Application of Machine Learning for Automating Behavioral Tracking of Captive Bornean Orangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus)

Authors: Frej Gammelgård, Jonas Nielsen, Emilia J Nielsen, Malthe G Hansen, Aage K Olsen Alstrup, Juan O Perea-García, Trine H Jensen, Cino Pertoldi

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: artificial intelligence, automatic behavior tracking; image classification; object detection; orangutans, zoological institution

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

Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective

Authors: Lauren Cassidy, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail, Dana Pfefferle

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, neuroscience, veterinary medicine, zoology

2024

Development of a novel primate welfare assessment tool for research macaques

Authors: Emilie A. Paterson, Carly I. O’Malley, Dawn M. Abney, William J. Archibald, Patricia V. Turner

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: 3rs, animal behaviour, animal welfare, behaviour management programmes, refinement, welfare assessment

2024

Investigation through Animal–Computer Interaction: A Proof-of-Concept Study for the Behavioural Experimentation of Colour Vision in Zoo-Housed Primates

Authors: Vinícius Donisete Lima Rodrigues Goulart, Robert John Young

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: ACI, animal experimentation, animal welfare, animal-computer-interaction, behavioural research, colour vision, sensory ecology, zoo

2024

Brown Bear Cognition and Welfare

Authors: Helen R Chambers, Sean J O’Hara

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases

Keywords: animal welfare, bears, cognition, cognitive stimulation, ursids

2023

Environmental Enrichment and Its Effect on the Welfare of Two Asian Elephants in African Safari Wildlife Conservation Park (Puebla, Mexico)

Authors: Martha Trinidad Pérez Ramírez, Nora Garcez Mercado, María Rebeca Rojas Ronquillo, Marco Antonio Alarcón Zapata, Melina Maribel Ojeda Chi, Carlos David Pérez Brígido, Abigail Tabarez Rojas

Publication/Journal: Open Journal of Animal Sciences

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, behavior, environmental enrichment

2023

Environmental Enrichment and Its Effect on the Welfare of Two Asian Elephants in African Safari Wildlife Conservation Park (Puebla, Mexico)

Authors: Martha Trinidad Pérez Ramírez, Nora Garcez Mercado, María Rebeca Rojas Ronquillo, Marco Antonio Alarcón Zapata, Melina Maribel Ojeda Chi, Carlos David Pérez Brígido, Abigail Tabarez Rojas

Publication/Journal: Open Journal of Animal Sciences

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, behavior, environmental enrichment

2023

A novel method for automatically analysing the activity of fast-moving animals: a case study of Callimico goeldii monkeys housed in a zoological garden

Authors: Nieckarz Zenon, Nowicki Jacek, Labocha Karolina, Pawlak Krzysztof

Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports

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2023

Providing baseline data for conservation–Heart rate monitoring in captive scimitar-horned oryx

Authors: Peter Leimgruber, Nucharin Songsasen, Jared A Stabach, Megan Horning, Dolores Reed, Tara Buk, Arielle Harwood, Lawrence Layman, Christopher Mathews, Morgan Vance

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Physiology

Keywords: heart rate monitoring, oryx

2023

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