Aggressive encounters lead to negative affective state in fish

Authors: Leia Rogers, Ellie Sales, Shokoofeh Shamsi, R Keller Kopf, Rafael Freire

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: affective state, aggression, fish welfare

2020

Effects of habitat modifications on behavioral indicators of welfare for Madagascar giant hognose snakes (Leioheterodon madagascariensis)

Authors: MS Spain, G Fuller, SM Allard

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: behavioral diversity, environmental enrichment, environmental exploration, habitat design, reptile welfare

2020

Evaluation of the Impact of Behavioral Opportunities on Four Zoo-Housed Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer)

Authors: Jennifer Hamilton, Grace Fuller, Stephanie Allard

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, corticosterone, environmental enrichment, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, goal-based enrichment, nocturnal species

2020

Feather Corticosterone Measurements of Greater Flamingos Living under Different Forms of Flight Restraint

Authors: Lukas Reese, Katrin Baumgartner, Lorenzo von Fersen, Roswitha Merle, Mechthild Ladwig-Wiegard, Hermann Will, Gudrun Haase, Oriol Tallo-Parra, Annaïs Carbajal, Manel Lopez-Bejar

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, bird, deflighting, feather corticosterone, greater flamingo, pinioning

2020

Fecal stress, nutrition and reproductive hormones for monitoring environmental impacts on tigers (Panthera tigris)

Authors: Samrat Mondol, Rebecca K Booth, Samuel K %J Conservation Physiology Wasser

Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology

Keywords: adrenal, conservation physiology, stress-nutrition interplay, thyroid and reproductive hormones assay validation, tigers

2020

Indicators of Horse Welfare: State-of-the-Art

Authors: Clémence Lesimple

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, horse, indicators

2020

Longitudinal fecal hormone monitoring of adrenocortical function in zoo housed fishing cats (Prionailurus viverrinus) during institutional transfers and breeding introductions

Authors: Jilian M Fazio, Elizabeth W Freeman, Erika Bauer, Larry Rockwood, Janine L Brown, Katharine Hope, Jessica Siegal-Willott, ECM Parsons

Publication/Journal: PloS One

Keywords: animal welfare, breeding introductions, captivity, enzyme immunoassay, fecal glucocorticoid metabolite, fishing cat, transfers, zoo

2020

Testing use of a potential cognitive enrichment device by an Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)

Authors: Eszter Matrai, Angela KW Ng, Michelle MH Chan, Suzanne M Gendron, Kathleen M Dudzinski

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive challenge, dolphin, problem solving

2020

Using longitudinal data to evaluate the behavioural impact of a switch to carcass feeding on an Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica)

Authors: Katherine Finch, Leah Williams, Lisa Holmes

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: behaviour, carcass feeding, evidence-based management, lion, welfare

2020