Recent Studies in Reptile and Amphibian Welfare: Some Relevant Publications for the Zoo Herpetologist
Environmental enrichment impacts discrimination between familiar and unfamiliar human odours in snakes (Pantherophis guttata)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: enrichment, environment, familiarity, odour discrimination, reptile, snake
2021
Getting It Straight: Accommodating Rectilinear Behavior in Captive Snakes—A Review of Recommendations and Their Evidence Base
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: body posture, enclosure size, literature review, reptile husbandry, space
2021
Effects of multiple stressors on fish shoal collective motion are independent and vary with shoaling metric
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: colletive behaviour, environmental stressors, gasterosteus aculeatus, group personality, stickleback, thigmotaxis
2020
Application of a welfare assessment tool (Shelter Quality Protocol) in 64 Italian long-term dogs’ shelters: welfare hazard analysis
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, assessment, domestic dog, hazard analysis, protocol, shelter
2019
Cardiac activity and salivary cortisol concentration of leisure horses in response to the presence of an audience in the arena
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
2019
Effect of preceding activity and multiple testing of Belgian police horses on behavior during personality tests
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: behavioral assessment, multiple testing, personality, police horse, preceding activity
2019
Effects of a light-colored cotton rug use on horse thermoregulation and behavior indicators of stress
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: cotton rug, equine, thermal stress, thermoregulation, welfare
2019
Interobserver agreement and sensitivity to climatic conditions in sheltered dogs’ welfare evaluation performed with welfare assessment protocol (Shelter Quality protocol)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare assessment, dog, protocol, reliability, sensitivity, shelter
2019
Spatial considerations for captive snakes
Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Keywords: captive, enclosure, husbandry, snake, space, stress
2019