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

Enriched social environment affects the utterance of acoustic signals of captive François’ langurs

Authors: Yinghong Xie, Yinshu Liu, Yifeng Li, Yanhong Zhong, Ruoshuang Liu, Penglai Fan

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, social enrichment, vocal communication, vocal repertoire

2024

Play That Trunky Music: Development of an Auditory Enrichment Device for Elephants in Zoos

Authors: Arianna Mastali, Benjamin Mayo, Charles Ramey, Nate Elgart, Kirby Miller, Melody Jackson

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

Keywords: african elephant, auditory enrichment, loxodonta africana

2024

The ‘Visitor Effect’in Non-primate Zoo Species: What Do We Know and Where Should We Go Next?

Authors: Ellen Williams, Violet Hunton, Samantha J Ward, Geoff Hosey

Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice

Keywords: amphibians, animal welfare, birds, fish, invertebrates, mammals, multi taxa, positive welfare, reptiles, visitor effects

2024

Acoustic Monitoring of Professionally Managed Marine Mammals for Health and Welfare Insights

Authors: Kelley A. Winship, Brittany L. Jones

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: acoustic welfare, anthropogenic sound, marine mammal welfare

2023

Environmental enrichment improves cognitive flexibility in rainbow trout in a visual discrimination task: first insights

Authors: Valentin Brunet, Thomas Lafond, Aude Kleiber, Léa Lansade, Ludovic Calandreau, Violaine Colson

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords:

2023

Slowly walking down to the more food: relative quantity discrimination in African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata)

Authors: Masaki Tomonaga, Daiki Haraguchi, Anna Wilkinson

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords:

2023

Visual and acoustic exploratory behaviors toward novel stimuli in Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) under human care

Authors: Aviva Charles, Yann Henaut, Michel Saint-Jalme, Baptiste Mulot, Alexis Lecu, Fabienne Delfour

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: auditory perception, manatee, physiology, social behavior, Trichechus manatus, visual perception, vocalization

2023

Do Monkeys Want Audio or Visual Stimuli? Interactive Computers for Choice with White-Faced Sakis in Zoos

Authors: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Vilma Kankaanpää

Publication/Journal: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Keywords: animal-computer-interaction, audio analysis, monkey, preference, primate, stimuli, visual

2022

Enriching Zoo-Housed Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta): Assessing the Influence of Three Types of Environmental Enrichment on Behavior

Authors: Marta Caselli, Patrizia Messeri, Francesco Dessì-Fulgheri, Francesca Bandoli

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral management, enrichment, L. catta, zoo

2022

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