Abnormal swimming is associated with inner ear damage and improves with meclizine treatment and increased habitat complexity: A case study in Urobatis jamaicensis

Authors: Lauren Puishys, Natalie Mylniczenko, Ryan De Voe, Alisha Fredrickson, Dani Salles, Todd Harmon, Scott Martin, Leah Maurer, Austin Leeds

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal health, animal welfare, aquarium science, elasmobranch, vestibular disease

2024

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

Assessing Giraffe Welfare During Seasonal Habitat Changes in Northern US Zoos

Authors: Catherine Razal, Jocelyn Bryant, Lance Miller

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, enclosure, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, giraffe, recumbency

2024

Automatic detection of stereotypical behaviors of captive wild animals based on surveillance videos of zoos and animal reserves

Authors: Zixuan Yin, Yaqin Zhao, Zhihao Xu, Qiuping Yu

Publication/Journal: Ecological Informatics

Keywords: animal tracking, animal welfare, captive animal, Motion trajectory, Siamese network, stereotypical behavior

2024

The Comparative Effect of Occupational and Musical Enrichment on Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolite Levels in a Captive Colony of Stumptail Macaques (Macaca arctoides)

Authors: Lilian Mayagoitia-Novales, Ana Lilia Cerda-Molina, María Andrea Martín-Guerrero, Emmanuel Muñoz-Zamudio, Gema R. Estudillo-Mendoza, Javier I. Borráz-León

Publication/Journal: Biology

Keywords: enrichment programs, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, macaca arctoides, music enrichment, occupational enrichment, primate welfare

2024

Dolphin-WET—Development of a Welfare Evaluation Tool for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) under Human Care

Authors: Katrin Baumgartner, Tim Hüttner, Isabella L. K. Clegg, Manuel Garcia Hartmann, Daniel Garcia-Párraga, Xavier Manteca, Birgitta Mercera, Tania Monreal-Pawlowsky, Cristina Pilenga, Kerstin Ternes, Oriol Tallo-Parra, Ruta Vaicekauskaite, Lorenzo von Fersen, Lisa Yon, Fabienne Delfour

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: cetacean welfare, marine mammals, welfare evaluation, welfare indicator, zoo animals

2024

Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores

Authors: Samantha J. Ward, Geoff Hosey, Ellen Williams, Richard Bailey

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play

2024

The ethical assessment of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in wildlife conservation

Authors: Barbara de Mori, Elena Mercugliano, Pierfrancesco Biasetti, Ilaria Pollastri, Maria Michela Spiriti, Daniela Florio, Francesco Andreucci, Frank Göritz, Susanne Holtze, Cesare Galli, Jan Stejskal, Silvia Colleoni, Giovanna Lazzari, Steven Seet, Jan Zwilling, David Ndeereh, Isaac Lekolool, Stephen Ngulu, Dominic Mijele, Daniel Čižmár, Raffaella Simone, Lisa Schrade, Simone Basile, Thomas B. Hildebrandt

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: animal welfare, assisted reproductive technologies (art), biodiversity conservation, conservation ethics, Ethical assessment, research ethics

2024

Group structure and individual relationships of sanctuary-living Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri)

Authors: Austin Leeds, Dalmas Kakule, Laura Stalter, Jackson K. Mbeke, Katie Fawcett

Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE

Keywords: animal sociality, centrality, collective animal behavior, eigenvectors, female contraception, gorillas, primates, social networks

2024

Home is where the home range is: Identifying territoriality and exhibit preferences in an ex-situ group of all-male Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

Authors: Laura Stalter, Megan Terry, Alex Riley, Austin Leeds

Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE

Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis

2024

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