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
Group structure and individual relationships of sanctuary-living Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal sociality, centrality, collective animal behavior, eigenvectors, female contraception, gorillas, primates, social networks
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
Brown Bear Cognition and Welfare
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases
Keywords: animal welfare, bears, cognition, cognitive stimulation, ursids
2023
Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare
2023
Don’t use it? Don’t lose it! Why active use is not required for stimuli, resources or” enrichments” to have welfare value
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, zoo
2023
Ethics and Invertebrates: The Problem Is Us
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: animal ethics, animal welfare, invertebrates
2023
Providing baseline data for conservation–Heart rate monitoring in captive scimitar-horned oryx
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Physiology
Keywords: heart rate monitoring, oryx
2023
The Use of Operant Conditioning to Enhance the Management and Welfare of Captive Kingsnakes
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases
Keywords: animal welfare, cooperative care, herpetoculture, kingsnakes, snake welfare, training
2023
Welfare and Clinical Assessment on Physical Captures Followed by Anesthesia in Apennine Chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata)
Publication/Journal: Animals
Keywords: acepromazine, blood gas analysis, capture, chemical immobilization, conservation, medetomidine-ketamine, physical capture, Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata, stress
2023