Abnormal swimming is associated with inner ear damage and improves with meclizine treatment and increased habitat complexity: A case study in Urobatis jamaicensis
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal behaviour, animal health, animal welfare, aquarium science, elasmobranch, vestibular disease
2024
Assessing Giraffe Welfare During Seasonal Habitat Changes in Northern US Zoos
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research
Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, enclosure, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, giraffe, recumbency
2024
A Conceptual Model for Understanding Types of Visitor Effects and Suggestions for Improving Visitor Effects Research
Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice
Keywords: animal behavior, animal visitor interaction (AVI), emotional arousal, five domains model, visitor effects
2024
Factors influencing the behaviour of common leopard (Panthera pardus) in captivity
Publication/Journal: Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity
Keywords: activity pattern, enrichment, inactive, stereotypic, sustainability
2024
In Absentia—Can a Lack of Behaviour Be a Useful Welfare Indicator? An Application to the Captive Management of Livingstone’s Fruit Bats, Pteropus livingstonii
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity
2024
Internal and external factors affect pair mate proximity in captive coyotes, Canis latrans
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: coyote, hormone, pair-bonding, progesterone, proximity, synchrony
2024
Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments
Publication/Journal: Anim Welf
Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba
2024
Sixty Years of Tinbergen’s Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: animal management, behavioural ecology, causation, conservation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny, zoo animal husbandry
2024
Structural enrichment promotes natural behaviour and welfare of captive gilthead seabream broodstock
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: aquaculture, behavioural indicators, environmental enrichment, Physiological indicators, positive welfare, Spawners
2024
The ‘Visitor Effect’in Non-primate Zoo Species: What Do We Know and Where Should We Go Next?
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