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
Analytical and biological validation of a noninvasive measurement of glucocorticoid metabolites in feces of Geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: capture, circadian rhythm, cortisol, enzyme immunoassay, platyrrhines, reproductive state
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
The behavioral response of a captive female Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) to mixed-species exhibition with two Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus)
Publication/Journal:
Keywords: activity budget, animal welfare, enrichment, environmental conditions, primates, Reaction norms, Surveillance, translocation, zoo
2024
An enclosure quality ranking framework for terrestrial animals in captivity
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: captivity, environment, evidence-based conservation, framework, welfare, zoo animals
2024
Environmental Enrichment in Rabbit Husbandry: Comparative Impacts on Performance and Welfare
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: behavior, environmental stress, housing enrichment, productive performance, rabbit, sensors, welfare
2024
Hibernating or not hibernating? Brown bears’ response to a mismatch between environmental natural cues and captive management, and its welfare implications
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal welfare, captive management, cues, environment, physiology
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
The Impact of Food Enrichment on the Behavior of Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) Kept under Human Care
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: aquarium, elasmobranchs, environmental enrichment, fish welfare
2024
Influence of food physical properties and environmental context on manipulative behaviors highlighted by new methodological approaches in zoo-housed bonobos (Pan paniscus)
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: bonobos, evolution, manipulative abilities, nonhuman primate, pan paniscus
2024