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
Application of Machine Learning for Automating Behavioral Tracking of Captive Bornean Orangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: artificial intelligence, automatic behavior tracking; image classification; object detection; orangutans, zoological institution
2024
Assessing zoo giraffe survivorship: Methodological aspects, historical improvement and a rapid demographic shift
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: giraffa camelopardalis, husbandry, mortality, progress, survival
2024
Catcalls: exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers
Publication/Journal: PeerJ
Keywords: *Voice/physiology, animals, caregivers, Familiar human, felid, felidae, humans, physiology, pilot projects, psychology, rearing history, recognition, Vocal discrimination
2024
Effects of Seasonality and Pregnancy on Hair Loss and Regrowth in Rhesus Macaques
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: alopecia, anagen, hair regrowth, macaca-mulatta, macaque, pregnancy, telogen
2024
Health and environmental effects to wildlife from radio telemetry and tracking devices—state of the science and best management practices
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Keywords: data-loggers, fish, microchips, PIT tags, radio telemetry, radio-tracking, RFID chips, wildlife
2024
Health and Welfare Benefits of Computerized Cognitive Enrichment in California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) at the US Navy Marine Mammal Program
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: california sea lion, cognitive enrichment, computerized task, pinniped welfare
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)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis
2024
Investigation through Animal–Computer Interaction: A Proof-of-Concept Study for the Behavioural Experimentation of Colour Vision in Zoo-Housed Primates
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: ACI, animal experimentation, animal welfare, animal-computer-interaction, behavioural research, colour vision, sensory ecology, zoo
2024
Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in captive olive baboons (Papio anubis): The effects of age, sex, rearing, stress, and pregnancy
Publication/Journal: Am J Primatol
Keywords: *Papio anubis/genetics/physiology, age factors, animals, baboons, early adversity, female, lymphocytes, male, neutrophil‐lymphocyte ratio, neutrophils, physiological, pregnancy, sex factors, stress
2024