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
Benchmarking Giant Panda Welfare in Tourism: A Co-Design Approach for Animals, Tourists, Managers, and Researchers
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal welfare, benchmark, co-design, giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), tourism, visitor comments
2024
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
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult
Publication/Journal: Cognition
Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference
2021
Conducting Behavioural Research in the Zoo: A Guide to Ten Important Methods, Concepts and Theories
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, behavioural observations, ethology, observational methods, research methods, zoo science
2021
Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare
Publication/Journal: European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Keywords: animal welfare, methodological anarchism, models, perspectivism, pluralism
2020
Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare
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
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: *cognitive bias, affective state, agency, anticipatory behavior, appetitive behavior, human-animal relationship, judgement bias
2019
The Brain, Unconsciousness and Death: A Critical Appraisal with Regard to Halal Meat Production
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, bleeding-out, consciousness, death, halal slaughter, unconsciousness
2019
The role of heart rate monitoring to assess workload during maintenance interval training in National Hunt racehorses
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: equine, fitness, heart rate, horseracing, training, welfare
2019