The Benefits of Increased Space and Habitat Complexity for the Welfare of Zoo-Housed King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus)

Authors: Grace Fuller, Megan Jones, Kylen N. Gartland, Sara Zalewski, Matthew R. Heintz, Stephanie Allard

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, aquatic behavior, data-loggers, exhibit design, post-occupancy evaluation, time–depth recorders

2023

Choice, control, and animal welfare: definitions and essential inquiries to advance animal welfare science

Authors: Englund,Maisy D., Cronin,Katherine A.

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: affective states, agency, animal welfare, choice, control, psychological wellbeing

2023

Sonic enrichment at the zoo: What will the zoo of the future sound like?

Authors: Rébecca Kleinberger

Publication/Journal: Interaction Studies

Keywords: animal agency, animal control, animal enrichment, animal ethics, animal wellbeing, animal-computer-interaction, audio enrichment, interspecies enrichment, sonic enrichment, zoo interactive systems, zoo technology

2023

The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human–Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare

Authors: David J Mellor, Ngaio J Beausoleil, Katherine E Littlewood, Andrew N McLean, Paul D McGreevy, Bidda Jones, Cristina Wilkins

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: affective state, behavioural interaction, biological functioning, environment, human behaviour, humans, other animals, welfare grading, welfare impacts

2020

Interspecies Interactions Mediated by Technology: An Avian Case Study at the Zoo

Authors: Rébecca Kleinberger, Anne HK Harrington, Lydia Yu, Akito van Troyer, David Su, Janet M Baker, Gabriel Miller

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Keywords: animal agency, animal music, animal-computer-interaction, enrichment, interspecies interactions, sonic enrichment

2020

Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare

Authors: M Špinka

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: affective functioning, animal welfare, awareness, boredom, inter-individual differences, ontogeny

2019

Assessing and Enhancing the Welfare of Animals with Equivocal and Reliable Cues

Authors: J. V. Watters, B. L. Krebs

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affective state, agency, anticipatory behavior, appetitive behavior, human-animal relationship, judgement bias

2019

What do animals want?

Authors: B. Franks

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: agency, animal welfare, anthropocentrism, contrafreeloading, motivation, preference tests

2019

Population survey and management strategies of free-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Authors: Adrianna Nimer, Nashelly Meneses, Zachary D. Watson, Stephen M. Shuster, Russell Benford

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: canis familiaris, introduced species, population structure, public perception, spatial distribution

2018