Facility Design for Ageing Wild Animals

Authors: Jon C. Coe

Publication/Journal: Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care

Keywords: aging, disabled, facility design, geriatric, habitat design, personalization, welfare, wellbeing

2023

Feeding management of giraffe towards positive welfare

Authors: Sarah Depauw, Leen Verbist, Jeroen Stevens, Marina Salas

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: feeding strategy, giraffe, positive welfare

2023

Latitudinal and zoo specific zeitgebers influence circadian and circannual rhythmicity of behavior in captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Authors: Gandia,Kristine M., Kessler,Sharon E., Buchanan-Smith,Hannah M.

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Psychology

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, breeding, circadian, circannual, zeitgeber, zoo

2023

Melatonin is a redundant entraining signal in the rat circadian system

Authors: Pavel Houdek, Marta Nováková, Lenka Polidarová, Martin Sládek, Alena Sumová

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: clock gene, duodenum, liver, melatonin, pinealectomy, suprachiasmatic nucleus

2016

Noisy Clocks and Silent Sunrises: Measurement Methods of Daily Activity Pattern

Authors: P. Nouvellet, G.S.A. Rasmussen, D.W. Macdonald, F. Courchamp

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoology

Keywords: clock, daily activity, distribution of activity, timing of behaviour

2012

Sleep and Obesity: A Focus on Animal Models

Authors: V. Mavanji, C.J. Billington, C.M. Kotz, J.A. Teske

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: animal models, circadian clock, eds, obesity, rem sleep, sleep, sleep fragmentation, sws-delta power

2012

The circadian body temperature rhythm of Djungarian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) revealing different circadian phenotypes

Authors: Konrad Schöttner, Jim Waterhouse, Dietmar Weinert

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: arrhythmic activity patterns, body temperature, circadian rhythm, djungarian hamster, motor activity, unmasking

2011

Role of sensory cues on food searching behavior of a captive Manta birostris (Chondrichtyes, Mobulidae)

Authors: Csilla Ari, João P. Correia

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: cognitive, husbandry, olfactory stimulus, visual perception

2008

Activity rhythms at a gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) colony at Cierva Point, Antarctic Peninsula

Authors: R. D. Quintana, P. D. Pratolongo, J. L. Agraz, O. Benitez, A. R. Mengual

Publication/Journal: Notornis

Keywords: activity rhythms, antarctic peninsula, circadian clock, daily activity, gentoo penguin, pygoscelis papua

2005

Milk intake and development in a newborn captive African elephant (Loxodonta africana)

Authors: Jeff Andrews, Amy Mecklenborg, Fred B. Bercovitch

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: activity budget, elephant, growth, nursing, primiparity

2005